8 Days until the Wii

Well... err... I don't know what to blog about, however I have an idea, since the Wii is Backward compatible with GCN games; I'll talk about some GCN games that you should go out and get. But as I could blog more in the next few days I'm going to categorise these. So what will be this Selection of GCN games be...

Weird GameCube Games

Cubivore

Imagine a world that has no humans and everything was square or cube shaped including the animals... Yup welcome to Cubivore. This game isn't just odd in style, but the fact that you go around eating other creatures legs off and spewing up square blood; you might defiantly say this game is weird indeed...



You start off as a newborn... er cubivore? as you're let into a world filled with danger and terror as you as you see other newborns that seem to be walking around doing their own business as you jump on top of them, tear a limb of, and leave to poor terrorised bugger to death. Yes, that pretty much summarises what you do in the game, find a cubivore that's weaker then you, stalk it, then eat it!!!



At the end of each level you encounter a boss that has a special limb and you have to fight it. Usually these beasts are often tougher then you and require more then just one bite to kill. You need to eat the special limb to beat the boss and when you do, your cubivore is awarded a new body part.

After every so often you'll find a mating ground that's simply a door in the shape of a heart. The object to this is that you collect heart pieces in the game, and the more heart pieces you collect the more your cubivore becomes an omega male that will attract more female cubivores, in doing so you can cross bred to get new kinds of cubivores and start that level again as a newborn, but still retaining the special limbs that it inherited from it's father.

So, is the game worth it? well if you can get it cheap preowned it's defiantly something to look out for if you're the type who like quirky games. However if realism and guns are your thing, you're looking at the wrong game big time!

Doshin the Giant



What's big and yellow, big and yellow, and... big and Yellow... Well, it's Doshin the Giant that's what. On a lone island Doshin rises from the ocean, a creature that had only been told in stories. However Doshin isn't your typical giant, he's a gentle fellow who only wants to help the islanders. However Doshin has a bit of a personalty complex, and can transform into the fearsome Jashin, a devil version of doshin that can jump up very high and can yield fireballs to scare the crap out of the islanders.



Essentially this is a god game like Populous and Black & White. You control Doshin to help out the islanders problems such as leveling out the landscape, planting tress, and providing a special ceremonial flower when islanders start to build a monument in your name. However just like with all god sims, by tapping the Z button you transform into the total bastard that's Jashin and wreck havoc when you feel like it. However turning into Jashin isn't always a bad thing. Sometimes islanders will start to slack off building the special monument. So you can mentally whip them by suddenly transforming into Jashin and then transforming back into Doshin.





There are 30 different Monuments to collect, all ranging in different designs depending on what race of islanders live in that particually village. Each islander race wears a differt colour shirt, red, blue, yellow and green. By mixing these colours in a village you can get different monuments built.



Doshin Himself will grow depending on the love or hate he devolops with the islands. When he helps out you earn hearts, and when you terrorise people you earn skulls. A ring of these appear on the screen, the more Hearts you earn the less skulls you get and when you earn skulls the less hearts you get. when you get a full circle or either hearts or skulls doshin will grow a bit and will become slightly stronger and faster.

(The Real) 9 Days until the Wii!

Well, when I thought I had my internet connection back, oh... no... randomly through-out the night I had to put up with disconnections, unstable connections when it did connect, and times where it would connect but was only able to upload. WTF! Anyways I finally got "FULL" control at about 1PM today, so yeah, 26 hours of barely been able to use the internet :(

Anyways moving onto the subject of WII!!!! I have found more Wii TV adverts, and suprizingly they're indentical to the Japanese adverts but have an English naritor instead

English Version (above)

Japanese Version (above)

Ok and here's the rest in english

And as a commercial extra treat, here's the UK advert for Wii Sports.

10... er... I mean 9 days... sorta

Ok, A bit of a mix up here, it's 1:00am and I have only got my internet connection back after it being randomly disconnected from me by my ISP, f-ing idiots... So yeah, no Internat access in my home for about 12+ hours.

Moving on...

Hmm... quite a lot of stuff to talk about. First thing first... The US have been receiving their copies of Wii Sports in Cardboard sleeves, however IGN Australia have shown off the retail PAL Wii's will have Wii Sports in a Plastic DVD box.

So yeah. We're getting a proper plastic box for our Wii Sports.

Going on the second thing, people have been trying to work out how the sensor bar works, and came to a conclusion that it emits 2 intrared beams that the IR camera on the top of the Remote picks up, and doing this, understands where it's positioned in space to the screen. And because of this people have been experimenting with IR sources such as TV remotes and sercurity beams. But here's something interesting though, Candles... of course they emit every colour in the spectrum as the flame is white, but what's interesting is that the candle is emitting InfraRed, and what suprizing is how accurte it is when a candle would shine IR in all directions rather then towards you. Anyways, to stop boring you you can watch this video, and kids... seriously, don't put candles or any flame THAT close to the TV!

And here's a crappy diagram I've made to demonstrate how the Sensor bar works.

So yeah, anyways I saw the first (or at least one of the first) Wii adverts on TV over here in the UK, it was Advertising Zelda Twilight Princess showing off how you fish and then how to sword swing. Pretty much it like those videos that Nintendo have shown before where you see someone play the game from the perpective of the screen, and it then switches back to gameplay.

And guess what I found them on Youtube!





EDIT: Oh BTW, Star Soldier, Ecco the Dolphin and Golden Axe have been added to the Virtual Console.

Wii countdown.... err... filler!

Hey I just heard a difference between the Wii and GCN versions of Twilight Princess, as well as Link being Left handed in the GCN like he was in the other Zelda games, the environment itself is reversed too, so what's in the west is now in the east, and what's in the east is in the west in the GCN version.

So here's an artist impression (with the aid of Photoshop :D ) between the two games

Wii Version

GCN Version

So yeah, I'm getting both games, the Wii version first (as it's coming out first) and the GCN version after. I'll be reviewing both versions for you guys to get a taster and comparison.

11 Days untill the Wii!

Hmm... Recently (actually a week ago) I joined up to a new forum called "ScrewAttack.com", "Screw attack" being the final move that Samus earns in the Metroid games. Anyways, today they did a video review of the Virtual Console in general, they seem to like the Shopping Channel and how easy it is, how the games can be compatible with GCN pads and such. However Craig, the leader (or whatever you might call him), hated the fact that his downloaded version of Zelda on the NES and dark and dim.

However I heard from Yanker that the next Wii update Firmware is meant to solve this problem. Plus I don't understand Craig's problem with Save states, so ok you already have saved games in Zelda, but not all the other NES games have saved games do they? This'll come very handy when Metroid, Kid Ikarus and Castlevania comes to the Virtual Console.

12 days until the Wii

Well... what have I been up to. I've found something out out the Opera Browser on Wii, The way that people have have got it is from a hack you can do by changing the manual network settings, mainly changing the DNS connections. By doing this when you enter the Wii Shop Channel, you'll see google instead of the Shopping page.

Do this if you want, but as you might see in this video is that the screen becomes glitchy so... If you don't want to mess up your Wii, I suggest waiting till it actually comes out.

13 days until the Wii

Well... One more week for those crazy Japanese get their Wiis next Saturday on the 2nd of December. Woo! getting close!

Anyways The Yanker himself was kind enough to give my £10 towards my Wii, which is very nice of him indeed! Thankyou Yanks!

Last night I saw a video on Youtube of someone using the Opera Browser on the Wii, it turns out that it isn't out just yet acordding to Mitchy D and we're guessing that it's being tested out on Wii Dev kits rather then the public.

A Side note, I knew this a while ago, but Ganon is in the Twilight Princess game, I saw a pic of what Ganondorf looks like on the Wii and he's grusome then ever before. So that I won't spoil it for you guys I won't add the image I found, but if you're curious it's lurking around IGN...

Stay tuned for more info on the Wii.

14 Days until the Wii

Well, 2 weeks still the Wii is released in the UK, and... I don't have too much money. So what have I done to solve this problem? Well I tried to sell a bunch of games, DVDs and CDs on eBay. Thing is though, I only sold 7 out of the 25 or so items I put up, which sucks because I really need money. I mean, I do have a savings account, however I really don't want to touch it, and I'm only touching it if it's my final resort.

But Hey I made £70 at least, I still need another £110 to afford the console, if I get to that, that's my goal.

This is where it stands, almost half way. I must get £180 by the 8th of December!

What not to do with the Wii!

Yes I know I put this up on the site, but allow me to emphasise this. There's this dude on the SomethingNasty Forums who "assumes" that he has broken his TV using his Wii remote whilst playing Bowling, yes I did say that, BOWLING!

First off I really want to know how the hell he achived thiswhen you're not exactlly throwing upwards!

Here's someone bowling

and here's another.

Notice how the ball rolls on the ground rather being launch in mid-air like some other games.

Therefore you, idiot on SomethingNasty Forums, you're blantly BS-ing this, I don't care how your wrist strap broke, YOU ARE THE ONE PLAYING IT LIKE A CRAZY RETARD.

Ahem, anyways, retard of the year award goes to him.

The best Freaking video EVER

Indeed, whilst showing Game Jew to the Admiral, I found this fantastic video of the Console war of old, presented in Puppet form. Warning, has lots of swearing in it...