After last week's focus on the new streaming media channel from Nintendo with no new Japanese WiiWare or VC content, this week we're back to the standard 7 releases.
Most of these are catching up with the NA/EU territories, but there's a couple of new titles in there as well including one that just may interest some of our regular readers...
The three Art Style games get released in one batch (amazing they weren't already out there, but they are inspired by GBA games that were exclusively released in Japan not too long ago) for 600 points each.
The title that has already garnered some attention is Contra Re-Birth for 1000 points. You can expect some first impressions from me before the end of the week on that one!
On the VC front we have the VCA release of Tower of Druaga for 800 points, Sim Earth for the PC Engine CD, also at 800 points and finally a Famicom game from Technos: Downtown Special: Its Kunio's Period Piece, Assemble Everyone! (the sequel to River City Ransom) for the usual 500 points.
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Bring SimEarth to VC please NOA. Also why does Japan get around 5-10 games per every update?
Hope NA gets Contra ReBirth pretty soon.
"and finally a Famicom game from Technos that appears to be some kind of side-scrolling action game set in medieval Japan for the usual 500 points."
And why aren't you telling us its name?
The other VC game from Technos is titled "Downtown Special: Its Kunio's Period Piece, Assemble Everyone!"
7 releases...they sure do get it good. I hope we get Contra ReBirth soon. It looks pretty nice.
Catch up? They have WAY more than us. >:3
YESZ!!! Contra!! We need more Contra!! Please release it in Europe!! (Please call it contra lol)
Random information: Kunio-kun is the name of the franchise that River City Ransom comes from.
The Probotector name died a long time ago. The series has been named Contra in Europe since the PlayStation 1 days.
I await your impressions Sean. Hopefully they will arrive soon (unlike the Excitebots review ).
@Jhuhn "The other VC game from Technos is titled "Downtown Special: Its Kunio's Period Piece, Assemble Everyone!""
Yeah. It's sequel to River City Ransom, and it is set to medieval japan. Plays pretty much same way as RCR, although it does also have some unfortunate slowdown. It was never released in the west.
Can't wait to read your impressions Sean. Get to work...erm Play! lol
Dang,Nintendo must hate Americans and Europeans.
7 titles!? The Japanese are catching up ? Yeah,right.
I'm actually not back from my holiday until Wednesday, but the update was "light" so I was able to do a quick write-up. I figured that Famicom game was the River City Ransom sequel, but the medieval setting threw me off. I also just didn't have time to get every frickin' kanji character translated so rather than a borked translation I figured a quick description would be faster.
Fixed!
And for what it's worth a contact I have at the Nintendo UK support centre says that getting the VC content up is more involved than we would think and they're hoping to improve the release schedule (hopefully that's not a reference to the recent 1+1 updates), so hopefully we'll get some lovin' too. Nice to know the Nintendo CS folk read Nintendo Life!
@Sean Aaron
So Nintendo of Europe reads Nintendo Life? Good,but I don't think Nintendo of America does!
I hate Japan. They get like 4 VC games per Tuesday. Why can't North America get lots of VC games per Monday?
@TwilightV: Sure, they have a lot more games, but a lot of their recent releases have been games other regions already had, like three Art Style and Tower of Druaga this week.
@Sean Aaron: Of course they say that getting VC games up is more involved than we would think! They're assuming we don't think very much (which is probably true of a lot of Nintendo's consumer base nowadays, but not ALL of us!).
Still, if they say they hope to improve the release schedule, that's at least an acknowledgment that it's SUCKED lately. It's a start...
Geez, all pretty great stuff...
Nintendo prejiduce, newsflash Nintendo, we bring in most of the sales give us the 7 downloads.
(Dammit guys, stop being angry at japan. Not only do they make the games in the first place, they also get pretty much the same games we get, plus some other Japan-exclusives you most likely wouldn't care about anyway. You're not missing out on anything)
Jidaigeki isn't really that good. It's an attempt at revamping the prequel and put it in a new setting, but it comes out as a pretty failed experiment. Look into it if the idea of a sequel interests you, but don't expect too much.
They get Contra Rebirth already!? No way!
SEAN AARON! Review contra NOW!
Edit: Pretty please
i hate the fact that japan gets all the great stuff and we get total garbage for the most part. i've bit my lip for way to long. it's annoying to come hear and read about how awesome wiiware is in japan and then monday rolls around and you bet it , we get more shovelware or total utter crap.
Buy a Japanese Wii, then. Not that hard.
Never mind Contra. Just give us Gradius already!!!
CONTRA REBIRTH FOR EUROPE PLEASE PLEASE PLEEAAAAAAAAASE!
@16: No, it means the folks in Codestorm House read Nintendo Life. Am I right?
Although how hard can tying an emulator, a ROM and an electronic manual together be?
They're doing a contra rebirth? Sweet! Hopefull this means we'll eventually see the original on the VC.
@Adamant: That's not exactly a practical solution, y'know.
As for Japan-exclusive games "you most likely wouldn't care about anyway," I have this to say: Goemon. They have SEVERAL entries in the series on VC that were never released here, and I'm still VERY jealous of that fact. I'm sure that's not the only thing on their VC I'd be interested, but it does come to mind most easily.
@City Of Delusion: I doubt that's the hard part. Licensing is probably being more of a problem than it should be, even for games that aren't generally classified as "licensed."
It's not a practical solution, no, but come on - you must've been incredibly delusional to not know, from the point the VC was announced, that Japan would be getting more games than anyone else. The supported consoles each have massive libraries of Japan-only games, many of them text-heavy, that would never be released here. The non-Japan exclusives simply aren't that numerous (and they do exist - we got Star Tropics, for instance), so of course they're getting more games than us. Nintendo aren't going to NOT release certain games in Japan just to keep the number of VC games stable worldwide.
If it really bothers people so much that Japan gets more VC games than them, they should've imported a Japanese Wii to begin with, thus getting access to all these wonderful text adventures they can't understand.
Seriously, whining about Japan getting more VC games is just pathetic. Grow up.
Adamant is right. I'd say if it's that big a deal check out eBay and try to find yourself an unmodded Japanese Wii or save your pennies and get a new one. The downloadables alone are worth it (I only have a few disc releases) and so many of these titles were only released in Japan they'd have to do months of Hanabi festivals to make up for it.
There are games released in the West that never make it over there as well; somewhere there's a balance!
Hell yeah Contra! Kicking ass and taking names!
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