Nintendo's Japanese YouTube Channel Serves Up a Musical Splatoon Treat, Devil's Third and Retro Goodness

Man, I sure wish I had the PS2 that you journalists played Devil's Third on. Must be some kind of top secret model that runs on dreams or something.

How similar was "Jam! With the Band" or whatever it was called, to Daigasso Band Bros? That looked like a pretty cool piece of software to muck around on...

@BarryDunne
Same here, I'm getting the game since it looks funner than a CoD game to me and seems to be worth the $50-60 cost more than Splatoon is (I'm gonna get flack from the Nintendo crowd for this, and I don't care). I know they're allowed an opinion, but those PS2 comments really confound me. The game does have some weak points when it comes to graphics, like the vehicle models and textures and some of the environment textures, but I really have to wonder if I'm looking at the same game those journalists are playing. It's perplexing.

Multi actually looks fun in Devils Third. It also looks like it runs at a very consistent frame rate. Maybe this game will be decent. What I hope is they do a day one patch in the US release addressing the concerns of the recent preview. I think the single and multiplayer run at different frame rates because I assume they scale down effects in the multi player modes. Though regardless of detail, wii u SHOULD run this game above 60fps. It is obviously been through development hell and could use some more native code and optimizations. Hopefully patch incoming for all versions.

That Splatoon "Splattack" rendition sounds awesome. Didn't hear of this app until this article, but it seems like it would be a cool addition to the eShop.

but is Devil's Third related to the September 2015 conspiracy?

This is the truth

I'm buying devils third, here in Europe, next month for sure, really don't care about the previews, game looks good, I'm sure I loved games with worse controls before, most of my wii library comes to mind, so many games I ended up loving, had bad reviews, control issues, and it didn't turn out quite like that when I was actually playing them. I need this type of action on my Wii U, its a great summer release, if it was coming out in the holidays, next to something like star fox and xenoblade, then it would be a different story, but right now for the summer its worth my money, and the gameplay, really does look awesome.

Single-player of Devil's Third from that trailer actually looked really good. With all its revealed coverage so far, though, I hope it will actually play as well as it looked in that trailer, at the very least with a patch soon after the game's release.

@Gauchorino Or something. I really want it to be good.

Devils Third is running a lot smoother in this trailer. I'm hoping that's the day one patch in action right there for a V synced 30FPS, looks like fun.

Alot of people forget Itagaki's last game Ninja Gaiden 2 looked like a muddled mess, but it was a hit with his fans.Even Ninja Gaiden 3 looks bad compared to this, not sure what people were expecting Graphically.

When you strip away the surreal effects of Bayonetta 2, it's fairly low poly, square environments and you fight about 6 enemies at a time tops. It works for that game.

Third has a hard time competing with PS4 an X1 in terms of realistic visuals but it looks about right for a 360 or PS3 game. Remember both the last gen consoles barely held 24FPS in the last 2 years of their cycle. AC, Dead space 3, Resi 6 all had major Frame dips in action.

@mid_55 I believe "Jam With the Band" was the English title of the original Japanese release.

Jam with the Band is the European PAL version of Daigasso Band Bros.

@mid_55 @SKTTR @stipey jam with the band is the european release of daigasso band brothers DX, the 2nd version of the game.
it's nearly identical, with only a few songs replaced by different ones and "only" 50 (free) dlc slots instead of japan's 100.
before that japan got daigasso band brothers, which had less songs and game modes but did get an expansion pack that could be loaded through the gba slot on the DS.

daigasso band brothers P is part 3 in the series.