Axiom Verge Confirmed for Wii U Release Later This Year

SO getting this!

Awesome! I was hoping this would happen. I held out just in case this happened. This game has Nintendo all over it. Why make a old school Nintendo inspired game and not release it on the Wii U first! Worked fine for Shovel Knight.

I'll get this day one.

I will never visit your "sister site" again. Underage boys are reviewing PEGI 18 rated games there.

Sounds cool. Depending on cost, I'll get this too.

This news made my day!

Oh perfect. Glad I waited on the PS4 version. I'd totally play this game off screen.

At this rate, Wii U will get it before the Vita.

Glad I didn't give in when it was on sale on Steam.

Yes! I've been waiting for this!

Awesome! Been meaning to get this on PS4, but now I might as well wait to get in on my Wii U instead.

Yes! I've been hoping for this news. This game seems like a perfect fit for a Nintendo console. Insta-buy

Yay! A real Metroid game for the series' 30th anniversary!

The sole reason to buy a PS4 is coming to Wii U and just in time for Metroid's 30th anniversary.

Of course this news is announced today and I just bought it on PS4 2 days ago. My luck, as usual.

Awesome!!

A physical release would be awesome, but if Nintendo confirms that the new account system locks digital games to your profile (rather than the console) then I'm in.

Heck yeah. I've played a little bit of this at my buddy's, will be glad to finally have this myself. Although I'd rather have it on my 3DS.

Yesss!!
Count me in!

Nice one. Especially seeing as Nintendo don't seem bothered about celebrating Metroid's 30th anniversary.

Played the PS4 version. The game has very tight and responsive controls harkening the gaming days of yesteryear! Thrilled to see this ported to Wii U. Will definitely be picking up.

Already got this on Steam. It's a fantastic game and my GOTY 2015.

@LegendOfPokemon
Someone has to make it.

I watched the speedrun of this game at the last AGDQ and it seemed like a reallt fun Metroid style game. Might get it at some point... after I have finished 25 other games first.

'The sole reason to buy a PS4'?
Resogun, Bloodborne, Tearaway Unfolded, SFV (best online fighter available), Disgaea 5, Helldivers, Infamous: SS and (upcoming) Uncharted 4, Ratchet & Clank, Horizon Zero Dawn and No Man's Sky say hello.
The only reason left to buy a Wii U is coming out a year after everyone on Sony's system beat it 10x over.
But hey, nice try, trying to belittle the PS4's line-up (which also includes Star Ocean 5, Persona 5, Rocket League, The Witness, Grand Kingdom, Ni No Kuni 2, FF7 Remake, Odin Sphere and every multiplat game the Wii U can only dream of).

I forgot this game existed.

Oh, sweet. Maybe I'll postpone buying this on Steam to get it on Wii U.

Before you trash me as 'just a hater', know that I've owned an NES, an SNES, 2 N64s, 5 Gamecubes, a Wii U, 3 DSs, a Gameboy, 3 GBAs, 2 3DSs and a New 3DS. I've invested 3500-4500$ on Nintendo games and systems in my lifetime.
And after being one of few Day One Wii U owners (the first in ny Canadian province) I saw the Wii U abandonded by 3rd parties.
But Nintendo fanboys excused it, saying the games on other consoles were trash.
So for every negative point thrown at the PS4 and its diverse, engaging line-up of games, I'm here to throw one back at the Wii U and it's overpriced, overhyped, first party only scraps.

Great game. Finished it on PS4. Wanted to play it again but waiting for Vita version ... hopefully it arrives on Vita before my holiday!!

Oh yeah getting this

I already bought it on PS4. It's probably my #1 game of 2015. Absolutely awesome and in some ways better than the Metroid games it's inspired by (and this is coming from Metroid fanboy).

@Clownshoes I own an Xbox One so the vast majority of games I care about on PS4 are also on either Xbox One, Wii U or both.

@NodesforNoids I agree with you. The PS4 has many great titles

@Sligeach
Ahemm. Federation Force.

AWESOME!!!
This is such good news! I can only hope that it will also come to 3ds but I'm not going to hold my breath. I got really far on this on PS4 but I'm going to get this again for Wii U just because I can play off the game pad. If anyone hasn't played it yet, boy does it scratch the Metroid itch! Definitely get it if you like Metroid. I wonder if we can swap weapons on the game pad?? I don't care of that's an option or not- this game rocks.

@NodesforNoids Sounds like you're trying to convince yourself as much as anyone else.

Finally. I'll be picking this up. I always found it weird when games that are so strongly inspired by Nintendo don't come to this platform first. Not that it's a big deal either, i just think it would have received a lot of fan fare being a Nintendo exclusive first.

This game is fantastic- just got it on PS4 a month or so ago and it's a worthy Metroid-type game. Which is saying quite a lot because so many games get it wrong.

@NodesforNoids
Nobody's trashing the PS4- we're talking about an indie game coming to Wii U. But even if somebody was, so what? There's a lot of crap PS4 got wrong and still gets wrong, and Wii U having 1000 faults of its own doesn't change that, and certainly doesn't make it immune to criticism. Heck I hear more criticism of Nintendo on this site than anything else.

@GraveLordXD
If you're ever interested in some seriously great games on Nintendo platforms I can give you a list of all the choice gems and steer you clear of the mediocrity (actually I could do that for any of the platforms for that matter). There's alot more than Mario you should be experiencing! I mean if you have the system you might as well enjoy it to the fullest right?

@GraveLordXD
Oh for sure, it was a stunted generation but considering its' extreme lack of success I'm surprised the library turned out as good as it did to be perfectly honest.

I still fire up F-Zero GX on the Cube for all my F-Zero needs- even if they did release a new game I still think I'd be playing that one because it's just so amazing. Gosh dang why they couldn't release a remake of F-Zero X on 3DS in 3D just boggles my mind. I want that game so bad and I know it's never going to happen.

Nice I knew this was bound to happen eventually since it always had the feel of a game that would fit in right at home on a Nintendo system though I am thinking of getting it on Xbox One so the only question is whether I want the achievements or a more nostalgic feeling when playing the game, which looks simply fantastic! If Nintendo won't make a traditional Metroid style experience at least there are plenty of other developers who will!

@Splatburst Ahem. I think I'm going to get sick.

As less hot-blooded NLers like @TheRealThanos will be amused to notice, all the "This is going to be a better Metroid game than the actual Federation Force one will ever be" jokes fall rather flat once you consider this can also be described as "a Metroid game where you don't play as Samus".

@AlexSora89
Federation force wouldn't be fixed if samus was playable. If they added samus to the team and made the graphics normal as opposed to SD, it still wouldn't fix it.

There's a reason that people hail this game and dislike federation force. This is metroid in terms of gameplay. Not only is it metroid, but it's classic metroid!

Federation force is similar to prime, but not prime in terms of gameplay. Unless you can play solo alone that is.

but classic metroid fans just want games that play like classic metroid. Now that castlevania has gone lords of shadows, we get neither series that the metroidvania genre is named after!

For some, it's about samus. For many, it is the love of the game.

Are they really glitches if they're deliberately being put in the game?

Yes now I don't have to buy a freaking PS4 to play this.

@AlexSora89 I would agree to a point, except that this isn't purely a "Metroid without Samus" game, but a game inspired by several classics, as also mentioned in the article.

As for the comparison with Federation Force... well, I still don't know about that one. After initially being kind of disappointed I've calmed down a bit since the most recent footage and explanation, but that one is indeed not going to be the game that the core Metroid fans wanted, so I'm still not quite sold on it.

But I'll reserve final judgment until I get to play a demo or something...

Amazing how the Wii U had to wait to get a game that's an utter copy of Metroid.
Come on dev, if you're gonna copy a Nintendo franchise at least include a Wii U/New 3DS port of the game.

That looks pretty groovy, though I've barely put any time into Super Metroid yet and it's been ages since I made any serious attempt at Super Castlevania. Still, I might get this if it's more accessible (read: something I can get through in a few hours).

Great news. I'll be getting this.

@TheRealThanos
Of course, my mention of a shallow comparison and related jokes was a joke in itself. Err... jokeception.

@AlexSora89 Oh man, never mention that movie again. I have it here on Blu-ray, and I watched it three times already, not only to try and get a better grasp of the story, but also because of the endless "this is what it all means" videos on YouTube, which of course I never thought of the first time I saw it.

But being infected with these YouTube videos and the new info gained from them in my head, I had to watch it again and it both ruined the movie and actually added a new layer of not understanding...

So, what to do, right? Yep, back to YouTube, see if someone interpreted it the same way as I did, remember their take on it and watch it again, but alas: still a weird movie in a movie in a movie, so at one point I just decided to stop watching it, but I see it standing here on the wall mounted shelf looking at me, gently calling to me, tempting me to give it that one last try which will finally make everything clear...

@TheRealThanos
... or you could just watch the "How I Wet Your Mother" episode of The Simpsons, which generally is a funny - but also just as touching - version of the movie.

@AlexSora89 How I WET your mother? Haha, funny, other than that thanks but no thanks. I'm not that into the Simpsons and for the time being I'm going to stay away from anything Inception-related.

And probably even other movies and series too, at least I will be seeing less of them: too busy with my newly started company...

@TheRealThanos
You started a company? Best of luck then!
As for The Simpsons episodes, given the overall "needle in a haystack" quality ratio of the recent seasons, I wouldn't have suggested that one if I didn't have my reasons to do so.

@AlexSora89 Yeah, started the preparations last year and in the last half year things have really kicked into gear. I was a sales & marketing account manager in the IT biz and ran and trained my own sales team, but I didn't agree with some of the rules and ways that things were done because with the experience I have now (over 14 years) I have already shown multiple times that my way works just as good, or in some instances even better. And the worst thing is that the sales teams do most of the work, but only get their salary plus the odd bonus here or there, but the big amounts go to the CEO's and such, because it's "their" client.

Since we couldn't come to any agreement for me and my team to get some more freedom and prove it by getting the results, I decided to start looking into other ways of getting where I wanted to go, which in the end resulted in the only choice left and that was to start my own one-man business, because most companies are stupid or stuck in archaic rule sets that don't always apply anymore, but because of tradition (or plain old stubbornness) they are maintained anyway.

Because of my obviously lower workload capacity as a one-man company, I dropped most of my activities (such as making campaigns for customers, arranging seminars and looking into financials of companies they wanted as clients and so on) and decided to simply focus on what I do best, and that is sell your product or service for you, to other companies. So basically, you can hire me to do your business to business acquisition.

Might just give that episode a look after all, provided I can find the time...

@TheRealThanos
The Simpsons' latest seasons are rather hit-and-miss, but there's at least one gem in every season. Other good parodies of 2000s-introduced works include "24 minutes" (24), "Eternal Moonshine Of The Simpson Mind" (Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind) and "The Debarted" (The Departed), each one an amazing episode in its own right.

@AlexSora89 I'll have a look see this weekend, after I've finished catching up on sleep (even though that's been medically proven to be impossible, so it's more likely a psychological thing), because so far, this has been a VERY busy week and I don't see it calming down for the next two days, and I'm already kind of exhausted...

@TheRealThanos
Whenever you want, Mad Titan!

Good news!