JC Fletcher
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THE ERA AND TIME OF THIS STORY IS UNKNOWN. AFTER THE MOTHERSHIP "ARKANOID" WAS DESTROYED, A SPACECRAFT "JC Fletcher" SCRAMBLED AWAY FROM IT. BUT ONLY TO BE TRAPPED IN SPACE WARPED BY SOMEONE......
Contra Rebirth also headed to Europe
by JC Fletcher { 1 day ago } 
In addition, Konami will release its top-down racer, Driift, later this month as DRiiFT MANIA. "DRiiFT MANIA" is also a condition in which someone is compelled to spell things with two lower-case i's.
VC/WiiWare Friday: Happy Hanabi Festival
by JC Fletcher { 1 day ago } 
This week's awesomeness extends to WiiWare, with both Bplus's Bit Boy!!, the maze action game that shuffles between various levels of retro, and Gradius Rebirth, which settles at the 16-bit era. And on DSiWare, the Mario calculator and clock apps arrive. Roll your eyes all you want, but they're surprisingly delightful. Details after the break.
Nintendo also announced Hanabi Festival titles you can expect in following weeks: Bomberman '94, Kirby's Dream Land 3, Zoda's Revenge: StarTropics II, MUSHA, Detana!! Twinbee, and the NES Smash Table Tennis!
Infinite Space launching Spring 2010, animated trailer launching right now
by JC Fletcher { 2 days ago }
Luckily, Sega has started translating the videos into English, with voice acting and everything, and we can now enjoy both looking at them and knowing what's going on. The voice acting is pretty much what you'd expect from American anime releases, but it's a small price to pay for comprehension. In this trailer, we see that a crash-landed "Watcher" gives protagonist Yuri the opportunity to build his own spaceship.
This trailer comes along with Sega's announcement of a spring 2010 release date in North America. We can only hope it continues releasing translated videos to tide us over.
Gallery: Infinite Space
Exclusive Wii/rubber ducky bundles and more available at GameStop
by JC Fletcher { 2 days ago }
That's actually the least bizarre of GameStop's Wii/cheapo party favor bundles. The others include
- The Pirate Tattoo bundle, which includes a pirate-style tattoo sleeve
- The Take a Bath with a Buddy bundle, which includes a water-squirting rubber duck.
- The Mario & Sonic Olympic Games bundle, which includes -- oh, that one's okay.
[Via Destructoid]
Fire Emblem: Savings Day
by JC Fletcher { 2 days ago }
Have you thought about purchasing Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon, but decided to wait until the price dropped to exactly $14.98? If so, today is the day you've been waiting for. Amazon, for its Deal of the Day, has marked down the tactical role-playing remake by 50%. It's a very cheap way to occupy like a million hours. A warning, though: if you buy it now and one of your friends challenges you to a multiplayer match, that person has probably been playing the game since February or so. You can expect a few seconds of humiliating punishment, is what we're saying. Have fun!
Gallery: Fire Emblem DS
How's Life as a Darklord?
by JC Fletcher { 3 days ago }
Instead, Andriasang describes the WiiWare game as a unique variation of tower defense. As heroes storm your tower, you delay their progress by adding floors to the structure and filling them with monsters. The strategy comes not only from managing your resources enough to build as many floors as you can, but also in placing things so that there isn't too much stuff on one floor. If there is, the heroes can just skip over a floor!
See a video of the game in action after the break.
King Hippo's boxers half off with Punch-Out!! purchase
by JC Fletcher { 3 days ago }
In case you've forgotten (though how could you), the Heavyweight Contender Kit contains a miniature King Hippo crown, a punching bag, a Doc Louis Remedy Chocolate Bar, and King Hippo boxer shorts.
Unfortunately, the Little Mac boxing glove remains at full price. What a punch in the (bandaged) gut.
Rune Factory 3 sprouts on DS
by JC Fletcher { 3 days ago }
The Rune Factory series is showing that it is still, at heart, part of the Harvest Moon franchise -- mostly by having lots of sequels. The latest issue of Famitsu reveals another, Rune Factory 3 for DS. This is actually the fourth Rune Factory, counting Frontier on Wii.In addition to his duties as a farmer, new protagonist Maisu, who features a character design right out of Tetsuya Nomura's sketchbook, can transform into monsters, gaining different abilities in battle and interacting differently with other characters out of battle.
According to IGN's translation, the game now features "active seeds" that grow into plants that can be used in battle! Most exciting farming game ever.
Deadly Creatures may have failed, but its tech lives on
by JC Fletcher { 3 days ago }
THQ CEO Brian Farrell, however, isn't dwelling on the sales or declaring no more Wii development. He offered a surprisingly positive outlook on the situation in an interview with G4's Feed. "... we have great Wii technology there now and so we're developing other games -- stay tuned for the announcements," he said, "but we intend to leverage that great technology on the Wii in the future."
Having a well-designed Wii engine is good news indeed, especially since Deadly Creatures was a pretty nice-looking game (well, actually it was disgusting, but in a technically impressive way).
Fans rewrite Brawl to balance characters
by JC Fletcher { 4 days ago }
WRONG. It's actually an unbalanced mess. At least, that's what a group of Smash Boards members seems to believe, seemingly with more conviction than we've ever had for pretty much anything. It's important enough that they decided to patch the game's code to change specific gameplay elements. "Balanced Brawl" has three goals, as stated by the coders: first, to remove "infinites" and "inescapable lockdowns" (simple, unblockable combos that add more than 50% damage), increase overall character balance, and increase stage viability.
You can see examples of the kind of minute tweaking done to the characters in the chart above, and you can read way, way more about each change in the Smash Boards thread. It's a pretty impressive testament to just how much time has been spent thinking about Brawl.
VC/WiiWare Tuesday: My Life as an Available Game
by JC Fletcher { 4 days ago }
Virtual Console this week offers one really cute Namco arcade game, and another Jinguuji Saburo detective game, which we'll never see.
Virtual Console:
- Marvel Land (Arcade, 1-2 players, 800 Wii Points)
- Tantei Jinguuji Saburo: Toki no Sugiyuku Mama ni... (Famicom, 1 player, 500 Wii Points)
- Right Brain Kids Okigaru Right Brain (1-4 players, 800 Wii Points)
- Licca-chan Oshare House (1 player, 1,000 Wii Points)
- Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: My Life as a Darklord (1 player, 1,000 Wii Points)
PSA: Register your games for Club Nintendo elite status today
by JC Fletcher { 4 days ago }
If you aren't yet at 300 coins (for Gold) or 600 coins (for Platinum), and you've got more games to register, get to it right now! If you've been thinking of picking up Punch-Out!! or something this week, you should probably do it today! Conversely, if you're at 600 now and you have more stuff to register, wait until tomorrow so it counts toward next year's total!
If you're not sure about the eligibility of an older (pre-Club Nintendo) game and don't want to waste time registering it, consult the list of eligible games in the "Product Registration" area of the Club Nintendo FAQ.
Aspyr launches social networking site for Treasure World
by JC Fletcher { 5 days ago }
Aspyr Media's innovative DS treasure hunt game Treasure World comes out this week, and to support it, the company has launched a site to allow players to find not just Wi-Fi-generated items, but each other as well.Club Treasure World allows players to show off their collections of items. Each item also has an associated sound, so players can set items down in specific configurations and create musical "Songscapes," which can also be shared on the site. Special awards and "treasure keys" will also be available through Club Treasure World. Most importantly, the site is a venue for the sharing of friend codes and a hub for item trading.
Check out some new screens in our gallery. Treasure World is clearly kid-oriented, but the novelty factor of collecting unique items from different Wi-Fi signals seems like something that adults could find cool as well.
Gallery: Treasure World (DS)
Muramasa: the GameStop preorder bonus
by JC Fletcher { 5 days ago }
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GameStop has just revealed the North American pre-order bonus, and it's exactly that! We couldn't be more thrilled. Well, we could be more thrilled if two things happened:
- We confirmed that the back of the scroll had the same enemy and stage artwork as the Japanese version
- We found out that GameStop's September 1 release date (a Tuesday!) was the real release date for the game.
Gallery: Muramasa: Demon Blade
Fans recreate favorite characters in Scribblenauts style
by JC Fletcher { 5 days ago }
We've picked out some favorites from what has become two threads of Scribblenauts fanart. It's pretty hard for us not to just post every single piece of fanart from both threads! Trust us, there's plenty in both threads for you to discover, and since the artists have started taking requests from other GAFfers, there will continue to be more for a while.
Above: Phoenix Wright and Maya Fey, Tomba, and Kirby, by SpacePirate Ridley; Lost's John Locke by MrCheez; surfing Raichu, Travis Touchdown, Optimus Prime, and Manny Calavera by Divvy. Look at all the greatness that has already been brought into the world by Scribblenauts, by people who haven't even played it!
