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......
ESRB: Dragon Quest Wars draws near
by JC Fletcher 
{ 1 month ago } 
Dragon Quest Wars is a simplistic strategy game in which players control teams of four monsters, each trying to destroy the other teams or invade their bases (represented by a goal line). It's developed by Intelligent Systems, which makes it sort of a Nintendo/Square Enix collaboration. And it's got online multiplayer! It seems like a nice diversion while we wait to hear anything at all about Dragon Quest IX.
Two cheapo DSiWare shmups in Japan this week
by JC Fletcher { 1 month ago }
Publisher Genterprise has announced two shooters as part of its 200 DSi Point "GG Series," both developed by Wario: Master of Disguise/Boing! Docomodake DS developer Suzak. Z-One is a horizontally scrolling shooter featuring a "Pod," a multidirectional-shooting "Option" kind of device that flies near your ship. And Wonder Land is an Alice in Wonderland-themed vertical shmup.
Being made specifically as super-cheap games, it's doubtful they'll be great. But they will be very cheap when they come out in Japan this Wednesday.
[Via Andriasang]
Watch this Scribblenauts ad with your pterodactyl
by JC Fletcher { 2 months ago }
This live-action ad does a great job of getting the gameplay across, and presenting it in an appealing way. In fact, the events of this commercial would work as a real Scribblenauts level. Bonus points for using the real Scribblenauts art style for the summoned objects.
Okamiden screens are predictably cute
by JC Fletcher { 2 months ago }
At this point, Capcom's Okamiden is succeeding with its two-pronged attack of nice graphics and adorable baby wolves. Looking at these screens, we feel only vestiges of the outrage we once felt about the idea of continuing Clover's work in the developer's absence. Instead, the feeling of wanting to play this game has overtaken us.These lovely screens show possibly the most sensible reason for putting Okami on the DS:
European Nintendo downloads: Rygar, Spaceball Revolution
by JC Fletcher { 2 months ago } 
This week's DSiWare offering is 2-in-1 Solitaire, which made us feel really stupid when we looked up the number of players allowed.
- Rygar (Arcade, 1 player, 600 Wii Points)
- Solomon's Key (Arcade, 1 player, 500 Wii Points)
- Spaceball Revolution (WiiWare, 1-2 players, 800 Wii Points)
- 2-in-1 Solitaire (DSiWare, 1 player, 200 DSi Points)
OFLC: Two more Street Fighter games on Virtual Console
by JC Fletcher { 2 months ago }
With the slowing pace at which Nintendo releases Virtual Console games, it's taking longer and longer for our Virtually Overlooked columns to be revealed as prescient -- but it's happening. The Australian OFLC ratings board has just revealed two classic Street Fighter games heading to Wii soon: Street Fighter II' Champion Edition and ... Fighting Street, the Turbografx-16 CD version of the very first Street Fighter.The Champion Edition could be the arcade game, but is probably the PC Engine version, which is surprisingly faithful for an 8-bit port of the arcade game. It's another port, but, like Fighting Street, it holds value as a curiosity.
[Via NeoGAF]
Space Invaders Extreme 2 landing in Europe October 2
by JC Fletcher { 2 months ago }
click to invade the gallery
While we wait for a firmer North American release date than "fall," we'll just enjoy these screenshots the company sent out with the PAL announcement. We're sure we'll be exploring the bingo system and falling into a techno-music-induced Nagoya-attacking trance soon enough.
Gallery: Space Invaders Extreme 2 (09/10/09)
Overturn now open to cross-region play
by JC Fletcher { 2 months ago }
Of course, since the game's been out in Japan since last December, anyone who's still online and looking for opponents is a seasoned veteran, and thus basically invincible. But the good news is that you can see how those invincible players have customized their mechs!
Gallery: Overturn
Toys R Us writes in $15 launch day savings on Scribblenauts
by JC Fletcher { 2 months ago }
There you go. If you live near a TRU and you've been on the fence (for some reason) about this game, consider your decision made.
[Via GoNintendo]
Lost Magic sequel finds a home on cell phones
by JC Fletcher { 2 months ago }
Taito's Lost Magic was an early standout on the DS, released in the Dark Ages before the system became ubiquitous. A Wii sequel of sorts was released in Japan this May, called Takt of Magic. Then, this summer, another Lost Magic-related trademark appeared for Lost Magic: Concerto of the Fallen. Taito has just revealed that game as a new Lost Magic for mobile phones. The good news: it's free! The bad news: Japanese mobile games are basically inaccessible unless Taito decides to pull a Square Enix (its parent company!) and port the thing to WiiWare or something.
In the absence of touch or motion controls, Concerto of the Fallen uses a new system for drawing runes, called "buttons."
Logitech's high-end Guitar Hero controllers headed to Wii
by JC Fletcher { 2 months ago }
The controller, which was black in its PS3 incarnation and orange for 360, will have a white body (with room to attach a Wiimote), and the same "maple neck, rosewood fingerboard and metal frets" that help justify the price of the other versions.
Logitech is also introducing a Wii version of its $229 Wireless Drum Controller, which is designed to fold up easily, and features both drum pads and kick pedals that are improved over the basic Guitar Hero drums -- which, at that price, they'd better be.
Gallery: Logitech Wii instruments
Style Savvy makes its Fashion Week debut
by JC Fletcher { 2 months ago }
For the rest of us (those few of us who won't be at the Charlotte Ronson afterparty), Nintendo also announced another shockingly smart decision with this game: clothes from Ronson's fall line will be available in-game as downloads. We may not be the target audience for Style Savvy, but we know that sounds like a good idea.
Gallery: Style Savvy (DS)
Rage of the Gladiator monster elicits sympathy
by JC Fletcher { 2 months ago }
In fact, he doesn't appear to have any throats or anything -- just eyeballs in the back of his mouths. When he eats, he just ends up cramming food right into an eye, which is futile, painful, and really unsanitary! There's no mystery as to why this guy is angry.
Gallery: Rage of the Gladiator (WiiWare)
We predict that Europe will receive a new Wii channel tomorrow
by JC Fletcher { 2 months ago }
You know who else didn't predict this? Nintendo of Europe. A spokesperson said last year that there were no plans to localize this channel. Maybe there were plans, but the Nintendo rep didn't know how to correctly interpret the signs.
[Thanks, Kevin!]
Japanese Nintendo downloads: The Soldier of Argos
by JC Fletcher { 2 months ago }
Rygar finally arrives on Virtual Console, giving gamers the opportunity to try the original, much more linear version of the classic NES game. It's joined by Dragon Spirit, the epic tale of a warrior who is transformed into a dragon, and then transformed again into a two-headed dragon, while being shot at by hundreds of flying monsters.
- Argos no Senshi (Rygar) (Arcade, 1-2 players, 800 Wii Points)
- Dragon Spirit (Arcade, 1-2 players, 800 Wii Points)
