Wii-Tards.net : Falcon Puuunch! Yes!

Homebrew games by Joakim Sandberg, Noitu Love and the new Noitu Love 2 offer frenetic, over-the-top 2D platforming goodness inspired by classics like Gunstar Heroes and Silhouette Mirage. In fact, if I didn’t know better I’d say this game was made by Treasure themselves.

In Noitu Love 2, your standard directional controls are added to by a reticle controlled by the mouse that’s used for dashing to objects and enemies, grabbing and throwing them in specific directions. Mouse gestures also can be used to unleash your special attacks. I wrote to Joakim and said this would translate perfectly to the DS, using the touchscreen for controlling the reticle, but he said he had no one to program it for him. How sad!

Still, this is an awesome game, and for only $20 for the full version you can’t go wrong. Check out the demo and you’ll be hooked!

Noitu Love 2 Official Site with downloads.
Joakim’s main site with this and other games.

Wow, this whole concept of Wii Ware sure is looking like it will be freakin’ awesome with all of the content it will bring to the Wii. Haven’t really heard anything about the pricing system yet, but it’s almost certain that they’ll be cheap, or at the very least less than a full price Wii game. Puzzle games were about the only games in my household that other people besides me would want to play, and even though it wasn’t my favorite genre I pretty much had to learn to get to like games like Dr. Mario if I wanted some multiplayer action.

Now, Dr. Mario over wifi, with your Miis dressed up in cute little doctor outfits? That is just too awesome! Come out with Wii-Ware for us gaijins, Nintendo!

An email request for “A 3D Strong Bad video game with all the brst graphics” has led to Strong Bad’s Cool Game for Attractive People. From Telltale Games, the folks responsible for Sam & Max. Or as SB calls them, “Rabbitdog and Bunnyman!” Yeah, they’re still making those. Not that anyone’s heard about them in oh…10 years. But this game looks pretty cool.

At least the trailers look good.

But will it truly leave your Wii console in a smoldering crater? What’s the game actually like?

Oh yeah, this is gonna rock. Or rave, as the case may be.

With minigames, even!

SB doesn’t meet any attractive women…or any women at all aside from Marzipan, but he can leave himself a prankcall voicemail.

And apparently Homestar gets caught streaking!

Episode one is coming in June! Only on Wii! And some other device that I’ve heard can be used for gaming but doesn’t play anything but generic FPS. But who cares about that alleged ‘platform’ anyway? Wii, baby!

More info available on Telltale’s site.

Or, “It’s not sexual harassment if she’s from another planet, right?”

After all the hype and excitement, I was pretty disappointed with Doki Doki Majo Shinpan. All I did was wander aimlessly over a generic school ground for hours without advancing the plot or touching a single witch. Hopefully things will turn out better with ToLOVEru. It’s your basic RPG following a teenage boy and a cute alien girl. There’s versions for both DS and PSP but the DS version includes a risque minigame where you heal the girl’s injuries by copping a feel under her skirt.

No videos (zomg no youtube links?!) but we did get hold of some promo posters. Click on ‘em for a closer look:

Just so you know, this doesn’t work in Real Life.  So quit trying to ‘heal’ me on the bus.

DS version is due out in August, with the PSP game following in September.

I was told by a friend that I really should upload this YouTube video here because it was just way too cute and I must show the world! Looks pretty cute, only they screwed up Cubone! She’s not wearing the skull of her mother on her head!