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No More Heroes
KvP:
I had already played The Godfather on the 360, and after a number of half-assed Ubisoft and EA ports to the Wii I decided I might as well skip it.
SMG, I rented until we beat it. Zack & Wiki, I have not heard of. I remember that it won some publication adventure gaming award over a game that I had played and liked, however.
Like I've said before, Nintendo doesn't make games that I'm interested in. I have a Wii because my brother wanted one and I bought it for him. He grew up around consoles and I didn't. I'm sort of waiting a few years until the required wiimotions are more specific and less general. I've seen the wiimote less as a revolutionary innovation and more as a new way to press A, B and C. It seems like in most cases a few hours of play time is all that's needed to discern what basic flick-of-the-wrist motions are necessary to play a game, and you can sit on the couch and control adequately. The exception to that is probably Wii Sports, which incidentally is still great fun when stoned. If my brother weren't attached to my Wii I'd probably sell it to my stoner friends, who seem so glum now that their Wii is broken. No More Heroes looks interesting but will probably be semi-coherent if visually ravishing, and I have no interest in SSMB whatsoever. And what's coming after that? Most likely, another first-party game.
Johnny C:
Zack & Wiki is fantastic, and honestly The Godfather is the best on the Wii. It combines the mechanics of the other games with a control scheme that's an absolute blast. Tommy described it better than I ever could:
--- Quote from: tommydski on 27 Jun 2007, 19:35 ---The Godfather
This is the best of the bunch so far, which isn't saying much. The actual gameplay itself is good fun. It's very familar to anyone who has played Grand Theft Auto but there's some nice mechanics thrown in. Plus the Wiimote is used very effectively for shooting and fighting. I especially like sneaking up behind people, throwing piano wire over their head and shaking the controls until they die. That sort of thing makes you glad to own a Wii. The game is very open-ended and you get a lot of choice on what you want to do, which is really fortunate because the adopted storyline is woeful beyond belief. It really shouldn't be associated with The Godfather franchise because the films are so incredible and there is too much to live up to. Rather than set this actually quite playable game in the Godfather universe, they tried to weave a character into the storyline of the first film. They did get the original voice-actors in and they all look the part but the dialogue they recorded is basically pap. They make some horrible changes to the narrative and after a while you start to genuinely dread having to play the storyline missions. Also, they clearly couldn't get the rights to Al Pacino, so the Michael character looks and sounds nothing like him. Why put him in at all then? As long as we are ruining the narrative to this extent, why not just cut the bastard out all together? However, like I said it plays well and the graphics are good for this console.
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KvP:
Al Pacino is too good to appear in games, and spends his time on things of substance like Gigli cameos. At least the replacement looks like he's Sonny's brother, unlike Pacino. Bob Duvall sounds fucking old.
I found the Godfather's storyline to be pretty okay, actually. I thought it was smart to have the PC "fill in the blanks" in the story, so to speak. The intended emotional payoff never comes, but the story retains the high-concept pulp feel of the first movie. They made some slight changes to how a few scenarios play out, but the results are mostly unchanged. The only important change seemed to be making the PC Michael's capo instead of the faceless character in the movies (who becomes more important in Part 2, but whatever) The dialogue wasn't great, though. I'm surprised they got Brando to say that shit.
bryanthelion:
Such a good game!
Though, Shinobu is fucking hard. She was easy at first and then she pulled off this machine gun shit that made me die.
ackblom12:
This game right here. It is amazing.
It is also completely and totally fucknut & batshit loco.
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