The producers of the Wii version of the classic Punch-Out!! have expressed wish to make a sequel to Nintendo's heavy hitting comedy punch up.

In a magazine interview with Next Level Games, out this week, producerKen Yeeloysays he would like to:

"evolve the franchise further and add some cool, new things." The original was designed to be similar to the NES original, a "definite, undeniable connection to the original"

"when the current title has gathered its new fanbase I would personally love to take the IP and the mechanic and give it a little twist. Cooperative, competitive multiplayer support or create-a-boss mode would be places to start but we'd need to come up with a new 'hook' like the motion controllers gave us in this iteration."

I'm not sure if I like where that is going. Punch Out is cool with me now, and features like multiplayer and create-a-boss sound cool, but this "new hook" worries me.

They did a good job with this one so why not? Add more Super Punch Out characters, a more fleshed out multiplayer where you can choose who to play as, or perhaps have one player still be Mac and the other one of the bosses, the features they mention here, a super hard mode, downloadable replays with online leaderboards, and you're set. Go for it.

It insinuates they want something to market it with. Motion controls were hardly a hook for anything but marketing and didn't affect the product. A new hook may be a similarly negligible thing, or a gameplay feature that is a real hook for once, like I don't know, the sharing of replays and what not. Like YouTube is filled with users showing off how fast they can beat bosses in the previous games, they can have in-game tools that allow that kind of public competition and showing off, weekly or monthly tournaments, and what not. Whatever works.

Again all the things your describing sound great to me, just something in the wording of that quote is irking me. I really don't want to see a big overhaul of the gameplay mechanics or any crap like that. I'd hope Next Level is smart enough to not try something stupid like that.