" This has to stop. Nintendo is announcing games MONTHS now before release. Whatever happened to waiting a year?  Anyway, I wonder what it's about. "

I am interested... in finding more out about the game. The fact that "holy shit there is blood" is not enough for me to be interested in the game. Just want some more info on the game mostly. Also the character faces look like garbage, like wtf.

Its a simple 2000 game. Which means you should expect what's right there on the surface. A cowboy anime girl fighting zombies, a dude running around shooting giant bugs and robots. And now, some fantasy dude running around slicing giant monster things. Set expectations accordingly.

" I am interested... in finding more out about the game. The fact that "holy shit there is blood" is not enough for me to be interested in the game. Just want some more info on the game mostly. Also the character faces look like garbage, like wtf. "

" @Zenaxzd said:

" I am interested... in finding more out about the game. The fact that "holy shit there is blood" is not enough for me to be interested in the game. Just want some more info on the game mostly. Also the character faces look like garbage, like wtf. "

MotionPlus. Sold? "

" @Meowayne said:

" @Zenaxzd said:

" I am interested... in finding more out about the game. The fact that "holy shit there is blood" is not enough for me to be interested in the game. Just want some more info on the game mostly. Also the character faces look like garbage, like wtf. "

MotionPlus. Sold? "

The lack of motion plus hasn't stopped me from enjoying games in the past *shrug*. It really does look interesting though just waiting for more info I guess. "

I am more concerned on if this game will be localized. There are 3 games in this series that I know of, one of them is Japan only, the sequel is Japan only and got a very small release in Europe, and the 360 game everywhere. This is also a Nintendo game, which is infamous for never localizing a lot of games that they make. There are also three M-rated type games made by Nintendo for Wii that did not get localized here, like Disaster (a game with guns and terrorists), Fatal Frame 4 (a horror game), and Captain Rainbow (guess).
 
@ryanwho said:

" @Willy105 said:

" This has to stop. Nintendo is announcing games MONTHS now before release. Whatever happened to waiting a year?  Anyway, I wonder what it's about. "

What happened was waiting a year is stupid because your game could have delays and Nintendo knows what the fuck they're doing. Meanwhile you can think about how much you wanna play the next new Blizzard or Square Enix game for the next 3 years. "

Maybe I am in the minority here but...that game looks lame as hell, graphics looks Meh especially the faces I mean Ouch, and the gameplay looks like  Ninety-Nine Nights with "waggle"  and the neon coloring book looking slashes the Insane amount of speech bubbles on the screen and the interface looks like something for the 80s I think ill pass.

" Maybe I am in the minority here but...that game looks lame as hell, graphics looks Meh especially the faces I mean Ouch, and the gameplay looks like  Ninety-Nine Nights with "waggle"  and the neon coloring book looking slashes the Insane amount of speech bubbles on the screen and the interface looks like something for the 80s I think ill pass.
"

All the recent updates together for easier viewing on this last page:

Official Japanese website with images showing the online lobby among other things. Trailer on the front page. Not much else.

Some one on a slow internet connection is going to try to load this page, but there computer is just going to blow up.
 
On Topic:  It looks solid.  I'm still kinda interested in it.

I'm seven hours in now, and it has quickly claimed a top spot in my all-time favourite Wii games list. 
 
In fact, it has successfully kept me from continuing Assassin's Creed 2 in the last few days.

This game should be getting a localization announced on their February Summit.

It really should, but it probably won't. 
 
No reviewer will be able to justify giving this game a rating higher than 7 and Nintendo probably knows it. Plus its pretty heavy on voice work, plus its based on norse mythology with a japanese influence, plus the main characters do not lend themselves AT ALL for a NA/EU audience, plus the online would probably require a lot of work.
 
If its not announced at the media summit, it probably won't see western shores at all. A shame.

" I'm seven hours in now, and it has quickly claimed a top spot in my all-time favourite Wii games list.   In fact, it has successfully kept me from continuing Assassin's Creed 2 in the last few days. "

Waiting for reviews...

I have finished mission 23 with Freya today. The spirit bow is so ridiculously overpowered, its not even funny anymore.
 
Epic 3fps slowdowns in stage 22. (the cave where you first encounter the red spiderscorprionthings)

" Waiting for reviews... "

" @demontium said:

" Waiting for reviews... "

Reviews will be in the 65-75 range because the game is unfinished and messy. Everyone I know who has played it loves it, but everyone also agrees that reviewers will not (can not) be friendly towards this game. "

No, no. Even I wouldn't be able to justify rating it 8 or higher. The game is glitchy and features the worst framerate ditches since... forever. In fact I don't think I have ever seen a high profile console release with so severe framerate drops. We're talking frequent 5fps here.

Epic slowdown happen every now and then unfortunately. I'm not sure if you have already done the bridge level but that section is 15 minutes of counting frames on one hand. I have been playing mostly as Frey when possible, most of Freyas rods suck up her mana and it is quite annoying to fill it up with the sword every time. At one point i did get a rod with a long distance attack that refilled it that has been very handy for some time now but against the bigger enemies it is a bit useless. 
 
I'm 21 hours in by the way. The game is way longer then I expected it to be and some pretty eventful things happen in the story. Shame that i can only make out some of the word because it seems to be rather interesting.

You guys are having the same kind of conversation in two threads :P

Agreed, the story seems VERY interesting, and the long, well staged and performed cutscenes (motion captured) don't really make not understanding a word easier. 
 
I have seen the bridge level, but the worst for me was stage 22, the battle against the spiders in the room with the scaffolding, and the battle against the red spiders on the bridge over the lava. Those were really slideshows. It never gets unplayable, but I do wonder just how much better and more awesome this could have been if the scale of the battle wasn't antiproportional to the framerate.
 
I have come to like playing as Freya more, as Mana consumption and management add more content to the battles.

I did not have any problems at that lave bridge section framerate wise. I did fall in the lave pit though, 4 times...  It does not hurt you but it was absolute hell to get back up to the bridge because the game would lock to the enemies still on the bridge limiting my view to directly above me. The auto lock camera can be a real pain sometimes...  
 
What is mostly keeping me from playing as Freya is that all the weapon info is in Japanese and that it becomes really hard to set up an effective trio of weapons  with all the new weapons you get all the time. Whereas Frey's weapons are a bit more straight forward and easier to sort out.  Light Sword + Explosive Arrows = LOVE
 
@Al3xand3r: We are being effective conversationalists.

You can turn off auto lock-on in the menu at any time?

No, that wasn't a question. You definitely can. Its the 7th option from the top, under "B button for attack".
 
REGINLEIV enters sales charts at position 9.
 
Good news.

Wha-what..????
 
Definitly turning that thing off the next time I boot that game up. 
 
Wow if i had known that before that would have saved me such a headache in some levels.

You can also turn it off temporarily/manually by pressing the 1-button..