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The Wonderful 101 from Platinum Games • Page 2
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King_Edward 11,470 posts
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That's what my family keep telling me. 
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Telepathic.Geometry 12,422 posts
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Well, different strokes for different folks I guess. Still, what you said is comparable to saying I don't like BJs or I don't like Rez HD or some crazy shit like that. Anyway, no problem, as you were sir... -
CharlieStCloud 5,812 posts
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Registered 8 years agoTelepathic.Geometry wrote:
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I don't like BJs...
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MARKIV 121 posts
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Registered 13 years agokinky_mong wrote:
Viewtiful Joe meets Anything? You mean meets Pikmin.
Raiko101 wrote:
Each to their own, but that sentence makes me think you lack any taste in games what so ever.
If it's Viewtiful Joe meets anything, i'm not buying. I bought that game brand new for £2, from a closing down Woolworths. After completing it twice I still felt robbed.
Fortunately, it looks completly different.
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Telepathic.Geometry 12,422 posts
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Registered 11 years ago@Charlie: It's just after 4am here in Japan... Safe! -
figaro7 1,426 posts
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Registered 12 years agoViewtiful joe was prob my fav game on the gamecube! Anyway i watched the trailer on the wii u gamepad the other night via the eshop, damn quality was superb, looks fantastic, massive platinum fan and this looks insanse.
This looks very much like an action game though, shooting, beat-em-up, rail shooting, cant wait! -
roz123 7,112 posts
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Registered 10 years ago60 fps version of the Nintendo Direct trailer
http://platinumgames.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/wiiu_wonderful101_trailer_012213s.mov
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nickthegun 73,344 posts
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Registered 12 years agofigaro7 wrote:
No way! I watched the trailer on my mobile phone via youtube via my router which is connected to the internet via a wire!
Anyway i watched the trailer on the wii u gamepad the other night via the eshop -
Not sure if this has been in past videos but here is footage of the member select screen which displays some the superheroes you can play as.....Toilet Bowl Man \o/ -
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JuanKerr 37,708 posts
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Registered 11 years agoA good, reasonable post. -
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Armoured_Bear 22,018 posts
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Registered 6 years agoIntro Trailer
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I'm quitely looking forward to this one. It looks quite odd. Something i'd have expected to see during the PS1/Dreamcast era. I wont be making use of that eShop offer though. I'm ok with downloading software from the eShop, but given that I don't want to buy an external hard drive any time soon, i'll be buying retail games at retail. -
Wise fwom your gwave!
Guardian review:
Full review as they took it down:
If Pikmin 3, Nintendo's great summer hope for its beleaguered Wii U console, has you directing a herd of miniature helpers, The Wonderful 101, the company's leftfield, summer sleeper-hit-in-waiting, puts you in control of an angry mob. In both games you sweep through the landscape as a hustling cluster of bodies. In both games you use this crowd's wisdom and strength to create pathways to your objectives, and to eliminate the foes and obstacles in your way.
But only in The Wonderful 101 can you, with a delicate swipe of the finger, arrange your swarm into a giant pink spiked whip used to tear the armour from your opponents, or a pea green handgun used to launch your minions as a kind of fleshy ammunition, or even a Soviet hammer that pounds the concrete in a thick Russian accent. If Pikmin 3 is the Gardener's World of ponderous strategy games, The Wonderful 101 is police helicopter footage of a sweltering Los Angeles riot.
The two games have an opposed sort of symmetry. Pikmin 3 takes place in the undergrowth of an uninhabited planet, The Wonderful 101 resides in the pocked streets and suburbs of a besieged city. In one you play as hapless alien invaders, working with the natives in order to figure out how to exit terra firma as soon as possible. In the other, you play as the indigenous warriors themselves, all decked out in 1970s Japanese superhero spandex, attempting to shoo away the raiding thrusts of the so-called Geathjerk space invaders.
The premise and styling is as wild-eyed as anything to come from Platinum Games, the most boisterous of Japan's contemporary video-game developers. The titular 101 is a group of topflight superheroes plucked from each of the world's nations. Each individual has his or her own unique styling and ability, but this is a game about the power of co-operation, not individual might. The swarm might be composed of individuals, but it must act as a single entity. Using either the Wii U pad's touchscreen or one of its stiff analogue sticks, you can shepherd your mob into esoteric tools and weapons by tracing shapes. The larger the shape you draw, the greater the number of superheroes who add their bodies to its formation.
As well as the purely destructive properties of your mob (and, apart from buildings and larger structures, much of the environments are destructible) they can be used to surround certain objects and people in order to bring restoration. In this way wilted flowerbeds can be made to blossom (yielding bonus items in the regeneration), humble pedestrians can be inspired to temporarily join the 101's ranks and, wearied enemies can even be recruited to your side.
Platinum's talent for the set piece is brought to the fore by way of the game's chosen style, that of the 'Tokusatsu' – the genre of special effect-heavy Japanese TV shows and films that include Godzilla and Kamen Rider. In this way, play is routinely interrupted for an outrageous and delightfully inventive gameplay intermission as you, for example, fire giant baseballs into an alien's face on a baseball field, or use your mob to tickle a 50-foot robot's underarm, or morph into a giant hang-glider and tear through the whipping wind collecting upgrade tokens.
It's in these moments that Platinum displays a mastery of the Wii U hardware hitherto unseen, even in Nintendo's homegrown titles. One especially memorable section has you controlling a giant spacecraft on the television screen by marshalling the 101 onto directional pressure pads in a cockpit that's rendered on the Wii U pad's screen. If this weren't enough to juggle, you must simultaneously battle enemies in both the cockpit on the pad and in the skies on the TV screen. It is a genuinely novel gameplay invention and gives a true taste of the Wii U's untapped potential and promise.
But all of this unbridled creativity comes at the cost of some refinement. The scrappiness of the action extends upwards and outwards throughout the entire game, which struggles to marshal its ambitions and ideas into a perfectly coherent whole. An alchemy system allows you to create new items from collected pieces of fruit, although its workings are left unexplained; each of the 101 you collect can be levelled up individually, although its unclear what benefits this brings to the whole. New moves and attacks unlock seemingly at random and the means of exposing the game's intermittent in-situ bonus levels is opaque.
Finally, the game's tall difficulty belies its accessible aesthetic: make no mistake, this is a far more demanding proposition than its Pikmin cousin. And yet, these are the hallmarks that make Platinum's output some of the most exciting work in contemporary video games: scruffy invention in a playpen that allows for player mastery. In the midst of this riot of ideas and unrefined energy we can perceive some of the Wii U system's idiosyncratic wonder. It may not be a game to sell a system, but The Wonderful 101 provides ample justification for Nintendo's eccentric hardware.
10/10
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jimlufc 125 posts
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Registered 7 years agoDid it really get 10/10? Really looking forward to this now. -
It didn't have a score, I just put that in to see if anyone would notice. -
mumtoucher 513 posts
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Registered 12 years agoShit, I'm gonna have to get a Wii U now, fucking love platinum games' stuff. DAMMIT!! -
Murbs 23,870 posts
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Registered 13 years agomumtoucher wrote:
I know! Bayonetta 2 too /o\
Shit, I'm gonna have to get a Wii U now, fucking love platinum games' stuff. DAMMIT!!
I DON'T WANT TO BUY A WIIU! DON'T MAKE ME COVET ONE PG! -
Armoured_Bear 22,018 posts
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Registered 6 years agoSorry guys, it's just been announced that Nintendo have bought Platinum Games. -
Ashleyfiddes 980 posts
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Registered 8 years ago@Armoured_Bear really? i hope so, would be fantastic for nintendo. Now they just need to do the same with Atlus -
Armoured_Bear 22,018 posts
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Registered 6 years agoPlatinum Games announcing 'a little something extra' shortly after W101 Direct
Bayonetta 2 date maybe? -
NOSAVIOUR 2,849 posts
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Registered 12 years agoFor what its worth IGN have a pre review video of this up and aren't that happy with the game. Sounds far off a 10. -
NOSAVIOUR wrote:
Done by a girl. Who looks like a bloke. Never trust a girl who looks like a bloke.
For what its worth IGN have a pre review video of this up and aren't that happy with the game. Sounds far off a 10. -
beastmaster 18,095 posts
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Registered 14 years agoPinky_Floyd wrote:
"I don't understand!"
NOSAVIOUR wrote:
Done by a girl. Who looks like a bloke. Never trust a girl who looks like a bloke.
For what its worth IGN have a pre review video of this up and aren't that happy with the game. Sounds far off a 10. -
NOSAVIOUR 2,849 posts
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Registered 12 years ago@Pinky_Floyd I did wonder. Probably has fat fingers too and too forceful with her fingers after power ramming one to many women's nether regions. -
NOSAVIOUR wrote:
Ban pls.
@Pinky_Floyd I did wonder. Probably has fat fingers too and too forceful with her fingers after power ramming one to many women's nether regions.
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Well, different strokes for different folks I guess. Still, what you said is comparable to saying I don't like BJs or I don't like Rez HD or some crazy shit like that. Anyway, no problem, as you were sir... 
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