Wiikly Wii Releases - 4-6-08
Welcome to the this week’s edition of the Wiikly Wii Releases! Here we will let you know about all the great Wii titles coming out this week and give you some information to help you pick the game that’s right for you. When applicable, we’ll choose one game to be the “MyWiiNews Pick of the Week,†a game that stands out among all the others as the title that takes the crown for that week. Without further ado, let’s look at what’s coming out this week.
MiniCopter: Adventure Flight
Aksys – April 8th
Back in the late 1990’s, miniature transportation simulators were all the rage. You had your Mario Kart, your Crash Team Racing, some Diddy Kong Racing, and countless other cutesy simulators that seemed to just saturate the gaming market. Why exactly we needed 15 variants of the same generic path racer was beyond me, but such were the times. With a dearth of mini-venture games out at the moment, who better than Aksys to bring us our much needed MiniCopter fix?
As expected, the helicopters in MiniCopter are smaller than usual, and tend to sporadically take off and adventure the surroundings. If this sounds like it’s right up your alley, it probably is, as the Wii is nothing if not perfect for silly minigames like these. Throughout MiniCopter, you’re the pilot of an RC Helicopter whose interests include shooting things and picking up the resulting coins. The ‘copter is controlled by tilting the remote in any of the four cardinal directions, making for a unique flying experience.
Videos are scarce on this one, so take a peek at these photos to get a feel for the piloting to be had in this MiniCopter adventure.
Baroque
Atlus – April 8th
Oh, Baroque. I want nothing more than to be excited for a wonderful remake of one of the few worthwhile Sega Saturn dungeon crawlers, but I seem to have suddenly come down with a bit of fear. Baroque is a game that is likely to beat you up many, many times before you ever get a chance to get anywhere, and isn’t likely to be an impulse buy for many gamers.
You see, Baroque is a roguelike; a game that features many random elements, such as dungeons and items, that force you to figure out everything as the game progresses. While this is great when it’s done relatively fairly (see: Shiren the Wanderer), it can be extremely taxing when not. With Baroque, you’re told extremely little at the start of the game, and it’s often necessary to die for the storyline to progress, making exploration occasionally difficult at best. It’s certainly not a game for everyone, but for those looking for a dungeon-crawler with some old-school challenge, Baroque will certainly whip you into shape.
Check out the intro video below to get a feel for the game and see if its dungeon is a dungeon worth crawling through.
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Ilchymis | April 8, 2008
