[Wii] WiiWare. Like SpyWare only less useful.

So WiiWare launches today in the US; any comments/reviews of the launch titles so far?

-Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: My Life As a King - $15: Some kind of SimTown game with moogles.
-Pop - $7: Pop bubbles with your Wiimote. I can get my cat to do this for free and get more entertainment.
-Defend Your Castle - $5: Based on a browser game where you build up your castle and try to defend it from invading stick people. For $5, this might not be half bad.
-LostWinds - $10: Platformer/puzzle game where you use the Wiimote to guide the wind (and your character) through the level. I'm reserving judgement until I hear some other opinions.
-V.I.P. Casino Blackjack - $7: Card counting action without Pamela Anderson.
-TV Show King - $10: Trivia game with 3,000 questions.

All in all I'm disappointed. Where's Dr. Mario, or World of Goo, or that animal herding game they got at launch in Japan? Of course, from what I've read, even if you had a clean Wii with nothing on the hard drive but the currently available channels, you couldn't download all six games at once anyway. Way to plan for the future, Nintendo.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

If you buy all that content listed plus the game, it would run you $38, which still isn't too bad. Looking at it, though, it sounds like the Houses and the Races packs should have been part of the original game, since it sounds like that's a pretty major part.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Yeah, I picked up Defend Your Castle last night, and I wasn't all that impressed. It's fun and all, but I was hoping for a few more interesting ways to upgrade/kill the enemies. Besides, you only get points if you kill the invaders yourself, so beefing up your defenses with archers and the like can hurt you in the short term. Perhaps Heroic mode is more fun, but I was getting bored. It'll be good for short spurts, though.

FF:CC is really, really tempting. I like the occasional sim game, and this one sounds right up my alley (who can go wrong with moogles?), the only problem being that I'm trying to play GTA/Lost Odyssey/Mario Kart, and I don't have time to get lost in a sim as well.

Everyone is raving about LostWinds, but for some reason I can't get motivated to buy it. The movie on the Nintendo channel didn't do much for me, and I have trouble plunking down $10 for a 3-4 hour game, unless it's the best thing since sliced bread.

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Originally Posted by Tritoch

This from the person who keeps assuring me that $10 for dinky little XBLA games isn't overpriced at all? Make up your mind already.

Most XBLA titles have some sort of multiplayer component, which adds lots of life (except for those titles that no one plays anymore, which sucks). Plus there's 200 achievements points, which may be sad, but it's a slight incentive nonetheless. I'll just play LostWinds next time I'm at your place for a week.

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Crystal Chronicles would be tempting if it wasn't so expensive. I might as well just buy the DS game and not worry about it being a constant expense. Not to mention I already had to delete the Internet Channel to make room for these. Where is my external HDD, Nintendo?

The WiiWare and DS games are completely different genres, not remotely comparable. As previously mentioned, with all the downloadable content, the title would run you $38, which isn't bad considering this sounds like a deep game comparable to a full disc title. Also, I've heard that much of the content isn't even useful until you've reached an advanced level, so you don't need to plunk down the money right away.

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Originally Posted by Tails

Speaking of which, any chance that any of these er... outstanding titles will have online play?

Isn't Dr. Mario supposed to be online?

I was speaking idiomatically.

You can only gift the demo to people in your own region, from what I've read. I haven't entered any friends codes yet, but I haven't had a problem finding people randomly online. My friend code is 9731-1016-5623.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Acer's just grumpy because the game is going to take up so much hard drive space, he'll have to buy another Wii just to play Mega Man 9.

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Originally Posted by SuperSonic

Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: My Life as a King is also available for varied points...wait, didn't they release that like a month ago?

New downloadable content is out today for it. Don't know what it is, since I don't own the game.

Originally Posted by AcerBandit, from another thread

At least WiiWare has Megaman 9 to look forward to. Virtual Console? :laughs:

According to the E3 schedule, Capcom plans to show Megaman 9 for 360 and PS3. Guess Microsoft will be getting my money after all, because 1) I won't have to clog my Wii up, and 2) I'm a sucker for achievement points (I'll bet one is "Beat all 8 robot masters with megabuster only").

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Originally Posted by Infernal Monkey

Like Smash Borters, you can type out a few little taunts to spam via speech bubbles during online battles. Also ACTION POSES for when you win. Mine's a grumpy one.

Or we could just play Bomberman on 360 and actually talk to each other. Just sayin'.

Jam it back in, in the dark.