Wii #1630 - Astro Boy: The Video Game (USA)

[Guild McCommunist]

Wow, I just hate this whole thing so much.
The western movie industry takes a japanese manga classic and turns it into another of their cursed computer animated effects masturbation movies, give the rights for the game to some crappy studio, and they go ahead and just rip-off Treasure's classic GBA game really, really badly and get away with it.
The cover artworks is one of the shittiest ones I've seen so far on the Wii (and that certainly means a lot), and I just don't see that many correlations between the new "Astro Boy" franchise and the original one. Is nothing sacred anymore?
First Dragonball, now this.

I didn't see anything retaining to gameplay, though. Interesting...

And HVS is far from a "crappy" studio. Sure, they used to do shovelware, like "Dora the Explorer Saves the Snow Princess" (no joke) but have now turned over a new leaf and started developing good Wii games. The Conduit was excellent, and the upcoming Animales de la Muerte and The Grinder look great as well.

A lot of your complaints just seem to be about the fact that Astro Boy isn't Japanese. The horror!

I haven't played this yet and don't really plan to (until it comes out on the DS, at least), but just sayin'.

 

[zalman]

Wow, I just hate this whole thing so much.
The western movie industry takes a japanese manga classic and turns it into another of their cursed computer animated effects masturbation movies

Imagi is a Chinese studio

 

[MeleeMaster500]

anyone actually PLAY the game yet?

 

[Azariel_z]

A lot of your complaints just seem to be about the fact that Astro Boy isn't Japanese. The horror!

THE horror...

 

[Vater Unser]

Imagi is a Chinese studio
Well, my mistake. Then it's a chinese studio copying western animation copying japanese animation.

Wow, I just hate this whole thing so much.
The western movie industry takes a japanese manga classic and turns it into another of their cursed computer animated effects masturbation movies, give the rights for the game to some crappy studio, and they go ahead and just rip-off Treasure's classic GBA game really, really badly and get away with it.
The cover artworks is one of the shittiest ones I've seen so far on the Wii (and that certainly means a lot), and I just don't see that many correlations between the new "Astro Boy" franchise and the original one. Is nothing sacred anymore?
First Dragonball, now this.

I didn't see anything retaining to gameplay, though. Interesting...
Well, I mentioned that this heavily looks like a rip-off of Treasure's game, including the gameplay. Even if it does play well (and it doesn't look like it), it's still a rip-off. I'll gladly take the original with its awesome cartoon graphics over a rip-off with godawful Wii 3D graphics.

QUOTEAnd HVS is far from a "crappy" studio. Sure, they used to do shovelware, like "Dora the Explorer Saves the Snow Princess" (no joke) but have now turned over a new leaf and started developing good Wii games. The Conduit was excellent, and the upcoming Animales de la Muerte and The Grinder look great as well.

Well, whether or not The Conduit is really "excellent" is arguable, after all, it didn't even get particularly good ratings despite its great hype. That's a whole different story, though.

QUOTE

A lot of your complaints just seem to be about the fact that Astro Boy isn't Japanese. The horror!

Well, not particularly about Astro Boy not being a japanese production, but certainly about taking a dead man's work and altering it for ultimate profit.

Maybe I should stop starting every sentence with "well", though.

 

[nIxx]

Who cares about if this game is similar to another one (it´s not that this is that unusual these days and back in the days

) as long as the game makes fun. Just try it out if you like it okay if not forget the game. It´s so easy.

 

[mb42375]

This game is not that great. You are much better off to just keep playing a boy and his blob or go get the older game klonoa which is awesome. I even would take Tak for the WII over this garbage. It looks awful and the gameplay pretty much stinks although you can fly and have a few good weapons kind of reminds me of megaman just not as good.

 

[jalaneme]

i wonder why they put clothes on astro boy...

 

[silkyskeeter]

Whats the difference between PSP and Wii version ?

Sighing.. Can you answer my question, pretty please ?

LoL How about you doing your own research and compare the 2....

On topic: The game looks crappy especially compared to the Ps2 one that came out years ago

 

[lonegreyride]

Well i gotta come to the defense of this game somewhat. Most people seem to be saying it "seems" or "looks" crappy... how about actually giving it a chance?

I try out pretty much every new game that comes out, and I have to say this game is more fun than any I've played in a while. Took a few minutes to figure out how to use all the controls, etc... but other than that (and the cutscenes), I think this is much better than most are giving it credit for.

 

[ibis_87]

Kinda meh for me. Flying sequences are not bad, but the beat-em-up parts just don`t work, IMO. And- IMO again- the game is not even close to the stellar looks of the Conduit. If I did`t leard from the thread I would`ve thought it`s a ps2 game ported over to the Wii and PSP.

 

[lonegreyride]

I thought the beat-em-up parts were the best, but not until I really got comfortable with the controls.

Anyway, this is old now... whatever. I just feel like most people around here just like to go with the opinion of the majority, whether or not that's based on anything in the first place.

I dunno, to me a good game has slipped by a lot of people for no good reasons here. If people play it and don't like, fair enough. I know I've found it the least boring game I've played in a good while, including Dead Space Extraction.

 

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[Wii] Astro Boy: The Video Game [First Look]




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