WiiWare #0351 - Tales of Monkey Island: Chapter 1 (USA)

[Chanser]

^^wiirelease-2703^^

 

[orno]

all right.. finally... it's out!

 

[kedest]

awesome!
I really hope they'll bring the Special Edition remake of the first monkey island to wiiware too.

 

[h8uthemost]

Thanks Chanser.

 

[SwitchNOW]

first look

 

[Goli]

For some reason it plays @ a really choppy frame rate for me :\

 

[ctkxtreme]

Actually, I think it's doing that for everyone. Didn't the same thing happen with the Wii version of Sam and Max?

 

[orno]

i gotta say, i'm a bit dissapointed with this so far... might have to try the pc version and see if it runs any better on my crappy lappy...

 

[Hadrian]

I was impatient and got the PC one weeks back. Very good for a modern day point & click game but obviously nowhere as good as the first three games.

 

[Opium]

Huh, it's only 50MB big? How did they manage that?

 

[Azariel_z]

Huh, it's only 50MB big? How did they manage that?

Almost no bitmapped textures, Sound in high compression ratio... Adn the game is slow..so doesnt need that high amount of scenes...

 

[kedest]

it does run choppy yeah, but not unplayable
the game was definitely designed as a pc-game and then ported to wiiware. you can also see this because of the resolution. i have a non-hd tv and some texts are really hard to read

 

[h8uthemost]

To me, this is just horrible. I cannot play a game that is as choppy as this. Too bad...

 

[Freudian Lemur]

Aww, that's a pity. I was hoping TellTale Games would do a good job of both versions. I would recommend the PC one to anyone who liked the first three (particularly reminicent of 3), because the PC version is great! I wonder how they managed to mess it up like that.

 

[Inu268]

can`t you guys just play this using scummvm anyway?
I never tried scumm in the wii, but it was perfect for platforms that I tried, I don`t see why it would be different with the wii...

 

[kedest]

This game does not run on the scumm engine

scummvm on wii is awesome though, it will run monkey island 1,2 and 3 fine.

 

[Hadrian]

can`t you guys just play this using scummvm anyway?
I never tried scumm in the wii, but it was perfect for platforms that I tried, I don`t see why it would be different with the wii...

This is a new game, not a port of an old one.

Its odd but none of the reviews of the Wii version state any slowdown or bugs, anyone bought this game?

 

[h8uthemost]

Yeah, I didn't read anything about slow downs in the Wii version either. At first I thought the choppiness was due to me playing the game off the SD, but I got the same result moving it to the Wii.

I would be pissed off and emailing Nintendo if I actually spent money on this game. I can't believe they released it in this condition. Guess I'll try the PC ones, since this game did seem pretty descent(the few minutes I could actually suffer through).

 

[Master Mo]

can`t you guys just play this using scummvm anyway?
I never tried scumm in the wii, but it was perfect for platforms that I tried, I don`t see why it would be different with the wii...

This is a new game, not a port of an old one.

Its odd but none of the reviews of the Wii version state any slowdown or bugs, anyone bought this game?

Gamespot wrote the following: "Frame rate is sluggish". This is the only review, that said something about a bad Framerate, that I remember reading... Even though it got a decent score of 7 from them!

A real shame, since I would have loved to play it on TV

 

[kedest]

well it's not all that bad, the game is very playable