We were very excited about the prospect of a new Rygar game on the Wii. Whipping the Diskarmor around sounds like one of those things that would naturally be perfect for the Wiimote. And we thought, based on the brand-new character art and the title-- Project Rygar-- that we were in for some big new stuff. After all, if it's a "Project," that means it's a pretty intensive undertaking, right? One that takes a lot of time and effort on Tecmo's part?Yeah, it's a port of the PS2 game Rygar: The Legendary Adventure. The one from 2002. That's a little depressing! But hey, if it helps, the PS2 game was a fairly competent Devil May Cry-alike. And Tecmo is promising new content in the form of the newly-designed main character and, more significantly, a new Wiimote-friendly battle mode.
[Via NeoGAF]
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7-12-2007 @ 10:15AM
Zachary Hinchliffe said...
MORE PORTS?!
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7-12-2007 @ 10:24AM
Doug said...
The "newly-designed main character" looks like ass.
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7-12-2007 @ 10:33AM
cartman80 said...
I'm kinda glad I didn't buy a Wii when I had the chance. More and more it looks like:
1. Quality Nintendo games (nice but not enough)
2. Ports
3. Minigames
4. Non-games
woo....yay?
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7-12-2007 @ 12:58PM
samfish said...
God damnit. This is getting really rather ridiculous.
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7-12-2007 @ 4:06PM
Aaron said...
That dude on the right has some wicked-cool wardrobe goin' on there.
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7-12-2007 @ 5:00PM
cragis said...
one word tae sum up Tecmos wii support is "pish"
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7-12-2007 @ 7:28PM
MisterL said...
cartman80, the reason for the stream of lackluster games from developers besides Nintendo is because they didn't believe the Wii would succeed so they didn't bother developing any games seriously. But now they know better but it still takes time to develop games. You can see the same trend with the PS3, Xbox 360 ports with a smattering of a few good titles for now. Feel free to judge the Wii that way but that's only if developers took a few months to make a game, not a few years which is reality.
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7-13-2007 @ 4:09PM
James said...
Let me translate this through my Wii-market-speak filter -- I've got experience:
"big project" = remake of a game nobody bought in the first place
"promising new content" = an extra model we doodled in our spare time
"Wiimote-friendly battle mode" = tacked-on waggle
I think I'll pass.
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7-14-2007 @ 8:30PM
Mike Sylvester said...
The PS2 version is sitting at 82% in GameRankings, and I always wished I'd picked it up. ScrewAttack did a feature recently about the art of the game, and it made me want it again. I'm actually glad it's coming to the Wii. Hopefully, they won't try to sell it at the standard rate for new games, or they can count on it not selling again to a new audience.
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