This Samba de Amigo trailer starts off badly. And by "badly," we mean terribly. For the first 34 seconds, it's just a bunch of bratty kids hamming it up with some of the worst having fun acting we've ever seen. The occasional glimpse of the game and that chimpanzee from an earlier video helps a little, but it's still fairly risible.
Then, the trailer totally turns it around, instantly grasping victory from the jaws of defeat. How? Because the chimp, for some unspecified reason, starts breakdancing. Suddenly, this becomes the best videogame trailer of 2008. Hit the jump for a second video featuring the simian handing out a thrashing to (and then planting a kiss on) Dad.
Source: Chimp beats puny man
Source: Chimp breakdances
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9-18-2008 @ 9:14PM
Mr Khan said...
I've heard bad things about the controls on higher difficulties, but i've learned that my experience with finnicky controls differs from reviewers, after my love affair with Sonic Secret Rings, often decried for its "bad controls"
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9-18-2008 @ 10:00PM
unreal mccoy said...
anything + chimps = PWNAGE
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9-19-2008 @ 3:18AM
milan said...
i like how the most enjoyable thing the kids experience in the video isn't playing Samba, but rather watching the spinning live monkey on the floor
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9-19-2008 @ 8:30AM
Hamster said...
Thanks Chris, I'm glad someone agrees with me about these wretched "disturbingly happy people waggling" and "every Wii game is a party game" Wii commercials.
The Wii is so much more than a silly, tacky, gimmicky novelty, so why do all companies (including, nay especially Nintendo) insist on marketing it as one?
Not even the monkey could save this one from making me vomit onto my keyboard.
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9-19-2008 @ 12:29PM
deaddays said...
Commercials like this is what lead me to do what I'm about to announce in the next sentence:
I bought an Xbox 360 the other day.
I still have my Wii and still love it, but JESUS, C'MON! Those commercials are what not only game publishers, but Nintendo themselves are setting their standards to. Retarded little kids who wanna waggle around and play with monkeys. And while I do like to do both of those things every so often, that can't be my entire videogame experience all the time.
I've had some AWESOME times with the Wii so far: Link, Samus, Mario, Travis Touchdown, Zack & Wiki, Boom Blox Sheep... but when I stroll down the videogame isle these days, all I see are Deca this and Shovelware that. I was tired of peering over to the other side of the isle and see their guys like Niko Bellic, Dante, Ninja Ryu and up and coming SFIV and Prince of Persia. So I did something about it.
Still pumped about Mad World and other Wii games, but I just couldn't stand knowing that Waggling kids and monkeys were being used as a STANDARD in making my Wii games.
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9-19-2008 @ 2:28PM
Hamster said...
Exactly.
I mean, obviously a game like Samba de Amigo is going to be advertised like this regardless of console, but this perfectly encapsulates everything that I hate about Wii marketing. After all, this is pretty much how every single Wii game has been advertised and though I'm sure they appeal to some casual gamers, I'm also sure that that's offset by the amount of intelligent people they turn off.
It is exactly the sort of image that the Wii needs less of, not more. I'm tired of having to tell people that the Wii isn't just about waggly party games, but they're not convinced and who can blame them? This is the only image of the Wii that they're ever shown from Nintendo and others, the only image of the Wii that exists really and as long as all Wii commercials continue to be exactly like this, I fear it's an image that it will never shake off. Hell, if I didn't know any better even I'd think that all Wii games are controlled entirely by excessive waggling of the remote and nunchuk (whilste my fake family stares at me with deranged laughs and insane smiles).
Judged on its best games, the Wii is an excellent console, but I just don't understand why Nintendo is so happy for it to be seen as little more than a silly novelty.