Many American gamers would consider today's Japanese VC update to have two winners: the isometric RPG
Landstalker, and Konami's wonderful SNES shooter
Gradius III. Japanese gamers, for whom, of course, this update is intended, would be just as likely to gravitate toward the Famicom version of Namco arcade "classic"
The Tower of Druaga, which, uh, they can enjoy with our compliments. We keep getting fooled by
Druaga's appearances in
Namco Museum collections into thinking that it's really a good game and we're just missing something, but we really don't think we are. It's a brutally hard maze game with unresponsive controls and no point. It's part RPG and part action game and all
arrrrrrggghhhh.This week's Japanese Virtual Console releases:
European Wii owners get a crack at two games never-before released locally this weekend, thanks to the Hanabi Festival! If only Nintendo decided to celebrate with us all the time, eh? Perhaps the best part of this week's new VC releases is the debut of the long-awaited, much-lauded Sin & Punishment. We expect quite a few people are going to be downloading Treasure's shooter and giving it a shot this weekend. It's pricy, but seems so very worth it.
