Nintendo 2008/2009 JP Software Lineup

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Stuff from Nintendo:
Wii Music (Nintendo) 10/16
Animal Crossing: City Folk (Nintendo) 11/20
Wii Sports Resort (Nintendo) Spring
Punch-Out!! (Nintendo) 2009
Trace Memory: R, Gateway of Memory (Nintendo) 2009
Kensax (Nintendo) 2009
Cosmic Walker (Nintendo) 2009
Spawn Smasher (Nintendo) 2009
Dynamic [illegible] (Nintendo) 2009
Takuto of Magic (Nintendo) 2009
Sin & Punishment 2 (Nintendo) 2009
Forever Blue 2: Beautiful Ocean (Nintendo) 2009
Everyone’s the Star on the NHK Red-and-White Quiz Battle (Nintendo) 2009
Line Attack Heroes (Nintendo) 2009

Stuff from everyone else:
The Melancholy of Haruhi (Kadokawa Shoten) 11/27
Tatsunoko vs. Capcom: Cross Generation of Heroes (Capcom) 12/11
428 (Sega) 12/4
Samba de Amigo (Sega) 12/11
Let’s Tap (Sega) Dec. 2008
Cooking Mama 2 (Taito) 12/4
Rygar: Muscle Impact (Tecmo) Dec. 2008
Guitar Hero: Aerosmith (Activision) 10/16
Karaoke Joysound Wii (Hudson) 12/18
Sky Crawlers (Bandai-Namco) 10/16
Happy Dance Collection (Bandai-Namco) 10/23
Family Ski: World Ski & Snowboard (Bandai-Namco) 11/13
Klonoa: Door to Phantomile (Bandai-Namco) 12/4
Taiko Drum Master Wii (Bandai-Namco) 12/11
Tenchu 4 (From Software) 10/23
Harvest Moon: Exciting Animal March (Marvelous) 10/30
Rune Factory Frontier (Marvelous) 11/27
Shape Boxing (Rocket Co.) 10/30
Castlevania: Judgment (Konami) Winter 2008-2009
Dead Rising: Zombies’ Sacrifice (Capcom) Winter 2008-2009
FFCC: Echoes of Time (Square-Enix) 1/29
Sonic and the Black Knight (Sega) Spring
Fragile (Bandai-Namco) Winter 2008-2009
Arcrise Fantasia (Marvelous) Winter 2008-2009
Oboro Muramasa (Marvelous) Spring

Thoughts? I'm pumped for Punch-Out and Endless Ocean 2.

Takuto of Magic and New Dynamic look like Nintendo trying to expand into rare territory. Takuto of Magic is a traditional RPG and New Dynamic looks to be an action RPG in the vein of Elder Scrolls . . .

 

[Blackjack Gabbiani]

Sonic and the Black Knight (Sega) Spring

As the mod, I wish to hear your best Monty Python references insofar as regarding this title. But they have to be *good* ones.


I notice Tyson's name has been removed from the title of Punch-Out!, and no doubt for excellent reasons.

 

[Zeta]

It's nice to see Nintendo playing with several new franchises that aren't Mii Minigames.

 

[bell02+]

Tyson's name's been removed from the punch out series since basically the first. Nintendo's got a killer line-up, I say. Dynamic Slash looks really interesting, and Cosmic Walker has me curious and upset (as it is similar to a game I wanted to make since High School, but it isn't exactly the same thing yet.) It also reminds me of the Ram Rider song "Space Walk" (Which in turn reminds me of a super mario brothers song)

However, Dynamic Slash... with it's timing and it's name, it seems a little more than Elder Scrolls.. I think it uses Wii Motion+...

Also, Echoes of Time has me pumped (Especially now that it has a date) I hope crystal bearers is still around, but it's funny we get such an awesome online and cross platform online multiplayer game at the same time we get a new Phantasy Star Online... that is based off of the original... but is free to play online!

 

[Railith]

Harvest Moon Wii is really the only thing that looks interesting to me.

 

[Zeta]

I'm dissapointed in Animal Crossing: City Folk, being able to chat online is the only significant change they've made. Even the city area looks fairly small.

Wii Sports Resort actually looks really good, and leaps and bounds above the last one.

Punch-Out!! looks freaking hilarious.

Dynamic Slash - I'm hoping it will be the definitive sword franchise for the Wii, finally.

Spawn Smasher looks interesting.

Takuto of Magic - Really happy to see Nintendo doing more RPGs.

Forever Blue 2: Beautiful Ocean is something I'm really looking forward to. I want more animal interaction and more explanation of the sunken city storyline.

Line Attack Heroes, I can't imagine what that's about.

I hope the Klonoa: Door to Phantomile remake is brought to the US.

Tenchu 4 might be the first entry in the series I try.

Harvest Moon: Exciting Animal March is actually the second Wii HM game, it's an expansion of Tree of Tranquility, basically - with the animal raising features expanded into owning a circus.

Rune Factory Frontier might be a good first step into the series.

Dead Rising Wii might be decent.

Sonic and the Black Knight is something I wanted when Secret Rings came out - Sonic in King Arthur's Court.

Also, Mario and Luigi 3 and Fire Emblem 1 for the US DS! : D

 

[VibuzeSG]

I love the style they're going with for this Punch-Out!!, but I've always been a big fan of celshading. I personally love the new King Hippo design.

I'm also anticipating Let's Tap. Let's be honest, a video game that requires you not to use a controller is awesome, and the art style is a lot like Geometry Wars--which of course is not a bad style to emulate.

Sonic and the Black Knight? I'm of two minds about this. There's a lot I'm excited about--the first thing actually being the Celtic remixes of Sonic music promised in one interview, but I'm just a sucker for Sonic music like that. Of course, there's plenty of things that can go wrong...I don't think I need to say that Sonic hasn't been as good as he was back on the Genesis.

Slightly off topic, I'm most excited about Mario and Luigi 3, to be honest. The second one was a major disappointment for me, but this one looks like it might be a step in the right direction--no babies, number one, and number two, playing as Bowser almost always leads things in the right direction.



Oh yeah, and Blackjack?

As the mod, I wish to hear your best Monty Python references insofar as regarding this title. But they have to be *good* ones.

Um...the best I could muster, really...

Spoiler

Dunno, like, Robotnik's machine is broken and all, but...um...machines don't bleed, so I had to wing it. Something tells me I was better off not even trying...

 

[fate]

Why no Dragon Quest IX?

That's what I'm waiting for.