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Spinoff games; Olympic Winter Games, etc
Topic Started: Wednesday Nov 11 2009, 07:23 AM (1,207 Views)
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Mario and Sonic at the.... erm, OLYMPIC WINTER Games (whew, just made it) has been released for a little while now. According to Nintendo Mag, it's good pickings, and there's even a little dialogue element between Sonic and Mario characters in the DS version, when it comes to puzzling on things together. Sounds like it's quite a step up, for a spinoff.

I'm curious... What does everybody think?
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I've written a review of the Wii version that has yet to be published. I found the control sensitivity was all over the shop; MotionPlus support would have helped enormously, but apparently every developer missed the memo about it.
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You're not doing a very good job!

Oh wow, nice to hear from you again. =).

I have M&S at the winter games for Wii and although I do like the inclusion of bosses and more dream events (which is the main reason anyone would be playing this), the game feels shallow and its heavily recycled. There isn't that many different events and most of them play similar(I.E racing events). 90% of the dream events are also racers with Mario kart elements, although the events are fun, they're very repetitive and there isn't much variety. It does have some new gimmicks that are enjoyable such as Co-Op festival mode, buying music from respective series to play during events (ala SSBB) and character outfits and costumes for your Miis. Festival mode isn't very long and there's no story to it besides some dialogue the boss characters saying "there's no way you can beat me blah blah blah". Still no Online play and party mode sucks. Voices get annoying fast from both series. Game does contain a lot of fan service though, however it doesn't justify the fact the game is disappointing and the variety of events is quite weak. However, this could be to the fact that not much of the winter Olympics have as much variety of events as the normal Olympics so this could result in similar mini-games. Anyways I hoped that helped.

EDIT: I forgot to mention I had some difficulty using the nunchak and wiimote as it was quite clunky, but using the wiimote alone was more efficient and responsive.
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Nov 11 2009, 12:59 PM
Oh wow, nice to hear from you again. =).

Cool :) and likewise dude!

Ah, sounds like Nintendo mag really are a little biased! Haha. Sounds like it could be a little fun, but.. maybe when it's cheaper :| Thanks for the input!

BDB: Ugh, tell me about it. I mean why is it that since this doozie's come out, there's only a few games, tops, with the capability?! It's been around for a few months now, they could at least have mixed it in this game mid-production.

Okami for example, would -really- have benefitted from it had they developed it early enough (Thank goodness they're releasing a sequel to DS!), but I digress.
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Nov 11 2009, 07:59 AM
Oh wow, nice to hear from you again. =).

I have M&S at the winter games for Wii and although I do like the inclusion of bosses and more dream events (which is the main reason anyone would be playing this), the game feels shallow and its heavily recycled. There isn't that many different events and most of them play similar(I.E racing events). 90% of the dream events are also racers with Mario kart elements, although the events are fun, they're very repetitive and there isn't much variety. It does have some new gimmicks that are enjoyable such as Co-Op festival mode, buying music from respective series to play during events (ala SSBB) and character outfits and costumes for your Miis. Festival mode isn't very long and there's no story to it besides some dialogue the boss characters saying "there's no way you can beat me blah blah blah". Still no Online play and party mode sucks. Voices get annoying fast from both series. Game does contain a lot of fan service though, however it doesn't justify the fact the game is disappointing and the variety of events is quite weak. However, this could be to the fact that not much of the winter Olympics have as much variety of events as the normal Olympics so this could result in similar mini-games. Anyways I hoped that helped.

EDIT: I forgot to mention I had some difficulty using the nunchak and wiimote as it was quite clunky, but using the wiimote alone was more efficient and responsive.

You've pretty much summed up the game pretty well. I still enjoy it though, mainly cause all my friends love to play it when they come over (though I was dissapointed they didn't have circuit mode in Winter Olympics).
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Nintendo Power pretty much laid it in plain English. They said the game is fun, but shallow and the DS version wins with some more intuitive games.

I haven't played either myself yet.
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We got Sega Superstars Tennis today, dirt cheap! It's actually shaping up to be pretty fun, with the only real downsides being the voice acting could use some work (as always), and the fact that the robots are a bit too... Sci-fi film-like. Oh, and maybe the fact that Silver's there :P *shot*

I do like the little touches in this, like the revisited retro zones (haha, strobe lighting in Chemical Plant Zone!), the Chao hovering around the court (I 'squee'd like a weeaboo when I saw that!), the superpowers that the characters get that changes what happens to the ball (so it's not just 'characters batting ball back and forth'), a bunch of intuitive minigames, unlockables, even old-style item monitors and the like. It's all good!

What do you guys think?
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The game's worth buying just to hear Amy shout I'LL DESTORY YOU ALL :)
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Sega Superstars, that Eyetoy game for the PS2, was pretty neat.
It did a good job at implimenting a system where it could distinguish the background better. Highlights were the Space Channel 5 and Nights games. Low points are probably that Crazy Taxi mode, which probably represents everything bad about motion control/waggle.
Besides that, only three issues remained. One, being your arms got really tired playing games like NiGHTS, Two, you needed to be pretty far back for some of the game, and my bedroom's so small Harry Potter would laugh at me, and Three, it came on the blue CD-ROMs, which were pretty touch and go on elderly PS2s.
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