Nintendo proves that high concept gaming is still alive and well with this entertaining, innovative, and cheap WiiWare offering.ĭefend Your Castle Developer: XGen Studios Genre: Action, Tower Defense Price: 500 Wii Points If you're looking for a fun, cheaper alternative to some of the more expensive WiiWare offerings then XGen's Defend Your Castle is a great place to start. With only two buttons needed to control the game (and no real Wii-specific controls either) it may seem simple, but dive in and you'll be instantly hooked. Using A and B as gravity and anti-gravity jets you must navigate your ship from planet to planet, using its size and gravitational pull as a way to slingshot from location to location. As the current reigning champion in the Art Style franchise, Orbient makes a return from its Game Boy debut, sending players on a puzzling quest of orbit-based travel. Art Style, Nintendo's re-launch, capitalizes on simple concepts that offer a lot of innovation and entertainment for a cheap price. When it comes to WiiWare, you won't find a better action game than Mega Man 9, and what better system to play it on than Nintendo's home of the Virtual Console?Īrt Style: Orbient Developer: Nintendo Genre: Puzzle Price: 600 Wii Points As part of Nintendo's own contribution to the WiiWare library the company has kicked off a new series inspired (and sometimes downright taken from) the GBA retro series Bit Generations. Additional downloadable content such as another boss, an endless level, a playable Protoman option and plenty of included online leaderboards for speed runs and full game ranks earned this game a spot in many gamer's top 10 of last year. Not only is the game created entirely from the ground-up to include classic visual glitches and – if users have it enabled – slowdown, but it also brings back classic enemies, and introduces eight new Master Robots for players to master. Created to look like a classic 8-bit game, and actually fitting within the original controls and design of Mega Man 2, Mega Man 9 was an instant hit for old school gamers. However, the deal ends today, so get to getting it.Mega Man 9 Developer: Capcom Genre: Action Price: 1,000 Retro gaming was reborn last year as Capcom unveiled Mega Man 9 for WiiWare, Xbox Live Arcade, and the PSN. The game is also on sale for the low price of $1 compared to the normal asking price of $5. If that's your cup of tea, it's well worth a read. Also, if you have time and a big ol' hunger for knowledge, the blog post contains some really interesting info on what goes into creating and marketing a game. This, of course, is a very good thing, because World of Goo deserves to be loved and cherished. "In comparison, World of Goo’s best 31 day period on WiiWare was 68k copies (thanks to a mass mailing by Nintendo), and on Steam it was 97k copies (thanks to two promotions at discounted prices)." "In the first month of sales on the iPad App Store, World of Goo sold 125k copies (thanks to being prominently featured by Apple)," developer 2D Boy wrote on its official blog. Remaining millions of iPad owners, perhaps you'd like to explain yourselves? Who can resist tiny blob creatures with saucer plates for eyes and architecture for blood? People without souls, that's who.
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