Dear Reader:
New Nintendo Power review scores/news summary
From a NeoGAF thread…
Wii
Warioware: 9.0
Far Cry: 4.0
Tony Hawk’s Downhill Jam: 7.5
Elebits: 7.5
Super Swing Golf: 7.5
Need for Speed Carbon: 6.0
Chicken Little: 7.0
DS
Kirby DS: 7.5
Spider-man:Battle for New York: 6.0
Xiaolin Showdown: 5.0
Star Wars Lethal Alliance: 7.0
Phoenix Wright: Justice For All: 9.0
Fullmetal Alchemist: 7.0
Gamecube
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess: 9.5
In other news,
-Pokemon Diamond and Pearl said to be released this spring
-Mario Party 8 feature showing the first table (donkey kong theme).
-Trioncube and lunar knights previews, both to be released in February.
-Prince of Persia confirmed to be The Two Thrones
-Heatseekers Wii preview. Producer says they want it to play like afterburner. Says you rack up triple digit kills in some levels. Control scheme looks decent.
-Hotel Dusk preview
-Dialog in this game is probably one of the most important aspects
-Each time you respond to someone you are given many choices on the dialog tree.
-You can be rude, nice, call someone on a lie, chitchat, threaten people, back off, noisy, non intrusive and many others. and example is the opening dialog in the hotel that can go at least “10 different ways.”
-Its very much a noir style game but its set in the 70s so it’s a little more modern.
-The info comes from the localization team.
-The do a ‘revisiting the classics’ piece on Earthbound. Amirox would be proud. They don’t know if earthbound will be released on the VC. (read more on the Earthbound story, where Starmen.net gets a mention)