Fighting and role-playing on VC News
Wii News by Tom Bramwell
Just two games for Virtual Console enthusiasts this week, and both for the Megadrive. Say hello to Eternal Champions and Phantasy Star II.
Being Megadrive games, they both cost 800 Wii Points, which is GBP 6.00 / EUR 8.00 or thereabouts.
What are they then? Well, Eternal Champions is a 2D fighter with combatants drawn from every corner of history, including made-up ones, so you've got a caveman fighting a cyborg, etc.
It had fatality style moves and Overkills, and some quirky ideas about control. Obviously I have no first-hand experience of this, but am instead riffing on what our Virtual Console expert Dan Whitehead told me when I emailed him in a panic. For all I know Eternal Champions is actually a game about Louise Redknapp.
The other one, Phantasy Star II, is from a long line of science-fiction RPGs with turn-based combat and top-down graphics.
Look out for a roundup of these, and whatever else Nintendo adds to the VC this month, in a future so near you can reach out and only have to stand around for a week before touching it.
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I've stopped buying VC games, mostly because I no longer have the space on the internal memory and although I have a 2 GB SD card, I can't run games off them either which is really stupid, bordering on moronic really. That said I also think Nintendo are ripping people off with the prices of these games... I mean £6 for a Megadrive game and £7 for an N64 one when Sony ask just £3.50 for PSone games which is from the same generation as the N64?!? Sheeesh... who are they trying to kid?
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Triggerhappytel
15/02/08 @ 10:53
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I liked Eternal Champions, although I don't think it's worth £6. You could probably get a boxed copy cheaper off eBay.
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Waffleaber
15/02/08 @ 12:13
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My school did a game swap day and I swapped my Bubsy the Bobcat for Eternal Champions (a decision i regret to this day.) The game itself was good but the final boss stupidly hard. The most fun I had in the game was learning the exact point in the scenery that activated the death sequences.
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HyperShadow
15/02/08 @ 13:37
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Eternal Champions was great, only got to the Eternal Champion once as Larcen Tyler, and lost.
Needless to say, i'm sure that EC was out before SF2 made its debut on the console, so thats where the inflated scores came from. |
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I loved Eternal Champions, although playing a 6 button game with my 3 button megadrive pads was quite hard (and the B button was broken on pad 1 and the C button on pad 2).
It was very hard as well, and the animation was not so good. The character design is one of my favourites and the taunting was great fun :D 97% is a bit high for it, but you often see that with single format games
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