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Six games at launch - pricing inside.

Nintendo's WiiWare service for downloadable first- and third-party games has launched in Europe with six brand new games to try out.

The headlining duo are LostWinds from Frontier Developments, which earned itself a handsome 9/10 in our review, and Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: My Life as a King from Square Enix, which is a sort of RPG Sim City.

The other launch titles are Dr Mario & Germ Buster, a Wiimote-enabled remake of the classic Nintendo puzzler; Star Soldier R, a high-scores shoot-'em-up from Hudson; TV Show King, a basic quiz game from Gameloft; and Toki Tori, a puzzle/platform game where to play as a chicken.

Nintendo has previously said that they will be joined by Pirates: The Key of Dreams (Oxygen Interactive) and Pop (Nnooo) during the "launch window", which presumably means in the next few weeks.

See below for full pricing details or check out our WiiWare Roundup for hands-on impressions of all the launch window games.

Dr. Mario & Germ Buster (Nintendo) - 1000 Wii Points (GBP 7 / EUR 10 approx)
Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: My Life as a King (Square Enix) - 1500 Wii Points (GBP 10.50 / EUR 15)
LostWinds (Frontier) - 1000 Wii Points (GBP 7 / EUR 10 approx)
Star Soldier R (Hudson) - 800 Wii Points (GBP 7 / EUR 10 approx)
Toki Tori (Two Tribes) - 900 Wii Points (GBP 6.30 / EUR 9 approx)
TV Show King (Gameloft) - 1000 Wii Points (GBP 7 / EUR 10 approx)

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Xerx3s #1 4 years ago

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Seems like decent prices.
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symmetry #2 4 years ago

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Are there demos available at launch?

If not, will they ever be available?
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[maven] #3 4 years ago

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What about localisations? One version for Europe same as most of their SKUs? Or will I only be able to play in German if I download them from my German Wii?
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Ignatius_Cheese #4 4 years ago

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Psst! Your price for Star Soldier R is wrong... ;o)

LostWinds is a superb title. Very chilled with a nice relaxing pace.

As for demos, there is a demo of Dr Mario and Germbuster but it appears to only work if a friend owns the full price game...

Edited by 1 at 20/05/08 @ 07:54
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spazmo #5 4 years ago

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not really a demo. Allows you to play for free in a 2 player game with someone who's bought the game.
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Der_tolle_Emil #6 4 years ago

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I will definetly get Lost Winds, very likely Star Soldier R and probably Dr. Mario as well.
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Killerbee #7 4 years ago

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I will definitely be downloading LostWinds tonight.

This is a promising start and I really hope it delivers some good stuff over its lifetime.
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TechnoHippy #8 4 years ago

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@ [maven]

as far as I know they need to be localized in Dutch, German, French, Italian and Spanish.
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ryohazuki1983 #9 4 years ago

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Downloaded LostWinds before work this morning, played it for about 45 mins, great game must buy IMO.

However it took 240 or so blocks leaving me with a few remaining, anybody know about backing up to SD card? never bothered looking into it until now! Basically do I just copy VC/WiiWare games over to the SD card then delete them from the Wiis storage, and move them back over when I want to play them again?
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Ignatius_Cheese #10 4 years ago

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@ryohazuki1983 - That is exactly how the SD back-up works and can definitely be recommended for those with a couple of main channel downloads and a raft of VC titles so that you can make space for the WiiWare. LostWinds and FFCC have basically filled my remaining internal space, even with deleting the majority of my N64 VC games...

Oh, and spazmo, as for the Dr. Mario demo, strictly speaking it is still a demo albeit a particularly crippled one ;o)
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mattyduk #11 4 years ago

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so with the SD card, can I move all my saves to it and the Wii will be able to pick them up ? What can the Wii use the SD card for - just photos ? i.e do you have to copy stuff back from the SD card before you can use it ?
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GamesProgrammer Verified Games Team Programmer, Eutechnyx Ltd. #12 4 years ago

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Lost Winds is AMAZING! its like a 2D Okami.
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Ignatius_Cheese #13 4 years ago

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@mattyduk - No, at the moment, you can only use an SD card for back-up only. If you want to play a VC/WiiWare game or use a Wii save, this will have to be on the Wii's internal memory. There are rumbles afoot that this may change around E3 (with possible announcements of an external HDD for the over-eager VC fan!)
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J_C_X #14 4 years ago

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Stop descrimation of simians in the workplace!
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NickD7 #15 4 years ago

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Will be picking up a Wii points card and getting My Life as a King and the Wii internet browser, that's 2000 points right there.
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theidiotsarewinning #16 4 years ago

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i prefer wu-wear
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CallousB #17 4 years ago

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Loving Lost Winds....It would be great to see some of this stuff implemented in 2D Mario/Metroid/Castlevania Wiiware games. Some of the wind stuff would work very well on a morphball.
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HyperShadow #18 4 years ago

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I was in two minds about FFCC, then gave it a download when some 1000 point cards were available on the star point thing.

I played it for 7 hours last night. 5 hours straight. A really simple game to play, but I just couldn't put it down.

It stopped me from playing more of Lostwinds. O_O
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