WiiWare launches in Europe News
Wii News by Tom Bramwell
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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Related Games
Dr. Mario & Germ Buster
Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: My Life as a King
Star Soldier R
Pop
LostWinds
Pirates: The Key of Dreams
Toki Tori
TV Show King
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Ignatius_Cheese
20/05/08 @ 06:54
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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...
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Der_tolle_Emil
20/05/08 @ 07:44
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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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Techno Hippy
20/05/08 @ 07:56
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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
20/05/08 @ 08:14
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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
20/05/08 @ 08:18
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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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Ignatius_Cheese
20/05/08 @ 09:16
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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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HyperShadow
21/05/08 @ 12:46
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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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