Two WiiWare demos, a Solitaire game and Faceez: Monsters!

WiiWare

Dart Rage (demo version)
Publisher: JV Games Inc.
Players: 1-4
ESRB Rating: E (Everyone) – Alcohol Reference
Price: 0 Wii Points™; full version available for 600 Wii Points
Description: Grab your Wii Remote™ controller and prepare for the ultimate game of darts on your Wii™ console. With no buttons to push, you'll be completely immersed in the game's realism. Dart Rage puts you in the spotlight as you compete against friends, the computer or both. With four great games to choose from – including 301-901, Cricket, Poker and American (Baseball) darts – Dart Rage has plenty of options to keep the game fresh. There is also a VS mode in which you can compete at the same time in a race to the finish. Rock out to the sizzling soundtrack with a commentator announcing your every shot or miss.

Learning with the PooYoos: Episode 2 (demo version)
Publisher: Lexis Numerique
Players: 1
ESRB Rating: EC (Early Childhood)
Price: 0 Wii Points; full version available for 500 Wii Points
Description: Welcome to the first fun, poetic brain-trainer for children aged 3 to 6. With the PooYoos, a merry band of adorable baby animals, children will have fun while learning the basics for development, including numbers, letters, lateralization, shapes and colors. Children get to dance with their new friends and earn lovely interactive rewards. With two levels of interactivity, children of any age or level can play the activities based on plants and music. This game has been designed for use by children who have not yet grasped reading. The instructions are spoken in French, English or Spanish, depending on the language setting of your Wii console.

Note: Some demo versions do not support all game features, and players cannot save their in-game progress in demo versions.

Nintendo DSiWare

Simply Solitaire
Publisher: Engine Software
Players: 1
ESRB Rating: E (Everyone)
Price: 200 Nintendo DSi Points™
Description: Simply Solitaire gives you exactly what you want: pure Solitaire on your Nintendo DSi™ system. Solitaire (also called Patience) is a single-player card game involving a layout of cards with a goal of sorting them. Solitaire games involve dealing cards from a shuffled deck into a prescribed arrangement on a tabletop. The player attempts to reorder the deck by suit and rank through a series of moves, transferring cards from one place to another. The simple game design and easy, intuitive controls make it a game that the whole family can enjoy. The game has 50 puzzles in each level to guarantee hours of fun game play.

Faceez: Monsters!
Publisher: Neko Entertainment
Players: 1
ESRB Rating: E (Everyone) – Mild Blood, Comic Mischief, Alcohol Reference
Price: 200 Nintendo DSi Points
Description: Faceez is back, and this time it will scare your friends. Faceez: Monsters! features frightening new disguises and accessories, including the living dead, werewolves, vampires and zombies. Take pictures of your friends' faces, turn them into abominable monsters and place them in your own settings. Expect lots of laugher and fun as you share your monstrous creations.

Source.

My take: where's Final Fantasy III? Ah well, the 3DS will keep me busy...

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ludist210 said:

My take: where's Final Fantasy III?

If we don't get it soon I'm gonna Dart Rage.

Posted by

Secret_Tunnel

on: 03/28/11, 15:34

What in the fuck? No WiiWare or VC games this week? God damn 3DS...

Posted by

anon_mastermind

on: 03/28/11, 15:44

Arghhhh....

It's not really that I don't have enough to play or anything, especially with my new 3D toy, but here's the way I see it. Every week past the initial release that FF3 doesn't come out, our odds get worse and worse that it WILL come out. Like, there was a 75% chance it'd come out the week right after. Then a 50% chance this week. Then even lower next week, etc.

Okay, so it doesn't actually work that way, but it sure feels like it. Developers like to forget about the VC entirely, sometimes for years at a time (Kirby Super Star).

Posted by

TriforceBun

on: 03/28/11, 16:09

@TriforceBun

Kirby's SS baffled me, because didn't it come out on the VC after the DS remake?

Posted by

ludist210

on: 03/28/11, 16:09

@anon_mastermind What does the 3DS have to do with anything!? If anything Nintendo would consider the DS a bigger competition, but it still got two games.

Posted by

Zero

on: 03/28/11, 16:15

@Zero
It has everything to do with the 3DS. Reggie has said that Nintendo is focusing entirely on the 3DS and Pokemon, and this just confirms it. DSiWare is not a competition, because people know they can download those and transfer them to 3DS anyway. VC and WiiWare are purposely being shunned this week, so that Nintendo consumers focus on their new handheld, and its software. That much is obvious, I think.

Posted by

anon_mastermind

on: 03/28/11, 16:19

@anon_mastermind
I agree. I've noticed that any time Nintendo has a big game release, they tend to shun VC and WiiWare for that week. It makes business sense, since they want as much focus on their new products as possible.

Posted by

canonj

on: 03/28/11, 16:26

@anon_mastermind But... people buying DSiWare games right now could keep them from making the jump to the next handheld right away.

Posted by

Zero

on: 03/28/11, 17:10

I kind of have a conspiracy theory that DSiWare isn't available on the 3DS yet so that people are forced to buy expensive retail launch games.

Also, I am looking forward to trying out Dart Raaaaage.

Posted by

Anand

on: 03/28/11, 17:43

Edited:

03/28/11, 17:44

thanks for no ff3 nintendo... sigh...

Posted by

Scrawnton

on: 03/28/11, 17:48

@Zero
No, not these 200 point games anyway.

@anandxxx
Yup.

Posted by

anon_mastermind

on: 03/28/11, 18:01

Edited:

03/28/11, 18:02

Blegh. Since Nintendo is incapable of releasing anything else during a system launch though, it's not too surprising.

Posted by

X-pert74

on: 03/28/11, 23:13

*twiddles thumbs while waiting for Mighty Milky Way*

Posted by

Octorockin

on: 03/28/11, 23:18

Was actually expecting Nintendo to pull a Pilotwings 64 surprise on us. Like they did with Super Metroid the week of Prime 3.

Posted by

Griptor

on: 03/28/11, 23:26