Recently, right on our very own forums, fans repeatedly expressed some displeasure at the caliber of third party games coming out on the Nintendo Wii. One of the many points often heard is that the Wii is often on the receiving end of many ports, particular PS2 ports. However, one exception to this complaint has been the upcoming Okami for the Wii. As Wii Fanboy puts it, Okami is "the perfect example of how porting games can be a force for good".
To that end, they interviewed Didier Malenfant, president and co-founder of Ready At Dawn, the folks responsible for the awesome port of Okami. They asked him to dish on such things as his side of the "how Okami came to be" story, why you should play the Wii version of Okami even if you have played the PS2 version previously, and how they dealt with the pressure of porting an award winning and critically acclaimed game.
What helped the most was the fact that we were all huge fans of the game ourselves to begin with. You don't take a game as beautiful as Okami and think that you can mess with it, try to add content that doesn't belong there or something. We have so much respect for the original game that we decided from the get-go that this was going to be a labor of love. The goal was to reproduce the experience as closely as possible. If it's not broken, don't fix it basically.
Film is finally rolling! The official blog on the upcoming movie, Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun Li, is now live... again... (After being brought to its knees earlier). Currently the blog has an entry from their first week of shooting in the exotic location of Bangkok, Thailand. A quick cast bio is also up, with promises of future exclusive cast interviews and scoops as well. Finally, they also present us a page direct from their early storyboards. Cool stuff indeed!
Go ahead and click on the link above to read the blog. Rest assured. I promise the their blog is much more Jean-Claude-free than ours.
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Japan's Famitsu magazine recently conducted a video interview with Jun Takeuchi, the producer of Resident Evil 5, and we now have the video complete with English subs for your viewing pleasure! In addition to the interview, the video include a brief introduction into the history of the Resident Evil series, many first-ever shots of actual gameplay, and also includes some behind the scenes development sneak peeks.
Update:You can now download a high-res MP4 version of the interview by right-clicking here.
This week's Zero Punctuation review by Yahtzee is of Zack & Wiki, which was inevitable, given Yahtzee's well-known love for adventure games. Zack & Wiki is an awesome game that everybody liked, but no one bought, a genre that Capcom specializes in, what with Okami suffering the same fate...
As usual, click on the image above to see the slightly NSFW review and meeting your monthly quota of Roberta Williams references.
For those of you keeping count, that brings to a total of 3 Capcom games (DMC4 & RE:UC are the others) that Yahtzee has reviewed now. Since he only does one game a week, either he really loves us, or we're using up our quota way too early.
GameTrailers.com has uploaded the Resident Evil 5 DVD feature from the latest issue of Japan's Famitsu magazine. This is one video you don't want to miss, because I believe it is the first time actual Resident Evil 5 gameplay footage has been seen by the public! Definitely check it out.
