The Wonderful 101 is officially coming to multiple platforms

[Yoshi178]

It was badically be funded fully by Nintendo and be forced to stay exclusive, or platinum will have no funding at all and have to handle the remaster distribution entirely themselves. And thats what basically gave Platinum the kickstarter idea.

Oh yes, I had a feeling something like that was going on. Platinum very likely already has most all the necessary kits and tools voor PS4/PC development from previous experience, and I guess ?500,000 should be enough to support a small team's wages for one year, so that seems a plausible amount. Releasing all ports by april seems like they'd have to haul ass tho, so I'm guessing two possible situations.

1. Nintendo funded the Switch port and it's far enough along for april release. The extra Kickstarter funds are needed to start development of the other two ports, which will then be released at a later date.
2. All three ports are actually far enough along for that april release. Nintendo funded the Switch ports while Platinum funded the other two out of their own pocket. Kickstarter is a means to already recoup some of their costs.

Platnium isn't exactly a small developer so they likely had more than enough cash in the companies bank to able to develop the remaster of the Wii U game for the Switch.

the costly part is more than likely making the controls work well without the use of the touch screen and they would also need to rework some sections of the game that required use of the dual screen capability. like when you go in a building and see and move the characters around on the touch screen to affect some big weapon thats only shown happening on the TV screen for example.

the vast majority of the funds will likely be used to help platinum self publish future games and may even be the reason why we haven't heard anything further about Bayonetta 3. maybe Nintendo is no longer funding that and Platinum is? who knows? Maybe Platinum will use the money to un-cancel Scalebound? who knows?




Maybe Nintendo gave Platinum a break not only because of their strong relationship with Platnium but because Nintendo was basically in a win win situation. either they fund the game and make all the money from sales exclusively on their system, not giving it a chance to elsewhere.

or they still make money by letting platinum releasing on other platforms, but not even having to spend a dime in the first placing by not funding the published remaster for platinum?

 

[Elvis Starburst]

Just backed for the physical edition myself. Very excited, been waiting for this for years! Now I just need Star Fox Zero to come to Switch and I can get rid of my Wii U

 

[Squilookle]

Cool. Anyone going to explain what a Wonderful 101 is?

Not what I asked for.

Cool. Anyone going to explain what a Wonderful 101 is?

the Wonderful 100 is the super hero team.

The extra 1 is you, the player.

Ah, OK. I can sorta see where it's coming from now.

 

[BrawlMan]

Cool. Anyone going to explain what a Wonderful 101 is?

Not what I asked for.

Cool. Anyone going to explain what a Wonderful 101 is?

the Wonderful 100 is the super hero team.

The extra 1 is you, the player.

Ah, OK. I can sorta see where it's coming from now.

I did. Not my fault you didn't watch the video or weren't paying attention. I am not adding anything else.

 

[Squilookle]

Cool. Anyone going to explain what a Wonderful 101 is?

Not what I asked for.

Cool. Anyone going to explain what a Wonderful 101 is?

the Wonderful 100 is the super hero team.

The extra 1 is you, the player.

Ah, OK. I can sorta see where it's coming from now.

I did. Not my fault you didn't watch the video or weren't paying attention. I am not adding anything else.

I'm not expecting you to. Yoshi actually answered the question.

 

[Chimpzy_v1legacy]

Decided to back this. First time actually. Neither want nor need any of the other perks and the game will likely meet all its stretch goals in the long run, so I just got one of the basic tiers that'll get me a physical copy. That's enough for me.

i backed the 55,000 yen Wonderful Toys tier so i'm super excited to be getting all the perks from that. especially the Wonder Pendant!

Ok, I just noticed this, but eh, that's about 750 AUD[sup]1[/sup], innit? I'm not one to tell someone how to spend their money and if you think it's worth it, more power to you, but jaysus, don't think I'd ever be willing to spend that much on a single game.

[small][sup]1[/sup] roughly 450 EUR; 500 USD; 390 GBP[/small]

 

[Neurotic Void Melody]

Oh the game that everybody loved yet no one bought! Hopefully it sells better on less doomed consoles this time around, though Platinum are like the game dev equivalent of Guillermo del Toro with their bad luck in sales contrasting with their talent as if they were gipsy cursed from birth or had a monkey-paw wish granted with irony. Am definitely one of the interested.

 

[Yoshi178]

i backed the 55,000 yen Wonderful Toys tier so i'm super excited to be getting all the perks from that. especially the Wonder Pendant!

Ok, I just noticed this, but eh, that's about 750 AUD[sup]1[/sup], innit? I'm not one to tell someone how to spend their money and if you think it's worth it, more power to you, but jaysus, don't think I'd ever be willing to spend that much on a single game.

[small][sup]1[/sup] roughly 450 EUR; 500 USD; 390 GBP[/small]

yeah, its a real waste of Money and i really can't afford it.

but i've been putting aside $600, each time i get paid from Work, to save for a house and i've also been putting $200 aside to save for any leisurely thing i want like videogames and some First 4 Figure Resin statues i've ordered. i'm gonna use 1 of my paydays to help me be able to Pay for the Wonderful Toys 55,000 Yen Tier.

The Wonderful 101 was arguably the Wii U's best game and nobody played it. and it's defs one of my favourite games, if not it's in my top 10, it's defs in top 20 favourite games. The Wonderful 101 is really just that good.

i'm super excited that so much more people are going to have a chance to play and experience now, not Just on the Switch which has obviously sold much better than the Wii U did, but also even PS4 and PC owners get to experience it now. and also i just really wanted all of those extras like the Soundtracks, Acrylic, Artbook, Comic Book and i'll probably have the toys sit on my desk at work.


my top picks for who should get in smash bros next would be Geno from super Mario RPG, and Wonder Red from TW101.




i'm not expecting others to back TW101 for anywhere as much as i did, but people should at least back either the Digital or Physical copy of the Game itself on Kickstarter. The more backers this game gets, the better game we'll have in the long run, the next stretch goal at $1.5 million USD means they'll add new story DLC and hitting $1.75 million USD means they'll add a remix to the soundtrack.

currently the games sitting at about $1,427,000 USD on Kickstarter as of this post

 

[Yoshi178]

Well that's certainly neat. Although I am curious, for those who have played it, just how 'essential' are the motion control aspects? How well would it play with a more traditional controller?

in the original you could draw your main weapons with either the Touch Screen or you could use the Right Analogue stick on the Wii U Gamepad or a Pro Controller to draw the shape. the game also featured several dual screen sections where you look at your team and do a puzzle task for the story on the touch screen to cause an in game story event that was shown on the TV.


so the Wii U's Touch screen was pretty essential for the game but Platinum state in their Kickstarter that they have re-tooled the controls and re done the dual screen sections to be able to work on the modern platforms with no touch screen and only the single TV screen

 

[Dalisclock]

Looks interesting. I hope to try it once it hits PC, but not having a Wii U and having no interest in getting one meant I pretty much couldn't play any of those games.

 

[Yoshi178]

Looks interesting. I hope to try it once it hits PC, but not having a Wii U and having no interest in getting one meant I pretty much couldn't play any of those games.

make sure to play it with a controller and not a mouse and keyboard.


using the right analogue stick to draw the shapes of your weapons would be much easier than using a mouse to do it. and the entire game revolves around you drawing the shapes of your weapons all the time.

 

[Chimpzy_v1legacy]

Looks interesting. I hope to try it once it hits PC, but not having a Wii U and having no interest in getting one meant I pretty much couldn't play any of those games.

make sure to play it with a controller and not a mouse and keyboard.


using the right analogue stick to draw the shapes of your weapons would be much easier than using a mouse to do it. and the entire game revolves around you drawing the shapes of your weapons all the time.

But what if ... you used a drawing tablet instead of a mouse? Aaahah! Checkmate!

No really, I don't have a drawing tablet, but when the game releases I'd actually want to see someone try playing it with one.

 

[Dalisclock]

Looks interesting. I hope to try it once it hits PC, but not having a Wii U and having no interest in getting one meant I pretty much couldn't play any of those games.

make sure to play it with a controller and not a mouse and keyboard.


using the right analogue stick to draw the shapes of your weapons would be much easier than using a mouse to do it. and the entire game revolves around you drawing the shapes of your weapons all the time.

I have a PS style controller I use for games that don't do well with M+K, so games like Soulsbornes/Souls-like or platformers are a must there. FPS it actually works better to use M+K due to precision aiming I've found. Of course games like RTS, tactics, strategy, P+C adventure are best with M+K because a gamepad really doesn't cut it there.

 

[Yoshi178]

Looks interesting. I hope to try it once it hits PC, but not having a Wii U and having no interest in getting one meant I pretty much couldn't play any of those games.

make sure to play it with a controller and not a mouse and keyboard.


using the right analogue stick to draw the shapes of your weapons would be much easier than using a mouse to do it. and the entire game revolves around you drawing the shapes of your weapons all the time.

I have a PS style controller I use for games that don't do well with M+K, so games like Soulsbornes/Souls-like or platformers are a must there. FPS it actually works better to use M+K due to precision aiming I've found. Of course games like RTS, tactics, strategy, P+C adventure are best with M+K because a gamepad really doesn't cut it there.

a Playstation controller should be fine for the wonderful 101 since you can use the right analogue stick on it.

On the Wii U i mostly used the analogue stick for quick drawings like a doing a circle for reds the Wonder fist and drawing a straight line like Wonder blue's valiantium sword


i mainly used the touch screen to draw some of the more complicated shapes like the wonder hammer but it also comes in handy in differetiating accidentally drawing some weapons from each other so i remember i used to draw an S type squiggly line on the touch screen for Wonder Pink's Whip and then the analgoue screen would be more precise in doing a perfectly straight Zig Zag line when i wanted to use Wonder White's claws.

 

[BrawlMan]

Oh the game that everybody loved yet no one bought! Hopefully it sells better on less doomed consoles this time around, though Platinum are like the game dev equivalent of Guillermo del Toro with their bad luck in sales contrasting with their talent as if they were gipsy cursed from birth or had a monkey-paw wish granted with irony. Am definitely one of the interested.

I bought and beat W101. And later sold it, my WiiU games, and the Wii U itself for a Switch. I somewhat regretted it back then, but it's barely and afterthought now. The only games that were successful for Platinum were Bayonetta 1 The PS3 version sold more than the 360, despite the former still being the worst version of the game. Bayo 1 & 2 sold better on the Switch ironically., Nier: Automata (saved them from going bankrupt), Metal Gear Rising (the best Metal Gear game ever made), and Astral Chain. With their most recent successes, things are finally turning around, so I would not call them cursed. A majority of their games have aged better than most from this generation and last generation. Their games are timeless. That's why some of their stuff gets re-released.

 

[Yoshi178]

Pikmin 3, Super Mario 3D World and Xenoblade Chronicles X are the only 3 big names on the Wii U that are left to be ported that come to mind.

 

[Chimpzy_v1legacy]

Pikmin 3, Super Mario 3D World and Xenoblade Chronicles X are the only 3 big names on the Wii U that are left to be ported that come to mind.

Well, there's still Star Fox Zero and the two Zelda remasters.

Tho honestly, I'd happily trade all those for any of the three you mentioned. Or maybe for a remake of the Zelda Oracle games.

 

[Yoshi178]

Pikmin 3, Super Mario 3D World and Xenoblade Chronicles X are the only 3 big names on the Wii U that are left to be ported that come to mind.

Well, there's still Star Fox Zero and the two Zelda remasters.

Tho honestly, I'd happily trade all those for any of the three you mentioned. Or maybe for a remake of the Zelda Oracle games.

Zelda: why do we need remasters of already remastered games?

Star Fox Zero: most people hated that game.

 

[Chimpzy_v1legacy]

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Zelda: why do we need remasters of already remastered games?

Star Fox Zero: most people hated that game.

Euhm, yes, I don't think they're essential either.

But they are fairly big names, and I've seen some minor demand for ports. Much less than 3D World, Pikmin or Xenoblade, but still relatively more than some other Wii U exclusives that aren't remakes/remasters i.e. Paper Mario Color Slash, Kirby and the Rainbow Curse and Fatal Frame Maiden of Black Water.

 

[Silvanus]

Star Fox Zero: most people hated that game.

Most people hated it because of forced motion controls, didn't they? Just don't do that and you're golden.