Jesus, was the Wii’s first RPG developed in collaboration with PLAYSKOOL!?
It’s getting a lot harder to defend the big N as a system for all ages when I see stuff like this. Anyone want to buy a Wii? :mad:
Looks like fun. I’d play it.
When did “all ages” start NOT including kids? I can see your frustration if that’s the only RPG they ever make, but doesn’t some demographic have to be the target audience of the first?
And, as a non-gaming mom of a gamer, it looks pretty cool to me. I’d play this one with the teenager. The first 20 seconds or so of the ad are rather lame on purpose, but then it looks fun. I agree that, personally, the graphics of the player character are awfully Playskool and don’t appeal to me, but nothing else is. Those Japanese-letter looking tree like things look really nifty, actually.
Sorry, I hope there will be games with plenty of boobs and arterial spray for you eventually. Those are the games I don’t consider “all-ages”. We’re looking at it from two different ends of the spectrum, I guess.
At work, so I can’t watch the video presently, but “all-ages” doesn’t mean “doesn’t do kid stuff”.
It means “does kid stuff and adult stuff”.
Call me back in a year if they haven’t developed more grown up stuff to sell alongside this.
I’d try it. It sounds like an unholy collaboration, but then again, so did Square-Enix and Disney… And I, along with many others, was blown away by Kingdom Hearts. I’ll wait until the final product is out before passing judgment.
Hold on your your Wii… you’ll need it for Super Paper Mario soon. 
Sorry, but one of my favorite things about Nintendo is that I can get games for everyone in the family - including the little ones. I’m just not seeing the problem with a Playskool game here.
I’m kinda thinking about buying a Wii…
-Anaamika, dedicated Playstation Fan.
I’ve been playing The Godfather: Blackhand Edition recently on the Wii. I’ve having fun strangling people to death, beating them to death with baseball bats, shooting them in the kneecaps with tommy guns and shotguns, throwing people out of windows, and car bombing people.
So basically, it’s just for kids.
Oh, I’m still going to buy Opoona (the game linked to in the OP). I’m just kind of stunned that they’d come out with something so blatantly baby as their first RPG for the system, especially as the idea that the Gamecube was “for kids” was one of its major undoings and with how dedicated they seem to be to shaking that image with the Wii.
Good luck. We got a tip from an inside source and queued up at 6am for 4 hours to get one of 14 that were delivered to the local Toy’s (backwards R) Us. The kids haven’t let me touch it yet.
I’m not sure I understand how “their first RPG for the system” is in any way meaningful. As others have mentioned, it’s not like it’s the ONLY game out.
Recently Miyomoto said that there are Wii enhancements in the works for “hardcore” gamers.
Eh, I’m in no hurry. And I haven’t heard there’s a run on it around here…and the only kids in my house are me and the SO. And I get first dibs. 
There are about 8 million different things wrong with this thread. So, in handy list form…
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Opoona is being developed and published by Koei. Nintendo has nothing to do with it.
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Nintendo is not a company particularly known for RPGs (Earthbound and Paper Mario notwithstanding) and I don’t think they’ve ever created an “adult” RPG like Final Fantasy.
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Nintendo’s first RPG for the Wii will be Super Paper Mario, which comes out next Monday and is actually a platformer/RPG hybrid.
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As others have mentioned, all ages includes everybody, so of course there will be games targeted at kids.
Red Steel is a joke - you slash someone with a katana and there’s no blood. The gameplay also sucks and the story is trash, at least in my opinion, but I could forgive that if there was some gore. I mean, a blood-free sword fighting game?
The gamecube had Resident Evil 4, which kicked ass and was bloody as hell, but as far as I know, Resident Evil 5 is only coming out for 360 and PS3. Likewise for GTA VI - I will be very surprised if Nintendo touches anything as edgy as the GTA series.
Undoing? Undoing?? Heh. I’ve weathered Nintendo’s “undoing” through four generations. Who’s laughing now, fuzzball?
I’ve also somehow managed to weather Apple’s “undoing” for 17 years now.
I bought a Gamestop bundle pack in February, but it doesn’t look like those are available any more. I see that Walmart has bundle packs, but they look like the only online store with anything in stock.
Watch the commercials for the Wii. It is inviting adults to be kids, watched over by benevolent smiling wise mature asian businessman parents.
“Not just for kids” means “For adults who want to be childish, but don’t want to admit it.”
-FrL-
Blatantly baby? I dunno. Obviously the main character and the like look like Fisher Price dolls, but the rest of the game looks simply gorgeous. That is some fantastic scenery. If it were really intended to be marketed to little kids, I don’t think they’d have put in nearly as much effort.