IGN was thinking more along the FPS line, but that would be the fifth Survival Horror coming to Wii within the next year or so. Fatal Frame 4, Dead Rising Wii, Cursed Mountain, Sadness, and this.

Oh, I thought Moon was a survival horror like Dementium was. My bad.

Yeah, their current small track record is FPS.

In the same podcast, Matt said that Kuju is developing a Wii game that will be revealed soon, possibly at Leipzig. Kuju worked on both Battalion Wars and the Wii and DS versions of Geometry Wars. Considering Nintendo won't be at Leipzig, I assume it won't be another Battalion Wars and now that WiiWare is rolling, I don't think we'll get anymore retail Geometry Wars. Could they reveal a new IP? Maybe a "dark" game?

Do we need a new "dark" game? =(

Can't stop listening to Crash by AAA.... World Destruction's Theme Song.

quote Akira_EX

Do we need a new "dark" game? =(

Yes, I did get the joke. Although I'm thinking about not listening to the podcasts anymore. Honestly, all they do is complain about their jobs and repeat the same "Wii is teh cazuals" jokes, and its pretty boring.

I've been watching the WD anime recently, and am beginning to get intrigued by the game as well. Nice theme song as well.

imageepoch's a good rookie developer. Sure, Luminous Arc was a average-at-best RPG, but they're doing some promising things. Them and Marvelous are some real bright spots.

I agree. Luminous Arc was fun, but also very unoriginal. The gameplay was solid and the style and designs were nice, but the story was far too predictable. Honestly, I had figured out the majority of the story and its "big twist" after reading the back of the box and looking at the character art. However, WD has a pretty unique and interesting story so far, so if they can apply their already sound game designing abilities on top of this story, I think I may have to look into getting this game. Or trick my sister into buying it and letting me play.

The IGN Nintendo team is quite cynical in podcasts, but they've said that they just do that because "everyone rags on their favorite console." Probably the last E3 just put a bad taste in their mouth.

I tend to agree with most of their reviews and opinions, though, and they do get the most Nintendo-related exclusives out of any other news source, so it's all good.

Your probably thinking of No More Heroes, which they worshiped for quite a while and then gave a high 7.

Still a game worthy of the hype though.

I wonder what Kuju is working on though. And Retro. I really want to see Retro's new game ideas.

To be fair, previews are expected to be positive. Publishers have a lot more control over previews then they have over reviews. Besides only having access to (what is usually) the best of the game, I would expect that there is quite a bit of pressure to downplay flaws in previews, both from publishers and from IGN management. In a review, any criticism is fair game.

The same goes for any other major media outlet. I'd go as far as saying IGN is the best major game website out there. I have nothing against them, although I rarely go to IGN (besides linked stories). I prefer smaller independent websites.

Yeah, I'm curious as to what those two are working on. Grasshopper is probably working on something right now, as well.