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The Wonderful 101 Japanese Website Opens (New Footage/Artwork/Details)
- Thread starter StreetsAhead
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While I understand and agree that deducting points for lack of online is stupid, the current state of online gaming on Wii U is frustrating and that frustrating keeps building. Nintendo Land wasnt online, NSMBU wasn't, Pikmin 3 isn't, Wonderful 101 isn't and neither are Donkey Kong and SM3DWorld (despite all of them having solid local multiplayer whether coop or vs). I'm not saying they all should be online, but you would think that they might attempt it given how the rest of the industry tries. It certainly would go a long way for making my friends want Mario 3D World if they knew we could all play it online together.
The Wii U, despite some significant advancements in how their online works, still feels largely "offline".
Coldnoodle
Member
:lol
InsaneZero
Member
That's rather early for a Nintendo promotion campaign.
R
Retro_
Unconfirmed Member
Lol
I like how he has so many different foods in his hand in his speech bubble pictures
Probably gets a different snack for each level which is a pretty funny detail
I like how he has so many different foods in his hand in his speech bubble pictures
Probably gets a different snack for each level which is a pretty funny detail
Apophis2036
Banned
Why are Nintendo releasing the big name games first in the EU all of a sudden ?.
ShockingAlberto
Member
It is probably because they are trying to space out Nintendo-published games in regions because they don't have enough.
Because Shibata > Reggie.
walking fiend
Member
Reasonable.
SatoAilDarko
Member
Two more confirmed voice actors:
Wonder Green, Le Sniper Superieur: Kari Wahlgren
Wonder Pink, The Queen of Rage: Tara Strong
I feel people will be more excited for Strong (especially with her role) than Wahlgren, but it's the opposite for me. As a huge anime fan who prefers watching English dubs I've heard Wahlgren often. The role I'll always associate with her is Saya Otonashi from Blood+, but for most she'd be more familiar as Fuu from Samurai Champloo and Haruko from FLCL.
Wonder Green looks hilarious by holding those different types of food but the trailer everyone has to see is Wonder Pink.
As her epitaph, The Queen of Rage suggests, she can become quite angry as evident in the trailer. I love her mannerisms as this high-maintenance girl in civilian clothes. Also it looks like we can see where the suggestive themes in the ESRB ratings come from. She definitely has some Bayonetta vibes.
Her name appears to be Mariana Francesco as heard in the trailer. This suggests she is Italian and not Russian like I thought (I can hear the dub english-dub accent being Italian). If that's the case I'm now very confident that Wonder Yellow with his hammer and cap is Russian. Wonder White is confirmed to be Japanese. I'm going to guess Wonder Black (this is Power Rangers) is from an African country instead of America because of the colored beads in his braids and the red dot on his forehead (which is more often seen as an Indian thing but could have a similar significance here).
That leaves us with two Americans, two Western Europeans, one Eastern European, one East Asian and possibly one African for our main seven Wonderful Ones. It's a shame there aren't South American and South Asian main heroes, as those would allow a better representation of the world to be present among the main group of characters.
Still this doesn't detract from the game at all as it's the characters that matter and not their nationalities and I love the characters revealed so far. Hopefully if a sequel does get made South America and South Asia will get representatives amongst the main characters.
Wonder Green, Le Sniper Superieur: Kari Wahlgren
Wonder Pink, The Queen of Rage: Tara Strong
I feel people will be more excited for Strong (especially with her role) than Wahlgren, but it's the opposite for me. As a huge anime fan who prefers watching English dubs I've heard Wahlgren often. The role I'll always associate with her is Saya Otonashi from Blood+, but for most she'd be more familiar as Fuu from Samurai Champloo and Haruko from FLCL.
Wonder Green looks hilarious by holding those different types of food but the trailer everyone has to see is Wonder Pink.
As her epitaph, The Queen of Rage suggests, she can become quite angry as evident in the trailer. I love her mannerisms as this high-maintenance girl in civilian clothes. Also it looks like we can see where the suggestive themes in the ESRB ratings come from. She definitely has some Bayonetta vibes.
Her name appears to be Mariana Francesco as heard in the trailer. This suggests she is Italian and not Russian like I thought (I can hear the dub english-dub accent being Italian). If that's the case I'm now very confident that Wonder Yellow with his hammer and cap is Russian. Wonder White is confirmed to be Japanese. I'm going to guess Wonder Black (this is Power Rangers) is from an African country instead of America because of the colored beads in his braids and the red dot on his forehead (which is more often seen as an Indian thing but could have a similar significance here).
That leaves us with two Americans, two Western Europeans, one Eastern European, one East Asian and possibly one African for our main seven Wonderful Ones. It's a shame there aren't South American and South Asian main heroes, as those would allow a better representation of the world to be present among the main group of characters.
Still this doesn't detract from the game at all as it's the characters that matter and not their nationalities and I love the characters revealed so far. Hopefully if a sequel does get made South America and South Asia will get representatives amongst the main characters.
Ah, good, this will be awesome. It'll probably be announced very soon then.
She's Romanian. Her ID card lists her as being from Transylvania. Hence the
vampire fangs
StreetsAhead
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DashReindeer
Lead Community Manager, Outpost Games
OMG, she's Haruko? That is honestly one of the worst butcherings of an incredible character by an American voice actor that I can think of. Pretty much just gonna be sticking to the Japanese audio track for this, methinks.
The best Wonderful One Double Oh
plank
Member
Where does it say that?
Schadenfreude
Member
Wonder Green is my spirit animal. Fat, loves to snack, and is rude. Loving all the characters in the game so far.
She's from Transylvania and has fangs
Isn't that just an Anime tropes of a woman getting mad = they grow fangs.
She's from TRANSYLVANIA and it's a video-game.
Entryhazard
Banned
She's from TRANSYLVANIA, has a WHIP and her civilian outfit has BROWN FUR on her boots.
Simon Belmont expy confirmed
Simon Belmont expy confirmed
Platinum confirmed as MercurySteam's replacement.
TheGreatMightyPoo
Banned
Now that I have played it, I would actually watch that.
As sad or smart as that is.
SatoAilDarko
Member
How dare you sir! Surprisingly I've find Fooly Cooly to have one of the few dubs that people who prefer subs still enjoy.
Schadenfreude
Member
Tomorrow...in game magazines.
bobbychalkers
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Vampirolol
Member
A vampire? Wonder pink is now my wonderful number 1.
People in general buy more games next to big releases, it could actually help to place it next to GTA if there's proper advertising behind it.
Now Rayman, that one will get steamrolled.
bobbychalkers
Member
The lava area in the Pink trailer is gorgeous
Box of Bunnies
Banned
New to Kamiya's Twitter, huh?
No, I'm not new, but the timing is right.
StreetsAhead
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English blog on Wonder Pink: http://platinumgames.com/2013/08/07/w101-blog-ep-9-wonder-pink-fashionably-late/
Schadenfreude
Member
Ha! Her whip is made out of "Belmont Alloy".