Defend Your Castle coming to WiiWare
Friday, February 29th, 2008 at 3:39pm by Derek
Canadian Flash games developer XGen Studios launched an official Web site today for the upcoming WiiWare version of its classic Flash game, Defend Your Castle.
Given XGen’s latest juicy details, worries that the game will be a generic port of the Flash version should be alleviated. As confirmed in the April issue of NGamer Magazine, Defend Your Castle has received a dramatic makeover, in both visuals and gameplay, for the move to Wii.
According to N-Europe, “the graphics now have more style, colour and life to them, as if they were drawn by a three-year-old hyped up on sugar with unlimited supplies of Crayola,” evidenced below.
The Wii version also boasts these enhancements:
- Four player cooperative gameplay.
- Compete for “kingship.” Dominate others to manage the Kingdom.
- Completely new visuals and animations.
- Enhanced physics and particle effects.
- Repel even faster and more massive waves of invaders.
- Not a port of the original.
- Recreated from the ground up to utilize the Wii and Wii remote.
- Unlimited levels. Grow the strength of your Kingdom indefinitely.
Defend Your Castle storms WiiWare on May 12 for a paltry 500 Wii Points. In the meantime, check out the original Flash game to hone those stick-figure disfiguring, castle defending skills.
February 29th, 2008 at 3:58 pm
THIS LOOKS EPIC
February 29th, 2008 at 4:06 pm
Love how it turned out. Loved the flash game.
This looks to be worth the $5.
February 29th, 2008 at 4:56 pm
I absolutely love it. The art style looks fantastic.
February 29th, 2008 at 4:58 pm
“THIS LOOKS EPIC”
Amen, my friend, Amen.
February 29th, 2008 at 5:10 pm
Yeah, this is EASILY the most seducing WiiWare game announced thus far. I had been only mildly excited for WiiWare until seeing this game. Now, I’m completely stoked.
February 29th, 2008 at 5:19 pm
I’m amazed at the speed and variety of wiiware being announced. This seems like a great sign for the service, lots of variety, and for better or worse no xbla ports.
February 29th, 2008 at 5:28 pm
oh man i love this flash game i’ll totally buy the wii version.
sweeeeeeet.
February 29th, 2008 at 5:31 pm
this looks cool. i’ve haven’t played the original version, but the theme reminds of the old rampart games, which i loved. definitely will give this one a try.
February 29th, 2008 at 7:25 pm
. . . ugh, more free stuff that costs money . . .
February 29th, 2008 at 8:10 pm
@Paul, don’t want it; don’t buy it. Simple logic.
And…no thanks; this beckons future arthritis.
February 29th, 2008 at 9:46 pm
Automatic Game of the Year. *stares at the graphics and drools*
March 1st, 2008 at 4:27 am
These devs are making some sweet and potentially great games for WiiWare, hwever there is a little troubling fact everyone keeps bringing up. Where’s the storage for all of this? Nintendo keeps stating that they’re going to keep the file sizes small and have everyone delete and redownload their content. I have problems with that.
First off, we shouldn’t have to do that on a system that has the cheapest available option for expanding memory. The SD card slot has to be for more than listening to Infendo radio while looking at webcomics. Sure a couple of games use the slot for custom music, but not enough of them do. No game ever decides to mess with us and have our files appear within the game, nor does any game try caching data to the drive for faster load times (for the few games that do need it). That drive may not even be upgradeable to the new SDHC spec, if it was , guess what, we could have a 16 gig upgrade for about $50. Even less than that by the end of the year. Nintendo’s service has so many wonderful games to download before the original content is even being delivered to us, why should we, the end users be inconvenienced so much? Aren’t these games being made for us? Aren’t we the one using this system everyday? This is so anti-user friendly it’s ridiculous.
Secondly, and more importantly, unlike the 360 and PS3 if your Wii hardware fails, or is stolen your downloaded data isn’t stored to an account useable by the original Wii owner, it’s stored to the Wii. That means you’re not able to redownload games onto a new system if it’s not possible to save your old one. Game Informer had a feature discussing this type of functionality in next generation systems a few months back, this fact about the Wii did not seem to make any huge if any impact on the Wii or anyone’s perception on it. All it’s going to take is that one mistake to wipe out the system before people start to care. this is one bit of future proofing that they’re capable of remedying now. Why not tie such a thing to your My Nintendo account, and have every Wii owner that connects online to receive a new account or to their already existing account to whatever games they download?
I know that my comment may be a bit off topic and may even dampen the press of “Defend Your Castle”, but this is something that needs to be addressed if Nintendo wants us to have confidence in the WiiWare and vC titles that you’ve bought. How many of you that have maxed out or nearly maxed out your Wii systems storage would be willing to buy all of your VC games again if the console broke for whatever reason right now? We can’t let news have us forget about the things we need. People really aren’t asking for much. Just a larger storage solution and some type of contingency plan for digital content in the unwanted and unlikely case of system failure besides buying all of your games once again. I’m not saying the Wii is a system likely to break, just accidents happen.
March 1st, 2008 at 4:49 am
I forgot to sya this earlier, but to the more free stuff that costs money comment. Isn’t this a flash game that you could play in the Opera Wii Browser? If so, you got it for free right now before the Wii Ware even launches.
http://www.xgenstudios.com/play/castle
March 3rd, 2008 at 3:44 pm
Man, I can never seem to find this on the net unless a game site gets updated with it, but I LOVE this game nonetheless. I hope they include the sequels too!