@Atheist Jew: I see I'm not the only one.

Man, I just love his stuff - incredible.

Just wanted to throw out there the one way they could make this not totally stupid.

@Datheron: They probably got feedback that big chunks of red and blue text were tough to read.

Sounds like a lot of fun, especially for those that have a youngster that would dig it as well. Glad to hear about a genuinely fun third party Wii game!

I wonder about the controls though - obviously there won't be different buttons to do all the different actions. I'd bet most of them would be keyed off some combination of 'jump' and 'action' buttons combined with a context or location-specific influence.

Basically, if the controls are up to par to support the visuals and animation then we might be in for a real treat.

Any word on multiplayer? Can you imagine a big city area with like 16 people trying to run out to a certain objective and back? That could be crazy, especially if you could disrupt people when they are balancing or hanging.

Also, no love for Vega, Sagat, Bison or Balrog?

Still, fun to watch (once).

You know they only kept working on it because it was 'in the marketing plan', and all of maybe 12 people will buy it.

But maybe I'm thinking about it wrong; maybe instead of collecting characters you'll collect utility belt items, bat vehicles and stuff to fill up the batcave (remember that giant penny, stuff like that). Plus it's not like you ever use 75% of the guys you unlock in TCS anyway.

Hell, who am I kidding, Travelers Tales has always delivered and I'm sure these games will be no exception.

I do hope they pull it off of course but they've got one hell of a bar to measure up to - one they created themselves.

Just know that you've got the best wishes of the vast and shadowy underground of our disparate Kotaku family.

Oh and Sega, c'mon, bring this game to the 360 - don't be a dick. We're starving for tactical RPGs, to the point where people are trying to convince themselves that Operation Darkness isn't that bad.

He essentially put in on PS3 owners having too much 'junk' on their hard drives. I infer from that that the game is getting around the PS3 RAM issue by doing some caching to the hard drive.

He didn't address the same problem on the 360.

He also minimized the problem, putting it on the order of 0.001% of users.

BC, thanks for the great review and all the upcoming coverage - it's like the Halo 3 release but for a game I actually care about this time!

I'm just saying.

Also, this marks the first time I've actually been jealous of the psp/ps3-owning types. Very compelling.

And yeah, Korn hasn't been cool since what, 1998?

Pay attention folks - this is what the douchbags that work in PR think about the video game playing audience.

Now where's my crowbar and blowtorch...

That being said, the counterweight to that could well be the user-generated component which I have to admit sounds really intriguing.

Here's hoping they pull it off!

Still funny though; actually laughed at the 'off the crate bat-slam' move and one-liner at the end.

Hell, I've started a similar thing with an update of the NES version of Blaster Master (nothing serious, just a fun project)

And I thought I loved mowing people down with the bonesaw before!

Need to peep this out once I upgrade later this year (of course, a 360 version might have been announced by then too, so who knows).

"We have kidnapped your family. Get in the car, shoot the driver, and drive to this address. You are being watched."

*and that's how I spent my summer vacation*

Do you know if all this was just for you or are they running a bunch of folks through this? Seems a waste to get the space, the car rental, photographer, etc just for one guy (as special as you are Flynn ;)

As opposed to a constant item grind - "Oh look, an [Eldritch Tome of the Whale]" and upgrading to ever more doofy and mismatched armor and weapon pieces sets every few levels.

They'd really better have their stuff together; this is one of those properties where if you don't do it right you shouldn't even bother. Kinda close doesn't fly here. Some kind of convoluted ret-con (blood elves, I'm looking at you) to allow half these races to team up versus the other half just won't fly.

I can easily envision races where only one guy on a team actually drives and everyone else just tried to divert/kill the other driver.

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