Episode #32 (2/28/2010): Metroid and Mario and Gibberlings, oh my!
Written by Joe Wood
Friday, 05 March 2010 10:49
In this episode, we discuss the big news out of the Nintendo Summit, which inevitably leads into discussion of the possibility of a new Nintendo console. We also discuss why Sonic fans have yet again proved themselves illogical, as well as having a lengthy argument about whether the free-to-play model of Dungeons & Dragons Online can save other MMOs. Other games discussed in this podcast include Bioshock 2(warning: contains Bioshock 1 spoilers!), Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne, and Allods Online, as well as the unavoidable WoW-talk.
The original Bioshock still stands out to me as one of the greatest games I have ever played. The wonderfully realized world of Rapture as well as the brilliant characters of the game almost made me forget about the horrible problems I had getting the PC version to run on my machine. Still, once you got it to work, it was one of the best games of the last decade, hands down.
I've been a long time fan of Mario; Heck, he's the whole reason I started playing video games. The first time I ever saw the original Super Mario Bros, it blew my eight year old mind. Ever since Mario has pretty much kept my interest. I was even one of the few people who enjoyed Super Mario Sunshine if you can believe that. Still, there are two games that are pretty much what I consider to be the pinnacle of Super Mario Bros games. Super Mario Bros. 3 and my all time favorite, Super Mario World. I was happy to see that New Super Mario Bros Wii, had features from both games. I shed a single manly tear.
Five hundred years ago the world was kept in balance by two forces that controlled the “Eyes of the World”, the Umbra Witches and Lumen Sages. The “Eyes of the World” allowed the two factions to watch over the world and care for it from the ancient city of Vigrid, located in a hard to reach valley somewhere in Europe. These two factions were different aspects of the world, Umbra Witches being darkness (note not evil) that controlled the “Left Eye”, and the Lumen Sages were of the light that controlled the “Right Eye”. However five hundred years ago a rule was broken and the paths of light and dark crossed and bore a child, Bayonetta. Fast forward to the present we find that Bayonetta has been awakened from a pseudo-stasis of 480 or so years with amnesia, and hunts the heavenly host and works with a demonic weapons dealer named Rodin. Events start to take shape around Bayonetta as her memory returns. This is the general background for Hideki Kamiya’s new release Bayonetta. The game bears a general resemblance to the previous release by Kamiya Devil May Cry; however it has its own unique flair.
