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Three New Captain Rainbow Trailers, Famitsu Gives Rating

28.08.2008

Upon its release in Japan today, Famitsu have given Skip's Captain Rainbow a respectable score. Also, three new trailers of the game have been released.

According to the folks at Neogaf, the game received 8, 8,7, 8, for a total of 31/40.

The Famitsu cross-review in a nutshell : really great, funny characters and writing. The characters in particular are really expressive, and seem to all be living their own life withing the game (also thanks to the day/night cycle). Pretty enjoyable gameplay, good tempo. Humor is often indecent. Seems like the music is pretty good too. Overall, it would seem like they all really liked it, including the "7" guy.

The following Trailer has Lip, from Panel de Pon in Japan (what we know as either Tetris Attack or Puzzle League over here).

These next two have Mappo, a character from GiFTPiA, a Gamecube game that never made it out of Japan;

Be sure to check out the official Captain Rainbow Website here.

Captain Rainbow (Wii)

Developer

Skip

Publisher

Nintendo

Genre

Adventure

Players

C3 Score

8/10

Reader Score

1/10 (1 Votes)

None

None

Out now

None

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E-Dracon 28.08.2008#1

why does Mike look absolutely nothing like himself?

Phoenom 28.08.2008#2

Ah whoops, my mistake, it's someone else. Hold on, I'll fix it.

JoshSL 28.08.2008#3

That's not Mike, it's from GiFTPiA.

I'm starting to see a few characters I can recognise. Am I the only one who really wants this to come out here? Smilie

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jesusraz 28.08.2008#4

Hopefully Nintendo doesn't mess around with this like it did with GiFTPiA. This definitely HAS to come out in the West...

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JoshSL 28.08.2008#5

Right, it sounds like one of the main reasons they made it was to raise awareness of these obscure characters and series'. Perhaps with hopes of making sequels possible? All I know is that if you wanna raise something's popularity the west is a good place to try.

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jesusraz 28.08.2008#6

Sad thing is that most of the characters are featured in games that have never even made it to the West. Tracey, Birdo and the guy from Punch-Out might be enough, though. Shame Wart doesn't seem to make an appearance!

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JoshSL 28.08.2008#7

Didn't Tetris Attack ever make it here? Or was Lip omitted?

I'm sure Nintendo fans would show their support. I can see Lip or Takamaru fans buying it just to support their inclusion in the next Smash Bros.

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jesusraz 28.08.2008#8

Panel de Pon was changed to Tetris Attack, with all original characters replaced by those from the Yoshi's Island world...and then Pok�mon took over, before Nintendo started with the plain, character-less Puzzle League entries.

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JoshSL 28.08.2008#9

Lame. If you're going to have character-less ones, you may aswell put the cast of Panel de Pon in, it wouldn't do any harm. D:

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Darkflame 28.08.2008#10

Id give the odds 50/50.
Its being sold as a funny game in its own right, its not going to sale because of the charecters in it. (Unlike Smash Bros, which has the charecters as a saleing point).

I dont see it being dismissed because people wont know the charecters.
It might more get dismissed because its a quirky game,and they sometimes dont sale too good here.

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jesusraz 28.08.2008#11

It seems to be getting more of a push than other recent Nintendo releases. All these new trailers must be doing something for its reputation...