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GAME: The Wonderful 101

...did I just stumble into a Gamefaqs thread?! There's even a M$/Sony fanboy who spends more time in the WiiU forums than the forums for his own exclusive console of choice. There's even complete lack of awareness that you can own more than a single console at a time.

As for any comments regarding the WiiU's library. It has Monster Hunter, suck it and weep.

I won't say anything on 101 since I haven't played it, and I probably won't. It just does not do anything to merit playing it over GTA V, Diablo III, or even Puppeteer. Im not saying its a bad game it just has no selling point.

As for the review of this game itself. I'm...rather glad and surprised at the same time with how the reviewer did NOT complain about the characters being funny stereotypes of different nationalities. Maybe I'm just a bit jaded with video game reviews, but I was sure there'd be complaints over the game having a sense of humor with the different nationalities or Wonder Black being black or Wonder Green being called a frenchie or Wonder Pink being a token sexy girl.

Regarding Xenoblade, there is no sequel announcement. The same company have announced a new game, and it might have Xeno in the title, but it will be as much of a sequel as Blade was to Saga, and Saga to Gears, none at all, not even the same universe.

Comparing W101 to Diablo 3, where the former is a an intricate action game that requires split-second timing and the latter is an RPG where you hold down the left mouse button until your stats go up seems a bit, ah, willfully blind, maybe? Not that I haven't had fun with Diablo 3, but if you told me "pick which one of these games you'd obliterate from history based solely on their mechanics," I wouldn't pick Wonderful 101.

If I was not already sold on the game, videos like this would've done it easily: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYQWf6iyvB4&feature=c4-overview&list=UUIygi3xVEx3hGJXZo59eJQw

Gon*Gon wrote:

As for the review of this game itself. I'm...rather glad and surprised at the same time with how the reviewer did NOT complain about the characters being funny stereotypes of different nationalities. Maybe I'm just a bit jaded with video game reviews, but I was sure there'd be complaints over the game having a sense of humor with the different nationalities or Wonder Black being black or Wonder Green being called a frenchie or Wonder Pink being a token sexy girl.

It toes a line. Wonder Black introducing himself by breakdancing was maybe a bit much.

Then again, Wonder Black is listed as being from New Dehli, so he may actually be Indian.

Generally I'm worried less about how many boobs/things that could be considered a stereotype are visible on screen and more about how much these characters have characterization and agency. My primary concern is how much a character is shown to have control over their situation, and how much they're treated as the punchline of a joke instead of the originator. To Wonderful 101's credit, the characters are painted in fairly broad strokes, but they're all composed of more than one gag. Wonder Black is far more "kid who never looks up from his gameboy" than "breakdancer."

Which is why I didn't really cotton to "Wonder Pink is the worst stereotype of all time" discussion around Wonderful 101. They knew they were being cheesy, they played it for the right sort of laughs, and she's not painted as this useless tart who just sits on the sidelines until it's her time for boob jokes. Nor did get why people were like "Wonder White is a racist Asian stereotype." But I played it almost entirely in Japanese, so maybe the English dub treats him like Mr Yunioshi, I don't know.

And I'm a Sony/MS fanboy because I think the Wii U sucks and yet I have a complete awareness of owning more then one console? Umm something dosen't jive here.

Get the hell out of here then, because pretty much the Wii U already has a rather sizable line up of 3rd parties/exclusive that I don't see coming out on any other platform,

and TW101, being Nintendo and Platinum's collaborative effort, just happens to be P*'s best output yet.

Same thing can be said with Monolithsoft and Xenoblade.

We don't need Sony/MS fanboys trashing this thread up just because someone is salty over an exclusive they wish they had on their console.

I don't want 101 enough to waste money on this system with a questionable future.