After the success of last year’s US-only Adventure Time: Hey Ice King, Why’d You Steal Our Garbage?, D3Publisher has revealed that WayForward’s currently working on a direct sequel – this time for 3DS and consoles, including Wii U – titled Adventure Time: Explore the Dungeon Because I DON’T KNOW!
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The development team at WayForward has completed its work on Mighty Switch Force! 2, meaning the 3DS exclusive is on track to meet its Spring 2013 release date. Continue reading
Capcom teased two new game announcements ahead of PAX East this weekend, and two game announcements have been made: DuckTales Remastered and Dungeons & Dragons: Chronicles of Mystara are both headed to the Wii U eShop this summer. Continue reading
Great news if you’re a fan of WayForward’s downloadable ‘Mighty‘ series: a direct sequel to the brilliant Mighty Switch Force! is set to hit the Nintendo eShop on 3DS within the next few months. Continue reading
Mighty Switch Force! Hyper Drive Edition on Wii U features the original 3DS game’s sixteen stages, the five Bonus levels that were added via a downloadable update, as well as another twenty-one Hyper challenges – which rehash the first game’s levels and turn up the difficulty a couple of notches.
Despite Hyper Drive Edition’s extra content, though, WayForward’s revealed, in an interview with Siliconera, that it’s happy to release new levels for the game at some point in the future, if it’s what fans want. Continue reading
Developer: WayForward
Publisher: WayForward
Review Platform: Wii U Download
Also Available on: 3DS Download
Release Date: 06/12/12
Genre: Action/Puzzle Platformer
Players: 1
Price: £8.99
File Size: 486MB
PEGI: 12
Mighty Switch Force! Hyper Drive Edition makes its way to the Wii U’s eShop as a port of last year’s downloadable 3DS hit, Mighty Switch Force! If you’ve already shelled out on and enjoyed the handheld alternative, you’ll be wondering whether this HD remake features enough new content to warrant a second purchase – especially when taking its higher price tag into consideration. From a technical standpoint, Mighty Switch Force! on Wii U holds up at least as well as it did on 3DS. Continue reading
Of all the upcoming indie titles heading to the Nintendo eShop at some point during the Wii U’s launch window, Mighty Switch Force! HD is one game in particular that its developer has kept rather quiet about since its official reveal.
Now entitled Mighty Switch Force! Hyper Drive Edition, WayForward’s kept details regarding the upcoming platformer largely under wraps; and whilst this trailer’s description confirms that the game will run at 1080p HD, we can only hope that some actual footage will be shown off in the near future. Continue reading
Originally published by Capcom back in the early days of the Game Boy Advance – on the Game Boy Color, no less – WayForward Technologies’ critically acclaimed, yet very much under-appreciated Shantae later spawned a sequel on Nintendo’s DSiWare platform; which was then ported to iOS late last year. Continue reading
Hotel Transylvania is an animated film from Sony Pictures Animation which is set to make its début in the UK on 28th September. To coincide with the film’s premiere, GameMill Entertainment is bringing a WayForward-developed action-adventure game of the same name to both 3DS and DS.
Welcome to Hotel Transylvania, Dracula’s lavish fire-stake resort, where monsters and their families can live it up, free to be the monsters they are without humans to bother them. On one special weekend, Dracula has invited some of his best friends – Frankenstein and his wife, the Mummy, the Invisible Man, the Werewolf family, and more – to celebrate his beloved daughter Mavis’s 118th birthday. For Drac, catering to all of these legendary monsters is no problem – but everything could change for the overprotective dad when one ordinary guy stumbles on the hotel and takes a shine to Mavis.
Featuring a wide variety of locations, puzzles, and boss battles galore, the game creates an imaginative and fun way to interact with the movie characters.
Let’s hope the time constraints on development don’t hinder what could be a charmingly fun game from the folks behind Mighty Switch Force.
The first of what’s sure to be many HD remakes.
America’s official Nintendo magazine, Nintendo Power has revealed that WayForward is porting its first Nintendo 3DS game, Mighty Switch Force, to the launch window of Nintendo’s upcoming Wii U console. Aside from being upscaled to a high definition resolution (and losing its recently-enhanced 3D effect) here’s a list of what’s to be included in Mighty Switch Force! HD:
- Sprites being redrawn
- Game includes the ‘bonus incident’ DLC from eShop update
- May include new content as well
- GamePad screen displays the Hooligan Tracker
- Play the game just on the Wii U GamePad, which will feature a shrunken-down Hooligan Tracker
Also aiming for the Wii U’s launch window is another game from WayForward Technologies – this time in the form of a game in the Shantae series. Whilst the original was a Game Boy Color title, its sequel - Risky’s Revenge – arrived on DSiWare early last year; after something of a cliffhanger ending, the president of WayForward has decided that his company will develop a sequel for Wii U, it’s been revealed in an interview with Nintendojo.
Nintendojo: Speaking of Shantae, is there anything coming down the pipeline that you can talk about?
Voldi Way (WF president): Um, I mean, I wish I could say something specific, but we are working on it. Like I would expect to see it on, you know, Wii U, uh, it’s just, I don’t want to commit a time because it always gets… even though we have been working on it, you know, like I said it gets pushed to the back burner, so um, originally we were hoping to have something for launch, but that’s clearly not going to happen. But yeah, Shantae is definitely in the works, and the last one, Risky’s Revenge, kind of left off on, like, a down note, so we have to address that, right? So yeah, definitely more Shantae, for sure.
Is anyone else looking forward to seeing WayForward’s sprite-based games getting a HD make-over? We certainly are!
Source: Nintendo Power, Nintendojo
