Dakko Dakko made a name for itself on the PlayStation Mini storefront with a pair of well-received games a few years ago. Now, they're back with Scram Kitty and His Buddy on Rails. It's got an odd title and one that represents a bizarre premise fairly well. As Buddy, you hop around rail-filled levels in a grinding, platforming, and shooting game with a collect-a-thon thrown in for good measure. The bulk of your time will be spent moving around while shooting enemies and gathering pennies. Getting rid of enemies gives you access to more pennies, and gathering 100 pennies gets you an extra cat depending on the level. Some have up to four cats that will need to be saved in order for your to progress to the next round of stages. Beyond the penny-earned cat, lazy cats are found by all stage exits, while black cats stay hidden until you beat a boss in the stage that will take a ton of damage, and scaredy cats will hop around the stage until you hit all their hiding places. This approach allows you to "beat" a stage quickly with just one cat, but if you want to progress, you can't half-ass anything. You need to have a rock-solid run that allows you to gather up all of the cats in one go or replay the stage until you do so.
It’s Thursday – eShop update time! And you know what that means: sales!
13AM Games, developer of hit Wii U party title Runbow, is holding a special sale this week commemorating eShop indie friendship.
By Nintendoeverything's Brian:
Scram Kitty developer Dakko Dakko is creating a new Wii U title. Rhodri Broadbent, speaking with Eurogamer, shared the news. Specifics were not revealed.
Broadbent also discussed his “love” for Wii U and how the system “always brings a lot of new potential to gameplay, because you think about things in a different way.”
Nintendo's still got game. The Wii U has had its dry spells since its debut back in 2012, but 2014 was a great year for Nintendo's little console that could. This list consists of ten of the best Wii U console-exclusives that every Wii U owner would be proud to have in their collection.
Great list, i still need to play Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker and Hyrule Warriors.
It's nice to see DKC: Tropical Freeze get some recognition. It may be a safe sequel, but it improves on its predecessor as one of the best 2D platformers. Also, Retro Studios found the missing recipe for Donkey Kong Country, and it is David Wise's music!
Wii U is a secondary console at best. Don't know how a console missing 99.9% of the games on the market can be a primary console for any real gamer.
To be fair, the reason you probably don't know how or why a Wii U could be a primary console for real gamers is because you're probably not a real gamer.
