Let’s Hitchhike from NIS (actually, Let’s Zenryoku Hitchhike!!!!!!!!!, but we’ll stick to Let’s Hitchhike) is one of the weirdest games on WiiWare — a board game with a hitchhiking mechanic and an angry restaurant owner as the primary antagonist. It might not be Muscle March weird, but it’s quirky enough to get our attention.
According to a new ESRB listing, NIS is planning to localize Let’s Hitchhike as Full Blast Hitchhike. The content description offers two examples of the English version’s “tongue in cheek humor”: “What are the two sexiest farm animals? Brownchickenbrowncow!” and “Japanese girls are great! W-well…not as great as YOU, my pet.” If you enjoyed those, be sure to give Full Blast Hitchhike a ride whenever it actually, you know, is announced and released for real.
Also found via ESRB: the Wii version of Geon, now published by UFO Interactive and called Geon Cube — not to be confused with Technos’s Geom Cube.
Other than the ghastly image of Washington Capitals left winger Alex Ovechkin gracing the cover of September’s NHL 2K10, we’ve seen almost nothing of the game thus far. Unfortunately for us — and worse for you, weekend readers — the game’s first trailer does little in the way of showing off what the game has to offer. The one thing we do know after watching that trailer? Alex Ovechkin is quite a tricky fella.
After EA shuttered the Australian arm of Mercenaries dev house Pandemic Studios, a few projects were lost to the ether. A game based on the enormously popular film Dark Knight for 360 / PS3 as well as an “open-world Nintendo Wii game” were both rumored to be on the way from the Brisbane, Australia-based studio.
Australian Gamer has apparently found footage of the Wii title — said to still be owned by ex-Pandemic Australia employees — to be called either “The Next Big Thing” or “No Limits Racing” (depending on your interpretation of the footage). The trailer (found after the break) teases a handful of pseudo-celebrity appearances, the ability to turn existing Miis into in-game characters, and show off your high scores on advertisements in friends’ game environments.
EA confirmed to us yesterday that the Australian arm of Pandemic is closed, and said of the trailer, “On any given day, there are a lot of great game ideas under consideration at EA … not all of them go all the way to market.”
Let’s Hitchhike from NIS (actually, Let’s Zenryoku Hitchhike!!!!!!!!!, but we’ll stick to Let’s Hitchhike) is one of the weirdest games on WiiWare — a board game with a hitchhiking mechanic and an angry restaurant owner as the primary antagonist. It might not be Muscle March weird, but it’s quirky enough to get our attention.
ESRB reveals localization plan for Let’s Hitchhike originally appeared on Joystiq Nintendo on Sat, 01 Aug 2009 17:35:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
