A Boy And His Blob remade for the Wii

[Drakul]

A Boy And His Blob, one of our favourite NES games that isn't on Virtual Console, will be returning to action on Wii.

The puzzling adventure game is heading to the Wii courtesy of WayForward, the makers of Contra 4 on DS.

It has been 20 years since A Boy And His Blob was released on NES and, although it has been given a visual makeover, this new version sticks to its roots. Playing as the boy, you'll feed your blob companion jelly beans that transform him into useful objects such as a cannon, a trampoline, an anvil and a rocket.

You'll need to use these objects to see off enemies as you go on a mission to free Blobonia from an evil emperor.

Check out the first screens below. It looks great!

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Taken from: http://www.officialnintendomagazine.co.uk/article.php?id=7376


This is interesting. I never had the chance to play the NES original so I may actually get this. Considering the graphics and the fact it is being remade by the people behind Contra 4 on the DS, why is it on the Wii? Wouldn't a DS remake make a lot more sense?
Anyway, I may get it but since getting the 360, I've not bought any Wii games.

[OssMan]

LOL OH SHIT. I never really liked it that much though. Wish they'd do it for other NES games

[G]

I have played my Wii like 2 times since November. I hate how I feel closed off to the world because of it's lack of decent online.

[Kane Knight]

Awesome. I need it.

[Dorkchop]

It's not a remake:

We want to make sure people know this is not a remake! It’s not Resident Evil GC, it’s not Metroid Zero Mission. It’s a whole new game that is more “inspired by” the original than anything else. - Robb Alvey, Producer
http://wii.ign.com/articles/959/959250p1.html