Teppo Holmqvist Posted March 6, 2009 Posted March 6, 2009 Leading video games publisher and developer NAMCO BANDAI Games America Inc., today announced The Munchables an entertaining romp into a colorful and delicious action adventure for Wii. Exploring rich and vibrant environments, players will devour delectable enemies as they guide their quirky heroes in this zany alien munching mash-up filled with fun and addictive gameplay. The Munchables will chomp its way to stores this May. “NAMCO BANDAI Games is thrilled to provide such a fun and exciting addition to the vast library of quality Wii titles,” said Todd Thorson, director of marketing and public relations for NAMCO BANDAI Games America Inc. “With colorful characters and eye-popping worlds, The Munchables will delight players of all ages.” The home planet of the hungry Munchables is at stake when it is invaded by the evil Don Onion and his vicious band of space pirates. As their lively planet has been usurped, the embattled Munchables have only one hope; to devour their food enemies to grow large enough to defeat Don Onion and inevitably return peace to their captive land. In The Munchables, players are called upon to eat and defeat over 150 insidious enemies who have taken over the planet including Eggplanter, Space Shroom and Rice Baller. With each fallen foe, the daring omnivorous Munchables grow in size and power in their brave struggle. In this tantalizingly addictive game, players can also enjoy Mirror Mode, where stages are in reverse order and they must beat the clock in order to save the world. Eating your way to take on Don Onion and his delicious minions, The Munchables will leave you hungry for more! Funny trailer, at least.
Ganepark32 Posted March 6, 2009 Posted March 6, 2009 Knew I should've made the topic myself instead of posting it in the general discussion thread a few days ago. ANyways, it sounds and looks very reminiscent of The Maw on the XBLA which is no bad thing. Shall be interesting to hear/see more.
Teppo Holmqvist Posted March 6, 2009 Author Posted March 6, 2009 This game pretty much summarizes modern consumerism.
Hero-of-Time Posted March 6, 2009 Posted March 6, 2009 Knew I should've made the topic myself instead of posting it in the general discussion thread a few days ago. ANyways, it sounds and looks very reminiscent of The Maw on the XBLA which is no bad thing. Shall be interesting to hear/see more. Thats exactly what I thought when I read about this.
Emasher Posted March 6, 2009 Posted March 6, 2009 Sounds awesome. Graphically it looks pretty decent too.
Nolan Posted March 6, 2009 Posted March 6, 2009 Second pic, pink thing- Secret of Mana Silktail(Pink rabite)?
K-project Posted March 7, 2009 Posted March 7, 2009 That looks fantastic! Shades of Mario Galaxy, with a pinch of Billy Hatcher and the Giant Egg and Kirby. A buy for sure.
darkjak Posted March 9, 2009 Posted March 9, 2009 Errr...yay, Mario Galaxy with worse graphics, no spehrical world and gravity related puzzles and a theme for food. Just what everyone wanted. Looks original, and incredible chibi, but why on earth would anyone buy this when Mario Galaxy is out there? PERHAPS for those whom have finished the game and want to play more.
K-project Posted March 9, 2009 Posted March 9, 2009 ...but why on earth would anyone buy this when Mario Galaxy is out there? PERHAPS for those whom have finished the game and want to play more. Exactly. I love platformers, and I'm well up for this and Klonoa. More please!
mcj metroid Posted March 9, 2009 Posted March 9, 2009 Errr...yay, Mario Galaxy with worse graphics, no spehrical world and gravity related puzzles and a theme for food. Just what everyone wanted. Looks original, and incredible chibi, but why on earth would anyone buy this when Mario Galaxy is out there? PERHAPS for those whom have finished the game and want to play more. because spehircal worlds and gravity related puzzles should be in EVERY game by fucking LAW!!
darksnowman Posted March 10, 2009 Posted March 10, 2009 because spehircal worlds and gravity related puzzles should be in EVERY game by fucking LAW!! Anyone who has played Mario Galaxy knows thats true.
Shino Posted March 10, 2009 Posted March 10, 2009 Errr...yay, Mario Galaxy with worse graphics, no spehrical world and gravity related puzzles and a theme for food. Just what everyone wanted. Looks original, and incredible chibi, but why on earth would anyone buy this when Mario Galaxy is out there? PERHAPS for those whom have finished the game and want to play more. Why would anyone by ANY other game when Mario Galaxy is out there?
darkjak Posted March 10, 2009 Posted March 10, 2009 because spehircal worlds and gravity related puzzles should be in EVERY game by fucking LAW!! I was more referring to this being a Mario Galaxy clone than complaining about the lack of spherical worlds and gravity puzzles.
Daroh Posted March 10, 2009 Posted March 10, 2009 (edited) Sorry? Am I the only one who doesnt such a strong resemblence to Mario Galaxy? It's a platform game where you play as a cute ball eating fruit and vegetables, lacking most of the features Mario Galaxy had apart from platforming and item collection which even tomb raider had. It's been done before. You could argue that large blocks levitating in mid air has also been done before. Dessert level with giant cakes and chocolate? James pond 2. Meh, enough of my ranting. Edited March 10, 2009 by Daroh
Ganepark32 Posted March 31, 2009 Posted March 31, 2009 New trailer: http://kotaku.com/5191295/get-stuffed-on-the-munchables-for-wii Actually looks really good. Katamari Damacy, The Maw and Kirby all rolled into one. ANd it's due for release in this Spring so not long to wait really.
Owen Posted March 31, 2009 Posted March 31, 2009 The trailer...lol.....Broco-Lee?!!! HAHAHAHA...sorry but i actually laughed out loud at that one! Looks harmless really..not for me though.
Hero-of-Time Posted June 18, 2009 Posted June 18, 2009 It looks like this is a budget release! I have checked play.com and amazon and they have it for £14.99 preorder, just snapped my copy up and hopefully I will have it for the weekend!
RedShell Posted June 18, 2009 Posted June 18, 2009 It looks like this is a budget release! I have checked play.com and amazon and they have it for £14.99 preorder, just snapped my copy up and hopefully I will have it for the weekend!I'm quite liking the look of this one and for £15 I'd have normally gone for it, but with Grand Slam Tennis barely a week old, Little King's Story still on the go (yeah, I didn't manage to finish it before GST ) and Samba de Amigo having just arrived the other day, I'm going to have to pass on this for now. Please let us know your impressions though H-o-T, once you get some playtime with it.
darksnowman Posted June 18, 2009 Posted June 18, 2009 Yeah, be sure to post up some detailed impressions, Adam. Like RedShell, I'm interested in the Munchables and was close to placing an order for it earlier when you posted about it being £15. However, with Grand Slam Tennis still being fresh for me and with Let's Tap already set to arrive tomorrow... the timing isn't quite right to add something else in the mix. And Another Code is out next weekend... but I'm yet to order it. I wanna get it of Game, but they have it listed as £40. Where'd you boys order AC:R from? I'm gonna wait til Tuesday/ Wednesday and see if Game's asking price drops atleast a tenner or else just place an order on Amazon!
Hero-of-Time Posted June 18, 2009 Posted June 18, 2009 I haven't got around to preordering it yet but most likely I will go with GAME. I do like me some preorder points
darksnowman Posted June 18, 2009 Posted June 18, 2009 I haven't got around to preordering it yet but most likely I will go with GAME. I do like me some preorder points I'm the exact same... but £40? I thought we were done with forking out that sort of cash for games!
Hero-of-Time Posted June 20, 2009 Posted June 20, 2009 I haven't got around to playing this yet but when I was out on my travels today I had a search about for this and once again a Wii game couldn't be found anywhere. I checked HMV, 2 GAME stores, Gamestation and a couple of independant shops and not one of them stocked this game
darksnowman Posted June 20, 2009 Posted June 20, 2009 I had the quickest of looks in Game earlier but there was no sign of the Munchables that I could see either!
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