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[...Want more hardcore games for Wii? How about a niche adventure game that like two people are going to buy?Yes, it's that time again: Time for Skip, the iconoclastic makers of bizarre games like Chibi-Robo and Giftpia to unleash their first Wii game onto the world. It's called Captain Rainbow, and it's got all the hallmarks of a good Skip game: A quirky, endearing story, bizarre characters, lackadaisical gameplay goals, and (most critically) weird shit.The weird shit this time around stems mostly ]
Want more hardcore games for Wii? How about a niche adventure game that like two people are going to buy?
Yes, it's that time again: Time for Skip, the iconoclastic makers of bizarre games like Chibi-Robo and Giftpia to unleash their first Wii game onto the world. It's called Captain Rainbow, and it's got all the hallmarks of a good Skip game: A quirky, endearing story, bizarre characters, lackadaisical gameplay goals, and (most critically) weird shit.
The weird shit this time around stems mostly from the fact that this is a game about a down-on-his-luck superhero who has been sent off to a mysterious island full of down-on-their-luck characters from old Nintendo games. Little Mac from Punch-Out, Birdo from Super Mario Bros. 2, the generic golfer from Golf, and many more of Nintendo's most forgettable characters are all on this island with you, and all of you are looking to have your wishes granted.
My impressions of the game's first two hours are below.
Things begin with the Captain Rainbow TV theme song, which you can watch over at the official home page. Following this, we watch a brief cinema scene explaining what's up with main character Nick. His secret identity is the superhero Captain Rainbow, who fights crime with a yo-yo.
As you might expect, Captain Rainbow isn't the coolest superhero around anymore, and the kids are now crushing on even cooler heroes. So Nick heads to the mysterious Mimin Island, which is rumored to have the power to grant wishes. On the way, he loses his belt that lets him transform into Captain Rainbow.
When you wash up on shore, you can explore freely and experiment with the game's controls. It uses a combination of the nunchuk and pointer: You use the stick to move Nick around, then point at items and people to interact with them. When you point at something when Nick is far away, he'll look at it and you'll get a brief text description of what it is. When Nick is close up, the pointer icon will change to an exclamation point an
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