Viewtiful Joe

[kittendaddy]

I'm curious if anyone's had a chance to play this now that it's out for PS2 as well as Gamecube. It's on my list, but I'm wondering if anyone's tried it firsthand.

It seems we're seeing more of this 3D-graphics but 2D games lately, and that's an encouraging trend. Ratchet and Clank 3 has a mini-game that's an oldskool 2D side-scroller, as well. (The series is a favorite of mine, but I'm sure that's a whole different thread)

Thoughts? Maybe there's some hope that game developers can give us eye-candy graphics but not necessarily a 3D camera to grapple with.

[Shane R. Monroe]

I've got it sitting here in my ETERNAL list of things to get around to looking at - but its hard to nail down time these days.

Everyone screamed about it on GC - so I'm definiately interested.

[Nectar]

VJ was one of the most refreshing games I've played in a long time. Besides the shooter and platform elements, I didn't find the game to be very "retro" though. It's retro in the way that Sky Captain and the World of Tommorow is retro; merely imitating the sidescroller as an artistic endeavor rather than for gameplay purposes.

At it's heart it's a very modern game, and in a good way! It shows what modern games are really capable of when developers start using their heads. When broken down, I think you can easily simulate the gameplay experiences provided by most modern games on an NES. Games like VJ and the GTA series however, are things that can only be truly experienced on a modern console.

[Rhetrynyl]

I didn't like it at all. My taste in games seems ot be 100% random, and probably dependant on what I ate immediately before I play a game for the first time. I don't trust my own opions any more, but here they are.

I did not like the style. That grungy, dirty, New York, underground, dirty 80's, jazz, art student, jazz style thing doesn't do it for me. I found it hard to know what I was doing or why. Basically, the game rubbed me up the wrong way.

The game itself I found uninteresting and unexciting. I can't describe why. I don't find Final Fight to be like this and that is obviously a a far simpler game. Once I turned the game off, nothing other than the fact I had paid for it made me want to play it again. Eventually that doesn't work so I sold it off.

If you don't like a work of art, you don't look at it or listen to it. I couldn't take what VJ was shoving down my throat.

Just my opinion and lately I am in the minority most of the time.