The game is titled Rainbow Islands: Towering Adventure and looking at the screens it appears the kids have grown a bit taller and instead of a score you're ranked according to time and height scaled. Hopefully it will be as fun as Bubble Bobble Wii/Plus has proven to be!
Check our screenshot gallery below and let us know your thoughts about the new graphical style.
Additionally Japanese Wii owners get access to two other WiiWare releases: Game of Life (including virtual spinner -- woo!) and MADSECTA (Onslaught in the rest of the world). Addtionally they get two Virtual Console releases: Space Invaders the Original Game for the PC Engine (port of the SNES/PSX game of the same name) and Dragon Slayer II for the Megadrive.
4-6 WiiWare/VC releases a week has been the norm in Japan for quite some time; will we ever see that in the West?
Source: Nintendo of Japan
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First! Looks like a very cool game, Rainbow Islands is really fun. I actually prefer it over Bubble Bobble
Same here. Always enjoyed this more than Bubble Bobble. This is my mothers favorite game ever. Unless its somehow really bad, then I'll download it for sure.
4 - 6 would be nice, but at the LEAST, i'd like to know what comes out before the morning it comes out. doesn't Japan get their info at the beginning of the month?
Hopefully it comes stateside.
@Cheezy
Congrats your first. Here's your trophy and you can go spend the rest of your life being a "FIRST!" spammer/troll.
Damn, when will we get 6 GOOD titles in one update?
Shrugs
Really dont care. Buuble Bobble>>>>>>>>this. For me.
What IS Rainbow Island?
"MADSECTA"
^ Why do I find that so funny?
Heh, Onslaught gets released in Japan last despite being made there...
@Popyman:
It's like Bubble Bobble, except you go UP instead of down.
And instead of firing bubbles, you fire rainbows.
Personally, I think the graphics are kinda odd.
Can't wait to see Sean's impressions of Rainbow Islands. I love the game so this is one I'd love to see come to the US.
@Raging Shadow-Unless the only thing they say is "first", you don't need to get so bent out shape. As for the game, I've never heard of it and I don't think I need to.
@ wanderlustwarrior: That only appears to be true of Virtual Console titles; WiiWare listings appear in Shop News a day or two before release.
@Ratengo: Now now, let's not gloat!
I've just downloaded the game and the space-conscious won't be happy to learn it's a hefty 295 blocks, so definitely not a graphical facelift and extra levels a la Bubble Bobble Wii.
As to what the game is, it's the sequel to Bubble Bobble! As others have indicated it's an unusual platformer in that you progress vertically from platform to platform by casting rainbows you can walk up. You get power-ups to allow you to cast these faster and in greater numbers; jumping on a rainbow causes it to fall which takes out your enemies below it. It's a fun mechanic and unique in gaming history (no direct sequel ever came out that I'm aware of beyond a graphical tarting-up on the PSX Bubble Bobble disc).
I'm probably the only one but I think the graphical update sucks. Plus the backgrounds are too busy. I preferred the less overwhelming approach of the original.
Oh well, it's not like I won't buy it (unless the game play sucks too) I love Bubble Bobble and Rainbow Islands
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