Nintendo has announced that Punch Out is coming to the Wii on May 18th.
Not a lot of details have been announced aside from the date and this little blurb from a Nintendo rep:
"It will be interesting to see too how gamers react. I think they're going to react great to the motion control capabilities of the Wii with that game because you're used to hitting buttons and doing your blocks and your throws and kind of dodging out of the way, but now you can do all that with your own body, so it's going to feel you're right there as a boxer." - Charlie Scibetta, Senior Dir. of Corporate Communications, Nintendo of America
So it sounds like they're opting for more of a Wii Boxing style rather than the traditional controls from the NES and SNES. I hope that they do a good job, as I was never 100% impressed with the boxing controls on Wii Sports.
Also the following boxers have been mentioned or shown in previews:
Glass Joe
Von Kaiser
King Hippo
Soda Popinski
No word has been mentioned if any new boxers are showing up, but I really hope so. Half the fun of Punch-Out was seeing what insane boxer was next. But if it's all the same let's just leave Don Flamenco retired.
Don't you have to lose 100 times to get the face mask?
I'm close to that, I think I am in the 90's.
Yes you do, and yes I have.
Finally beat Mr. Sandman title defense (Mike Tyson) , no where near as hard as Bald Bull.
After you finish that mode you get Little Mac's last stand, you fight random opponents, if you lose three times you retire, you need to beat three. I got my ass beat, Donkey Kong was one of them (awesome). Once you lose you get an ending cutscene and then that mode is lost forever. So save your game onto a stick before so you can replay the mode. If you win I assume you get a new cutscene and some options mode where you can tweak stuff.
I have played for over 15 hours and I hardly did any of the exhibition challenges, in terms of length there are no issues with this game. For most they will never finish the game, its as hard as the NES game, the only difference being that you get to replay from the last fighter rather than having to beat a series of them in a row.
I'm gonna go ahead and call this the Wii game of the year. Maybe overall game of the year. It's so good. I can see my self going back to this six months from now and playing over and over again. Title defense is super tough.
The difficulty is putting me off this one.
Is there an easy setting?
Pussy.
There's a pussy setting?I thought Nintendo was meant to be kiddy!
Your sig looks...weird.
You can lose 100 times and get the headgear.