VC Friday: Hanabi Festival goes sci-fi

by Alisha Karabinus on Sep 28th 2007 1:00PM

European Wii owners get a crack at two games never-before released locally this weekend, thanks to the Hanabi Festival! If only Nintendo decided to celebrate with us all the time, eh? Perhaps the best part of this week's new VC releases is the debut of the long-awaited, much-lauded Sin & Punishment. We expect quite a few people are going to be downloading Treasure's shooter and giving it a shot this weekend. It's pricy, but seems so very worth it.

Gradius III -- SNES -- 900 Wii points
Legend of Hero Tonma -- Turbografx -- 600 Wii points
Sin & Punishment -- N64 -- 1200 Wii points

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Tags: Europe, Friday, Gradius-III, Hanabi-Festival, Legend-of-Hero-Tonma, Sin-Punishment

Reader Comments (3)

Not only did Nintendo take the lazy approach and not even translate said games, but they also charge EXTRA for it, and put them online for a limited time offer.
LAME.

@#1 - I'm not sure where you are hearing that from, but the menus have all been translated and the dialogue was already in English.

Also, the game is not on for a limited time only. Super Mario Bros: The Lost Levels is, but not Sin & Punishment.

I DL'd Sin and Punishment yesterday and think it's a pretty good game. It's like an early beta of Devil May Cry on rails. But it needs more continues and I can't shake the feeling that it would work much better with the wiimote and nunchuck. It quite awkward o play with the classic controller.