The Wonderful 101 Review will provide will let you know about the gameplay and if the game is worth buying it.
The game features Centinels history, a group consisting of one hundred superheroes anonymous, hidden behind a mask. Its mission is to defend the Earth from invading Geathjerk, an army of aliens with evil intentions.
The main protagonist is Will Wedge wood, aka Wonder Red, a school teacher who acts as a superhero without anyone knowing, after his father, a renowned scientist, died during a previous invasion. Along with the other 99 members of the Wonderful-100, must ensure the security of Margarita a plasma that aliens seek to destroy and which has several arrays scattered far and wide across the planet. As you can imagine, the 101 member of the squad, to fulfill what the game title proclaims, is the user to be good enough to take part in this desperate defense mission.
Overall, this is an action game with some touches of strategy. The essence is to control a crowd of superheroes while moving around the stage, running, jumping and, above all, delivering slaps right and left. At the beginning of each mission, the squad is made up of only a few characters, but we can recruit civilians to join the procession, which moves as a single unit. The more laborers there, more things can be done and most damaging attacks. When you get hit, you might many of the characters being thrown and remain groggy for the stage, but nothing happens: the health bar is unique, so while it is not reduced to zero, we can run to the comrades to “pick “training and recompose.
Charting superpowers comandita
As the adventure progresses, the team added new characters. In all, there are a hundred main heroes can get to recruit, but most are filler. The truly important (and mandatory) are about ten, that provide special powers (called hectofusiones), essential to overcome certain sections of the scenarios or defeat some enemies.
All the powers of The Wonderful 101 are executed using the touch screen or, failing that, with the right stick, drawing various figures, such as lines, circles, triangles, eses, pumps, spirals, hearts … The strength of the powers depends on how many members there are in our squad (can be up to one hundred, usually) and the extent that we give the drawing on the screen. Thus, the characters are transformed and converted into various objects. Each skill is associated with a color, to avoid confusion when activate.
There are some powers that serve basically to interact with the environment. Eg hectocadena serves to generate scale buildings or bridges with a small drop to overcome while the glider allows large distances. Similarly, you can transport things just draw a circle.
The thing does not end there, as there is a store where you can buy various upgrades for attack and defense. That makes the number of hectofusiones rubbing his thirties, which is a genuine outrage. However, the game gradually introduces them very slowly. Looking to the fighting, the major powers allow up to three attack types each: thorn shaped, rising or tornado, resulting in scores of options to chain combos. The system is so easy to internalize as difficult to master.
There’s more. Many objects in the environment can be used to overcome small puzzles. For example, lifting a huge football helmet is the best way to protect against a hail of gunfire, grab some handles prevents us drag a blizzard, a bat may be useful to return an anti-aircraft gun bullets … The variety of situations in The Wonderful 101 is to remove his hat and put it back again.
On the one hand, is the drawing of the hectofusiones, already commented. On the other hand, is quite common, when entering certain areas, the television screen “left out” and to see what happens on the inside, you lower your head to the Gamepad. What nonsense, right? Not really. For example, you might, as you enter a building, we should handle the touch screen a series of switches whose effect on the environment can only be checked by lifting the head to the TV. Similarly, you may have to handle the helm of a ship from the touch screen and only see movement on the screen. These are just two examples of several that are along the game.
In connection with that, the title supports Off-TV feature, though, in those moments of dual screens, it is somewhat cumbersome. It is true that it is also possible to see the two screens at the same time in the gamepad, but with the drawback that the size of one of them, in the form of small window, is minute, in addition to cover part of the other image.
Unity is strength
Note that, given the nature Japanese The Wonderful 101 , do not miss the event phases wicks and ships. Thus, the protagonists have the Virgin Victory, a spacecraft that can fly at various levels in 2D and 2’5D. There are also dueling giant robots, which also contribute to giving even more variety to the adventure.
Returning to the general aspects of the game, it is divided into chapters, each of which consists of three operations. In the past, always awaits a head of enormous dimensions: robots, dragons, mechanical octopus … At the end of each mission, is awarded a medal score (pure platinum, gold, silver, bronze, plastic), with time employee, the number of combos, damage taken, objects found or the number of continuations employed. There are also collectibles and 101 plates that act as achievements, if certain requests.
Without exaggeration, the adventure lasts 20 hours, which is double than any other action game today. When looks set to conclude something else happens, when and if it appears that the end, something else happens again … In that sense, we must thank Hideki Kamiya , who has said that, a priori, does not intend to release any DLC , disdaining the culture of sleight of hand that has so proliferated during this generation.
Indeed, although you can continue as many times as you want, so that no one is frustrated, the game has, initially, with three levels of difficulty: very easy, easy and normal. The first two are quite affordable, but not the third, which is quite challenging, as the combo system is far from being a machacabotones. One of the few flaws the game is that, occasionally, the touch screen does not recognize either the drawings for the superpowers, which can leave us if we are sold on the verge of death. Nothing serious, in any case, while you may not be a sloppy broad brush painters.
Another positive aspect of the game is that it has a mission mode that supports cooperative for five users . These missions are divided into three sections, so that can be played either alone or in company, using the Wiimote.
The grace to tell a story
In its infancy, the story of The Wonderful 101 may seem childish and inconsequential, but, as it progresses, has several plot twists that are giving body rightly. It should be noted, especially, the charisma of the actors : Red and poise, Blue and idolatry valantio his sword, the Frenchman Green and his passion for food, Pink and pijería mix and temper, the Russian Yellow and composure, and wisdom Japanese White, Black and the Game & Watch has always occupied the hands … There is even a cantankerous scientist whose hairstyle varies between a question mark and a exclamation, depending on the status of encouragement. The enemies also highlight, especially the Prince Jergingha Vorkken and such, on which we do not give more details.
Hideki Kamiya is a guy with sense of humor, and that is reflected in his new creation, which makes fun of many things: of eternal cinematic games of the QTE in which you have to press buttons like crazy … There are also some hint poussin and parodies of all sorts, like seeing a nun turned into superhero or support objects are obtained by mixing pepper, carrot and eggplant in various proportions. I often sonreiréis occurrences.
Graphics
The graphics of the game known for his tremendous colorful. Despite the huge number of items that accumulate on the screen, everything is very fluid (the “slowdowns” there, hitting some enemies, are intentional, to allow time to chain combos changing weapons with screen drawing tactile).
