St. Nicalis leaves coal in our X-Mas stockings

I predicted yesterday that this could be the week we finally receive Castlevania: The Adventure Rebirth and the Cave Story remake, basing my prophecy on the absence of both titles in Nintendo’s 2010 schedule. As those of you who checked your WiiWare stockings this morning for a Christmas week present found out, however, neither title showed up! Sorry if I ruined Christmas for you.

Instead of those titles, we got a bunch of junk and Intelligent Systems’s Eco Shooter: Plant 530, which might be junk, too; who knows? Of course, none of this was actually the fault of Cave Story developer Nicalis — it just made for a snappier headline. Blame Nintendo of America for holding back its anticipated releases, leaving you to spend your holiday break playing TV Show King 2 (although at least one person has told me this is an interesting game).

I think I’m going to stop making guesses on release dates because I’m always wrong about them (And no, Reflection, I haven’t forgotten about you). But before I do that — I guarantee you that Castlevania and Cave Story will come out on WiiWare next week. In fact, if they don’t, I will make up for it by not mentioning my failed prediction at all and by acting as if this post never happened.

See also: Lots of Cave Story posts

[Image via Usujio Aji, St. Nicalis joke stolen from Mindwater]

tags / nicalis / cave story / konami / pixel / wiiware / castlevania / castlevania the adventure rebirth / ec