“Treasure”, a tribute to The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker painted by Nicole Gustafsson and sold in a silent auction for Child’s Play fundraiser Desert Bus for Hope. This 5x7 gouache and ink piece sold for $1,500!
Gustafsson explained her work, “My piece is based on one of my favorite games, The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker. I love the visual style and storyline of the game. I could search for rupees and treasure all day!”
Buy: The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks ($18!), Phantom Hourglass, and more
See also: More Legend of Zelda posts
[Via Desert Bus For Hope, Super Punch, Nimasprout]
tags / the legend of zelda / wind waker / fanart / treasure / nicole gustafsson / childs plau / desert bus for hope / ec
Looks like the bottom dropped out on Sin & Punishment 2, which is both a damn shame and a rad opportunity. Third-party Amazon seller NYC Electronics (fulfilled by Amazon) is offering Treasure’s bombastic, thrilling, bird-faced-witch-fighting Wii rail shooter for $25.89, just enough to qualify for free shipping!
This is certainly one of the best rail shooters I’ve ever played, with levels that remain interesting and exciting even after many repetitions, and an unusually satisfying difficulty curve that makes you feel like you’re learning how to play better as you progress. It’s also a really great price. So yeah.
Other notable Amazon deals today:
See also: More Sin & Punishment 2 posts
tags / sin and punishment 2 / amazon / treasure / jc
Do you live near a Kmart store? If so, you have until the 10th to go buy Sin & Punishment: Star Successor and get a “$20 Nintendo Gaming Coupon” for your trouble. What is a Nintendo Gaming Coupon? Hell if I know, but it sounds better than what other retailers are offering with the game, which is nothing.
The most notable part of this deal for me (besides the saving-money part) is that Kmart’s game deal blogger actually… reviewed the game in the post announcing the discount. It’s safe to say this is the best review I’ve read that was written for a retailer site by an employee of that retailer.
tags / Sin and Punishment 2 / kmart / treasure / jc / wii / deals
Forget about that E3 nonsense, here’s the best gaming news of the week: Amazon has Treasure’s spectacular Bangai-O Spirits for $8.76. It’s one of Treasure’s best games, it’s one of the best games on the DS, and it’s one of the weirdest shmups ever. It’s the only shmup I can think of where using a bat to hit a soccer ball at a robot ninja is an appropriate tactic.
Each level is an enclosed, free-scrolling arena with its own unique strategy and challenge, and it’s as much puzzle game as shmup. I kind of got way too into it in the … year or so before it came out, and the year or so after. If you don’t already have it and you pass on this offer, I don’t know what to say. That’s a really weird decision.
Buy: Bangai-O Spirits (seriously)
tags / bangai-o spirits / amazon / jc / treasure / i paid $30 for it and i'm happy with that decision
Reversible boxart for Sin & Punishment: Star Successor, or S&P: Successor of the Skies, for Europe. This reversed jacket looks a lot like the excellent Japanese packaging but isn’t as badass. Anyway, I hope the game’s box receives the same treatment in North America.
The standard PAL cover is near identical to the U.S. jacket, except with different rating stamps; it’s a shame Nintendo of Europe didn’t use the art seen here on the instruction manual, as that looks superb.
I’m aware that I’ve published way more posts about this Wii title’s boxart than its actual gameplay; that’s the sort of shameful trap you fall into when the amount of time you spend playing video games is only 1/100th the amount you’ve reserved for writing about them.
Preorder: Sin & Punishment: Star Successo (June 27th)
See also: Sin & Punishment 2 overview trailer
[Via GoNintendo, Revogamers]
tags / sin and punishment 2 / treasure / boxart / ec
“Do A Barrel Roll” by Mikael “Orioto” Aguirre (click for wallpaper version). Hurray for more rad StarFox fanart.
Speaking of Orioto’s work, someone recently decorated a Hori EX2 arcade stick with his Gunstar Heroes piece:
Absolutely wicked.
See also: More digital paintings by Orioto
tags / starfox / orioto / fanart / wallpaper / gunstar heroes / treasure / arcade sticks / ecNew Sin & Punishment 2 overview trailer.
Japan has a headstart with this game as it releases there in two weeks, but when Treasure and Nintendo finally bring it to the States in early 2010, I’m going to play the fuck out of this. I won’t even be able to trade it in or let a friend borrow it — other people would take it home, load the disc, and complain, “What happened to the fuck? Someone already played it out of this. This is some bullshit.”
There’s also a Sin & Punishment 2 story trailer with more footage from the game’s cutscenes:
Preorder import: Sin and Punishment 2
Preorder (for the U.S.): Sin and Punishment 2
See also: Sin and Punishment 2 trailer, character art
[Via NintenDaanNC]
tags / treasure / sin and punishment 2 / imports / ec
Sin & Punishment 2 Japanese boxart. My apologies for the tiny packaging shot, but I think even at this size, the cover is killer. Now how terrible will the U.S. box turn out?
Notice the Japanese release date, October 26th, which I don’t think was announced before. Last I heard, this on-rails shooter was scheduled to ship in the U.S. and Europe sometime in the first quarter of 2010. Once again, Japan comes out on top.
Also squint your eyes at the blue circle, which indicates the game will have some Nintendo WiFi Connection support, though that doesn’t guarantee online multiplayer. Feel free to go wild and assume that’s exactly what it means. Just don’t complain to me when Nintendo reveals the game will only have online leaderboards. I’ll hear none of it.
The cover features a subtitle that reads something like, Successor Of The Universe, which would make sense considering the original N64 Sin & Punishment subtitle was Successor of the Earth. It’s a shame the subtitle isn’t actually “Princes of the Universe”:
“I am immortal! I have inside me blood of kings! YEAH!!!”
See also: Sin and Punishment 2 trailer, character art
[Via Neo2046]
tags / sin and punishment 2 / queen / princes of the universe / treasure / ec
“Seven Force Kaede” by James Harvey, named after the Alien Soldier boss. Not sure what this piece or any of the other similarly-named works appearing on the artist’s LiveJournal have to do with Treasure properties, but I’m also not that worried. I get to post neat art, and then I get to embed a clip from Alien Soldier — two things that make me happy.
Alien Soldier is really brilliant. It deserves more attention and tenuously related artwork than it gets!
tags / alien soldier / treasure / art / jc / james harvey
North American cartridge, box, and instruction manual for Alien Soldier. Not only did Sega-16 forum member Bratwurst mockup a boxart design and cartridge cover for Treasure’s Gunstar Heroes followup, he actually made an Alien Soldier cart that works in US Genesis systems, though I’m not sure how. Bratwurst has also done similar US-version mockups for Pulseman and Monster World IV.
This brings up an important issue in my life: why haven’t I purchased Alien Soldier? I love Alien Soldier.
[Via Eric]
tags / genesis / treasure / bratwurst / alien soldierThis would be Isa, the male hero:
And here we have Kachi, the female hero:
These look great! I bet they’d make fantastic wallpapers — in fact, I made one for my desktop background:
Hopefully, Sin & Punishment 2 won’t suck. I’d hate to be that dude with a huge image from a crap video game on his monitor all the time.
See also: Sin and Punishment 2 trailer
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