Yuji Naka, the father of Sonic the Hedgehog, has released a few games on Wii since starting up Prope: Let's Tap and accompanying WiiWare condiment Let's Catch, as well as the cutesy Ivy the Kiwi?. As with all developers however he's not had a 100% release record, and one of the projects that never made it to release came to light in a recent Iwata Asks discussion for Wii Play Motion.
Naka revealed the studio proposed a game called Haunted Tower to Nintendo two years ago, but the project was cancelled. When Prope was approached about developing a title for Wii Play Motion it resurrected the project, but Naka's old Sonic Team colleague Naoto Ohshima had come up with a similar idea, and Nintendo approved that instead.
Naka's idea for a ghost-hunting shooting game in which you must shoot targets off-screen, turning the whole living room into a play space, sounds like it could turn out rather well on Wii U. Will Prope try for a third bite of the cherry on Nintendo's next home console?
[source iwataasks.nintendo.com]
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Why is Wii Play Motion next to this?
Isn't that pretty much that Wii Play Motion minigame about hunting ghosts? You also have to move the controller around your room in order to find them...
What Fare_Godmace said. And a game like this could profit from the Wii U's controller. The player using it finds a ghost in a AR like portion of the game, drags it to the TV screen and the other players have to capture it.
Bring me billy hatcher and the giant egg. That was a wonderful platformer.
what 4 said
This was one of the only decent games on WPM. It would be need to see the concept fleshed out with quicker-responding controls.
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