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The Blog Hiatus is Over: PunchOut! Done Right Stuck

Posted on May 19, 2009 at 11:31 AM.

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It's back to regular blogging, this time I'm serious!

With that said, I know we haven't gotten the PunchOut review in at OS yet, but PunchOut comes highly recommended from myself if you enjoyed the original games. Sure, it doesn't simulate boxing in any way. But it's the type of nostalgic throwback that most developers could take notes from.

In my humble opinion, developers should look at how PunchOut was done and do that for any remakes of classic sports games they might be thinking about making. My only gripe about PunchOut! is that there isn't a lot of new stuff in the game, it's mostly the same opponents you've seen in previous versions of the series. So perhaps developers could learn from that and add a bit of extra variety.

However, PunchOut! delivers in a big way. I think I'd like to see other classics brought to the Wii in the same manner. What do you think? Do you want to see other classic games 'ported' to the Wii or other consoles? Sound off!

Comments

# 1 Steve_OS @ May 19

Picking up my copy today, can't wait.

# 2 ChaseB @ May 19

My copy should arrive in the morning.

# 3 jyoung @ May 19

I'm really disappointed with the lack of content in this one.

The PunchOut!! universe has something like 30 characters to choose from and all they could do was put in 13 of them in this game?

That and the fact that it's basically a reskin of the original NES game with no significant advancements or additions makes it little more than a 7/10 - 8/10 to me.