Monday, March 16, 2009

A Look At "Intuition! Rockman"

Rockman games have a long history with Japanese mobile phones, a good majority of them being ports of older titles, with the occasional exclusive such as Rockman Tennis and the famous Rockman DASH: Great 5 Island Adventure. Among these exclusive mobile phone games shines "Intuition! Rockman", quite possibly the most obscure Rockman title to date.

I!RM isn't your typical Rockman game, it's more of a collection of mini games with a very interesting twists: all twelve mini games are controlled through a motion sensitive phone known as the D904i.

Gameplay is executed through a series of gesture based controlsranging from shaking to tilting. One such game goes by the name of "Spinning Wily." (above) The goal here is to defeat Wily by making him dizzy. All you have to do is tilt your phone in various angles until the evil doc is down and out.



Other than the collection of mini games, there is also a multiplayer mode of sorts, an "album mode" (?), and a online score ranking board.

Unfortunately, because of the game's obscure nature (and lack of motion controlled phones outside of Japan), there's very little hope of it getting a localization. Still, that won't stop you from ogling at these pictures, quite possible the best look at the game you'll ever get.

11 comments:

  1. "little chance"

    *No chance

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  2. Capcom, can we get a Wiiware port of this please? :(

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  3. Capcom, can we get a Wiiware port of this please? :(

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  4. I don't know if Capcom will read here.

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  5. ^
    Actually, they do :) can't say who.

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  6. Funny game, to bad it has little chance to be released outise JP... What are the other mini games? Three look like a dance game, shooting, and platform.

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  7. These games are pretty neat, especially the ROCKMAN TENNIS and ROCKMAN DASH: 5 ISLAND ADVENTURE. I'd really love to see a WiiWare port of DASH, but I guess we'll have to see what'll happen.

    @Anonymous#1: There is a chance that we will see these games one day, perhaps on WiiWare or somewhere like that. The best example is that Square/Enix is porting FINAL FANTASY IV: THE AFTER over to WiiWare after it was Japan-mobile exclusive for quite some time.

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  8. @Brahman: A Final Fantasy game is completely different from an obscure Rockman minigame. And lol I don't think the after is even in the US yet.

    Porting a game from a mobile platform to WiiWare pretty much requires a rewrite. I'd personally rather Capcom invest staff in MML3 rather than this rather stupid looking little collection of crapware. I bet Capcom feels the same way.

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  9. Why not port all those obscure Rockman minigames in one disc?

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  10. @Anonymous: I'm not talking about an obscure mini-game; rather, I'm talking about a game like "Rockman DASH: 5 Island Adventure." A game like that I think there is some hope of seeing here in the states, especially with hope of a new Legends game so high. See this article about that game:

    http://megaman.wikia.com/wiki/Rockman_DASH:_5_Island_Adventure

    I think you'd be pleasantly surprised at what they might be willing to do.

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  11. Well I was referring to this minigame collection, not the Legends game.

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