Topic: Aria of Sorrow coming to WiiU Virtual Console

[Dremn]

http://www.gonintendo.com/s/225104-castlevania-aria-of-sorrow-rated-for-wii-u-vc

[Ahasverus]

Rated M?

[Dremn]

Rated M?

I found that strange as well. I guess someone caught onto some of the gory sprites/pixels in the game.

[Viskod]

GBA games on the consoles store and not the handhelds. That just seems so backwards. Especially since the majority of the VC games on the 3DS are old handhelds.

They're going to put DS games onto the Wii U's VC as well. They'll use a side by side display on the gamepad, so we'll probably get Dawn of Sorrow on the Wii U at a later date.

Just seems like such a sad attempt to get more people interested in the Wii U to put portable games exclusively on it and not on both the console and the 3DS.

[Dremn]

Just seems like such a sad attempt to get more people interested in the Wii U to put portable games exclusively on it and not on both the console and the 3DS.

You can already play DS games on the 3DS, but yea it's really weird.

It's ironic Konami finally rereleases one of the Metroidvanias after IGA left too.

[MKKhanzo]

GBA games on the consoles store and not the handhelds. That just seems so backwards. Especially since the majority of the VC games on the 3DS are old handhelds.

They're going to put DS games onto the Wii U's VC as well. They'll use a side by side display on the gamepad, so we'll probably get Dawn of Sorrow on the Wii U at a later date.

Just seems like such a sad attempt to get more people interested in the Wii U to put portable games exclusively on it and not on both the console and the 3DS.

This. Damn how stupid, I WANT all my Portable CVs on one same console! 

[Charlotte-nyo:3]

Kind of sad that they don't deem CotM or HoD "worthy" of being VCed, either that or they're shelving them for later only if this does well. I hate it when popularity determines what gets put on these services. They're still not trying to preserve access to older games for its own sake with considerations made only for enough revenue to sustain the process and any profit as simply a nice bonus. Instead I suspect they're just out looking for the most profit they can make off legacy games (however little that may be objectively) so they simply go for the most popular.

Also, ESRB has gone pretty much insane. AoS rated M and Dark Souls II rated T. I would almost say they slapped AoS with M now due to a crackdown on the pixel-naked Succubus enemies but it only notes "violence." Maybe they decoded something eminently disturbing about the game over screen that I still can't hardly make out to this day? Otherwise I thought it was and perhaps still is a typo.

GBA games on the consoles store and not the handhelds. That just seems so backwards. Especially since the majority of the VC games on the 3DS are old handhelds.

They're going to put DS games onto the Wii U's VC as well. They'll use a side by side display on the gamepad, so we'll probably get Dawn of Sorrow on the Wii U at a later date.

Just seems like such a sad attempt to get more people interested in the Wii U to put portable games exclusively on it and not on both the console and the 3DS.

Well it's a little ironic: I remember back around the time AoS came out, groups of people expressed that they were rather disturbed that the 2D CVs were being made for handhelds and not home consoles. Now their re-releases are for home consoles and not handheld. Too bad probably a great deal of those people have left gaming by now. Modern gaming has not been kind to people who believe 2D games should still get full retail console releases and look like SotN or better. It seems like only a few, like Vanillaware, can get away with it anymore.

Sorry for this unusual rather agitated three pronged activist-sounding post.

[Viskod]

I'm basically just pissed at Nintendo for the 3DS eShop. The system could certainly handle SNES, N64, and DS games but most of the VC is just old black and white gameboy games, game gear games and some NES games.

And now their Console is getting the GBA and DS games, but I doubt we'll be seeing anything new on the 3DS.

[Reinhart77]

I consider the Wii U to be a handheld/console hybrid.  I play it in handheld mode just as often as console mode.  Love the ability to play it whichever way I feel like at the moment.  I'd much rather play on the gamepad than an actual handheld, since I usually just play handheld titles at home anyways, and its a much bigger screen and has a more comfortable grip.  I'd be a little more excited at a DS Castlevania game, since I've played the GBA ones on my Game Cube plenty of times (the only reason I have one).  But of course, I'll be happy to give AoS another spin on a new console for convenience of not having to hook up the Game Cube or dig out the GBA.

[VladCT]

>M rating
Maybe they caught on to how gory Graham's final form is?

[KaZudra]

Nintendo seriously needs to get their shit straight, Handheld VC needs to be on Handheld first, It's blunders like this is what's reflecting their terrible sales.

and the M rating? Pixel boobs is bad but realistic violence is a T game?

[GuyStarwind]

One of these days when I get a WiiU I'll pick this up. Although at the same time I have a gba emulator on my Wii

[Shiroi Koumori]

M? really?
or.... are they appealing to the new converts of Castlevania c/o the LoS series?

[C Belmont]

I don't think there is anything weird about the rating.
If you look closely you will notice it's from the Australian classification board and I'm pretty sure the Australian M rating is roughly the equivalent to pg-13 or Teen.

[Abnormal Freak]

I don't think there isn't anything weird about the rating.
If you look closely you will notice it's from the Australian classification board and I'm pretty sure the Australian M rating is roughly the equivalent to pg-13 or Teen.

A detail I'm sure others were missing, lol. The ESRB only covers North America.