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Wonder Boy Remake Finally On The Way (grabitmagazine.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the blast-from-the-past dept.

SlappingOysters writes: Sega has a number of fan favorite IP locked away in its vault, and one is about to be let out after a 27-year hiatus. Lizardcube has announced a remake of Wonder Boy 3: The Dragon's Trap for PC and consoles, which originally appeared on the Sega Master System in 1989. The game has a striking, modern visual style, but retains the classic story and gameplay. Lizardcube was founded by ex-developers of Media Molecule and Dreamworks, and the original game's creator, Ryuichi Nishizawa, is also on board. You can watch the reveal trailer here.

48 comments

  1. Will it be as racist as the first one? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Can't wait for that.

    1. Re: Will it be as racist as the first one? by cyber-vandal · · Score: 1

      Japanese people can't be racist. Only white people can.

    2. Re: Will it be as racist as the first one? by U2xhc2hkb3QgU3Vja3M · · Score: 1

      Gaijin!

    3. Re:Will it be as racist as the first one? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Why does this remake have worse graphics than the original games? What the fuck?

    4. Re:Will it be as racist as the first one? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Seriously? You millennials are a bunch of pussies who can't take jokes..

    5. Re:Will it be as racist as the first one? by heldal · · Score: 1

      +1 for trolling. It took me over a minute of serious thinking about what could ever be "racist" about the original before I got the joke. Hats off to you, Sir :)

    6. Re: Will it be as racist as the first one? by cyber-vandal · · Score: 1

      That's just bigotry. Only white people have enough power to be racist.

  2. Re:ENOUGH! by dohzer · · Score: 1

    I can't say I've seen any recently. Do they still make them?

  3. My hovercraft is full of eels by edittard · · Score: 2

    Sega has a number of fan favorite IP

    What language is that supposed to be?

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    1. Re:My hovercraft is full of eels by athe!st · · Score: 1

      That sentence parses fine

    2. Re:My hovercraft is full of eels by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Meh, I might have hyphenated the compound adjectives.

    3. Re: My hovercraft is full of eels by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      In which slice of reality?

    4. Re:My hovercraft is full of eels by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      It's the language of BeauHD, of course, whom in actuality is a Perl script written as a drop-in replacement for your typical Slashdot editor. Future versions will post more articles about systemd and increase the frequency of glaring mistakes.

    5. Re:My hovercraft is full of eels by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Intellectual Properties

    6. Re: My hovercraft is full of eels by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      "Who," dumbass.

    7. Re:My hovercraft is full of eels by edittard · · Score: 1

      Doesn't work like that. Acronyms/initialisms are singular unless you explicitly pluralise them.

      There's an IC in my bit-box. There are three ICs in my bit-box.

      Then again, you're probably the type that "installs softwares".

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  4. Re:ENOUGH! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Try Dead Pool. It's a nice change.

  5. Re:ENOUGH! by athe!st · · Score: 1

    You didn't even read TFSummary "for PC and consoles"

  6. Re: ENOUGH! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    No... they did..

  7. Does That Mean by Greyfox · · Score: 1

    Is the Venture Brothers going to have to change his name?

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  8. So disappointed. by ColdWetDog · · Score: 1

    I thought it said Wonderbread.

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  9. All out of original ideas by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Yup, the entertainment industry is completely out of original ideas, so they'll keep shoving the same recycled crap down your throats over and over again. The sheeple seem to just lap it up too.

  10. Re:Wolfenstein by PopeRatzo · · Score: 0

    Trump 2016

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  11. Re: Wolfenstein by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I fucking hate niggers and kikes. The biggest problem with the Holocaust is that not all Jews were extrrminated. Hillary 2016.

  12. Wonder Boy? by U2xhc2hkb3QgU3Vja3M · · Score: 1

    Maybe my memory is a bit fuzzy, but wasn't the main character in Wonder Boy... you know, a boy? What's with the mouse, dragon and bird? How is that still Wonder Boy?

    1. Re:Wonder Boy? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Maybe my memory is a bit fuzzy, but wasn't the main character in Wonder Boy... you know, a boy? What's with the mouse, dragon and bird? How is that still Wonder Boy?

      Yes fuzzy memory, you could turn into dragon, mouse and other things in the original Wonder Boy 3.

    2. Re:Wonder Boy? by Zombie+Ryushu · · Score: 3, Informative

      Wonder Boy's proper name is Bocke Lee Temjin. This is actually the second game in the Monster World series. He gets cursed by a Mechanical Dragon robot sent by a race of Aliens to turn into a Lizard man, Mouse Man, Pirahana man, Tiger man, and Hawkman, before returning to Human status. This game has been remade and expanded several times in the past: Dragon's Curse was a port to the TurboGrafx, and a Windows Remake called Dragons Curse Remake that expanded the game, but was more based on the Turbo version.

      The sequel to this game is what Genesis owners know as Wonder Boy in Monster World, which has a different protagonist, Shion. The last game in the series, Monster World IV, hasa a Girl protagonist, Asha.

    3. Re:Wonder Boy? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I finally got to play Dragon's Curse on Mednafen a few years ago and was blown away. It was a lot like Super Adventure Island II (for reasons I understand very well) but in all regards except graphically it actually felt better. Fun game :) -- Hazuki

  13. Congratulations Omar! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Great to see this labor of love getting completed! Can't wait to play it!

    If this works out, I'd love to see updated version of other Westone games. :D

  14. My favorite IP.... by sconeu · · Score: 1

    is 127.0.0.1

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    1. Re:My favorite IP.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Now that you have revealed this, I will unleash my DDoS attack!!!

  15. "Striking, Modern Visual Style" My Ass by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    The only "striking" part is that instead of careful animation (which has been a progressively improving standard in the Wonder Boy/Monster Land/Monster World series) and higher detailed sprites (more light/shadows, not cheap ambidextrous sprites, etc), we're seeing all the "striking" work of animators who apparently have never worked on anything more detailed than a flash game.

    But, yea, that's where "modern visual style" kicks in. Looks more like ass. Looks like something *I* could draw. Honestly, there are so many great game makers out there (Wayforward is a good example and so is GalaxyTrail) that really, one should just pass on this shit. Hell, even something like Curse of the Crescent Island DX would be a better homage to the Wonder Boy line even with all its many faults (and more limited backgrounds).

    Maybe I'd be less harsh if they focused on the game play. Oh, right, if you want the game play you should just play the original. So, yea, fuck this remake.

  16. Metroidvania before Super Metroid by rsilvergun · · Score: 1

    I was always a little under impressed by Super Metroid because I'd played WBIII and experienced that kind of exploration gameplay back on my Sega Master System. Heck, I still think it's the most underrated game of the 8bit era. I hope Monster Boy is still coming though. The blog's still active but it was basically a spiritual successor. I could go for 2 Wonderboy games myself but not sure if everybody can so I hope this anouncement doesn't hurt the other games sales. If you're reading this buy both :).

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    1. Re:Metroidvania before Super Metroid by guises · · Score: 1

      Wonderboy 3 was like that? I cam here to say that I would have preferred to see the Wonder Boy in Monster Land / World spinoffs, for basically that reason, but I never played 3 and if this is the same idea then that'll be really nice.

    2. Re:Metroidvania before Super Metroid by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Blaster Master is still my top choice for early Metroidvania games. Too bad the sequels never lived up to the original, although the Wii one was tolerable at least.

    3. Re:Metroidvania before Super Metroid by rsilvergun · · Score: 1

      Yeah, it was a completely different game than the rest of the series (Except maybe for Wonder Boy IV on the Genesis, but that game's layouts were kind of simple, probably due to cartridge space being used up by (for the time) high resolution sprites). The series is also a confused mess of names because the kept changing them between US & Japan and Japan didn't always clearly indicate if a game was part of the series. Most of them are called "Monster World" in Japan. So you get things like "Monster World IV" which is the 6th game in the series.

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    4. Re:Metroidvania before Super Metroid by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      The original Metroid predates Wonder Boy III (SMS). So does Zeliard, Zillion, Faxanadu, Goonies II, Castlevania II, Rygar (NES), Blaster Master and others of similar style.

    5. Re:Metroidvania before Super Metroid by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Only the Sega Master System version was like that. The arcade version was much like the original Wonder Boy.

    6. Re:Metroidvania before Super Metroid by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Blaster Master II sucked, but Blaster Master: Blasting Again was pretty good.

    7. Re:Metroidvania before Super Metroid by guises · · Score: 1

      Huh. Well that's not so surprising, that's not a style which really works in the arcade.

    8. Re:Metroidvania before Super Metroid by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Oh, I don't know. Cadash pulled it off.

  17. Re: Wolfenstein by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Fucking goy...

  18. Looks like your average iPad game by heldal · · Score: 1

    I didn't want to be negative, when I saw the news I got super thrilled since WB3 is one of my absolute favorite games. However, I have to say it looked pretty generic, much like your average freemium game on iOS.

    Maybe I just got put off by all the cutesiness, I dunno. Am I just being old and bitter?

  19. Re:ENOUGH! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Actually, I'm tired of the endless parade of ${RETREAD}+socjus movies.

  20. I just can't get my hopes up by Opportunist · · Score: 1

    I've seen what they did to Sonic. I don't want to see this being done to Wonderboy. If that's what you have in mind, just do what you should have done with Sonic: Take him out to the shed and pet his head while you cock the gun and close your eyes.

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  21. Huh by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Why the sudden poplarity of the wonderboy franchise? First the MonsterBoy semi-official game, and now this remake. I must say monster boy does look a lot better and more promising than this.