The game stars businessman Mr. Susumu (susumu is Japanese for forward or continue), who is late for…something, and will not stop running until he gets to his destination, regardless of what’s in his way. The fun is in the weird and wacky obstacles that Susumu-san faces – from mothers to thugs to dinosaurs to aliens to farting giraffes – and the weird actions that he does to avoid or defeat them. Best of all, you only need one button to play the game!

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Wasn’t that mind-blowingly fun to watch? Imagine how fun it is to play! You can download Tomena Sanner from the Wii Shop Channel for 500 points. If you want to play it on your iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad, download it from the iTunes store (link opens iTunes) for the low, low price of $2 (USD).

[via RPS and nintendolife]

If you think the plot is crazy, wait ’til you see the gameplay:

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I love the level variations, but I’m pretty sure I would get frustrated with this game real quick. I’m just not good at platformers, and this one looks like it’s the Ninja Gaiden of platformers. But if this scratches your gaming itch, then keep an eye out for Super Meat Boy. Developer Team Meat promises “over 300 levels of saws, disease, fire, lasers, missiles, and various other traps.” I don’t even want to know what those “various other traps” are.

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I’ll leave it to the game’s creator to sum up Muscle March for you:

“The all mighty protein powder has been stolen so it’s up to Tony and his muscle-bound crew to catch the thieves. Choose from a variety of perfectly molded superstars and bring these terrible villains to justice. As each thief attempts their escape, they will smash through walls while making a variety of poses. You must match these poses to fit through the holes and catch up to the thieves. The protein powder will be yours again!”

Basically, the game plays out sort of like the equally bizarre and hysterical Japanese game show Hole in The Wall on steroids – literally. And if pumping up your huge digital pectorals and running through walls isn’t enough for you, the game includes something called “Endless Rush” mode which lets you build your muscles until they bulge and explode. Whee!

Last, but certainly not least – the game features polar bears in swimsuits. Why? Why not. I’ll let Namco explain: “The all new Polar-Bear-in-a-Swimsuit Engine will take bodybuilding to a level beyond your imagination.”

If that doesn’t help, maybe you should watch the trailer below and it’ll all become crystal clear.

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Actually, I think it makes more sense in Japanese:

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Muscle March is available now over on the WiiWare store for 500 Wii points. Protein powder and HGH not included.

So here’s what we do know: the NES-style will be maintained. There will be new bosses, like Sheep Man (who does in fact look a little sheepy). There will be Mega Man (and Proto Man). And, for all the crybabies out there (read: regular people with thumbs still sore from Mega Man 9), there will be an Easy Mode.

What we don’t know is where and when the game will appear, though another timed exclusive for WiiWare seems like a safe guess, with an eventual release to other formats.

[via Joystiq]

Night Sky is all about simplicity. Why bother with a humanoid character? Instead, players control a ball in this platform-puzzle game (think of all the love for the Weighted Companion Cubes of Portal before you question the logic of this) and roll through a beautiful and challenging landscape. Think darkness–Night Sky is done all in silhouettes and shadows.

But anyone can make something pretty. It’s what’s underneath that matters, and luckily, word is that Night Sky has plenty going for it beneath the hood. All signs point to an engaging puzzler with just enough challenge to keep players coming back–and all available at WiiWare prices sometime this winter.

Frontier Developments says that LostWinds: Winter of the Melodias will pick up Toku’s adventure while adding new aspects to the experience, like a new spirit who gives the power to change the seasons. And oh! The screenshots are absolutely beautiful. If all Wii games were LostWinds, life would be pretty okay.

When will the sequel be out? That is as yet unknown, but next week could not be soon enough.

[via Offworld]

You may be thinking of games like Steel Battalion right now, and while that game was certainly one answer for all your robot combat needs, the game was pricey and the peripheral more so. Is there a cheaper solution? With Overturn, maybe so. Studio Zan’s WiiWare (that means cheap!) game features a “regular” control scheme using the Wii remote and nunchuk… and also a mode that supports the Wii Balance Board so you can get your feet into the game. So the combination is still expensive, but not as much as we’ve seen for similar items in the past.

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Overturn hasn’t been officially announced for North America, but as the title turned up on the ESRB website recently, it seems a lock for the region. It’s already out in Japan.

[via Siliconera]

World of Goo, widely praised as one of the best Wii experiences so far, is an excellent launch title for Amazon’s service, though unlike XBLA titles, the conversion of Nintendo Points to dollars is much simpler than that with Microsoft points: one hundred Nintendo Points equals one dollar. That doesn’t mean it isn’t convenient to see a price in dollars, or to do your shopping through Amazon. And while the Wii has a gift-purchase feature for direct Virtual Console and WiiWare downloads, this way, non-Wii owners can buy games as gifts. Everybody wins.

World of Goo is $14.99 at Amazon, and is worth every little cent. Can’t wait to see what’s available next!

[via NeoGAF]

Eduardo the Samurai Toaster, which looks like the bastard child of Adult Swim on Cartoon Network and the recent Castle Crashers, is the product of four guys making games in those few hours of spare time they can carve out in a week. Man, I can barely keep up with the laundry, much less hand-draw all the art for a game. That’s right–Semnat Studios’ co-founder Daniel Coleman, who is also currently pursuing an art degree, did all the art for the game by hand. He must be a busy guy.

Semnat Studios is still working on Eduardo, but they hope to release the run-and-gun (what, you expected something with samurai swords?) game sometime this year.

[via IGN]

Pachinko machines, of course, are the wildly popular Japanese slots-style games, except they’re everywhere and even more addictive. This particular pachinko machine is home a robot family… and a lot of dungeons. Ah, the pitfalls of gambling.

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Planet Pachinko will debut on WiiWare next Monday for the price of 500 Nintendo points, which is the equivalent of five dollars.

[WiiWare World via NWF]