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Viewtiful Joe: Action
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Viewtiful Joe: Double Trouble is a fun action game that keeps well within the themes of its console brethren. While technical issues mire the experience slightly, the game is still a blast to play and makes excellent use of the DS.
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While Viewtiful Joe can kick and punch with the best of them, martial arts are not his only weapons. He ... has a bag of cinematic tricks, including Slow, Mach Speed, and Zoom In. Slow is your basic slow motion sequence. While slowed, Joe can dodge bullets, leap over attacks, or unleash super powerful punches that send his opponents flying. Mach Speed lets Joe unleash a series of punches and kicks so quickly that he catches on fire, and can also be useful for getting away from nasty hazards. Zoom In lets you get closer to the action, letting Joe perform more complex maneuvers and giving you better detail for the area around him. While all these special abilities are useful in a fight, they are also necessary for many of the puzzles you come across.
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The graphics in Viewtiful Joe have made a near perfect translation to the PS2. The action is at 60 fps with a hint of slow down during some VFX moves. The colors are just as vibrant and dazzling. The control is even better on the Dual Shock 2, basically because it�s a better controller to hold and use the D-pad with.
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From a visual point of view Viewtiful Joe seems ideally suited to the Nintendo DS, being able to look past such things as pixellated textures and the occasional glitch with its overall vivid style and luscious animation. Everything you've come to expect from the console versions has made the cross-over, from Joe athletically dodging between bullets and striking poses to the many exaggerated bosses he comes across. The occasional drop in the frame-rate is obviously an effect of displaying the same action on both screens, so it's hardly surprising and largely only occurs during the most frantic of scenes.
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Games as stylistically compelling as Viewtiful Joe don’t come around often. Thankfully, it has the gameplay to back it up, so Gamecube owners with a taste for action should definitely pick it up. It might require superhuman gaming skills, but who said life as a hero was easy?
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If you missed Viewtiful Joe the first time around (it was released a year ago for the GameCube), be sure to check out its re-release for the PlayStation 2. Some of you may be groaning already about Capcom re-hashing a game that's now a year old, but I'm willing to label this sort of effort "timeless"—and if you're still doubtful the game is being offered for the bargain price of $30. Even if you're familar with the original version you may be interested in some of the bonuses Capcom has packed in (notably, Dante from Devil May Cry). Viewtiful Joe is quite an accomplishment in that it deviates from your standard beat-em-up action title without loosing touch with the 2D, side-scrolling roots it descends from—that sounds like somewhat of a paradox, but you'll just have to play it to see what I mean. Joe is the sort of nostaglia that lasts longer than a ten minute fix. Do yourself a favor and give it a try.
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