NFG is RIGHT - Hudson needs to announce Nectaris (Military Madness) for Nintendo DS

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all text and pictures credit to nfggames.com


I ALMOST SH|T MY PANTS WHEN I SAW THIS, THINKING IT WAS ACTUALLY COMING OUT!

"Hudson Announces Nectaris DS", that's the headline I long to hear. Nectaris, released in North America as Military Madness, is fantastically popular in Japan, and it has a cult following overseas.

Unlike most hex grid strategy games Nectaris focuses on strategy and tactics rather than unit stats and realism. Realism is, in fact, eschewed in favour of a fanciful plot, with tanks and planes fighting for dominance on the surface of Earth's moon.

It's much easier to learn than Nintendo's popular Advance Wars, not being bogged down with frivolous features like commanders with different skills and special attacks. Nectaris is also very hard on the player, with the odds stacked against the player on every map. Unlike Advance Wars' endless battles of attrition, Nectaris demands that players use strategy and terrain to their advantage from the very first stage. Playing your units against the CPU head-on is the quickest way to end the game. Players must instead use field effects, called "Zone of Control", to surround and weaken enemies, and boost the offensive and defensive capabilities of allies. (See NFG Nectaris Guide)

Nectaris is a game that cries out for a DS release. It could make especially good use of the DS' dual screen architecture. I imagine being able to tap a unit on the bottom screen and seeing its details on the top, or scrolling around the zoomed-in map on the bottom and seeing the whole battlefield on top.

And the wireless capabilities! Nectaris has always had a two-player option, but hinking about wireless or (dare I say it) internet multiplayer makes me weak in the knees.

And then the extras. The virtually unlimited storage afforded by the DS carts could easily see all the maps from the PC Engine and Playstation versions as well as the extra units from the incredible Neo Nectaris bundled into one package. The DS is such an ideal platform for this game that it is nigh criminal for Hudson to not release this game. It's easy on the resources and there's a guaranteed audience of old fans, and the success of Advance Wars has created an awareness of the genre, with new fans looking to scratch an itch.

Come on, Hudson, how about it?

If not for them, do it for me

The DS already has Advance Wars: Dual Strike, which I own and love, and DS also has Daisenryaku DS on the way


but NEITHER AWS nor Daisenryaku DS can satisfy my craving for a Nectaris ~ Military Madness game.

with the recent announcements of Hudsons PC-Engine ~ TurboGrafx-16 and CD-ROM2 games being playable on Revolution, which will include the original Nectaris ~ Military Madness (and perhaps the sequel Neo Nectaris) I hope this sparks enough interest to do a NEW game for the series on DS or even Revolution.

[Dyne]

when did they say cd-rom 2 games will be on the rev? i thought it was only hu-card games?

[Grave]

I loved Nectaris. Never played the PS one, though. Always been curious about it. Was it any good?

[StriderKyo]

I dunno, I fondly remember Military Madness, but it really is a pretty simple game. They'd really have to add complexity for it to stand up to the other strategy games in the DS lineup.

when did they say cd-rom 2 games will be on the rev? i thought it was only hu-card games?

Last week. Scroll down a bit in Gaming Discussion.

I loved Nectaris. Never played the PS one, though. Always been curious about it. Was it any good?

I didn't get Neo Nectaris either, but I remember it getting alot of 7/10s at the time. Nobody was blown away by it.

[Revoltor]

Advance Wars made Nectaris obsolete.

[kingoffighters]

Nectaris is fun, in fact, the PS1 is pretty good too. But Dual Strike is hard to beat, I would love to see Daisenryaku translated for here. I doubt it though, but heck, if Xbox can get one, maybe it is a possibility!

[parallaxscroll]

when did they say cd-rom 2 games will be on the rev? i thought it was only hu-card games?

a few days ago.

http://www.ga-forum.com/showthread.php?t=91942
http://www.famitsu.com/game/news/200...50500,0,0.html
http://www.hudson.co.jp/corp/news/bn2006/060324.pdf


not sure about SUPER CD-ROM2 or Arcade Card CD games, but on pcenginefx board someone said that CD-ROM2 is a brand and it should include all the CD games. not certain about that, but at least normal CD-ROM2 games will be playable on Revolution somehow (download or using the actual CDs).


the original Necaris ~ Miliatary Madness was by far the best.

Neo Nectaris was good, but not as good as the original.

Playstation Military Madness: Nectaris was okay. but the loading times were hell and the 3D battle animations were crap.

but still I'm glad to own all of the Nectaris games.

The DS is just *BEGGING* for one.

[Cheebs]

Advance Wars made Nectaris obsolete.

Advance Wars was never as fun as Millitary Madness. I like the simplicity.

[haohmaru]

Advance Wars was never as fun as Millitary Madness. I like the simplicity.

Yeah, I agree. And I really like Advance Wars (all of 'em). PS1 Nectaris got to be insanely difficult through the course of the campaign and Nectaris'/MM's greatest weakness might be the fact that at the end of the campaigns there ends up being only one way to win.

[gamevet]

I would love to see Daisenryaku translated for here. I doubt it though, but heck, if Xbox can get one, maybe it is a possibility!

The Xbox version was just so plain and hard to get into. The Saturn version (Iron Storm-US) was much better.