Category Archives: Nintendo DS

A little over a year ago, I rented and played a game called Windy X Windam, and thus far it remains the worst game I’ve ever let touch my Nintendo DS. While browsing the So Bad It’s Horrible Video Games page on TV Tropes and trying to find a way to rewrite the blurb I posted about the game, I decided, against my own better judgment, to look around for any new reactions to the game. The official forum at publisher Graffiti Entertainment is pretty much dead, and none of the administrators over there have been active for any length of time, so I headed back to GameFAQs to see if anybody had anything else cooked up. No walkthroughs or move lists, but one poor soul did manage to transcribe the game’s script.

When I played the game, I skipped over a majority of the pre-fight conversations  because the game was really boring and I just wanted to get it over with. And after actually taking some time to read all of the dialogue, it doesn’t look like I’ve missed much of anything. Hell, I’m still having a hard time what half of these characters are supposed to be fighting for. The localization is terrible all around…and this game was released and supposedly translated in 2010, so I’ve no idea why the script reads like an early 1990′s SNK game.

Some things that I noticed during my reading:

• I’ve already spotted at least two plot holes. In one, Jack says that Big is supposed to be his last opponent, but then he says the same thing again when he faces Shino on the very next stage. As for Shino, she fights G in her first stage, but then when she fights Big afterward, Big says that G kidnapped her. So then, after she wins…what’s stopping her from going back to wherever G was?
• Also, there’s an unnaturally high number of conversations where one of the combatants asks the other to throw the fight (Izuna vs. the fake? Shino, Kirikou vs. Ashley, Kirikou vs. Reath, Kirikou vs. Izuna, and Kirikou vs. Stin). It kinda strikes me as dishonorable for fights to
• How did Shino know that the Izuna she was fighting was a fake? I get the feeling that Izuna saying “Me!? Where were you, Izuna?” wasn’t originally supposed to be there, and that the translators got lazy (big shock, I know) and accidentally copy-and-pasted that bit of text.

I think it might have benefited from the publishers to drop all of the dialogue from the game, and that way players would only have had to deal with the crappy fighting mechanics and not have to worry about missing the plot.