Punch-Out!! (Wii) Playthrough - NintendoComplete

A playthrough of Nintendo's 2009 boxing game for the Nintendo Wii, Punch-Out!!

Played through the entire campaign, including the career and title defense matches. I also faced the secret character in Mac's Last Stand before taking the final loss to bring about the game's ending. I played with a Wii-mote held sideways. I really have little patience for the motion controls.

I really wanted to upload something special as a thank you to everyone since my channel has just hit 20k subscribers. So, here, and thank you! I can't believe how quickly it's grown over the past year or two!

I love this game. It's as good as anyone could have hoped for in a sequel/remake/reimagining for the original 1987 NES game. It plays the same: with the view set behind Mac's back, you wait for openings and throw hooks, jabs, and uppercuts at your enemy. Everything relies on timing and counters, and the most effective moves are specifically tied to particular frames in animation cycles. If someone taunts, pop them one in the chin when they least expect it. If someone unleashes a hellaciously powerful move that has to be wound up, hit them a split-second before their move connects with you, or dodge it and hit them as they're recovering from the whiff.

There's a ton of strategy and memorization, making it feel more like a puzzle/strategy game than a boxing game. It also makes the game significantly harder than just about any other boxing games out there - button mashing will get you slaughtered, even on Glass Joe. It's a difficult game, no doubt, though it's not as hard as the NES games. Maybe it's the fluidity of the animation that makes the tells easier to spot and time, or maybe is just that the first time I played this, I had long-time since committed the NES and SNES games to memory. Either way, nobody will ever accuse it of being easy, and I like it that way.

The real star, though, is the presentation. If you can deal with the game being presented in 480i (hence the fuzziness inherent in the picture quality here, despite the source recording being well over 100gb!), it stands toe-to-toe, so to speak, with the best on machines far more capable than the Wii. The style is fantastic. It's all tongue-in-cheek, everything is over-emphasized, and colors explode non-stop. And, while it's obviously a massive upgrade over Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!!, it never feels untrue to the source material. The way these characters have been designed make it feel like they've always been this way - a remarkable achievement, or so I thought. I nearly died laughing the first time I ever saw Super Macho Man in this game - he was even more smarmy and gross than I had ever imagined. The soundtrack is also excellent - much of it will be familiar to long-time series fans, but the remixing updates it to match the quality of the graphics without ever compromising those infinitely memorable tunes that we first heard back in the 80s.

I'm certainly no master at this game, but I think I do alright. I've been playing a great deal over the past few months brushing my skills back up to acceptable so that I could record this the way I wanted to show it. It's one of my favorite games to have been released in the past ten years or so, and I really wanted to do it right. Hope you enjoy it!
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