Viewtiful Joe: Double Trouble
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Viewtiful Joe: Double Trouble (known as Viewtiful Joe Scratch! in Japan) is the title for the Viewtiful Joe series installment developed for the Nintendo DS handheld video game system. The game incorporates much of gameplay and the stylistic graphics seen in its predecessors. The touchscreen aspect of the console is a key focus of the character's control mechanics. It enables gamers to split the action in half, as well as swap the two screen display all with a flick of the finger.
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VFX powers and gameplay
In Double Trouble, there are now 6 extra bars of VFX instead of 5. In addition, players collect V-Tapes instead of V-Films.- Slow - Slows down the action to do more damage and begin lock-on. This is Joe's trademark power and has been in the series since the beginning, way back in the original Viewtiful Joe.
- Split - Allows the player to split the screen horizontally and can be used to drop objects on enemies as well as to jump through walls.
- Scratch - Allows the player to shake the screen around to make random pieces of debris fall on dazed enemies.
- Slide - Switches the bottom screen with the top. Slide is similar to Zoom from the first 2 games, but it also gives access to another power, Touch.
- Touch - Can be used to remove small, normally indestructible enemies, such as bats, from gameplay or to flip or turn switches in the background.
Cast
- Joe - Our red hero, Viewtiful Joe is back. After saving the world, Joe is enjoying his time watching a new Captain Blue movie being filmed inside the theme park, "Movie Studio". After begging for a role in the new movie, he witnesses the Madow stealing the film. Joe has set out to retrieve the unfinished film.
- Jasmine - Joe's ever quarrelsome younger sister is also in on the action as she helps Joe investigate the whereabouts of the stolen film. Jasmine doesn't have a V-Watch (although she is able to transform in the end), so she doesn't participate in the fighting action. She aspires to one day be a great actress and is currently doing the role of the damsel of distress in Blue's new movie. In the game, she has her own level where she meets Vanilla, a tiny woman in a flying disc, who helps her (it operates the same way as a V.F.O.) and in the end, she uses it to turn into a super hero (like Captain Blue Jr. she doesn't use a V-watch).
- Blue - The director himself, Blue was filming a new Captain Blue movie in Movie Studio until the evil Madow had stolen it. He has given his daughter, Silvia, the V-Camera (or V-Cam for short) which allows Joe to transform in the real world so long as he is being filmed by it.
- Silvia - Joe's girlfriend and Blue's daughter. Silvia has been given the V-Cam by her father to help Joe. Unlike in Viewtiful Joe 2, she will not have a role being a heroine, but she uses a camera to assist Joe.
- Alastor - Joe's arch-rival, who has once again decided to prove his superiority to Joe in battle. This time, he's brought his own giant robot, the Rex Majin, to counter Joe's Six Majin. He has no real affiliation with Madow.
Madow
- Queen Heinderella - Leader of the Madow. She is revealed to be Joe's and Jasmine's mother, Junko, who came down from heaven for just one day to see them. She was an actress who was in movies with Capt. Blue and became rich and famous, but soon her career hit an all time low, and she got in a car accident and died in the hospital. She can make her allies grow in size by dancing a routine.
- Gadget Cop - Half man, half machine, all law enforcement. He's a parody of RoboCop.
- Killer Hands - An effeminate superhuman with Swiss army knives as hands. He loves to hug people and is a parody of Edward Scissorhands. When he grows in size, he becomes similar to a machine gun.
- Vanilla/Alter Woman - A tiny woman and a member of "Science Task Force" who can grow in size for 3-minute intervals. Vanilla is the only person in the Madow who didn't have her hero-ness stolen prior to Joe and Jasmine meeting her. She's a parody of the Japanese superhero Ultraman, though she's a woman. In Jasmine's level, she helps her, acting like Jasmine's V.F.O., but already upgraded.
- Meta Rangers - Ranger Log and Ranger Digi are a pair of heroes who fight together. They are a parody of Kamen Riders 1 & 2 and are named like Super Sentai Heroes/ (or Power Rangers to non-Japanese audiences). They also make references to cornball superhero TV shows such as Captain Planet (They introduce themselves by saying "Let our powers combine"). Log always makes Digi finish his sentences. They have a battle machine that is made when their separate robots combine.
Voice cast
Voices only appear in regular gameplay, not in cutscenes. Cutscenes that show major story events are delivered through onscreen text. However, one or two voice samples may be played during certain cutscenes.US
- Dee Bradley Baker: Joe
- Hynden Walch: Jasmine, Junko/Queen Heinderella
- Christina Puccelli: Silvia
- Mikey Kelley: Alastor
- Gregg Berger: Captain Blue
- Brandon Gay: Gadget Cop
- Jean Pierre Kellams: Killer Hands
- Masasa Moyo: Vanilla/Alter Woman
- Ben Judd: Meta Ranger Digi
- Eric Bailey: Meta Ranger Log
Awards
- IGN: Editors' Choice Award
References
External links
- [IGN DS's E3 impressions. Pictures and Video included]
- [Capcom's Official Japanese Viewtiful Joe Scratch! Website]
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