Description
Joe is your normal everyday guy, watching movies and hanging out with his girlfriend, Silvia. But when Silvia is sucked into a movie reel by an evil force, Joe's life is turned upside down. It's up to you to take everyman Joe and turn him into a superhero to end all superhero's and save his girl.
With a heavy dose of comic books, Viewtiful Joe is a action packed 2D side-scroller inside a 3D world, that will have you using the amazing abilities of the hero in question as you slice and dice the many enemies on screen with VFX special moves, such as Slow and Mach Speed.
You'll have the chance to earn 'Viewtifuls', which will boost your abilities with new killer moves and special items. You'll need them as you progress further into the seven episodes and big bosses at the end of each.
Alternate Titles
- "红侠乔伊" -- Chinese spelling (simplified)
- "Viewtiful Joe Revival" -- Japanese budget re-release title
- "Viewtiful Joe: A New Hope" -- Japanese PS2 title
- "Red Hot Man" -- Working title
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Trivia
Black Cat
A black cat appears throughout the game:
- Illustrated in posters on street scenes
- Driving the runaway jet-powered buses
- In a space suit at the beginning of the space station
Catchphrase
"Henshin" in Japanese means "transform", so Joe's catchphrase when he changes, "Henshin a go-go, baby!", translates (obviously) to, "Transform a go-go, baby!"
Influences
In an
interview on 1UP,
Hideki Kamiya mentions the movies that influenced the design process:
Life is Beautiful inspired the
Viewtiful Joe bonus video, and the bus in the movie
Speed was the inspiration for the bus in
Viewtiful Joe.
Jaws was the inspiration for the Shark Boss.
References
- When holding down the X button, Joe will throw up a bomb, jiggle it on his knee, and whistle the first 6 notes of the Mario theme. If doing it in mid-air, he'll whistle another part of the Mario theme. In Slow Motion, he'll whistle yet another part.
- In level 2, Some Like It Red Hot, there are billboards with a scantly clad women titled Playguy, which is a reference to the Playboy magazine.
- Sometimes the third boss, Gran Bruce, spits out a Nintendo GameCube.
- Gran Bruce's name is quite possibly a reference to Jaws. More specifically, the mechanical shark used in the movie, which was nicknamed Bruce by the crew.
- The Japanese PlayStation 2 version is called Viewtiful Joe: A New Hope, after the later added subtitle of Star Wars.
- Most of the names of the stages are puns regarding famous movie names: Some Like It Hot, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, The Great Escape, Midnight Cowboy and The Magnificent Seven.
- Take a look at the back of the US GameCube box. It has a robot that looks very much like the R.O.B accessory for the NES console.
References
The final level has many references to
Star Wars:
- The space dock interior with the the ranks of troops on the black mirror floor looks like the Death Star reception for the Emperor in Return of the Jedi.
- The Die Fighters have hexagonal wings.
- Blue tells Sylvia: "I am your father, Sylvia".
- In the end titles, the Joe and Sylvia poster is subtitled: "In a viewtiful galaxy, far far away".
Viewtiful Joe Revival
Capcom re-released
Viewtiful Joe in Japan with some new content and a new, easier difficulty mode titled Suwito (Sweet) on December 18, 2003. The upgraded version is called
Viewtiful Joe Revival and is priced at 3,980 Yen ($36).
Awards
- GameSpy
- 2003 – #4 GameCube Game of the Year
- 2003 - Most Stylish Game of the Year (GameCube)
- 2004 – Better Late Than Never Award (PS2)
- Golden Joystick Award
- 2003 - Unsung Hero Game of the Year
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