Shootanto is one of those wacky WiiWare titles I didn’t expect to see in North America. In the game you start out as a stone throwing monkey fighting dinosaurs and eventually evolve into a medieval archer battling lizardmen.

Ah, Shootanto, the campy WiiWare game that had players shoot dinosaurs as an evolving monkey is getting a sequel. However, Grand Prix threw out all of the cheesy elements that made Shootanto memorable. Instead of blasting lizardmen in the middle ages or T-rexes in Prehistory you’re thrown into World War II fighting generic looking soldiers. [...]

Yesterday, I mentioned Shootanto: Kakohen, a campy looking light gun game with dinosaurs hitting WiiWare in Japan. Well, I bought it. For the most part Shootanto: Kakohen is what I expected. You control an monkey and chuck rocks at everything on screen. And I mean everything. Giant bugs, lizardmen, mushrooms, trees, humongous pumpkins, and at [...]

Here’s one game we won’t be seeing on WiiWare this week, Shootanto: Kakohen (loosely: Shootanto: Chapters of History). Japan is getting Shootanto tomorrow and it looks interesting, in a campy D3 Simple series kind of way. At its core Shootanto is basically a WiiWare light gun game where you throw rocks at dinosaurs, lizardmen, and [...]