Runda and Rassie to purr their way to the Photo and News Channels
Okay, so it’s no feline version of Nintendo’s Nintendogs, but it’s nothing less animated than Microsoft’s two-timing Clippy. In a discussion by Nintendo Wii developers on the Wii Photo Channel, they revealed that two cats would scamper around the Photo and News channels, all the while evading your grasp. Wiikitty, this is not!
First and foremost is Rassie, the younger, female kitty of the pair. Her childish demeanor may frustrate most eye-and-hand coordination-challenged gamer if you were hoping to catch the fur-ball on-screen.
She enters the Photo Channel from the top bar, but whether she enters from the left or right is a bit hush-hush. Giving her a name was a no-brainer, because in the Japanese version, she always ends her sentences with “~rashiyo” which means “they say” or “I heard.” So it came natural to call her Rassie.
Her older brother Runda also shares that same naming phenomenon. Since he ends his statements with “~runda” to emphasize context, he gets to be named something rhyming with an energetic dance style. Runda makes his appearance at the News Channel, although it seems that the feline siblings are interchangeable from both channels for a random effect.
No one really notices the cats in the Photo Channel unless you were a picture album freak, so the commonly used News Channel was used to showcase the cats in a more obvious overtone. You can click the “Read” link below to hop over to that discussion, scrolling down past all other topics to get straight to the cat discussion. Oh and if you do catch the kitties, you will be rewarded with channel tips that aren’t documented in the Wii manual. Speaking of “undocumented” and “Wii”…
Okay, so it’s no feline version of Nintendo’s Nintendogs, but it’s nothing less animated than Microsoft’s two-timing Clippy. In a discussion by Nintendo Wii developers on the Wii Photo Channel, they revealed that two cats would scamper around the Photo and News channels, all the while evading your grasp. Wiikitty, this is not!
First and foremost is Rassie, the younger, female kitty of the pair. Her childish demeanor may frustrate most eye-and-hand coordination-challenged gamer if you were hoping to catch the fur-ball on-screen.
She enters the Photo Channel from the top bar, but whether she enters from the left or right is a bit hush-hush. Giving her a name was a no-brainer, because in the Japanese version, she always ends her sentences with “~rashiyo” which means “they say” or “I heard.” So it came natural to call her Rassie.
Her older brother Runda also shares that same naming phenomenon. Since he ends his statements with “~runda” to emphasize context, he gets to be named something rhyming with an energetic dance style. Runda makes his appearance at the News Channel, although it seems that the feline siblings are interchangeable from both channels for a random effect.
No one really notices the cats in the Photo Channel unless you were a picture album freak, so the commonly used News Channel was used to showcase the cats in a more obvious overtone. You can click the “Read” link below to hop over to that discussion, scrolling down past all other topics to get straight to the cat discussion. Oh and if you do catch the kitties, you will be rewarded with channel tips that aren’t documented in the Wii manual. Speaking of “undocumented” and “Wii”…
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