09.01.09
3D Dot Heroes
DS DoubleSys is basically a DS on iPhone/iPodTouch. Looks fairly accurate, and aside from the copyright issues, pretty joke-worthy. But North America’s taken it down off their iTunes store, or so the article tells us. Not so the Japanese store (as DS ダブルシステム), nor the English one (we just checked). Available still for £2.99.
Another cool ‘invention’ is this iPodShuffle case. The ‘how to’ is detailed in this blog.
3DDotHeroes (press blue button to get rid of the system requirements et al) will be coming out 5th November on PS3 for approx. £48 in Japan. Basically an action RPG, it feels apparently like it’s familiar to the 2D generation (think Zelda-esque). 8 bit cafe in Shinjuku had a talk yesterday by the developers. Screenshots available here.
Coming out tomorrow for 200Wii points each: Metronome and Tuner.
Of course, it just wouldn’t be summer if there were no mention of a horror game…Game with No Name: Eye (Nanashino Game) that says if you don’t complete the game within a week, you’ll die. Strangely this one’s by Square Enix – well strangely because they usually are associated with more of the fluffy bunny RPG genre. “Eye” because depending on which eye you look through, you see different things. Oh, and the official site is too Flashy for my taste with hardly an indication of where to go for more info, so have a look at screenshots and videos on the famitsu site.