Ninokuni: The Awesomest DS Game in Conception Evers

[Biggie]

You know, that one Studio Ghibli/Level 5 game that looks so........ magical.

The debut trailer.

And from what I gather, the game comes with a book, which you use to help play the game.



Goddamn, I hope I get my DS outta pawn by the time this comes out. :3

[Red Dragon]

Re: Ninokuni: The Awesomest DS Game in Conception Evers

I hope some more info comes out about the actual gameplay. It looks like it's going to be a point and click-esque game.

If the symbols just control what worlds you go to I hope they aren't going to be like Loon where if you didn't have the manual you are screwed and they make it so that contents can't be in a walkthough.

[Translucid]

Re: Ninokuni: The Awesomest DS Game in Conception Evers

I WANT THAT SPELLBOOK GODDAMN.

WIZZADS N ****.

ZAP MUTHA****A.

[marcus]

Re: Ninokuni: The Awesomest DS Game in Conception Evers

I was just talking about how developers are really skimping on the production and packaging and here's this game that will probably never come to America...

[Translucid]

Re: Ninokuni: The Awesomest DS Game in Conception Evers

I think you underestimate the public knowledge of Studio Ghibli in America. Spirited Away DID win an Academy Award. They might not bring the spellbook.

I wish Working Designs were still around

[Toaster]

Re: Ninokuni: The Awesomest DS Game in Conception Evers

As much as I miss Working Designs for localizing some really great games that wouldn't have seen U.S. shores otherwise, and how well they did at that, who really had any use for the superfluous amounts of crap they started to throw in with their games. Ghaleon Sock-Puppets and Plastic Jewelery??? COUNT ME IN!!!



This, however, is really awesome. I hate how the majority of packaging nowadays feels tacked on with paper-thin instruction booklets (EA is the biggest offender here). With the emergence of digital downloads, the quality will only start to deteriorate but not having physical representation of my vidya game collection would be kind of... weird. I'm sure that once this becomes a commodity, packaging will start to become even more of an afterthought and something that companies will spend less time and money worrying about. Just look at the PC gaming market. You're lucky if you get anything.

[marcus]

Re: Ninokuni: The Awesomest DS Game in Conception Evers

I think you underestimate the public knowledge of Studio Ghibli in America. Spirited Away DID win an Academy Award. They might not bring the spellbook.

I wish Working Designs were still around

The package is the entire appeal IMO. I curse the day when PC games "downsized" and developers stopped putting care in their manuals. Few people read the manual to actually learn how to play the game thanks to ingame tutorials so the least a dev could do is make the manual a little booklet on the ingame universe or something. It doesn't even have to be fancy. Something like Donkey Kong Country 2 with colorful pictures and funny little quips. Sons of Liberty had little instruction "manga" that was a humorous read and I don't think 4 extra pages cost them an arm or a leg.

Contact was the last game I played with a decent manual (which was written in the style of a blog). Nintendo always delivers on the full color picture filled manual. Maybe if more games actually had cool instruction books people wouldn't be so quick to toss them away.

[John Mora]

Re: Ninokuni: The Awesomest DS Game in Conception Evers

MGS4 had a funky manual.

[Kefka Jr.]

Re: Ninokuni: The Awesomest DS Game in Conception Evers

This excites me.

But why is this video player so slow? Why doesn't everyone just use YouTube??