The Paper Mario games (for N64 and GameCube) successfully married the plumber's Mushroom Kingdom trappings with classic roleplaying game conventions, yet still blazed their own path with clever puzzles and offbeat humor.
You, well, touch the dead...a lot.
But groping ghoulies with the stylus just isn't as much fun as blasting holes in 'em with a pistol. The simple lightgun mechanic worked in the arcade because of the visceral feeling you got from blowing the brains out of lumbering lunatics; trying to translate that feeling to a small plastic pen isn't as exciting. It didn't work with Point Blank DS, and it certainly doesn't work with Touch the Dead.
We've already seen the Final Smash and Gooey Ball unveiled for Super Smash Bros. Brawl, and today they've revealed another new variable, the Cracker Launcher.
D3Publisher of America and TOMY Corporation today announced the development of Naruto: Path of the Ninja (working title), a roleplaying game for the Nintendo DS.
Silent Hill 5 (working title) has yet to be shown or announced in any official capacity, but rabid fans have been hanging off of every bit of speculation since Silent Hill 4: The Room shipped in 2004. Masashi Tsuboyama, chief designer of the next Silent Hill project, added more fuel to the fire in a recent interview with Dengeki PlayStation, which comes to us in English via aptlynamed fansite, SilentHill5.net.
Released just prior to the theatrical debut of Shrek the Third to maximize its synergistic potential, Shrek the Third for the PlayStation 2, Xbox 360, and Nintendo Wii is more compelling as a brand marketing bullet point than it is as an actual video game.
With last fall's Pokemon Mystery Dungeon and now the release of Izuna: Legend of the Unemployed Ninja, it's almost as if Mysterious Dungeon series games are seeing a slight resurgence, especially in the West.
Square Enix, has rarely been a member of the Vile Cover Art Society (V.C.A.S. for short), usually relying either on simple logos or tasteful use of their highquality CG artwork to carry the weight.