Gamespot reports that three new DS games have been announced for release in the Land of the Rising Fun, one of which we already knew about and two more which caught us complete unawares. The surprise was so great that we actually fell out of our chairs. Stranger still is the fact that nobody around here even has a chair. No, all DS Fanboy posts emerge from a comfortable hammock tied between two concrete pillars deep within an underground parking garage.It's a quiet place that allows us to enjoy games such as Shunkan Puzz Loop, a ported arcade Puzz-le game from the creator of Polarium. Scheduled for a March 2 release, the game has players erasing colored balls rolling down a spiral track towards the center of the screen. As any puzzle expert will tell you, the only way one can hope to eliminate evil balls is by firing good balls out of a cannon and aligning them in matching colored rows - this game does not break that honored tradition.
The other game is set apart from the others in the sense that it's not so much a game and more like a utility that may actually prove useful at some point in your life, possibly even saving it when you're inevitably faced with German gangsters asking for directions. Arriving in Chinese, Korean, Thai, English and German versions, Tabi no Yubisashi Kaiwacho allows the user to understand different languages via translated text displayed on the screen and blasted through the DS' speakers. When it releases sometime in March, this title will totally teach you how to talk, man.
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1-14-2006 @ 7:00PM
gary! said...
I've seen that Puzz Loop thing before...it was a built-in game on my brother's Nuon dvd player (remember those?) Anybody remember the name of it?
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1-14-2006 @ 8:17PM
Brian said...
Puzz Loop sounds exactly like Zuma from PopCap games. It's fun as all get out on PC. I'm just not sure that I would want to trade a stylus for mouse though.
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1-15-2006 @ 3:44AM
Alison Scott said...
Ha! Shunkan Puzz Loop is the game that inspired Popcap Games' Zuma (which in turn inspired Luxor). I've never actually seen the original in the flesh before -- when I first played Zuma I believed it was a new puzzle game mechanic.
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1-15-2006 @ 11:34AM
neale said...
ive got this on my 360. zuma its called
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