We'd like to thank Racketboy for composing this list of games he'd like to see on the DS. Sure, everyone's got their own wishlist, but they're not online, and they don't all include Snatcher and Policenauts. And we want more opportunities to talk about those two games.He's absolutely right that these games are a good fit for the DS: between Hotel Dusk, Phoenix Wright and stuff like Suda 51's The Silver Case, the DS is pretty much the only system that can be said to be experiencing a graphical-text-adventure boom. It also happens to be the current sales leader. If there were ever a time to shovel all your old adventure games onto a console, this is it.
Snatcher and Policenauts are high-quality games that would both sell to and satisfy the Phoenix Wright crowd. Throw a "FROM HIDEO KOJIMA, PRODUCER OF METAL GEAR" sticker on the box and you've got a game that is guaranteed to sell. Here's our totally unsolicited advice for Konami: port Snatcher first, and then if that sells, put some of the profits into translating Policenauts.
Other notable games on the list include Metroids (yay) and Pac-Man Vs. We can get behind that, since with Wi-Fi play, we'd actually get to try Pac-Man Vs. against another person for once. Unfortunately, we kind of think that Nintendo is loath to embarrass themselves further by referring back to the GBA/GC connectivity experiment. But more adventure games? That's an easy call.
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4-03-2007 @ 3:28PM
phanboy_iv said...
I would almost kill for the opportunity to have a good(as in non-censored) version of Snatcher and Policenauts. Snatcher was one of the best SegaCD games ever.
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4-04-2007 @ 9:34AM
Xian! said...
Lately I've been thinking, "It would be pretty cool to have an expanded port of Flashback." Remember Flashback?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flashback:_The_Quest_for_Identity
But I've never heard of Snatcher or Policenauts. I lose. :(
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4-04-2007 @ 1:43PM
wildweasel said...
YES. SNATCHER.
Flashback is good, too, as long as the port is based on the MS-DOS or Amiga versions. But I can't really see any DS features being put into it...unless they completely redesigned the levels and gameplay, at which point the game would no longer be Flashback.
But YES. SNATCHER.
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