Ninja Gaiden Dragon Sword sounds cool; and by cool we mean totally sweet. Game Informer got a chance to play an early version, and they had a great time slashing ninjas and dragon bosses with cool stylus moves, and smashing the face buttons to block.
Players will not be able to flip out and kill their friends in-game, as there will be no multiplayer functionality. Team Ninja's larger-than-life Tomonobu Itagaki cited potential issues with "speed and precision on the controls and trying to get it to work" as reasons they didn't pursue online play. On a much happier note, players will not be forced to embarrass themselves in public by blowing on their game systems. Team Ninja considered a microphone gimmick involving yelling, but decided there would be enough going on. That's fine. We're officially tired of the microphone gimmick.
Players will not be able to flip out and kill their friends in-game, as there will be no multiplayer functionality. Team Ninja's larger-than-life Tomonobu Itagaki cited potential issues with "speed and precision on the controls and trying to get it to work" as reasons they didn't pursue online play. On a much happier note, players will not be forced to embarrass themselves in public by blowing on their game systems. Team Ninja considered a microphone gimmick involving yelling, but decided there would be enough going on. That's fine. We're officially tired of the microphone gimmick.
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5-31-2007 @ 5:06PM
ArashiUzumaki said...
don't mind it myself..
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5-31-2007 @ 5:40PM
Hame said...
I agree with you JC. Though I'd go even further and say the microphone gimmick is the only thing I hate about the DS.
It's ok for voice recognition stuff like in Nintendogs (when it works....) but any game I read about that says "you blow into the microphone" just makes me want to wretch. It's an embarrassment to me and my DS.
Just look at Wario Ware Touched. Who the hell likes the microphone ones? No-one! They're bloody awful!!
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5-31-2007 @ 8:47PM
ConstyXIV said...
A more important question:
Does anyone know if it will have lefty support?
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7-17-2007 @ 9:48PM
Dr_W@dsy said...
I'm pretty sure it will, in one of the demo videos (i think) he changes the option and the screens flip upside-down (for him, holding it in his right hand). I could be wrong about that, he might just mention it.... I'm sure it would though, there's no way they'd just ignore a decent percentage of the population.
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