To those of you who were less-than-pleased at the idea of a RTS title with a bacteria flavor, it looks like Ecolis is now known as Ecoris. The good news is that the game is still adorable, and it looks like the Wi-Fi capability will in fact be online multiplayer. Now if only someone would explain exactly what the hero, Dorian, is. Jeux-France likens him to a Totoro, but we remain unconvinced. You can ponder his origins while perusing the new images in our updated gallery below.Ecoris is scheduled for an August release in Japan, and we're crossing our fingers for a localization some time after that.
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6-25-2007 @ 6:47PM
hvnlysoldr said...
I don't think he's the legendary compost heap from Rocko's Modern Life.
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6-25-2007 @ 6:47PM
Zachary Hinchliffe said...
Ecolis makes more sense. It sounds like E. coli, a type of bacteria.
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6-25-2007 @ 7:04PM
DirtHerder said...
He kind of looks like the fruit durian doesn't he?
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6-25-2007 @ 7:40PM
Zach said...
Well...if you go by what it says in Japanese it should be "Ecorisu"...but "Ecoris" is easier to say..."Ecolis"...is just wrong. ;)
-Zach
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6-25-2007 @ 7:43PM
Zach said...
I always thought he was a durian...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Durian
-Zach
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6-26-2007 @ 12:33AM
Sarah said...
I think he looks more like this fruit ;)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horned_melon
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6-26-2007 @ 3:23AM
Stef said...
Well, I was kind of hoping that the little guy was supposed to be a bacterium. It's time for adorable parasites to replace monkeys as pop culture staples.
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6-26-2007 @ 5:06AM
Zachary Hinchliffe said...
WHY ARE THERE SO MANY ZACHS IN THIS COMMENT
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6-26-2007 @ 8:41AM
zak said...
You're right, that is pretty weird.
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6-26-2007 @ 11:29AM
ArashiUzumaki said...
well.. the japanese pronounce their r's slightly slurred to make them sound like l's, and vice versa.
so there's the chance that it'll be called Ecolis in english since it is pronounced Ecorisu in japanese.
^.^
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6-26-2007 @ 3:25PM
JIB said...
@ hvnlysoldr
♪♪'you cant fight city hall'♪♪
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6-26-2007 @ 5:33PM
ben said...
well, i dont know about the "eco" part, but the latter part is read "risu," which means "squirrel" in japanese. i noticed there were a lot of squirrel characters in the pictures. eco-squirrel?
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6-26-2007 @ 5:51PM
ben said...
Yeah, I just checked japanese site for the game, which says "Ecorisu is a new type of RTS (real-time strategy) with the theme of ecology and environmental issues."
And on the character page,
http://www.interchannel.jp/game/ecoris/chara/index.html
the pink squirrel's name is Ecorisu, written the same as the game's title. So I'm pretty sure it is "Eco-risu/squirrel."
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