Training, training, training. That's all us Europeans and Aussies want, right? Day in, day out, there we are, blurting "blue" into our handhelds like obedient farmyard animals, and being told that we're doing it wrong and that we're thuddingly simple. We know this happens, because the sales charts tell us so, and now the first DS demos on the local Nintendo Channel (released on all PAL consoles today) reflect the self-improvement obsession that has swept many PAL countries.
So, instead of getting demos of totally rad, new games such as Ninja Gaiden: Dragon Sword (which is what the U.S. got), we get four training games (only one of which came out this year) from the seven titles available, and adverts for Nintendogs and The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass. The only bright spot? A couple of tracks from Mario Kart DS, and a Picross demo, but those are hardly fresh titles.
We're not usually the types to look a gift horse in the mouth, but there's a stunning lack of variety on display here, Nintendo. Hit the break for the infuriatingly vanilla list.
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5-30-2008 @ 2:13PM
Nigeria said...
Miyamoto is a pretty man, but the prospect of watching him talk about Wii Fit didn't really interest me.
It was intrigued by the possibility of DS demos, but seeing the lineup this morning I gotta say I was kinda disappointed. It's rather lacklustre.
But it's nice to see Nintendo of Europe put in the effort we've come to expect from them. At least they're consistent.
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5-31-2008 @ 7:29AM
Keine said...
In the Netherlands you get to choose between Brain Training and Big Brain Acadamy. Woohoo!
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