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May 21st, 2008, 19:10
Filed under: Screens (http://www.dsfanboy.com/category/screens/), Imports (http://www.dsfanboy.com/category/imports/)
http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.dsfanboy.com/media/2008/05/windy052108.jpg (http://www.famitsu.com/game/coming/1215078_1407.html)Except for the (necessarily) strange aspect ratio, Ninja Studio's Windy x Windam (http://www.dsfanboy.com/2008/04/29/windy-x-windam-fighting-game-of-the-unemployed-ninja/) seems as straightforward a 2D fighter as you could get. Completely 2D sprites and backgrounds depict a fighting tournament in which each participant enters for their own personal reasons.
Thanks to character profiles, we know a bit more about a few of the non-Izuna (http://www.dsfanboy.com/tag/Izuna/) characters: Ashley sells flowers on the street (and is fighting for equality in the world or something). Kiriku is a self-taught swordsman who enters the fighting tournament to help his injured sister. Stein is a robot who wants freedom and searches for his creator. (Izuna, of course, is in the tournament for money.)
It's a good thing story doesn't matter in fighting games, because Windy x Windam is turning out to be a pastiche of fighting game cliches so far. Oh, maybe it's parody!
Gallery: Windy x Windam (http://www.dsfanboy.com/photos/windy-x-windam/)
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http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.dsfanboy.com/media/2008/05/windy052108.jpg (http://www.famitsu.com/game/coming/1215078_1407.html)Except for the (necessarily) strange aspect ratio, Ninja Studio's Windy x Windam (http://www.dsfanboy.com/2008/04/29/windy-x-windam-fighting-game-of-the-unemployed-ninja/) seems as straightforward a 2D fighter as you could get. Completely 2D sprites and backgrounds depict a fighting tournament in which each participant enters for their own personal reasons.
Thanks to character profiles, we know a bit more about a few of the non-Izuna (http://www.dsfanboy.com/tag/Izuna/) characters: Ashley sells flowers on the street (and is fighting for equality in the world or something). Kiriku is a self-taught swordsman who enters the fighting tournament to help his injured sister. Stein is a robot who wants freedom and searches for his creator. (Izuna, of course, is in the tournament for money.)
It's a good thing story doesn't matter in fighting games, because Windy x Windam is turning out to be a pastiche of fighting game cliches so far. Oh, maybe it's parody!
Gallery: Windy x Windam (http://www.dsfanboy.com/photos/windy-x-windam/)
http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.dsfanboy.com/media/2008/04/windy0429083_thumbnail.jpg (http://www.dsfanboy.com/photos/windy-x-windam/778930/)http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.dsfanboy.com/media/2008/04/windy0429085_thumbnail.jpg (http://www.dsfanboy.com/photos/windy-x-windam/778929/)http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.dsfanboy.com/media/2008/04/windy0429082_thumbnail.jpg (http://www.dsfanboy.com/photos/windy-x-windam/778928/)http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.dsfanboy.com/media/2008/04/windy0429081_thumbnail.jpg (http://www.dsfanboy.com/photos/windy-x-windam/778927/)http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.dsfanboy.com/media/2008/04/windy0429084_thumbnail.jpg (http://www.dsfanboy.com/photos/windy-x-windam/778926/)
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