wraggster
September 22nd, 2006, 20:42
Heres an excerpt:
Gunpey is something of a romantic notion of a videogame, something to keep very close to your heart if you are so stricken. The title, originally a puzzle game by a crew working with the late game maker Gunpei Yoko, derives its name from the beloved designer. It's always been a simple title -- another in an endless line of blocks and shapes making forms before the well fills up -- but its creative and manic gameplay is fittingly alive and well, finally brought back into action with new versions for the Nintendo DS and PlayStation Portable.
The demos of the two versions of Gunpey on display at TGS showed the two entirely different mindsets that these handheld platforms have inspired. For the PSP game, we get a cool and cyber-styled game that looks like Lumines after some fine wine, a sexy puzzler called Gunpey Reverse; for the DS, its party time on a portable with a game that's 10x crazier than Samba De Amigo in style and character design, utilizing the touchpad for whisking away blocks to the calypso beat in the title Oto wo Tsungaou! Gunpey Reverse. Not surprisingly, the supervising production team on this new set of versions is the same that brought to handheld Lumines and Meteos, and both have the stamp of their creator across every element of design.
Full Preview at IGN (http://uk.psp.ign.com/articles/734/734261p1.html)
Gunpey is something of a romantic notion of a videogame, something to keep very close to your heart if you are so stricken. The title, originally a puzzle game by a crew working with the late game maker Gunpei Yoko, derives its name from the beloved designer. It's always been a simple title -- another in an endless line of blocks and shapes making forms before the well fills up -- but its creative and manic gameplay is fittingly alive and well, finally brought back into action with new versions for the Nintendo DS and PlayStation Portable.
The demos of the two versions of Gunpey on display at TGS showed the two entirely different mindsets that these handheld platforms have inspired. For the PSP game, we get a cool and cyber-styled game that looks like Lumines after some fine wine, a sexy puzzler called Gunpey Reverse; for the DS, its party time on a portable with a game that's 10x crazier than Samba De Amigo in style and character design, utilizing the touchpad for whisking away blocks to the calypso beat in the title Oto wo Tsungaou! Gunpey Reverse. Not surprisingly, the supervising production team on this new set of versions is the same that brought to handheld Lumines and Meteos, and both have the stamp of their creator across every element of design.
Full Preview at IGN (http://uk.psp.ign.com/articles/734/734261p1.html)