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July 04, 2005
Touched and Gone
I was the lucky recipient of Nintendo’s Yoshi Touch and Go for the DS for my birthday. Best DS game so far, though there are others I’m looking forward to!
Yoshi is great. It’s got the trademark Nintendo sense of playfulness down perfectly, great integration with the touch-screen (the game is played entirely by using the pen), and microphone, and the usual catchy music (also somehow indefinably Nintendo). Complaints that the game is essentially one huge level, a level that you only get one life per game to explore, are, in a sense, valid. As is complaining your ice-cream is cold. I mean, if you don’t like sand between your toes, why do you go to the beach?
Rumour has it that the DS is outselling the PSP quite heavily, and that DS owners are buying far more games per head than PSP owners. The current lack of compelling new PSP titles is probably a factor, but I wonder if perhaps Kutaragi-san & co. are sitting in the Sony Orbiting HQ wondering if they mis-judged the portable gaming market slightly…
Posted by Oliver at July 4, 2005 04:24 PM
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