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Let's Play Games |
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Get a Job, Save a Penguin, Play a Pouty Princess |
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by Dale North |
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Help Wanted
These days, it's hard enough to work a job to pay your own bills. Now, imagine if you had to take on odd jobs to fund a meteor defense system to save the planet. That's your challenge in Help Wanted. You can forget mundane jobs like flipping burgers and mowing lawns. Instead, you'll be deep-sea exploring, bodybuilding, sushi prepping, and even haunted-house staffing. You'll work these exciting occupations with the Wii's motion-sensing remote. Once you earn enough money, you'll finally be able to buy the special shopping channel watch that will magically transform you into a world-saving superhero. It looks like you've got your work cut out for you. The game is due out in summer 2009.
Platform: Nintendo Wii
Publisher: Hudson Entertainment
Price: TBD
Expected Rating: E10+
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My World, My Way
The rich and beautiful princess Elise is totally spoiled. She has everything she could ever want...save for a boyfriend. When Elise finally does meet the boy of her dreams, an adventurer, she asks to accompany him in his travels. He quickly turns her down as she's not yet fit for adventuring. Determined to get what she wants, Elise sets off on her own adventure in an attempt to become more mature, hoping to "level up" for the boy of her dreams. My World, My Way, due out in February, is a unique role-playing game that channels your inner selfishness to win. Pout Points can be earned by fighting monsters and can later be used to change enemies and even the landscape to your liking.
Platform: Nintendo DS
Publisher: Atlus USA
Price: $30
Expected Rating: E
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Prinny: Can I Really Be the Hero?
Up until now, the peg-legged, bat-winged exploding penguin Prinny has played only supporting roles in video games. In the role-playing series Disgaea, poor Prinny was used as a weapon that other characters would throw, like a bomb, into enemies. It's nice to know that this abused and unappreciated penguin finally gets his own game. Prinny: Can I Really Be the Hero?, due out in February, is a side-scrolling adventure game where Prinny goes to the ends of the earth in search of dessert ingredients for its abusive master, Demon Lord Etna. This game gives you 1,000 lives at the start, but don't think this will be a cakewalk, as developer Nippon Ichi is calling Prinny the most challenging side-scrolling action game ever. The game comes with a bonus CD containing selected songs from Prinny's soundtrack.
Platform: Sony PSP
Publisher: NIS America
Price: $40
Expected Rating: T
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Puzzle Quest: Galactrix
Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords was an addicting combination puzzle game and story-telling strategy title where players would go through a series of puzzles to switch gems and match three in a row in an effort to fight medieval enemies and save a kingdom. Its sequel, Puzzle Quest: Galactrix, takes the story out of the Dark Ages and into outer space 20,000 years in the future. Players will explore galaxies and encounter aliens as the pilot of a ship that's out to save the human race from extinction. You'll once again play a gem-swapping puzzle to fight enemies, but due to the lack of gravity, gems can now come from multiple directions, offering a new type of challenge. Look for the game in early 2009.
Platform: Xbox 360, Nintendo DS, PC
Publisher: D3 Publisher
Price: TBD
Expected Rating: E
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