Intense Pokemon Spin-offs Detailed Inside
Cross platform confusion chaos – perhaps we’re getting old?
The latest details to spring forth on Nintendo, The Pokemon Company and Chunsoft’s new Pokemon titles have confused all at SPOnG, with an impressively bizarre cross-platform, cross-species outing hitting our release radar. Pokemon: Fushigi no Dungeon or Pokemon: Mysterious Dungeon is perhaps the strangest game in the series to date. Great news!
As usual, two versions of the game will be released, this time a Red title and Blue title. However, the games will be on different platforms, hitting Game Boy Advance and Nintendo DS respectively. The DS version is, for now, a total mystery, as is the way the two titles will interact. Nintendo has shipped wireless adapters with Pokemon titles in the past, so perhaps we’ll see a GBA to DS adapter ship. Then again, perhaps not…
Onto game information: to date, we have discovered that you play a human being who has unfortunately been transformed into a Pokemon. There are several Pocket Monsters you might become, with the game offering a set of aptitude tests at the beginning, a refreshing change from Professor Oak’s jug-lifting lotteries.
And rather than fantasy dog-fighting, you’ll be doing...well, other stuff. The idea is that you form part of an elite Pokemon rescue force that enters caves and dungeons on missions as wide ranging as finding something and - on occasion - finding two things.
The most interesting aspect of Pokemon: Fushigi no Dungeon Red (GBA version) to reach our ears is that every dungeon will be generated at random, with the game never playing through the same - a novel feature that, if implemented correctly, could see an incredible RPG emerge. Nintendo also confirmed that for the battles in the game, the classic turn-based system will be retained.
So there you go – more questions than answers. We’ll endeavour to fill in these gaps in the coming weeks.
As usual, two versions of the game will be released, this time a Red title and Blue title. However, the games will be on different platforms, hitting Game Boy Advance and Nintendo DS respectively. The DS version is, for now, a total mystery, as is the way the two titles will interact. Nintendo has shipped wireless adapters with Pokemon titles in the past, so perhaps we’ll see a GBA to DS adapter ship. Then again, perhaps not…
Onto game information: to date, we have discovered that you play a human being who has unfortunately been transformed into a Pokemon. There are several Pocket Monsters you might become, with the game offering a set of aptitude tests at the beginning, a refreshing change from Professor Oak’s jug-lifting lotteries.
And rather than fantasy dog-fighting, you’ll be doing...well, other stuff. The idea is that you form part of an elite Pokemon rescue force that enters caves and dungeons on missions as wide ranging as finding something and - on occasion - finding two things.
The most interesting aspect of Pokemon: Fushigi no Dungeon Red (GBA version) to reach our ears is that every dungeon will be generated at random, with the game never playing through the same - a novel feature that, if implemented correctly, could see an incredible RPG emerge. Nintendo also confirmed that for the battles in the game, the classic turn-based system will be retained.
So there you go – more questions than answers. We’ll endeavour to fill in these gaps in the coming weeks.
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YenRug 27 Sep 2005 15:49
1/7
The DS version is, for now, a total mystery, as is the way the two titles will interact.
Hmmm, I wonder what this strange GBA game shaped hole is for, in the bottom of the Nintendo DS?
tyrion 27 Sep 2005 16:55
2/7
YenRug wrote:
Hmmm, I wonder what this strange GBA game shaped hole is for, in the bottom of the Nintendo DS?
Hmm, it is possible that you'd be able to put both games in the DS. If Blue is DS only and on a DS card, and Red is on a GBA cart, then both games will fit at once.
However, that's a bit poo as far as interaction goes. "Let's fight or swap Pokemon", "OK, give me your cart".
More likely there will be a wireless adapter for the GBA or a link cable that works with both consoles.
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YenRug 27 Sep 2005 17:52
3/7
There already is a wireless adaptor on the GBA/SP, but it uses a different tech to the DS wireless connection, it was even launched with the last batch of Pokemon games. Would they then release a new wireless adaptor to connect a GBA to a DS? I would say unlikely, for the sake of just one game.
TigerUppercut 27 Sep 2005 18:14
4/7
Update:
More images added.
And on that adapter, didn't we find out what that was in the end? Can't remember off the top of my head.
More images added.
And on that adapter, didn't we find out what that was in the end? Can't remember off the top of my head.
tyrion 28 Sep 2005 08:17
5/7
YenRug wrote:
There already is a wireless adaptor on the GBA/SP, but it uses a different tech to the DS wireless connection, it was even launched with the last batch of Pokemon games.
Then a link cable may be more likely. Still a bit naff in these wireless network days, but serviceable none the less.
YenRug wrote:
Would they then release a new wireless adaptor to connect a GBA to a DS? I would say unlikely, for the sake of just one game.
If Nintendo's history is anything to go by, they'll release the adapter then release a few games that make use of it.
YenRug 28 Sep 2005 14:44
6/7
tyrion wrote:
YenRug wrote:
There already is a wireless adaptor on the GBA/SP, but it uses a different tech to the DS wireless connection, it was even launched with the last batch of Pokemon games.
Then a link cable may be more likely. Still a bit naff in these wireless network days, but serviceable none the less.
There's currently nowhere on a DS to plug a link cable into, unless they figure out how to pass a signal through the re-charging socket, or create a "cartridge" which goes in the GBA slot with a link cable coming out of it.
tyrion 28 Sep 2005 15:42
7/7
YenRug wrote:
There's currently nowhere on a DS to plug a link cable into, unless they figure out how to pass a signal through the re-charging socket, or create a "cartridge" which goes in the GBA slot with a link cable coming out of it.
Yeah, into the GBA slot was what I was thinking.