Giftpia - The New Animal Crossing?

Posted by simoniker on Monday June 2, 2003 @09:07PM from the those-wacky-nintendo-chaps dept.

Thanks to an anonymous reader for pointing out that IGN Cube have hands-on impressions of Nintendo's latest 'communication game', Giftpia. This seemingly odd but addictive mushroom-chomping title is directed by Square veterans, and IGN ventures that "Giftpia may be billed as an RPG, but it's really more of an adventure.. there are no stats beyond your health meter, no random battles.. in a sense, Giftpia borrows a lot from Nintendo's Animal Crossing." Hopefully this'll include Animal Crossing's compulsiveness, as well as its saccharin-sweet style - in any case, the Japanese version of Giftpia is already released, and IGN mentions that "..shown off in English at this year's E3, Giftpia is almost guaranteed to see a US release."

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Re:Hopefully... by Yorrike · 2003-06-03 02:23 · Score: 2, Insightful

Sorry, but you didn't buy Metroid Prime so you could play the original Metroid. You bought it because it was a damn fine game which won just about every "best of 2002" prize a few months back.
You didn't pay any extra for the original Metroid bonus, they gave you that for free.
Little extras are never selling points, they're just there because they're cool. Now stop complaining and get to gaming : )

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