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Giftpia - The New Animal Crossing?

Posted by simoniker on 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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  1. Hopefully... by lightspawn · · Score: 3, Interesting

    You won't need to buy hundreds of cards, a scanner, gameboy, and link cable to fully enjoy the game (like animal crossing, or animal forest+ as it was called in Japan).

    Isn't anybody else bothered by this? When I buy a game, I want it to be stand alone. No pokemon red/blue, no GCN/GBA, no cards to scan, nothing. Extra stages as downloads are fine but don't put them online just to say the game has online features like Sega did, and make sure they STAY online.

    1. Re:Hopefully... by d3kk · · Score: 2, Interesting

      I never played Animal Crossing, but I did play Pokemon Red/Silver/Saphire. It's not necessary at all to buy cards, the scanner, or a link cable to get a lot out of the game. Sure, it's frustrating sometimes not being able to get that elusive trade-only pokemon, but there's still tons to do and many ways to win without it. I think it's good on Nintendo's part to do things like that for the hardcore gamers who want a little something extra and can afford it. If they didn't, we'd all be sitting here saying, "Wouldn't that be cool if..?"

    2. Re:Hopefully... by Yorrike · · 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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  2. Looking forward to this by Bagels · · Score: 2, Informative

    I'm very much looking forward to this - it's made by some of the same people that made Chrono Trigger. I hope they fix up the graphics a bit before releasing it, though - the 'Cube is capable of much more.

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