Giftpia - The New Animal Crossing? 14
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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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.
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GBA linkup? I have a GBA, and if I really want to, I'll stop at Blockbuster and use my (unofficial) employee discount to get a link cable for cheap.
As for stuff like Pokemon, I have friends who like the game too, we make sure to buy different versions. Easy enough.
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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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They didn't take things out of the game to make them exclusive for the GBA linkup. They come up with ideas to use the GBA link so they can add something extra to the game. I don't see how that could be interpreted as a bad thing.
However, at E3 Nintendo did show a lot of games which require the GBA link to play at all.
Looking forward to this (Score:2, Informative)
Animal Crossing 2? (Score:1)
Looks good (Score:1)