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Sakurai Works on Mushi King
Talent from Smash Brothers, Nights and Land Stalker contribute to new Sega project.
by Anoop Gantayat
Sega is taking its popular Mushi King franchise into new realms, and it's drafted some top game talent to help out.
The company announced today a new portable LCD game titled Sodatete! Konchuu Ousha Mushi King. The game will hit Japanese retail on 2/23/2006 at a price of 2800 yen. Two versions will be available on that day, with more planned for the future. Sega will also release a 714 yen neck strap so that players can show off their insect love.
This hand-held unit mixes Mushi King with Tamagotchi. You raise an insect starting from when it hatches, giving it food in order to make it grow. Based on the food that you provide, your insect evolves in different ways. One week after birth, the insect releases an egg and leave for good, passing its traits on to a second generation.
Mushi King is known in the arcades and on the Game Boy Advance for its insect battles, and this version continues the tradition. Two devices can communicate with one another via infrared. The game uses the same Paper-Rock-Scissors type of rules for which the arcade game is known.
Sega's got some big talent working on what seems like a relatively tiny project. Game design is being done by Masahiro Sakurai, a former Nintendo designer who went independent and created Meteos before taking on a directorial gig with his former company for the development of Smash Bros. Revolution. Joining Sakurai is Hiroshi Naitou (Land Stalker) as programmer and Tomoko Sasaki (Nights: Into Dreams) on sound.
Maybe next time Sega can get these guys together to make a real game.
- لعبة جديدة يمكن نشوفها تحقق نجاح كبير باليابان !
