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Platform: Nintendo
DS
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Night
of War Songs
With
the touch screen found on the Nintendo DS, the door has been opened for
certain, normally PC-based genres to make a smooth transition onto this
handheld system. The way in
which the stylus pen works on the screen is much the same as how a mouse
works on a 2D field to manipulate on-screen objects.
As such, it doesn’t come as much of a surprise that real-time
strategy games, normally a genre that doesn’t translate well onto a
console, have begun to do reasonably well for themselves on the DS.
Soon to be another addition to this growing genre is Night of War
Songs.
Taking
place in the world of Rea, a land largely inspired by the Middle Ages,
with a liberal dose of the mythology prevalent at the time, one gets the
impression that the game’s developer, Kyrc Studios, is going for a
semi-realistic fantasy vibe with this game.
That in mind, players can expect to encounter three different
races in Night of War Songs: the Ishina, a theocratic empire of humans,
a Vampire race, and a completely new breed dubbed the Vania.
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As
one might expect, this diverse assortment of races have some very
different views of the world and how it should be ruled, and as such
tend to clash on a regular basis. How
this all comes
together in the game’s narrative is that it has been about 30 years
since the last great war between the Vampires and the other races of
Rea. After defeating the Vampires, things returned to normal, but
now it looks like these creatures of the night are amassing their forces
again, and it will be up to gamers to quash their attack, or play as the
Vampires and emerge victorious.
Details on exactly what players can do in campaigns are sketchy at the moment, but we do have |
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a basic
idea of different options that will be available.
Obviously, there will be Wifi multiplayer modes, but on top of
this there is something called “Arena” play.
Here, one will compete against a friend in objective based
missions of various sorts. The
first to complete their objectives is the winner.
At
this point, though, it looks like Night of War Songs is in very early
stages of development, and has yet to even find a publisher. Most
of the information available for the game appears to have both feet
firmly planted in Europe. Hopefully,
as E3 approaches the game’s developer will be more inclined to spill
the games on this portable RTS.
Mr. Nash (April 11, 2006)
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