You have played puzzle games before. You have played platform puzzlers before, too. That does not mean you have played anything like Wayforward's latest, Mighty Flip Champs. The developers of LIT have take a simple concept, mixed it with a standard video game genre, and given us a completely different take on it thanks to some splendid puzzle design and the dual-screen nature of the Nintendo DS.
Chris Buffa (Modojo): Nintendo recently announced a June 6 launch date for the long awaited 3DS eShop, the virtual store that'll let users download a variety of games from multiple platforms.
Gaming Gauge writes:"So we recently got a look at how DS games function on the 3DS. As you can see the games are upscaled to fill the screen rather than mapped 1:1(although the option may be there). The downside to this method is that the games lose a bit a clarity, they can appear a bit blurry and fuzzy. I thought it would be interesting to make some mock up screenshots to compare how different styles are affected by the upscaling."
3DS cant even run ds games without fuzziness while the mighty NGP can run PS3 games
Just when the whole thing seems in danger of becoming a cold study in design brilliance, however, the on-screen clock comes into its own, raising the game's temperature by turning each challenge into a speed-runner's dream. Almost every activity, from falling off platforms to climbing ladders, can have a few extraneous frames of animation cut away by switching dimensions at just the right moment, slicing a few micro-seconds from your completion time and turning an otherwise cerebral challenge into a twitchy reaction test.
It's fitting, then, that an idea that revolves around shadowy dimensions should have a second game all but hidden within it, and it's a delight to discover a title that can concertina so many ideas into such a tight space.
We'll be waiting for this for ages in Europe. Damn you Wayforward for being a tiny developer!