BeefJack writes: "Konami is well on its way to bringing Foto Showdown to the DSi. Using the handheld's camera functionality, users can take pictures of people in the real world and have their physical attributes be used to create characters in the game. This newly released trailer shows an older sister being turned into an Orc. A rather fitting image."
Alex S. from Link-Cable writes: "It’s been a while since I last worked on a retro review as quite frankly, I’ve been too busy with all the new games coming out to put any focus on clearing my backlog. And while it took a bit of doing to tear me away from all the new, HD games I was playing, persistence is key and really needed to make progress on the ever-growing pile of old games that is my backlog, and so for the next game on my list, I decided to take on maybe one of the more unique games in my collection – the Nintendo DSi exclusive RPG, Foto Showdown a game where you capture monsters and make them battle in turn-based battles… wait a minute, am I just playing a bad version of Pokémon?!"
Konami's DSi game Foto Showdown is a fairly unique case. For gamers who like the Pokémon games, Foto might prove to be a decent alternative. For those who don't, Foto might prove to be the Pokémon-ish game that's actually cool to play. As good as that might sound, though, it does has its noticeable flaws.
Sounds like Pokémon if Pokémon were a strategy RPG. Pretty interesting concept, but I wonder if the recent release of Black/White will smother this one. That'd be unfortunate.
What do you get when you cross monster collecting, cameras, and rudimentary turn-based tactics RPG combat? The answer should be a fusion of Pokémon Snap and Pokémon Stadium, and oh, such a thing would be glorious indeed. But no, sorry. The actual answer is a great, big ol' WTF?
She'd get it.
She's hot, and she's got nice tits. Anyone know her name?
LOL!! that made my day dude!!! bubble's for you my friend!!
anyway, looks like a cool concept. too bad i don't have a dsi, and it looks like another rpg/jrpg, which the DS has a ton of already.