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?
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.
Resonance of Fate, Final Fantasy XIII, and the LUNAR remake are just the tip of the iceberg. There are a ton of RPGs shipping in March.
