Kotaku didn't actually get to play Eidos' Pony Friends for the Nintendo DS, but they did find time to walk past the booth in a hurry to get somewhere else. Most surprising thing about the title is that it, apparently, has a strong military aspect to it. You can use grenades to take out swarms of enemies? Awesome.
Pony Friends-leave no man (or pony) behind.
With there only being a few days left to ensure your internet shopping arrives in time for Christmas, Eidos Interactive and Play.com have team-up to bring you a number of deals of some of the best games form the publisher released in the last twelve months. Available to order now, Mini Ninjas, Championship Manager 2010 and the seminal Batman: Arkham Asylum are all available for a reduced price, along with a number of other titles.
Square Enix London Studios, a part of Square Enix Europe, today announced Pony Friends 2, an exciting new game for pony pals where players can create their perfect pony partner, customise and accessorise, nurture and love, and compete in tricks and challenges.
Gamertell has posted an article that relates a story published in Betty & Veronica Digest Magazine to a surge in female-oriented games being released September 2008.
From the article:
"In an issue of Betty and Veronica Digest Magazine (no. 125, Jan. 2002) with a story titled 'Game Gambit' featuring fictional game maker Zapco Games. The company has asked Betty, the blonde-next-door and sometimes gender-bending teenager, to help test a series of arcade games targeted towards girls. The story starts with Betty claiming most games and being too violent for girls and Zapco shows her a series of prototypes that Betty rejects as being too stereotypical..."
The fictional, stereotypically female-oriented arcade games in the comic book story are strangely close to the eight DS releases listed in the article.
You can use grenades to take out swarms of enemies!?!...On Pony Friends?!? This has hand held GOTY written all over it.
Wish it had multiplayer, so I could smash people for massive damage with the Pink Pony.
jack thompson should jump all over this game masquerading as a little girl's dream. pony brutality!!
It's something else on the TV. The Pony thing is just a wall decoration. Since when can you play DS games on HDTV's?
Think about it, it makes no sense. Whatever is on that TV isn't ponies.
This was from august :|
If you were waiting for the right time to buy yourself a DS... there it is.