Impulse Gamer - With Christmas just around the corner, Sony are increasing the number of PSP titles available for the festive season and Invizimals: The Lost Tribes is one of their latest releases for this ageing console. Given the theme about the Invizimals genre, Invizimals: The Lost Tribes is definitely aimed at the younger gamer which uses the camera of the PSP in order to create a fun yet sometimes repetitive augmented reality title.
In the fifth installment of The Otaku's Gaming Study, I take a look at two recently released Playstation Portable titles that make use of augmented reality as a core gameplay device.
Critical Gamer writes: Imagine: you’ve bought a new CD, one with a generous number of tracks. The first few songs show innovation yet are somehow comfortingly familiar; you like this disc. Before long however things get a little too experimental, and it doesn’t work; it’s just unwelcome noise. Then another good song, another failure; you see a pattern. The biggest problem is that there’s no way to skip straight to the good songs on this CD. Turn this album into a game via the magic of imagination, and you have Invizimals: The Lost Tribes.
PushSquare: "Invizimals: The Lost Tribes is a fantastic idea squandered. Frustrating technical issues, poor pacing and annoying difficulty spikes get in the way of what is ostensibly a great concept. Persevere and you will almost certainly find fun in the game’s augmented reality technology, but it’s hard to shake the feeling that The Lost Tribes could have been so much more."
