It's no big secret that some of us around here think that DSiWare is a big pile of poop. As someone who watches the weekly download releases of Nintendo pretty closely I can tell you that the service has had many, many lackluster weeks, but there are gems every once in a while and it appears Gameloft is attempting to deliver one in the form of Legend of Exidia. The ESRB has once again leaked details on a game we haven't heard anything about and it sounds pretty juicy.
Exidia seems to be a lot like a Zelda game, with a top down view, a magical adventure and swords involved. Players take control of Luis, who is tasked with saving the land from great evil and doing other quests in villages, cities, forests and other places one goes when one is on an adventure. At one point he gets to chop off a dragon's head and at another there's a woman with lots of cleavage, probably garnering the game its E+10 rating.
While a Zelda clone can go terribly, terribly wrong it's worth keeping our eye on this one despite the fact that the ESRB says the game has a rudimentary art style and puts a lot of emphasis on the word spritely when describing the enemy characters. Since we haven't seen the game it's hard to tell if Gameloft is going with a retro look or just made a game with crap graphics.
DSiWare: New Details For Legends of Exidia Emerge [GamerBytes]
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10:00 AM on 01.02.2010
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And yeah, where is my portable virtual console? Because I'm pretty sure the DS can handle the substantial technical demands of a SNES game.
People get "butthurt" about DSiware for one main reason. It's shit. I've personally sunk over $100 (well, $100 and then the free $10) in software and most have been deleted from my system. The navigation of it is HORRIBLE. And to top it all off, Gameloft is doing much more with it than Nintendo. Game fucking Loft. These are the people who cemented the stereotype of all mobile phone games being crap.
And the worst part is this. Nintendo is No 1 in the handheld market. And what has their contribution been to the service? They've broken apart previous DS games for individual sale and published an art application (Art Academy, buy it). Now, look at what they've done, then look at Sony. Sony, who is in last place in both races and apparently a crap platform and sucks and is shit.
And yet consider this. A LOT of PSN content actually works across both platforms, and PSN is delivering better cheap titles as well as fully DD model for their portable. Sony delivered everything DSiWare was supposed to be before the DSi even shipped. So why can't we, the people who sacrificed more money and the GBA slot, be offended by DSiWare? Is it not within our rights to bitch when a company talks about a bright future and tries to sell us pieces of Master of Illusion? Are we not entitled to rant when the most prevelant content maker for the service is a joke in all arenas they are currently involved in?
Not that all their ports are bad... just that they're way better on the iPhone.