Thanks to Famitsu we're getting an early look at upcoming Wii game Earth Seeker. Developed by a studio called Crafts & Meister, this game tells the story of the destruction of Earth. It's an action title that's due out this winter in Japan, and is about 60% done as of now.
New scans give us some story details on the game. This quote from one of the game's developers, Noritaka Funamizu, sets the stage:
The game kicks off on a post-apocalyptic Earth. All the world's human heritage gets packed into a spaceship and evacuated off the planet, but the spaceship crashes into another planet and its cargo gets scattered all over the place. The ship's main computer is trying to recreate Earth's ecosystem on this planet, but the crash has affected it and it's producing all this messed-up plant and animal life instead, which is hugely impacting the land.
Humanity has loaded ships with Earth's precious artifacts but the ships crash and spread them everywhere. The strange plants and animals aren't making things any easier for them either. And the planet's original inhabitants? They aren't happy about the crash or the reworking of their planet, but they're willing to work with humans in exchange for booze.
GoNintendo has some interesting tidbits as well as some scans. It seems that the guardians of the planet will be used in battle somehow. In these battles you'll go up against large monsters that inhabit the planet. They use energy balls to fight, and can be advanced with your ship's technology. I liked that there is one ship called Star Ship France, and it contains the Eiffel Tower (shown above).
This sounds very interesting and imaginative so far, doesn't it?
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2:20 PM on 06.03.2010 | 
@bp
"I suppose, but we would need to subtract from the Death Valley and Pebble Beach decks."
"Make it happen!!"
On a more serious note... I hope this is tied into the survival genre. A good survival-action game is overdue since Resident Evil turned into a pure action series.
Anyway, WoW bullshit aside, this looks really interesting. Hopefully it will make it to the States; maybe a nice new job for those Monkey Paw guys? If so, color me interested.
Kind of reminds me of Avatar before I knew that its great and compelling setting was being forced into a tired retread of a plot so that nobody working on it would have to think too hard.
We don't know gameplay details at all here, just narrative details. You would think RPG but it says 'Action,' which is pretty ambiguous. I kind of doubt it's a shooter or a beat-em up. We'll see. I really hope it's not vapor.
VERY INTERESTED
*Reads plot*
*Immediately captivated*
I want this. Someone make it happen.
I had this exact same fucking idea!!!
FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!
I'm glad someone is making a game about this, but fuck... that is really weird and depressing.