Graffiti's GBA Obscurities Unmasked
Fellow Game Developer magazine editor Brandon Sheffield has gone update-crazy with Insert Credit over the long holiday weekend, and his most notable update deals with the two original IP Game Boy Advance titles recently released by slightly odd new U.S. publisher Graffiti Entertainment.
I knew about one of them: "Mazes of Fate is a first person dungeon game from argentina of all places (Sabrasa), and seems to have very deep systems, branching paths, and a lot of gameplay time (if you're into that - I prefer shorter games). "
But I was not aware of the other: "Next there's Back to Stone (French in origin, pictured here). It's a 3/4 view action RPG along the linds of LandStalker (sort of kind of). There aren't a whole lot of impressions of it around the internet, so here are some from comic-kaze of the sngp forums: "Great concept, and the first bits reminded me of great oblique angled 2D games. It has a promising combat system and a lot of puzzles mostly involving beating up enemies and turning them to blocks of stone and then knocking the stones around to get them to land on special tiles to unlock keys."" Ta, Brandon!









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I'm not too keen on Back to Stone (from what I've played, it's just too simplistic and repetitive), but Mazes of Fate is quite good so far. It's been a while since I played a good dungeon crawler (hell, it's been a while since I've been interested in playing a dungeon crawler, for that matter) and MoF really feels like a breath of fresh air (the ol' "what's old is new again" thing).
It's a shame that it's not getting any mainstream coverage and that it's not getting any marketing. :(
Posted by: RoushiMSX | January 16, 2007 1:52 PM
http://www.graffitientertainment.com/iso/iso_shots.html
This looks kind of interesting... does anyone know anything about it?
Posted by: fluffy bunny | January 16, 2007 3:17 PM