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Dementium: The Ward and a Resident Evil port are the primary horror games for the Nintendo DS. Spike is chipping with something brand new, Twilight Syndrome: Kinjiraneta Toshi Densetsu (Twilight Syndrome: The Forbidden Urban Legend). If you’ve seen horror movies like the Grudge, Spike’s game should bring back memories. In fact they have horror filmmaker Osamu Fukutani as part of the team. I haven’t seen any of his movies and the Last Supper looks too grisly for my tastes.
The Nintendo DS game is set in modern times with two high school aged girls as the protagonists. Mobile phones play a key role since the story beings with a chain text message and vanishing friends. Naturally, they have to find them instead of calling the police, which leads to brushes with supernatural forces. Glancing at Twilight Syndrome’s menus there is an option to use cell phones with the L button and the game offers hints when you press X. Twilight Syndrome will be a host to touch screen puzzles and ghosts. Japan gets in on July 24. No US release date has been set, but many US publishers have a relationship with Spike. They have been making money localizing the FPS “niche” few publishers want to risk taking on in Japan. Who will take a risk on this? Eidos? Midway? Activision?
Images courtesy of Dengeki Online and Spike.
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6 Responses to “Spike scares DS owners with Twilight Syndrome”
April 14th, 2008 at 11:51 am
@matty - I can’t say for sure, but I’m going to guess no. With the exception of turned into survival horror Clock Tower 3, the Clock Tower series was more about hiding. I don’t think you’re going to be doing much of that here, but you probably will be solving puzzles.
April 14th, 2008 at 5:41 pm
I see. I’m not sure why, but I thought of Clock Tower while reading the article. The older games were point-and-click and I thought this was in similar vain with the touch pad. CT has very different functions of solving puzzles.
The last screen-shot does look very similar to the level layout of the PSX CT games, though.
I’ll check it out. Handhelds needs more horror themed games.
April 15th, 2008 at 6:32 am
the pink school uniform looks cute. But I’ll keep away from the horror games. just not my thing, I scare much too easily.
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April 14th, 2008 at 8:02 am
Looks really scary. I haven’t watched those campy Jpn horror flicks or Hollywood adaptations either, but the urban legends always get me.
I hope this is better than “Apathy”, which I heard was filled w/ bugs and just wasn’t a good game at all.. which prevented me from picking it up even at $20.