Kung Fu Panda on your DS: The Preview
What do you get when the mascot of the World Wildlife Fund takes to martial arts? You would come up with Kung Fu Panda, that’s what! And no, it isn’t the movie we are talking about. It is the game!
The game is due to be released in June for the DS lite and actually plays out like a 2D side-scrolling action game. As the name suggests, it is all about the ancient art of Kung Fu replayed with a modern touch screen and vigorously at that. The main character is none other than the super fit, fighting master Po, who is of course also a panda. The game is wholly playable with the stylus and truly uses this technology to its advantage.
Pocket Gamer neatly summarizes the nature of the play:
“Tap an enemy and Po quickly grabs them, at which point you can flick the stylus in any direction to throw their body. Slide the stylus through a foe and Po executes a martial arts blow. Naturally, new touch-enabled attacks become available as you progress through the game’s approximately dozen levels.
The fighting is often also tied to puzzles and plat forming. It’s not uncommon to have to clear a room of enemies before a door opens or item appears. In one area, conjuring a switch to unlock a nearby door required skinning a trio of standing crocodiles. A few swipes and a couple of slashes made luggage of the foes, opening the way to the rest of the level. Another puzzle had Po activating a series of switches in order to clear a path. One switch opened access to a second switch that fired a spear. That spear conveniently killed a crocodile standing on a third switch. With the scaly dude dead, the switch was released and the door lifted”
Kung Fu Panda isn’t something that you’d have to kill for and it isn’t bringing you something you have never seen before — but then, the way you operate is certainly novel with the stylus inputs and the plat forming. The game promises to be one of the best movies related- games ever and this year certainly promises to be fun.
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