GamingTrend writes: "A strange thing starts happening as a popular video game system gets older. Off-the-beaten-path genres start asserting themselves. It's happening right now to the Nintendo DS, with games like Shiren the Wanderer and the Pokemon Mystery Dungeon series. Normally, you don't even get one Roguelike dungeon crawl on a system, let alone several (A Roguelike game is a dungeon crawling RPG with high penalties for death).
Pros:
* Not a lot of games in this genre
* Lots of humor & personality
* Tag system is neat
Cons:
* Level-grinding? In my Roguelike? It's more likely than you think
* Didn't translate voice samples
* Mundane graphics
* Forgettable music
* Weapon breakage!
Ninja Studio, the folks behind the cult hit rogue-like series Izuna, may have quietly faced closure.
Izuna 2, Borderlands, Mass Effect 2, and several versions of Pokemon are available on the cheap this week.
Gaming Target: "Our favorite bubble headed ninja returns being employed by Success and Atlus to entertain us rogue-like fans once more in this sequel to last year's comical, yet totally enraging dungeon crawler, Izuna: The Legend of the Unemployed Ninja. If you've read our preview of this game then you pretty much know what to expect. I mean hey, that was the finished product, only now we know how well the story holds up and we can officially put a score on it."
