Nintendo Life writes: "With the upcoming release of their second DSiWare platformer featuring Oscar this coming Monday in North America, we thought now would be a good time to get in touch with the developers in order to find out a bit more information about the game.
Colin Courtney, Managing Director of Virtual Playground, was kind enough to take time out of his busy schedule to sit down with us for an interview. You can find out what he had to tell us in the exclusive Nintendo Life interview below. Enjoy!"
With so many DSiWare games hitting the DSi Shop -- and with DSi owners having the ability to easily and immediately download the games for themselves -- IGN will be approaching these titles a bit differently than the usual software review structure. DSiWare is released on a weekly basis, and they'll be covering each and every title in shorter, more concise reviews.
Like Toyland, this is essentially a platforming scavenger hunt. In order to reach the end of the stage you need to collect a varying amount of Baby Oscar statues scattered throughout. There's a handy map on the bottom screen to give you the lay of the land, and stages can be quite large and well-designed in places. There's a lot of stages too; the seven "worlds," which are loosely based on genres like sci-fi, cartoon and, uh, game shows, each include three stages to explore. You can tackle them in any order as well via the game's hub world. Unfortunately the graphics make actually navigating the place a frustrating process in trial and error.
The Nintendo DSi is quickly becoming a platform of its own. The system, released in April 2009, isn't much more than upgraded Nintendo DS technology, but its built-in cameras and its incorporated data storage give developers more to work with. And the DSi Shop can be a virtual sandbox for game creators to incorporate the DSi capabilities into downloadable titles. Or it's just an easy way to get simple DS ideas into gamers' hands without going the much more expensive retail route.
