Soon you'll have a reason to spend those DSiWare points that came with the system. Nintendo of America set release dates for Looksley's Line Up, Earthworm Jim, and the blistering fast bullet hell shooter Metal Torrent.
The week after on May 17 Looksley's Line Up, a hidden picture game with 3D dioramas comes to North America. You may have seen the amazing tech demo before under its Japanese name, Hidden 3D Pictures. We played it too and it's interesting enough to warrant 500 DSiWare Points ($5). Frogger Returns from Konami also comes out on the same day.
"With the launch of the eShop on the Nintendo 3DS last month, users can now download a range of titles directly onto their system, following in the footsteps of WiiWare, DSiWare and the Virtual Console services. With a host of new features, such as StreetPass, motion control and the 3D display, developers now have more tools than ever to use in their games, allowing new ideas and improvements previously not possible. Below I’ve picked out five titles, previously featured on WiiWare and DSiWare, that I believe would make good use of the 3DS’ new features and deliver an even better experience than what’s currently available." -- Wiiloveit.com
Nintendo Life writes: "Lookskley's Line Up should be a near-perfect game. It's beautiful, immersive and inventive. It fails, however, to perfect the area in which it innovates, and the experience suffers as a result."
IGN writes: "Looksley's Line Up is unlike any game you've ever played, because it looks unlike any game you've ever seen. It's an incredibly innovative and intriguing design with a unique visual hook -- it's in perspective-shifting 3D. Which means that what you see on the screen changes if you look at it from the left, instead of straight on. If you tilt the system downward to look from above, you get a different angle. And so on and so forth, all the way around to every possible viewing position. It's nearly impossible to get a good impression of what it's like from a still screenshot, but once you've viewed it in action, in person, you will say "wow."
