Contact US Edition Out Now, plus the bizarre Exciting Witch Trials for NDS

October 20th, 2006, 07:28 Posted By: wraggster

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This week's big new release is the US edition of a unique NDS role playing game, Contact. Before we get to it though, on the topic of different DS titles, recently SNK revealed Dokidoki Majosaiban (translated; Exciting Witch Trials), and as bizarre as Japanese games have always gotten, we're still surprised by them. Utilizing your stylus on girls with, as they say, "throbbing witch judgment", you search suspected witches. The first screenshot is shown below on the left, but we also have some concept fan art inspired with the idea of a sequel on the Wii; a job for another Mini Skirt Police title perhaps?



Contact - NDS (US)

The DS's original abilities have touched various genres to date, and now it's time to do the same for an RPG. Titled Contact, you yourself are the central character in the adventure designed by Gouichi Suda of Killer 7 fame, with characters born out of Atsuko Fukushima who's worked on everything from PoPoLoCrois on PSP, to movies like Akira and Kiki's Delivery Service. Events kick off when a professor takes a boy named Terry around the galaxy in his space ship, but trying to escape a terrorist, they crash land on an unknown planet. Separated, the only link between them is you and your DS. The professor talks to you from the top screen, giving you directions to help Terry on the lower screen. Using your stylus you interact with the characters and try to help them locate the pieces of the ship’s power source.



There's plenty of real time battles to fight along the way, and various stickers are used to power up and unleash special attacks. Then there's animal-training, item-collecting, monster-hunting, and retro style mini-games to enjoy. By switching Terry's costumes it gives him new abilities too, for example opening up the skills to be a chef, a fisherman, a firefighter, a pilot or others. Over the Wi-Fi, if your friends have a copy they'll be transformed into NPC's on your own game. They'll then have the power to level up specific skills, give you rare items, or just make fun of you when you mess up. A fresh and lighthearted RPG, the US edition of Contact is in stock this week and like every DS title, it's region free and will work on every handheld the whole world over.

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