What's going down in Ninjatown
We're confident in our belief that Ninjatown is the only ninja game in history to feature cartoon hearts on its box. It's all due to the super-cute style created by Shawn Smith that the bizarre dichotomy between cute and cold-heartedly murderous can be maintained. For example: the game is a strategy game, which means war. The black-suited ninja is less than one second away from committing an act of violence on the boxart, and yet the ninjas' Smurf-Village-like dwellings overpower that and elicit an "awwww."
We've got the first direct-feed screens of the game in our new gallery, and the same feeling applies: yes, these are people who primarily identify as ruthless assassins, but ... we want to huggle them.
Gallery: Ninjatown
[Via press release]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Bad Mojo @ Feb 12th 2008 12:28PM
So basically a tower defense game with ninjas instead of Pixeljunk monsters?
The wi-fi part may save it some. Other than that... not so much.
TheCoats @ Feb 12th 2008 12:28PM
WANT!!!!!....When does this bad boy come out?
David D. @ Feb 12th 2008 5:23PM
A normal ninja game could feature hearts on the box-- just more ripped-out and anatomically correct ones.
rcm @ Feb 12th 2008 5:28PM
well...i WAS really excited for this game. but the screens are a bit disappointing.
Cheese Muffin @ Feb 12th 2008 8:44PM
Is it just me or does the boxart make them look like balloon-ninjas?
raindog @ Feb 13th 2008 1:15AM
Direct-feed from what system? Those screens are 512x384, so they'd have to be displayed on all four screens of two DSes sitting next to one another.
JC Fletcher @ Feb 13th 2008 2:32AM
Fine... "not photographed off of a page with a camera."
raindog @ Feb 13th 2008 9:19AM
After blowing them up, it doesn't look like the pictures have been scaled at all, so I really question whether they're from the DS in the first place.
Dayv @ Feb 13th 2008 4:01PM
Is it just me, or do the houses on the box art look kind of like screaming, half-buried heads?