Dynamic Slash - EDF with swords?
If I had to choose three games from other consoles I’d bring over to the Wii, the Xbox 360’s enormously daft third-person shooter Earth Defence Force 2017 would be one of them. It’s not the most technically impressive game ever made, it’s full of graphical glitches and slowdown, its gameplay is pretty one-note throughout, and it’s also just about the most awesome fun I’ve had with a non-Nintendo game in the past few years. I find it hard to comprehend there are people who don’t get riotous enjoyment out of the game, and so the news that yesterday’s Game With The Best Name - Dynamic Slash (”I have one every morning!” - Bear Grylls) - is not only first-party published, but comes from Sandlot, creator of EDF 2017, is naturally cause for celebration.
And to all extents and purposes, it looks like EDF 2017 But With A Sword Instead Of Guns. Which is obviously incredible news. The brief clip which popped up for all of four seconds during Nintendo’s Wii showreel yesterday (exactly 3 minutes in) made it look like the same mix of spectacular action and sloppy framerate which characterised EDF, while the idea of using the Wii remote to slice millions of Norse enemies to bits makes it look like Too Human only 842 times more entertaining. And with proper Scandic sword-slicing instead of faux-cyberpunk-themed hackandslash.
Needless to say, we may have to pray to the Gods at Rising Star to see this one outside Japan. But it’s almost certainly an insta-import for me, so expect impressions as and when it arrives. It’s down for a release at some point next year, and little else is known so far, but you can see a couple more pics if you click here, along with a few tidbits of (Japanese-flavoured) info.
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