Eduardo the Samurai Toaster pops up on WiiWare
If nothing else, small indie developer Semnat Studios has come up with the most stupidly brilliant game name of 2009 already, but Eduardo the Samurai Toaster has more than just a daft title to recommend it.
Its art style, for starters, is pretty unusual - a mix of pen & ink, acrylic paint and charcoal art scanned in to make for a rather unique-looking run ‘n’ gun shooter. You’ll be attacked by Peking Opera pastries (whatever they may be) and robot mangoes as you pelt through the levels, apparently shooting out various delicious pastries from Eduardo’s head to take out said foes. Well, anyone who’s ever eaten a Pop Tart will know how deadly they can be when hot.
If you’re finding the action a little too frenetic, then you can call on your mates to join in and help out, with drop-in co-operative support for up to four players in total.
The press release has a release date of ‘winter’, so it should be with us by the end of February at the latest. Will Eduardo be the toast of WiiWare? I’ll let you know as soon as it arrives.
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January 6th, 2009 at 10:26 pm
I’m halfway through the excellent ‘world of goo’. I’m hoping this ‘toast’ game will be the next indie game to make a mark on wii-ware. I enjoyed ‘lost winds’ but was a little disappointed - (I felt they could have pushed a lot of things further - produced a bigger game.) But I really like the opportunities wii-ware now seems to be giving to small studios with fresh ideas. It seems somewhat embarrassing to me that my favourite game in a long, long time, (wog), made by two and a bit people, outguns many of the big games produced by nintendo itself recently given all their resources. God bless fresh imaginations !