Sprung


Genre
Simulation

Publisher
Ubi Soft Inc.

Developer
Ubi Soft Inc.

# of Players
1

Release Date
December

ESRB Rating
Teen

One of Ubi Soft’s upcoming titles, Sprung, formerly known as Crush, is set to come out this December. The 2-D dating game features many different situations and modes to play the game through. In the game you may play as male or female through 50 different dating missions. In the missions you must try to ‘hook-up’ with a member of the opposite sex. The storyline is some what faded and humourous. Although this game is only one player, during the game you must compete against other people to try to win your target person over. In the game once you choose your target you will get to choose from a variety of different responses to try and make your target ease up to you.

In the game is featured in almost completely 2-D environments with 2-D characters. The game features use of both screens with your ‘target’ person on the top screen, so you can view thier response, and yourself and your choice of speaking selections to choose from on the bottom screen. So far the touch screen is only known to be used to choose between responses.

This game does not seem to explore the full potential of the DS’s capabilities with its features. Although I’m not sure we would like to see blocky women and men though. The graphics aren’t a bad feature of this game and they show something different from most of the DS games. I think this game would get quite old fast, as each mission basicly has the same objective and varieties of responses only go so far. Along with Feel the Magic XX/XY being some what of a dating game this game seems like it will fall short. The game seems to lack key features which gamers will want to use with their DS. This game although has many disadvantages it may also be something to be tried as these types of games are all the rage in Japan.

Total Appeal Score: 5.5/10

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