Atlus has Octomania, healing touch ineffective
Atlus, the purveyor of such fine things as the Trauma Center series and niche RPGs, is about to do you yet another solid. On March 11th, for the low, low price of $19.99, you too can become the proud owner of the soon-to-be-obscure, online enabled, Octomania! I’ll let Wikipedia describe the gameplay:
The player uses the Wii Remote to control a 2×2 cursor over a field of colored octopuses. Pressing the A button causes the octopuses under the cursor to rotate counter-clockwise. Numbered nets are scattered around the playing field. If the player arranges a number of same-colored octopuses under the net, the octopuses under the net, as well as any other octopuses of the same color which are connected orthogonally, are removed.
By removing octopuses in this way, the player can send sea urchins to their opponents playing field. Sea urchins can not be removed using nets, but are removed if they are orthogonal to other octopuses being removed, similar to oyjama puyos in Puyo Puyo. If the player’s field fills up for 3 seconds, they lose.
Hey, for $20 I’ll certainly bite.
Kotaku: Atlus Infects Wii With Octomania
- Rob O’Reilly
