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Electroplankton Details - DS

11th March 2005, 6:53pm
It appears that Electroplankton will be more a 'toy' than what you'd usually classify as a game. We can only hope that Nintendo will be reasonable with pricing. The ten types of plankton can be positioned around the environments, each of which feature interactive items that give off specific notes. Plankton can be stretch or patted with the stylus to produce different sounds. The plankton (check out the official site for all of the types) can listen to your speech and then play it back. Record four different sounds and they'll sing random tunes. At GDC, the feature was demonstrated by Bill Trinen, who spoke "Yeah", "Nintendo" and "Who's your daddy?" into the DS microphone, and ended up with a thumping beat and a loop of "Who's your daddy? Nintendo! Yeah!".

Iwata noted that the 'game' is more about experimentation and relaxation, and that players should try it out with an open mind.
by Nick Schaedel