Mizuguchi Has More for PSP, DS
Both of them are music games based on a title for the departed WonderSwan handheld.
Japanese game designer Tetsuya Mizuguchi is well known for his music games. His most recent musical hit was Lumines, a puzzle game that started on the PSP and will soon see a sequel there and an offshoot on the Xbox Live Arcade. But that's not all the talented game maker has coming.
Mizuguchi is serving as executive producer at Q Entertainment for two new music-based puzzle games - one each for the DS and the PSP. The games, Gunpey-R (PSP) and Oto wo Tsunagou! Gunpey Reverse (DS), are based on Gunpey, a puzzle game for the Wonder Swan handheld where you arrange blocks to make diagonals lines.
According to a Famitsu article translated by IGN, the two games are being tailored for their specific hardware. The PSP game will emphasise the music and video components of the game while the DS version will focus on touch-screen control.
Namco Bandai plans to release both games in Japan this autumn, but there's still no word on whether either of them will be released outside Japan.
Alex Wollenschlaeger
Editor, Kikizo Games
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