Konami, Pay Attention - Snatcher Pilot DS Proof Of Concept
Hideo Kojima's talent as a masterful narrative-driven, comic adventure game designer has waned over the years as his focus has been refocused toward the successes of the Metal Gear Solid series. But, as hardware generations roll by, a small minority of us continue to hope that we will see works like Snatcher or Policenauts born anew. The last time I felt this, was when I initially picked up the Nintendo DS. Immediately, ideas of past SCUMM adventures and Snatcher came to mind, though, ultimately I knew it was a bit of a lost cause. Similarly, Policenauts, with it's strong cinematic caliber, would be natural for the bright, wide screen seated within the PlayStation Portable.
Codester DesertDog, in a project to further teach himself the inner workings of the Nintendo DS, decided to take the assets from the Sega CD build of Snatcher, and stitch it together similar to the Snatcher Pilot Disc preview build released for the PC Engine SuperCD².
Yes, it's a wee bit rough around the edges, but the game still shines. Listen up, Konami. Kojima's almost done with Metal Gear Solid 4, and maybe it's about time some attention is directed toward some of his equally cherished works.
For some reason, if you are completely unaware of the grit and the glory that is Snatcher, Asterick's Retrospective is a terrific place to start.
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Posted to Video Games on 5 May 2008
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Aren't there already rumors of Kojima/Suda bringing it to the Wii (Project S)? No need to downgrade it to the DS, really.
HOLY CHRIST
On a second inspection I realized that it was homebrew, still awesome stuff as I believe that the game would be ideal on the DS, so long as they don't dumb it down for kids and it keeps it's rating it would be perfect.
Snatcher, of course, being my favourite game.