Vague Rant

For those who don't follow Shop Channel releases, Fluidity was finally released today for US users, after some considerable hype. The game is a physics-based puzzler where the player rotates the world in order to manipulate ordinary H20 in order to clean up a picturebook world which has had ink spilled all over it. In addition to simple rotation, raising the Wiimote sharply allows the player to jump, and various ability stamps add to the capabilities of your water. It's also worth noting that you're not always controlling liquid water, but also dealing with ice and steam.

Alongside the full game (1200 points) was released a free demo of the first stage, pictured above and featured in the video below, which among another challenges requires you to deliver a stranded fish to his fishbowl by carrying him in your stream. Developed by London-based Curve Studios (best known for the Buzz quiz franchise and Explodemon) and published by Nintendo, if the demo is anything to go by, the game has succeeded in turning a physics experiment into an extremely playable platforming video game. If you're in the US, at least check out the demo; the game might not look like much, but it feels like this might be a rare gem for the extremely hit-and-miss WiiWare service.


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I just read that there's a demo of Surinuke Anatousu on the Japanese Nintendo Channel. Surinuke is a puzzle-ish game involving moving Tetris-like shapes through holes in successive walls, similar to that "human tetris" thing you see in videos of Japanese game shows.



The game was released this Wednesday past, but doesn't appear to have hit the pirating side of the web as yet, so I was curious if anyone with access to the Japanese Shop Channel could let us know how the game's demo is.

Uploaded today to the Minna no Nintendo Channel is a free client for viewing Flipnote Studio animations (previously exclusive to the DSiWare application) on any model Nintendo DS. The client can be downloaded using the DS's Download Play function, and uses wifi to download and playback animations with sound. Users cannot create or submit their own animations using this client, it allows viewing only.

The application is entirely in Japanese, so the exact details of what it is or encompasses is a mystery to me; perhaps a friendly GBAtemper will make us a translation (hint). For now, the viewer is fairly usable without Japanese knowledge; upon loading, there's a few screens of text, after which you reach the title screen (seen above). The top option connects to the network using wifi, the bottom option allows setting up your wifi connection as per other wifi-enabled games. After connecting, three options appear on screen; the first shows thumbnails of all available animations, while the second and third access help pages of some variety, also over the network.

hi guys my mum just bought me a new ds (its blue) and my freind brian told me i should get a flahs card for it and i can download free games!!!!!! i read some threads and it looks like its true but can you tell me is akaio a good flashcard??????? i keep seeing stuff about akaios being dead. does this mean they stop working?????????? what other card should i get? thanxxxxx!!!!!!!!!

I think it would cut down on a lot of irrelevant questions being posted to this particular board if it was renamed to remove the word "help". People are too stupid to actually read and comprehend the full title, and there's no chance of anybody actually reading the description, which admirably but ultimately without purpose states that "Threads must relate to the forum itself." If you remove the word "help" from the title, people won't be able to scan through the board list like a bunch of damn apes for the first sign of the word "help" and come barging in here being morons. Anyone else have thoughts? Any thoughts at all, they don't have to be related, I just want to know someone else here has thoughts sometimes.