Gaming Monsters (Probably) Stole My Princess

[Hadrian]

Anyone else looking forward to this? Sounds ace.

Write up from pspminis.com

Spoiler

Thank goodness for the carelessness of princesses. If it wasn’t for the likes of Princess Peach, Princess Daisy and Princess Zelda being so careless and always getting themselves kidnapped then the world of video games would be a much more boring place.

Now, continuing that grand tradition of kidnapped princesses in games, we have the first mini from London-based development studio Mediatonic, the fantastically titled Monsters (Probably) Stole My Princess (or MPSMP for short), due for release in February 2010.

In the game you control a “massively powerful (and slightly unhinged)” demon called The Duke, whose princess is stolen from her room in his castle. Obviously a keen video game fan, The Duke immediately assumes that monsters have stolen her and sets off to try and find her using the only means at his disposal – random violence on any monster he comes across!

According to Mediatonic, the game is an upwards-scrolling platformer in which the player has to chase after monsters and bash into them three times to subdue them. Each time The Duke touches a platform as he makes his ascent he will build up a combo, which increases his speed and power and enables him to unleash finishing moves on the monster. There are 24 levels in total, spanning across six unique worlds.

MPSMP’s writer and designer, Jim Griffiths, commented on the game’s signature brand of dark humour:

"We’ve worked hard to integrate the story and game mechanic as deeply as we can to create the most fun and compelling experience for the player possible. We’ve also crammed as much genuine (if slightly dark) humour into the game as we could – we really want people to crack a grin when they play. That’s our aim."

It sounds like MPSMP could also be one of the most adult minis to date, as it’s been rated 12+ for Violence, Sex and Bad Language by PEGI! All that plus the cool screenshots adds up a very intriguing package!

 

[tommyt]

!!!!!

It looks entertaining.

 

[Jamstruth]

Looks pretty awesome, if only I could be bothered paying for it and setting up a time machine on my PSP to run it.

 

[Issac]

OOH! I'd want! But what do you mean Jamstruth about time machines and stuff? Is some upgrade inevitable and therefore making it difficult for us with CFW to play it?

 

[Jamstruth]

Last I checked we can't run 6.20 games on our current firmware and since this is a soon to be new PSN game it will probably require the uncracked 6.20 firmware

 

[Hadrian]

Last I checked we can't run 6.20 games on our current firmware and since this is a soon to be new PSN game it will probably require the uncracked 6.20 firmware

You can with 5.50 Gen D3 and also you can patch them to work I think.

I was playing PSP mini games before I upgraded the firmware, course I have no idea if this will require 6.20.