With all the hype of the Vita launch and games like Uncharted and WipEout and Star Dust everything else it's hard to forgot that for anyone who pre-ordered a Vita from certain places in Europe were given access to an odd title called "Frobisher Says!". A game with no information on the redemption card and with a single trailer and around about 2 gameplay videos on Youtube.
So, how did we actually miss this?
Well, for one thing, it's not yet available in America and a lot of the European media just doesn't even seem aware of it.
Secondly, the pre-order requirement, lack of advertising and general "question marks" around the title might have just sealed its fate.
What is it then?
Did you ever play Wario Ware? It's basically Wario Ware but with a posh English man who tells you what to do and calls you an idiot sometimes. It's surreal, but does one thing that makes it a perfect advertisment for the Vita's feature set... it uses every single feature of the Vita.
For example, one game requires you to follow around a flying squid thing and, using the camera, keep it in the middle of the screen until a bar fills and you can tap the touch screen to fire a dart at it to knock it out... however, not only does it use the camera, the squid thing can fly "behind" you, bring the gyroscopes into play as you try to spin around and pick it up again.
Another game requires you to use the Vita like a fan to cool someone down on a train.
Another requires you to, in a 2D platformer style game, "Find the Flan".
Even the friends list isn't safe as a few of them actively pull info from your friends list and other users to get you to lead your friends, and only your friends, to a hot tub.
Every feature of the Vita gets a work out and everything responds perfectly, even down to using the camera to show Frobisher a particular colour (followed by the frantic dash as you try to find ANYTHING that is Blue... which he then immediately tells you to make green...)
It really makes Welcome Park look even more redundant than it should be because it just performs better and looks more lively, even if you only have seconds to respond to each game, it never leaves you in much doubt about what to do.
So, again, why is there just no information about the game?
Why are Sony not pushing this as "must have" Vita introduction software?
Why does Frobisher cause nightmares?!
Who knows?
Maybe because it's still, technically, a "beta/demo" (even though a paid add on with more games is already available - work that out...) and once it's released fully and to the US audience, it will really start to pick up a following.
I will leave you with the trailer, it will explain nothing...
http://www.youtube.com/watc...
Microsoft announced its financial results for Q3 of fiscal year 2026, including an update on its gaming Xbox business and more.
Not looking good. Hopefully Asha Sharma is able to turn Phil’s disaster around.
To me it's still quite remarkable how they can cash-in 5.3bn in revenue in a single quarter, since their hardware is basically dead.
The stock mark is what makes Microsoft remarkable, They have convinced every institutional and retail investor to just keep piling money into them. Like many big tech giants they are just a big growing pyramid scheme. As long as people keep dropping money into ETF's that cover the market Microsoft will always be liquid. At the same time it is completely stifling innovation and competition. People need to start being more discreet in how they invest their money as it's killing the system.
Riiiiight because people will just flock back to them for one or two games per year.
15+ years of bad performance is what they call irreparable in business. It is time for them to sell off the assets and get out of entertainment.
These declines are on the back of extra revenue received from releasing games like Forza horizon 5 on PlayStation. So I’m being sarcastic here when I said they should go back to exclusives. Killing off a revenue stream from Ps5 sales will only make things worse
The charity event will be streamed live from Gamescom in August.
Thanks to the slip-up of an artist working on the title, we now have more evidence that a new Injustice game is in the works.
I just got my code to download the game yesterday and, gotta say, I agree with you that it's a wonderfully fun way to showcase PSVita's features. However I don't really think Sony should be advertising it, considering everyone will eventually get to play for free in May, if I remember correctly.
It will eventually get the recognition it deserves all by itself, now if you'll excuse me I have to squash some toffs, row a lion to an island, lead my friends to the Jacuzzi and pilot a megacopter.
Any word on an American release? I really wanna try this, after just listening to the description.
FIND THE PUDDING!
game looks fun and silly, ill probably but this if its cheap. support games so more games can come out.
Shame I haven't seen EU media pick up on this (yet). I'm your biggest flan, Pirate!