Monday, May 18, 2009

A Wii and DS Player's Guide to Roogoo Attack! and Roogoo Twisted Towers

Developers' guide continues to explore underwater areas

Environment 5: Underwater (Wii)

After escaping the allure of the mysterious Islands, players will come across a new, exciting adventure – conquering the vastly undiscovered Underwater environment.

Although players will have successfully fended off those troublesome butterflies, a new creature, the stingray, will come out to hassle players. Players will have to keep a firm watch on their treasure chests and blocks to guide them around the stingrays and away from nasty Meemoo pirates, all while keeping their eyes glued on those tricky platforms! Several of the platforms that players will encounter throughout the sea will be rotating at a lightning fast rate, knocking treasure chests and blocks into the deepest part of the sea. Players will also need to be prepared to get their hands dirty as they’ll find themselves drilling through platforms to get their blocks to their ultimate destination.

At the end of the level, players will have to face off with a kraken, the brutal, notorious master of the sea. Defeating the kraken won’t be easy as players will quickly discover. Quick maneuvering past the kraken’s flailing tentacles is needed to avoid the blocks being flung into the bottomless blue abyss. Once players have steered their blocks to the bottom platform, they’ll then need to skillfully smack the kraken them.

Environment 5: Swamplands (DS)

Players emerge from the depths of the Underwater region and surface within Planet Roo’s Swamplands. The serene waves have been replaced by sporadic flashes of lightning, continuous rain and dense clouds – all contributing to a gloomy landscape.

Players will encounter similar challenges from previous environments while collecting meteors. Prince Moo has followed players to the Swamplands and has a new attack that dramatically reduces the speed of the descending shapes. This change in gameplay affects the timing for shapes passing through blockers that can be found in multiple levels.

In addition to the new challenges, players will also learn a new technique that alternates the order of shaded shapes in a stack. Players must match like shades together when the stack lands or watch the shapes fall into the murky swamp.
 

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