AWAY Shuffle Dungeon – NDS – Preview

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Developed by Mistwalker (the team
behind the Xbox 360 RPGs Blue Dragon and Lost Odyssey), AWAY Shuffle Dungeon is
an intriguing little title to be published by Majesco. Offering an intriguing
spin on the old-school dungeon crawler RPG genre, AWAY Shuffle Dungeon is a fun
and unique DS title that makes good use of the DS’s dual-screen look.

AWAY Shuffle Dungeon has you playing
as a young man named Sword, who is the sole member left of his village, which
was taken away into a series of shuffle dungeons.


AWAY Shuffle Dungeon utilizes the
DS’s dual screen format in a pretty innovative way. As you navigate through the
game’s dungeons and move from one screen to the next, they’ll shift into a new
arrangement, with only a few seconds warning. This allows you to run the full
gamut of each dungeon, collecting items and turning each possible switch, but if
you get caught turning the shuffle, you’ll get hurt or killed.


AWAY Shuffle Dungeon promises to be
a pretty hefty DS game, with at least 30 hours of gameplay, depending on whether
or not you fly through the game or hunt down all of the hidden extras (in which
case it could be closer to 90 hours).

AWAY Shuffle Dungeon is turning out
to be a deep and engaging dungeon crawler with a unique touch and plenty of
exciting situations. Look for it this fall.


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