You may remember when Dreambox Games unveiled its debut title back in February with a batch of screenshots that grabbed fans of 2D platformers' attention. Rightly so too, with its beautifully hand-drawn visuals and unique art-style, the screenshots definitely earned the game some fans. Well, there's more where that came from as we're now treated to the first Robox trailer showing the game in action.
The game is primarily played holding the Wii Remote sideways and you can see why as the game is a very traditional 2D platformer in nature. Having said that, there will be points in the game where the player will have to aim the Wii Remote on-screen using the infra-red pointer, so that should mix things up nicely.
As well as different environmental levels to tackle, our protagonist will gain assistance from creatures that inhabit the strange planet, and will have several weapons and abilities to utilise if escape is to be achieved. Being able to see this game in motion fills us with confidence that this should be a title worth looking out for.
Robox has no fixed release date or price yet, but when we hear about it, you'll know.
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I really like the visuals and theme, I do love me some sci-fi goodness. Bit worried about the pacing though, looked a little slow.
Looks interesting. Anyone notice the battery meter in the top left? At first, I thought it was merely health, but at about 1:30-1:40 into the video he gets killed without getting hit by anything. Either the collision is not quite right or he ran out of juice.
Unlike most people,I don't really like the visuals and character designs but I like the music.
At first glance I thought the game looked boring but after about a minute into the trailer I got a better idea of how the game will play. My big complaint through observation seems to be that the character moves a bit too slow. Hopefully they'll have to time to iron out that sort of thing (as well as what SMW mentioned).
There were some spikes on the wall which could have caused the death though it didn't look like he quite touched them.
I like the slow pacing. It's fun to have games you can lay back and play rather than sit forward. While a different style game Machinarium is the best robot game I've played and that has really slow pacing.
Looks like another day one purchase for me. Wiiware is making me so broke
@Machu - I thought the same thing about the pacing being a little slow at first but it seems to be more about solving puzzles and interacting with the enviornment like an adventure game as opposed to a pure platformer, so the slow pace might suit it well.
I agree, the pacing does seem a bit slow, but at the same time it looks pretty fun.
Looks a lot like Boy and his Blob.
@2: I think he walked into the wall, actually.
But, puzzles or no puzzles, it looks pretty boring, IMO.
Eh, graphics aside, this looks pretty dull. Walk from point A to point B, carry object from A to B, shoot some baddies :-/ seen it all before a million times
The visual style catches my interest a lot, but the gameplay doesn't interest me a whole lot. Still looks sorta fun.
It looks a little slow from what the trailer shows and not too difficult. Still may be a buy for me.
Looks okay but not that impressed yet.
This game looks great. It's robot protagonist does remind me of Machinarium....I hope that game comes to Wiiware or something too.
Look like a game that tries to be special, but actually are plain dumb. Reminds me of Machinarium, but I think that may be because the developers want it to look like that game. But they lack the feeling that Machinarium has, and I actually find it kind of repelling.
But, this is just a early video. I hope it will prove to be a nice game when released.
Not really impressive, but I'll probably still get it. I love 2D platformers.
I dig the Art Style, but not the gameplay. Color me not exactly interested.' And Yet it Moves' on the otherhand....
looks good in motion but as everyone my only doubts are the slow pace of the character, still, looks like a lot of fun and i love the 2D platformers
Got to agree that it looks slow, too slow for traditional challenging platforming. Hopefully the puzzle elements will be great. I'm almost definitely going to get this anyway, any side-scroller with decent artwork pretty much has me sold.
Looks nice, but the combat seems boring and the character doesn't have much agility.
The game kinda looks like it was a bit of a exploration feel to it with a mix of action which is always something i love to see, im not too concerend with the pacing since some gmaes of this stye have somewhat slow pacing and have some item that increases the character's speed
Looks a tad generic, but who knows. We could be in for a surprise.
It looks very slow and uninteresting. There aren't nearly enough enemies. It's a shame, because this game looks great in stills - but the gameplay looks dull. Pass.
It looks really nice. I'm in for some Metroid-esque action! I'm almost surely getting it!
Wow, wiiware has been getting a lot of really cool looking platformers.
Looks interesting. As long as its not a disaster I will probably get this game. Thought the music was good. Had an Illusion of Gaia feel to it.
This couldn't be less interesting to me. I love platformers, but this looks dull.
Robox reminds me of WALL*E. It also moves about as fast as that overrated Pixar robot.
This is still a day one purchase from me.
Very pretty. I think they should have shown more of that boss battle at the end because that's the kind of thing I think could sell this game for people.
IF this is a puzzle platformer, I'm in!
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