You'd be forgiven for having not heard about indie game Drei yet, but we hate to break it to you - it's kind of a big deal. YouTube megastar PewDiePie declared it the "coolest puzzle game ever", so there you go!
A new version of of the award-winning puzzler by the marginally longer name of Dreii will be released in Autumn this year to Wii U and a whole slew of other consoles and devices. The really neat thing about this is that you'll be able to connect with players on rival platforms, as game director Christian Etter explains.
Dreii is all about connecting people. Once opening the game you will be secretly connected with all other players, in real time and across the globe. In the concept version this was only possible on specific devices. Being truly about uniting everybody we sat down with the people from all popular game platforms and talked to them about letting their players connect with the players from the rival platforms
It took a lot of persuasion, but now we're extremely happy to release Dreii on all seven major game platforms and let everybody play with each other – across different cultural and technical setups.
So this Autumn anyone who downloads Dreii will be able to play together regardless of what device they're using. For instance, a Wii U owner can sit next to Android user and battle logic and gravity united. A novel concept for an industry defined by harsh competition.
Bringing players together from all continents means that there is also a need to communicate across different languages. Mario von Rickenbach, the lead game maker of Dreii explains they will overcome this:
We settled on a hand-full of words that we thought would help to communicate with each other while completing the levels together. These words were translated into 19 different languages. From Hindi to Spanish. We even included an old Swiss language lying at the brink of extinction with only 40,000 speakers left worldwide. This simple but effective system allows everybody to communicate fastly and intuitively, without having to know each others languages.
The game will also feature faster physics than it's predecessor, brand new levels, as well as a new character specifically designed for Dreii.
Does Dreii sound like the game for you? If you are on the fence still, perhaps PewDiePie can convince you to add it to your watch list - be warned though, YouTube's most popular star swears in his videos.
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I hate pewdiepie and his fans with a passion >_> sorry
Aside of PewDiePie being about as credible as a drunk mafia debt collector, this looks kinda... meh. I dunno, it just leaves no impression on me at all.
Don't know who pewpew is, but I like puzzle games and if it has online, I'll give it a look.
heh... Pewdiepie.
LOL please. Pewdiepie is the worst, and so are his fans. He was probably paid to say this is the best puzzle game ever, because this game just doesn't look that fun. Besides, Professor Layton and the Unwound Future is the best puzzle game
@DarthNocturnal He's the most popular and well known Youtuber, and I think he has 37 million subscribers. It's a given that there has to be some people who hate him.
When they say "all seven major platforms" but don't include Xbox One or 3DS I'm going to assume that English is the developers' second language and that that's not exactly what they mean.
Also, F PDP.
@Aromaiden He is not the most popular, nor the most well known. There are others more famous. Sorry to break it to you.
@nintendude1229 Well considering he has the most subscribers and is constantly named and featured (especially when it involves youtube) I would have to disagree.
Edit: He has written his own book, had several games made about him and reference him, he even played a role in a show as popular as South Park, and the list goes on.
Sorry, but the coolest puzzle game for the Wii U is Captain Toad and that won't change
I could not possibly care any less about Pewdiepie. Seriously, I wonder why this guy has 10's of Millions of Subs on YouTube, when Chuggaaconroy, a guy that deserves way more than he puts in, is only just reaching 1 Million. How many 12 year olds and younger have a YouTube account and is Subscribed to this guy.
@ikki5 'Time for adverture'
@Aromaiden Wait, he wrote his own book!?
@NintendoFan64 Yeah. He called it "This Book Loves You" and it's coming out somewhere in October I think.
@Aromaiden Well that's...odd. PewDiePie is the last person I'd expect to write a book.
@NintendoFan64 : Not really. Its called greed. Became famous, then write a book for easy money.
Finally! A game with cross-platform multiplayer! Backing this just so I can show support of more games with the feature.
@nintendude1229 He has 38 million subscribers more then any other youtuber and get's paid more as well.How isn't he the most popular and well known?
Who the heck watches that garbage. and who really cares
@WiiUPS4Gamer Millions of people do actually.
Why did you guys link Pewdiepie's garbage on here? I expect more from Nintendolife.
And of course since everybody hates Pewdiepie for no reason what so ever the comments is nothing but people crapping on Pewdiepie instead of talking about the game itself. It's ok to dislike the guy's content, but to throw a fit/get triggered every time he's mentioned and completely hate him is just retarded.
"You'd be forgiven for having not heard about indie game Drei yet, but we hate to break it to you - it's kind of a big deal. YouTube megastar PewDiePie declared it the "coolest puzzle game ever", so there you go!"
Except PewDiePie is garbage and his popularity =/= his words hold any water. It's like this article's writer knew this fire would burn and yet they spilled gasoline all over it anyway.
This game's ideas sound interesting though, but I'm going to wait a while before saying it looks good or bad, and I sure as hell am not watching CancerPie's any views.
Congratz, NL. Y'all just unsold a game. Mentioning one of the lowest quality YouTubers was completely unnecessary and this game looks similar to Art of Balance, so I'm not really interested either way.
What, is Pewdiepie the Oprah of video gaming or something?
It's just Art of Balance but less pretty so i probably won't buy it. All the 9 year olds who love Pewdiepie will buy it and then he will get a huge cut of the profits. I bet if you offered him money, he'd say any game was the coolest puzzle game ever.
Yuck, pewdiepie. That's all I have.
Ewwwww pewdiepie
Is it just me or is everyone in the comments just hating pewdiepie, instead of actually talking about the game.
theRadBrad is where it's at.
The game itself looks pretty decent, though I feel it was unnecessary to mention PewDiePie. looks at the comments
Congrats to NL for giving another game a bad rep.
@BLPs And that just flat out sucks. I'd rather see the quality of a Chuggaaconroy video, then watch somebody scream at a game.
Really? Pewdiepie? All this guy does is make a skeptical of himself for free fan money shipped to his door.. it's disgusting how he cheats the youtube system and people actually like his content and praise him for doing so. Markiplier and similar youtubers don't do what they do for money, they have an occasional partnership, and raise money for charity, but pewd gets anything he wants for free right to his door.. some youtubers actually work and edit for a hobby, pewds just clicks upload and receives a ton of gifts..
He doesn't play games to advertise them and show them off for others to try out, he just does it for views. Yeah, I guess gifts are gift, it's the fan's fault for supporting the guy, it's not like he ask for them, but the fact everybody has his address just shows how praise craving he is that he needs fan mail everyday.. Pewds was probably paid to try this game out.
What I can't get over, is how many people talk about him, yet he's somehow still up there as youtube's #1 gaming channel.. you'd think people would stop clicking. I used to watch him, but stopped after awhile.
Aside from that, I don't know what this actual game is.. I simply didn't watch the video knowing what I'd be in for (somebody tell me if I'm correct... yelling, swearing, and cruel humor?) so I can only judge by the description written in the article, it seems interesting.
@MegaBeedrill Actually he has done several events in the past to raise money for charity.
@Iggy One of the main reasons is probably because Pewdiepie and Nintendo don't go well together.
How much was this pewdiepie tipped to shill it? LOL
Well, this game looks... alright, I suppose. The cross-platform multiplayer certainly is interesting, though. If it can happen here, surely it can happen more often, right?
And now, I must join in with the surprisingly large group of people that doesn't like PewDiePie. His stuff just isn't for me, and I can't honestly understand why he is as popular as he is. I'm glad Chuggaaconroy was mentioned here, as he's the perfect example of someone who deserves all the attention he gets.
@Ventilator Writing a book isn't easy at all, so it wouldn't be "easy money."
@sWiTcHeRoO I'm preeeetty sure he (the guy who wrote the article) was being sarcastic.
@ikki5 Captain Toad all the way!
Ha i always find it funny when people hate on this guy, but when you look at his sub count o_O some of you guys arent be truthful, im thinking how many of you are actually subbed to him but like to front so hard and start hating on him at the same time like it was just something to do.. Be original ~
Jesus Christ, coud that guy be more annoying? The fact that he's "youtube's greatest star" is frankly something I will never understand.
@Mus1cLov3r : Nearly noone writes a book themselves. they have other people doing it for them.
@Ventilator
Since my mother is an author, books are infact written by only one indivigual. When an Author publishes a book, they look over it for content suitability.. but the Author is the only one who can write the content, since a written story is one's imagination.. if it's made by multiple people, then it goes off track from what the author's intentions were. (see shakespeare.)
If pewds is writing a book himself, good for him. Nothing wrong with that, his reputation on youtube for cheating the system will still be an ever lasting scar though.
@MegaBeedrill : I forgot to mention that most celebs don't write the books themselves. They provide info, but others is writing it.
Book authors is a different thing.
As for PukeDeePie.. If he leaved out that he cheated in the book, then its worthless already.
Pewdiepie? Dreii?
I'm sorry but as someone of 38 years vintage it looks like someone has just mashed their hand on the keyboard to get random nonsensical letters
@Aromaiden I read somewhere that he has more subs than any other utuber, though that doesnt make him the best.
@Calllack Yeah, he is by no means the best, because I've seen plenty of people put more dedication and hard work into their videos than Pewdiepie ever has. Although he is the most popular.
Hmm...I knew people hate Pewds, but not this many and for such petty reasons. Frankly, the guy annoys the Hell out of me and he squeals at a higher pitch than my 3-year-old nephew, but above all that he whined about Nintendo wanting to get a cut of his royalties for playing their games.
Some people saw that as greed on Nintendo's part, but knowing just how popular Pewds is, how influential he is and how he's constantly showered with money and gifts: Not wanting to pay the royalties to Nintendo is just plain greed on his part.
Do you even spare change, bro?
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