The Game With No Name horror adventure from Square Enix looking scary on DS
Japanese gaming magazine Famitsu has revealed the first screenshots of the newly announced Nintendo DS game Nanashi no Geemu (which translates as “The Game With No Name” in English). Only a Japanese release date has been announced for July 3rd, 2008.
In the single player horror adventure game you play as a character whose friend disappears from school one day. Exploring the friend’s home, you discover that he’d just received a new videogame. While resembling a classic 2D RPG, this game is actually said to be cursed. It’s believed that those who play this game die within a week.
The DS game takes place from a first person perspective. You play by holding the handheld rotated 90 degrees, like a book, with the world expanding out before you in 3D on both screens. All your actions are controlled with the stylus — everything from moving forward and looking up, to opening a door.
Outside of being a rare first person 3D game for the DS, the title also makes use of a technology that makes two speakers produce 3D sound. You’ll apparently be able to hear sounds coming from behind you. Scary! Square Enix recommends that players play the title with headphones.
The Game With No Name gameplay trailer:
Translation from Japanese by IGN.
Isn’t the name of the game “The game with no name” quite the twist 
Looks good!
Very interesting! Combining survival horror with an RPG is something that hasn’t been done before.
I don’t know what to think about the perspective that stretches across both screens when you’re in the first person sections. Maybe it’ll be better when you’re actually playing, but it seems disorienting. And since you only look with one screen, it would seem to me that you’d focus most of your attention on that screen. So the dual-view doesn’t really make sense.
Very interesting nonetheless.
