Screenshots from Nintendo's foray into adventure games

[Great Rumbler]

In Another Code from Nintendo, it's up to you to uncover clues to a family's painful mystery. Featuring a riveting plot and unique puzzles that must be solved using the touch screen and microphone, Another Code breaks new ground in adventure gaming. Players can expect to encounter detailed environments populated with gritty characters. During play, one screen displays conversations while the other screen displays character actions.

Today we've got 12 screenshots and a movie showing you the gameplay in Another Code, which is set for a release in Japan on the 24th of February.

Cube-Europe

[A Black Falcon]

I wonder if it'll come out here...

[Dark Jaguar]

Oh great, they are doing that thing where "Oh look! The character is using a device that looks just like a DS but also it's a super computer techno thing! ISSS DA COOOL BECAUSE I HAVE ONE!"...

Um, anyway I really want this game. Seems interesting. The article is misleading though. This isn't Nintendo's first foray into adventure games. They made a lot of detective murder mystery games on the Famicom.

In other words, they have a precedent for this, namely NOT releasing their adventure games in America. Hopefully they will. I mean, at this point in time I really can't see Nintendo NOT doing that.

Oh, what I WOULD like to see is Nintendo's first foray into fully voice acted games. Well, actually Star Fox 64 was COMPLETELY voice acted (except the tutorial mode, but that doesn't really count). Adventure games like this are generally easy enough to get fully voice acted, that is, in comparison to something like an RPG (which generally are only partially voice acted, like, main story points are, everything else not so much).

[Great Rumbler]

If there are plans to release it over here, we should be hearing about them soon.

I really hope they release this game over, there's certainly no reason why they shouldn't, but this is Nintendo and they do things like this from time to time.

[lazyfatbum]

Do I have to play as the preteen white haired girl with the eating disorder?

[A Black Falcon]

Yeah, this is Nintendo, which is why I'm not hopeful to see it here. If we don't hear of it coming out soon after it's announced for Japan...

Well, just look at KuruKuru Kururin, Earthbound 1&2, etc.

[Great Rumbler]

Do I have to play as the preteen white haired girl with the eating disorder?

Either that or a spikey-haired young boy with a handful of easily marketable toys and a DREAM! And if you beat the game with both, you unlock a secret playable character: the middle-aged lighthouse operator who wears his hat backwards.