Yumi’s Odd Odyssey
Well, I guess I should celebrate as one of my all time favorite games–Umihara Kawase–is getting brought to the US, finally. Unfortunately it’s the PSP version and not something great like an import on the PSN store for my PS3, but I’ll take what I can get.
Umihara Kawase is a strange and wonderful game about mastery and giant walking fish. I did a write up about the game a couple years ago for GameSetWatch (found here). That says just about all there is to say about the original.: UK:Shun (which the PSP version is based on) is not all that different, but mechaniclly it is a bit looser and the design is a bit more complex, but overall a very similar experience.
While there’s no release date yet (not even a fake one at Game Stop), you can play the PSP demo (JP, but works on all consoles) from here. Natsume is the US publisher which will be releasing the game in the states under the new title Yumi’s Odd Odyssey. I don’t know what sort of planetary alignment happen to make this possible, but I’m just glad it did. It seems like there’s less and less games left abandoned on the shores of the land of the rising sun these days than ever.
i agree that it’s pretty exciting to see this brought over, although natsume might have their work cut out for them with bugfixes. i haven’t looked too deep but some of the issues demoed on youtube look game-destroyingly bad.
not that i do that well at the game anyway, i never mastered latching the hook to the ground, running back and using the momentum to spring you forward. using a dual shock for this game makes me long for a saturn ps2 pad.
Your small magazine
And a new issue for it
Where can I find this?
It’s eventually coming. I fear that it may be the last lest I find someone else to take over.