Wow. This looks like a groundbreaker- beautifully simple, but concise cartoon design in a perfectly cool colored world of hip beats and percussional panic attacks. Thanks for turning the monitor in this direction, Amid.

It surely looks awesome and fun to play as well! BUT LocoRoco does come to mind :P

*Still cool though*

I still say Shigeru Miyamoto is the Walt Disney, nay, the Chuck Jones of video games.

The art style reminds me a bit of the game Michel Gagné is working on, “Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet”:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbzlgykYrRU

Looks an awful lot like Michel Gagne’s Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet
http://www.gagneint.com/itsp/itsp_main.htm

But not as good!

Ha ha! Way to go, Amid! As an professional animator and a not-so-professional gamer, it’s always so nice to see good games with a unique style make the highly-respectable Brew. Patapon premiered at this years’ Tokyo Game Show, and was a HUGE hit.
Oh, and Stephan, it’s by the LocoRoco team as well. :3
(If anyone wants to check out another viusally stunning game, check out any trailers or pictures for ‘Okami’ for the Playstation 2.)

It reminds me a bit of Michel Gagne’s work, which is the highest compliment I can pay it. Imaginative, easy, and fun.

Naturally, it’ll have zero attraction to the thickie twitch gamers who want things that blow up reeel good, but I think the Wii has demonstrated that that crowd is not your most lucrative market.

I can’t wait for Patapon! LocoRoco was wonderfully imaginative and very, very simple. I hope that Patapon is just as enthusiastically fun and easy to play.

Patapon and LocoRoco were both created at Sony’s Japan studio (although by different directors & teams), so at least they’re aping each other’s visual style within the same studio. :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfGrX0zzVp0

Good news for PSP owners: It’s just $20

http://blog.us.playstation.com/2008/01/21/patapon-pata-price-1999/

Now I have a good reason to get the game…

I also got the Gagne vibe from this– it is from a french based design house, where Gagne is “insanely” popular- pun intended. Hmmm, I’m sure it’s possible MG provided pre production groundwork design, because, if he didn’t, it will seem a tad slimey- Like Wizards neglecting to acknowledge Vaughn Bode’ work as the film’s wellspring of design, mood, story and style. May MG have a new audience to parlay from and make up any loss from them using his vision for their own devices—LITERALLY.