Twisted Dragon updated their site with more info on their upcoming Mini, Defenders of the Mystic Garden. As they previously mentioned, it’s a Tower Defense game where you must protect the gnomes’ garden from being pillaged by a horde of ravaging something or other.
You do this by placing a number of adventurers of various classes at certain points on the map who then attack the incoming invaders. Apparently they will patrol a given path rather than simply stay fixed like a tower, and they can also level up. As shown in the picture, each map has three different difficulties.
Laughing Jackal’s next upcoming Mini, Hungry Giraffe, has a release date of February 8th in Europe for members of PlayStation Plus and will be available to the rest of us 2 weeks later for £2.49/€3.49. No news on a release date for North America.
2 new Minis in the world this week.
Both Bermuda Triangle and Gold Medalist are SNK arcade classics.
*Red = New Worldwide
NA Minis
- *Bermuda Triangle ($2.99)
- *Gold Medalist ($2.99)
- Stick Man Rescue ($3.99)
EU Minis
- Mecho Wars (£3.99/€4.99) – Review
Price Drops
- Revoltin’ Youth – Permanent – (now $0.99, original price $1.99) – Review
- Mad Blocker Alpha – Permanent – (now $2.99, original price $3.99) – Review
- Ninjamurai – Permanent – (now $1.99, original price $2.99) – Review
PlayStation Plus
- Nothing
We continue our monthly look at user ratings of Minis on the PSN Store into the new year. There’s been a lot of minor movement in scores, so I guess a decent amount of people have been buying Minis for the holidays.
Mighty Flip Champs! DX – 4.81 Read the rest of ”Top User-Rated North American Minis—January 2012″ »
P.O.W. – Prisoners of War – 4.81
Prehistoric Isle – 4.77
Who’s That Flying?! – 4.69
The Impossible Game – 4.66
When Oyaji Games announced Mecho Wars for Minis a couple of years ago, it really caught my eye due to the nature of its gameplay (basically an Advance Wars clone) and the unusual style of the artwork. Apparently it was finished a long while ago (the iOS version came out in 2009), but for whatever reason, it didn’t finally come out until just now, published by Creat Studios (who, despite the name, mostly seem to be a publisher of Minis these days).
As mentioned, Mecho Wars is an Advance Wars clone, the long running and popular turn-based strategy game mostly found on Nintendo handhelds. To be fair, though, Advance Wars really only popularized the genre among console (or handheld) owners; the basic gameplay really dates back to Empire, which has spawned dozens, if not hundreds, of games over the last 35 years, including a Mini, History Egypt, and even a full-blown PSP game from Sony itself, Field Commander. Read the rest of ”Mecho Wars Review—Like Advance Wars on Something Besides Just a Handheld” »
Although the title artwork really reminds me of Gauntlet (except in this case, I think the Elf has more than enough food), apparently it’s a tower defense-style game. We had a lot of those early in the life of the Minis program, but there haven’t been any recently that I can recall.
