http://nippon1.jp/consumer/torinohoshi/
http://www.dengekionline.com/data/news/ ... 9f98f.html
What draws me to this game is the possibility that it might offer a combination of mystery with the exhilaration of flight, two elements captured perfectly by Pilotwings and Myst, but never combined. Now I am not saying this will play anything like those two games -- all I am saying is that it gives off an impression that it might capture the mood of those two games, and that is possible without necessarily playing anything like them.
There's a video on the official site — worth watching but doesn't show any in-game footage:
http://nippon1.jp/consumer/torinohoshi/special/
Here's what jiji has to say about it:
jiji wrote:Here's something I didn't expect from NIS. It's a flight adventure game that has the player controlling a glider and exploring an alien planet that's 98% covered with water. You fly from island to island, using birds as your guide and getting them to recognize you as one of their own by recording and playing back their songs. You can name planet and animal species you come across, and you have to use bird behavior to identify which food is safe to gather and which is poisonous.
I'm getting a strong Aquanaut's Holiday vibe from this, but since the ultimate goal is to find your way back to the base camp you were separated from, it won't be quite so non-goal oriented. It looks like it'll have a very peaceful feeling to it, and since I love flight games AND pure exploration, I'm down for this.
And who is NK-System? I can't find any reference to them that's gaming-related. The only NK System co. ltd. that I can find makes... scientific instrumentation.
http://www.gamengai.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1827
