When I posted aboutTokyo Jungleyesterday, I noted that the game promised something called “hunting action.” Many of you took this to mean thatTokyo Junglewas yet another contender forMonster Hunter‘s dominance of the monster-hunting game space, except this time involving real-life endangered species.
However, now that our available information level has upgraded from “blurryFamitsuscans” to “low-resFamitsuscreens”, you might be happy (or disappointed) to know thatTokyo Jungleis noMonster Hunterclone. Instead, it looks like a weird sort of side-scrolling action-adventure, where you play as ananimalroaming the apparently depopulated city of Tokyo in the year 20XX. Yes, friends, they still use “20XX” as a year designation.
The game’s “story mode” takes you through a campaign focusing on the trials and tribulations of several newly liberated animals, including a racehorse looking for competition and a pomeranian looking for snacks. “Survival mode” has you, well, survive as any of over 80 selectable animals, including lions, tigers, crocodiles, beagles, and what is clearly a reference to Japan’s genius chimpanzee,Pan-kun.
Now, if you’re wondering how, exactly, those crazy people at Sony thought of something like this, know thatTokyo Junglecomes from thePlayStation C.A.M.P.(for “Creator Audition Mashup Project), a development initiative that spawned such titles asEchochrome,Patchwork Heroes, and theMy Lord/Badmanseries.
So yeah, weird. And totally desirable! Are you in? Willyoube thecontrolleranimal?!
