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Title: Nintendo Launches Polarium Site
Post by: D-Mac Double on April 10, 2005, 03:11:19 PM
Link: http://polarium.nintendods.com/

There's a few videos and a 4-level demo included on the site.
They have videos for Nintendogs, Pac Pix, and Retro Atari there as well...  
Title: RE: Nintendo Launches Polarium Site
Post by: joshnickerson on April 10, 2005, 05:09:06 PM
Holy crap, it's like that tile puzzle in Link's Awakening! Sweet!
Title: RE: Nintendo Launches Polarium Site
Post by: Bill Aurion on April 10, 2005, 05:28:34 PM
It's fun, can't wait to pick up my copy!
Title: RE: Nintendo Launches Polarium Site
Post by: Ian Sane on April 11, 2005, 10:22:49 AM
Well I just played the demo and I thought it was pretty fun.  I didn't know you could click on the grey area so I got stuck on the first puzzle for a bit.

This looks like it would be a lot of fun and I'll give Nintendo credit.  This is an innovative title that couldn't be done with a standard controller (though it could be played on a PC obviously) that is fun and doesn't seem gimmicky.  I especially like how they didn't make this Mario's Tile Flip and shoehorned a franchise in.  I'm not going to buy a DS just for this game but it's a game I will probably buy if/when I do get a DS.  And it's a title I would pay full price for.

This really needs a good TV ad because I could not tell at all what the game plays like from screenshots or descriptions.  You need to see this in motion.  No one is going to be sold by looking at the box in the store.
Title: RE: Nintendo Launches Polarium Site
Post by: altf4 on April 11, 2005, 06:25:36 PM
THat game looks and tests to be quite fun, and nintendogs looks like a game to give you an excuse to play DS which Is what i want really bad.
Title: RE: Nintendo Launches Polarium Site
Post by: Infernal Monkey on April 12, 2005, 04:51:22 AM
Polarium's cool. Though I hated it when I first got it, because holycrapbuckets the graphics and sound are the most depressing a video game has ever seen. And it was weird, because I knew the graphics were going to be basic. But still.

Anyway, Challenge Mode is very, very addictive. Tetris-like addictive. Blocks fall (wow!), and you have to be super quick to clear lines before the blocks pile too high. Faster and faster, tra la la. Game Over. There's 100 puzzles thrown in there, too. They look like things, it's outstanding in a cheap thrill kinda way. The puzzle I'm on at the moment looks like an umbrella. I was all WOW, AN UMBRELLA.  
Title: RE:Nintendo Launches Polarium Site
Post by: Miyamoto Osaki on April 12, 2005, 01:06:43 PM
Its ok I guess
Title: RE: Nintendo Launches Polarium Site
Post by: vudu on April 13, 2005, 08:55:55 AM
It looks fun, but they really should have put some harder puzzles on there.  Since the demo ones are so easy, it makes the game seem a lot simpler than I imagine it really is.
Title: RE: Nintendo Launches Polarium Site
Post by: cronotrigger913 on April 13, 2005, 09:08:23 AM
Wait, is Polarium out now in America? I know it comes out in April, but is it officially out? I've been waiting for a more than decent puzzle game for the DS, and if this is out, I might just go out and get it.
Title: RE: Nintendo Launches Polarium Site
Post by: Renny on April 13, 2005, 09:59:05 AM
April 18th.

Yeah, they should have a couple from the 20-30 range. I don't know how this game can sell. I don't think any kind of advertising will convey just how the game plays, or how fun it is. This could only reach people by word of mouth. Downloadable demos in stores wouldn't hurt.
Title: RE: Nintendo Launches Polarium Site
Post by: Stimutacs Addict on April 13, 2005, 12:34:58 PM
.. assuming NOA will get their acts together and get more downloadable content at retailer kiosks
Title: RE: Nintendo Launches Polarium Site
Post by: MaleficentOgre on April 14, 2005, 04:34:01 AM
they should have some from the 80-90 range.  *insert profanity here*  I implore all of you to pick this game up on the spot.
Title: RE: Nintendo Launches Polarium Site
Post by: Uglydot on April 14, 2005, 08:41:47 AM
I played the demo and have been looking foreward to this game.  Just feels so addictive.  I love games like this that I can enjoy between my classes and on my breaks.
Title: RE:Nintendo Launches Polarium Site
Post by: MrMojoRising on April 14, 2005, 09:05:18 AM
It was my birthday yesterday and I asked my mom if she would buy me it when it comes out, and she said yes! Yay!
I'm really freaking excited...and yes it's fine for a 19 year old to ask for birthday presents and scream yay...
Title: RE: Nintendo Launches Polarium Site
Post by: ib2kool4u912 on April 23, 2005, 11:15:44 AM
Anyone have the game? Is it worth getting a DS for? I've been looking for an excuse to get one for a while.
Title: RE: Nintendo Launches Polarium Site
Post by: KnowsNothing on April 24, 2005, 01:13:10 PM
It's meh.  I wouldn't buy a DS just for this game, I'd buy it for this game and Touch and Go and Wario Ware and Mario 64 and Band Brothers.

I put up a kind of review type thing in my gurnal.