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Sprung

Developer: Ubisoft; Publisher: Ubisoft
Preview by (23 March 2005)



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DATING SIMULATORS HAVE NEVER been a big thing out of Japan - not quite sure why it's a big thing in Japan - but the Western world has never seen a real reason to date someone inside a fictional world. However, the guys at Ubisoft have decided it was time to make at least one dating simulator known to the world, and the best thing is... it's portable.

In Mario's world, hooking up is cut-and-dried. You rescue the princess, you live happily ever after. The quirky, flirty Sprung lets you in on the realities of dating for the rest of us.

  • More than 50 missions
  • Learn the characters' emotions
  • Bonus minigames
Set at Snowbird Mountain, a ski resort in Colorado, Sprung puts you face-to-face with members of the opposite sex and challenges you to say the right thing at the right time. If you can, you might score a date with the hottest guy or gal on the mountain. If not, make an "L" with your thumb and finger and place it on your forehead. This text-based game puts you in many different, sometimes racy, scenarios you need to talk your way out of. Your character (whether you choose the boy or the girl) is shown on the bottom Nintendo DS screen and the person you're talking to shows up on the top.

When it's your turn to talk, choices appear in a box on the touch screen and the conversation begins. If you say the wrong thing, the person you're talking to will end the conversation and you'll need to start the scene over and take a different path. Most of the choices in text range from nice and sweet to condescending to flirty and sexy. And that's just the half of it.

Sometimes it's not what you say, it's how you say it. Check out the body language your character gives off before you select the text. You might run into a situation where you have three responses and they're all the same word. The body language associated with each phrase will make sure the person you're talking to get what you're trying to say.

Sprung isn't all talk. When you impress people with your words or make them think you're their friend, they'll give you items you can use down the road, including pepper spray and a book of Golden Lines. Experiment with these items, or if worse comes to worse, pepper spray someone and feel better about your self-defence skills.



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