QUEASY GAME: CAPYBARA’S RAINBOW ENGORGED CRITTER CRUNCH COMING TO PLAYSTATION 3

If you’ve been following the indie mobile scene for long, Toronto area dev Capybara Games‘ excellent puzzler Critter Crunch probably hasn’t escaped your attention: the original Java game took home the top prize at the 2008 IGF Mobile awards, which was followed soon afterward by an excellent iPhone port of the same.

Excellent pixels aside, the tiny screens have never quite done Critter‘s characters and soft vaguely-Miyazaki-esque woods justice, but, as witnessed above or as the embedded screenshots below the fold will tell, the upcoming full HD hand-animated PlayStation 3 downloadable version absolutely will.

As you might be able to suss out from the trailer, Critter‘s grid and pull/push gameplay is vaguely reminiscent of classic Neo-Geo puzzler Magical Drop, but with a key difference: rather than simply lining up like colors, the object here is to build food-chain, well, chains, with smaller critters eaten by the next size up, and to collect the crystals that fall when exploding critters clear out their similar neighbors.

Capybara say the game is due for release on the PSN this summer, with both co-op and versus local/network multiplayer modes, as well as Story, Puzzle, Challenge and Survival single-player modes. Hit the jump for more gently eye-searingly gorgeous full-res screenshots as above.

Critter Crunch PSN [Capybara]