SOLDIER ON: A NEW LOOK AT DE BLOB CREATOR’S SWORDS AND SOLDIERS

I’m getting so many vibes from this latest ‘story’ trailer it’s hard to tell them apart, but they’re all meshing in a very pleasing way: I see Worms, Defender, Patapon and a healthy dose of vaguely Castle Crashers style, and that’s just a cursory look.

Due for a downloadable WiiWare release in coming months from upstart Ronimo Games, Swords and Soldiers will be the Wii’s first big real-time strategy game, and its hook is that you do it all on a 2D sidescrolling plane.

For the skeptical, it should also be noted that Ronimo might be unproven in the commercial game space, but the team is the same behind de Blob, or rather, the original student team that created the 2006 prototype for the City of Utrecht (and they’ve even kindly linked my original writeup for Edge magazine), before THQ picked up on its brilliance and would turn it into one of the publisher’s leading original IP franchises, with a current Wii and iPhone release and sights set on an eventual DS version.

Swords and Soldiers home [Ronimo Games]