GOOD TO BE BAD: NISA’S PSP DUNGEON-MAKER HOLY INVASION OF PRIVACY, BADMAN
Inching the PSP ever closer to Sony’s long promise of the hardware du jour for the experimental and bizarre, import RPG stalwarts NIS have announced that they’ll be localizing Acquire’s Yuusha no kuse ni namaiki da. (roughly translated variously as “For a hero, you’re pretty impudent/audacious.”) with the similarly unwieldy title, Holy Invasion of Privacy, Badman! What Did I Do To Deserve This?
Originally released in Japan in late 2007 (and having already seen a 2008 sequel), its hook lies somewhere along the same line of games like Bullfrog’s Dungeon Keeper or (vaguely) the PSP’s Dungeon Maker, albeit refreshed with more obvious retro-graphic appeal.
In it, you play the unseen creator of a subterranean dungeon (represented by a pickaxe that can carve out the labyrinthine tunnels) all in an effort to create an ecosystem of monsters that can resist a chain of invading heroes all trying to bring the dungeon’s overlord (the titular Badman) back to the surface.
It’s all slightly more intuitive and approachable as it sounds — having played through the original import demo version a number of times — and should be one of the handheld’s most interesting titles of the year (particularly given the PSP’s relatively light lineup detailed so far): at very least, it’s a game now solidly on my radar.
Holy Invasion of Privacy, Badman! What Did I Do To Deserve This? [NIS America]
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