1UP.com did a feature called the “Merchants of Cool,” where its writers dressed up as salesmen and “surveyed” gamers on a bunch of made-up upcoming games. The games were all ridiculously bad sales pitches, including a game called “Duty Calls” with an innovative new multiplayer mode called “Capture the Flag” (seriously, anyone who thinks capture the flag is innovative needs to get out from under their rock). But the idea of an innovative capture the flag game is where Fat Princess, an upcoming PSN game, will most likely succeed.
The goal of Fat Princess is to recapture your princess/human-flag from the enemy castle’s dungeon. However, your enemy can fatten your princess up with cake, which magically grows around the castle in a forest, of course, and make her harder to haul home over the 10 maps that the game will offer. The princess will lose weight if not constantly fed, and the game will provide five character classes (workers, archers, mages, warriors and “deadly” priests, according to the press release) to help get the job done. Characters can change jobs at any time by simply wearing a different hat and, when attacked on the battlefield, bleed buckets of blood in a way that seems entirely disproportionate to their tiny, chibi-sized bodies
The game can be played online with a 32-player mode, which sounds more than a little hectic with all those teams scrambling across the map, and has an offline mode as well. And it sports crisp, colorful graphics, which look like they’ll lend to the games comical charisma well. (and I sense the possibility of another cake meme spawning from this game). No release date has been set, but check back with MyGamer for more details as the become available.