We'll be honest, we've seen much better holiday line-ups than this year's. Seemingly every major release is getting delayed on other consoles, and although Nintendo has some good-looking games ready for winter, New Super Mario Bros. Wii has so far left us a tad disappointed (and let's just ignore Wii Fit Plus).
Editors Brett Elston and Chris Antista took some time last week to interview representatives from some of the biggest games Comic-Con 2009 had to offer.
Developers Vanillaware have created a mothers-lock-up-your-daughters looker; a rich, hand-drawn 2D world, a warm bath of colour that begs your eyes to soak in it. Like the recent Wario Land, 2D enables the kind of intricate art design that would crush a 3D game. The demo opens in a dark bamboo forest – pea-green stalks in the foreground parallax-scrolling against a static background to give the impression of depth.