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Tengen Toppa Gurren-Lagann + Bonus DVD
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NCS
Game Synopsis
«©NCS»
It's been a while since Gainax has developed a new
property. The company has been coasting along on
the winds of the wildly successful Evangelion
series which has permeated Japanese culture for
the better part of a decade. Earlier this year,
Gainax released Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann
on TV Tokyo and captured a reasonably strong
viewership. As is common with popular franchises,
the seeding of other forms of media follows the
primary property and we get a crack at the
portable video game version this week. The NDS
action-adventure follows the storyline of the
animation but introduces new characters and
stylus-based interaction/action.
The game is broken up into interaction sequences where Simon speaks
to fellow diggers and non-player characters
encountered during the course of the adventure.
When certain junctures are reached, players engage
in action-packed Gunmen mech battles where the
touchpen is used to control the movement,
firepower, and defensive maneuvers. Battles are
fought on the top NDS screen while the touch
screen shows the control panel as well as a
grid-based local area map. Occasionally, a
mini-game pops up for some quick stylus-based
interaction.
In the far flung future, a contingent of the human population has
moved from an unwelcome surface to underground
cities deep within the womb of the Earth. Isolated
from the topsiders as well as other underground
cities, the subterranean civilizations are self
sufficient. Due to the wreckage caused by constant
earthquakes, service people known as diggers
excavate new living quarters deeper into the
Earth. The story of Toppa Gurren Lagann begins in
Jiiha Village where a teenage digger named Simon
finds a special key and is eventually brought into
the fold of a digger group known as the Gurren
Brigade which is led by an eccentric youth named
Kamina.
One day while digging, Simon discovers a robot in a tunnel. As he
runs to notify Kamina about his discovery, a
massive cave-in occurs from overhead where a robot
tumbles down into Jiiha Village. A villager named
Yoko tries to fend off the robot with a gun but
she can't do much with a peashooter against a
giant. Simon recalls the robot he found earlier
and discovers that the key he found can be used to
power-up the robot. With deft handling and skill,
Simon takes control of the robot and destroys the
interloper. In the process, Simon is able to power
up into the surface world. Soon, the trio of
Simon, Yoko, and Kamina discover that robots known
as Gunmen run rampant and cause trouble for the
surface dwellers.
With Yoko's guidance, Simon and Kamina pilot the
robot and destroy a few more Gunmen and resolve to
help the topsiders rid the menace of the Gunmen
once and for all. Along their travels, Simon and
Kamina meet others to form the Great Gurren
Brigade which eventually demolish the Gunmen and
allow peace to reign once more.
Bonus Schwag
Every copy of
Tengen Toppa Gurren-Lagann
is
bundled with a special edition animation DVD which
features an original 13-minute episode that serves
as a prologue to the story in the animation
series. Please note the DVD is region-2 and will
only play on Japanese territory DVD players or
modified all-region DVD players which are about as
common as grains of sand on the beach.
Jan Code: 4988602136258
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