sQueenix iNvades mY iPod
July 8th, 2008 by GregWell this is intriguing, and so so so bought when I get home: Square Enix just released a turn-based RPG for iPod. It’s called Song Summoner: The Unsung Heroes, and here’s why I think this has such potential for awesomeness: your allies are created by your iPod song library. Essentially what you do is upload a song into the game, it reads it, and creates an ally based on what the song is, with powers and stats determined by, I don’t know, how hard it rocks or if the programmers like Creed or whatever. And it’s on the cheap too; $4.99 has never left my wallet so fast.
I’m so excited about this because it reminds me of one of my favorite games for the PS1, Monster Rancher. (Yes, the one with the really stupid cartoon I shudder to even mention.) In that game you created pet monsters by inserting ANY compact disc into the PS1, having it read the data, then it gave you a monster based on whatever the hell it was looking for and you trained them to fight and what have you. There were even some super rare monsters you could only get by uploading the exact CD it was looking for, like Nevermind or Songs in the Key of G. I hope this game has stuff like that, and predict that the buying of random iTunes songs from yesteryear will increase five-fold.