Populous ds4/12/2023 ![]() ![]() The top screen graphics, showing the results of the dirty deeds being committed on the touch screen, is clean and attractive. Pretty by DS standards, Populous DS boasts a cute, but deadly, graphical style, one that is easy on the eyes. Kudos to EA Japan for this excellent use of Nintendo‘s technology. It is a nice touch, so to speak, and really makes the gameplay pop, lending a tactility generally lacking in all games, but severely so in strategy and war games. I can scarcely think of another game that so eagerly uses the touchscreen for every single control aspect. The most notable aspect of the DS edition of Populous is the wholehearted embrace of the stylus and touchscreen. ![]() This, when taken in concert with the various deities and the varying miracles they wield, makes for a near infinite number of scenarios, a number the developers came frighteningly close to achieving. The landscape determines how difficult landscaping is and each has vassals of differing temper and faith. Strange by any standard, when the Battle of Armageddon is initiated, the player loses control, active and passive, and watches the followers that were so eagerly garnered go to war with those of the nemesis, winner takes all.Įach of Populous DS‘s tile sets and the maps assembled from them have a unique challenge. By crushing the followers of the nemesis and helping the followers of the player’s appointed God, the stage is set for the Battle of Armageddon. Most miracles are of the Sodom type and not the Lazarus sort. The subjects create a wellspring of Psyche, which the God can use to perform miracles. Yeah, I think that plants are a little lame, too, but what can you do? The player’s God of choice squares off against a Demon or God, who similarly wields the strength an element lends, in an attempt to monopolize a tract of land.īy raising and lowering the land to create flat plots, the player’s God of choice creates a homeland for his or her subjects to inhabit. At the start of each game, the player selects a God to play as, each an elemental of earth, wind, water, fire, or plants. Populous DS is, at its heart, a game of comparative religion and the powers of belief. That being said, I think we have a winner here. I was and am aware that it was an early, if not launch, title for my beloved SNES, but I have no intimate knowledge of the series. Thing is, excepting one hardcore PC gamer, none had actually, you know, played a Populous game. To the man, each had heard great things about the Populous franchise and was interested in a new edition coming to the DS. As long as I have reviewed games, I have yet to encounter one that engendered the responses that Populous DS garnered as I played it around my friends. ![]()
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