You always know where you are with Yuji Naka. Like so many of the best individualist Japanese game creators, he seems to operate carefully and quietly inside a rainbow-colored bubble floating high, high above the turd-brown modern gaming landscape of FPSes and BIG WAR. He probably doesn’t even know what a “space marine” is. So it’s quite appropriate that Prope, his preciously constructed team of developers, would produce something like this:
And it’s just a predictable (in a good way) that, having perched Ivy on the DS and Wii last month, Yuji Naka and his people would follow that up with the release of a book guaranteed to delight any child who has yet to learn what a “space marine” is. If that’s YOU, lucky reader, get along to Amazon.co.jp and order a copy of this 28-page marvel right away.
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