Namco gets picky with DS' QuickSpot
Don't be indifferent to the differences
To succeed at spot-the-difference, you need plenty of concentration and razor sharp attention to detail. To succeed at spot-the-difference, you need plenty of concentration and razor-sharp attention to detail.
See what we did there? Pocket Gamer's own little addition of fun to our otherwise dull existences…
Quite how this concept could be stretched over an entire DS game is less obvious.
Thankfully though, we're no game designers, as this is exactly what Namco Bandai is proposing with QuickSpot: 'a fast and challenging game of concentration, where the objective for the player is to spot the differences between two seemingly identical pictures and then circle the differences on the touchscreen.'
Looking at the first set of colourful screenshots, the game appears to be using plenty of back catalogue material, with characters from previous Namco Bandai games such as Ridge Racer, Katamari Damacy and Klonoa all featuring.
In keeping with the current conceit that playing DS games makes you smarter, QuickSpot will also track your brain activity, in terms of the intuition, concentration, recognition, stability, and the judgement you demonstrate while spotting those differences. The more brain points you earn, the more medals you'll receive.
As for modes, the main one is Rapid Play. This has 50 stages, which are split out into five levels, each of which ends with a boss battle. There's also Focus Play, which contains 140 unique pictures with 10 differences for the player to spot, and Today's Fortune, which will provide you with daily horoscopic hints for health, study, romance, and money. There are also three eight-player multiplayer modes.
QuickSpot is due for release sometime before this summer, but only if Namco Bandai can work out which is the finished version from the pile of almost finished ones.
