Console allegiances aside, there’s one thing no one can dispute; Nintendo knows how to surprise people.
The company released today the curiously titled, surprisingly stylish Art Style: Orbient to WiiWare, a remake of the 2006 GameBoy Advance title Orbital. It’s available in the Wii Shop Channel for 600 Wii Points.
The Art Style series is a remake of the Bit Generations games, a series of seven Nintendo games released for the GBA in Japan in 2006. The series was popular for its simply controls and stylish presentation.
It seems as if they’re remaking all of these games for WiiWare, with slightly different branding. In the U.S., the series is called Art Style, and the first game in the series is called Orbient, based on Orbital from the original portable series.
Coincidentally, this is the one I sunk the most time into: You’re a tiny celestial body, and you have to orbit around larger ones, using their gravity to move around and collide with other planets and stars and rocks.
Nintendo says that two more Art Style games will be released here this month. Six of the games, including Orbital, were developed by Chibi-Robo maker Skip; the final game Digidrive was by Pixeljunk Eden creator Q-Games. — Wired
Art Style: Orbient is a first-party surprise no one expected, perhaps a subtle foretelling of what’s in store for Nintendo’s upcoming fall press conference due to start later this week.
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