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Electroplankton Nintendo DS Game
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UPC:045496737061
Condition:Used
Genre:Other
Platform:Nintendo DS
Region:Region Free
ESRB:Everyone
SKU:DS_ELECTROPLANKTON
———This game is fully cleaned, tested & working. Includes the Disc/Cartridge Only. May have some minor scratches/scuffs.This description was last updated on October 28th, 2020.
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This game is a very hard gem to find in local stores that I have been to. I got it for my father as a birthday present and he loved it. He has been looking for this game for a long time but everywhere he went it was sold out.
If you can imagine Brian Eno and Isao Tomita conspiring together to create a mixed-media installation of interactive Frippertronics, this is what it would be.Amazing.The musical samples are superb and the interface is so simple that non-musician octagenarians can immediately create tunes like Eno or George Winston.Thank you, Toshio Iwai. You are a sublime genius.The modes that let you mutate your recorded voice and do loops with insane sound effects from old NES games are pretty fun, but there is some real depth and beauty in this software.If you’re a musician, artist, technogeek or Japanophile, check it out.
As the title states, Elektroplankton is a collection of different musical instruments. I would love to be able to save things, and a non-homebrew sequencer/synth app would be amazing (though the DS isn’t powerful enough for much there). However, I also love that I can approach Electroplankton like my guitar or keyboards. I just open it up, and start playing. I play whatever comes to mind, or the Plankton’s mind, and enjoy myself. I find I can come up with something interesting with all the Plankton, though I do have a few favorites.I would love to see a sequel to this application, things like this are why I favor my DS more than my PSP; originality. The PSP looks gorgeous, and crushes the DS in raw processor and graphical grunt; but the DS is just more fun for me, and that is what counts (to me).Whether I am launching some Hanenbow, altering the path of the Luminaria (which I would love the ability to stop them moving individually), setting some ambience with Lumiloop, or whatever, I can come up with some pretty nice sounding music and not just wacked out experimental stuff.I can even use a lot of this stuff in other songs I write; just plug up the DS to my recorder and go. I am also considering composing an entire song using just Electroplankton. Should be interesting to see what I can come up with.This is an amazing app, and if you are interested in electronic music, innovative, intuitive ways of playing, etc, you should definitely buy Electroplankton. Electroplank.
When I first looked at this game I thought it was an interesting comcept, but nothing special. It seemed like one of these gimmicky toys that would force you to make the music IT wanted you to make… but how wrong i was. Instead you have the unlimited ability to produce some jazzy, haunting, mysterious and often beautiful music. It’s so easy to pick up and play that even the most tone deaf can enjoy it. The visuals – though simple – can be astonishing at times, and the music – the star of the show – is just sublime. I highly recommend this game to everyone out there, but urge you to read the manual too, as it explains some really cool tricks (and also smells tremendous!). So PLEASE just buy it now!!
Electroplankton is not a video game! Let this be known. It is a work of art made by the eccentric Toshio Iwai who’s art is based around combining audio and vision. Your interaction with the plankton in the game generates sounds, but there is no goal, no score, not even a save mode. It is almost like an instrument. So, if you have a creative side, and maybe find yourself tapping on your table while you work, I’d highly recommend this game (if you can find a legitimate copy). I’ve generated some cool loops in Hanenbow (a level where you bounce plankton off leaves in the level to generate sounds), and then I’ll turn up the volume, set it aside and work to that beat. It gives me a sense of pride to know that I made the music I’m listening to.Anyway, this game is the original non-game for DS, way before Nintendogs, Brain Age, and all the other games made for non-gamers and gamers alike. Don’t miss out! If you can get Electroplankton, you’ll experience interactive art at its finest.
Getting back to the analogy of Electroplankton as a visual-musical instrument of sorts, that is almost what you can expect from this game. Some people complain that there is no save feature. If you are ever reading something and someone says that the game should have a save feature, I will bet you $15 [not really] that that person has not played the game. Imagine playing a piano, or any other instrument. There’s no sheet music in front of you. You hit a couple of notes, and you think they sound pretty good together. But did anything `save’? Nope. You want to hear those notes again? Go ahead, play them again. And if you can’t remember them, then you get to play around with more notes until you find them, by which point you will probably have found another sequence of notes that sound good together. That’s the essence of Electroplankton; it’s all about experimentation, which in turn can produce pleasing audio and video patterns. Not necessarily music, and not necessarily a movie, but a little of both. And continuing the piano analogy, you could sit down at a piano and spend thirty seconds playing every single note on the piano. I’ve done it, it can be pretty amusing. But even if you do, you have yet to hear even a tiny fraction of the sound that piano can produce. Only when someone uses those notes in a creative way is anything accomplished.So let’s talk about Electroplankton itself, finally. It probably takes longer to just explain the principle behind it than how the game wor.
Electroplankton is not a game at all, but it is very fun and can keep your attention like (or better than in my case) a game. The prices that rip off artists are trying to charge is ridiculous, though. You might be able to find a more reasonable price at a -ahem- online auction (wink, wink). I would really like to see this re-released and/or released for the Wii. I think the market would be better now, since the DS and DS Lite were originally aimed more at pre-teens. My wife and I both have DS’s and find many titles entertaining and helpful (Brain Age, etc…). I think the musical capabilities far exceed Wii Music (which I also like).
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This game rocks, literally. It gives gamers a chance to create their own brand of music, to their own individual liking. This game is innovative and unique and a must-have for all Nintendo DS owners. However, if you play the game for too many days in a row, say three in a row, the game may tend to become stale, but if you stop playing for awhile, let’s say a week or so, and then you play this game once again, it feels as if you are playing it for the first time again. I hope my review is able to help potential buyers out there. This game is really good.
It’s the kind of ‘game’ that you pick up when you’re really bored, or just feeling the urge to be creative. However, the novelty wears off quickly, and the lack of ability to save your creations is a major drawback. It is pretty soothing, though.