Okay now maybe this post from a while back doesn’t mean I have a crystal ball or anything, but it sure is fun being right! According to Yahoo! Game News, D3Publisher has signed a contract with Cartoon Network for exclusive rights to publish video games based on Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi, the show based on the Japanese pop duo Puffy. The first game release is slated for the Gameboy Advance. I don’t know if they’ll go with a Parappa style music game or not, but one can hope that it won’t suck ass. Call me biased, but since D3Publisher is a Japanese video game publisher, I would guess that there is a good chance that the game will be good, or at least interesting since Puffy is still relatively popular Japan. On the other hand D3Publisher is primarily known for value titles, which could translate into games that are cheap, shallow, and have little polish. I tend to be optimistic, so I’m going to assume for now that we’re in for a nice treat and I won’t be reading about the game on Sean Baby’s crappy games page in EGM!
In other news, Puffy is coming to Chicago on Saturday, August 27th at the Vic theatre! So I guess I know where I’m going to be that weekend! Uh, if I’m lucky!