Info on the upcoming DN game:DEATH NOTE:KIRA GAME

Death Note: Kira Game
Released Date: February 15th 2007 in Japan
Pricing: 4,980 yen, or $41
Players: 1 - 2 Players
Game System: Nintendo DS
Language: Japanese
Synopsis: They’re describing the game as “recreating the psychological warfare between L and Light.” From what I can understand, you start the game as either L or Light, and try to trick your opponent into revealing themselves. In Light’s case, that would be revealing what L’s real name is or just convincing him that you are not Kira, and for L, revealing that Light is Kira. You’ll be doing this through asking questions to the other character, trying to get them to slip up in what they say. I’m guessing that this game is going to play like Phoenix Wright, except be ultra-serious.

The game will rate you on 3 things: Reliability in what you say, level of doubt from your opponent, and power of your speech. With L, you must secure a definite find on who is Kira, while as Light, you have to kill people off in secret. Towards the end of the investigation, you can poll everyone on the team as to who they think is Kira, which I think is an interesting feature.

There will be 11 stories throughout the game that are available to play though, which should be plenty challenging. Beyond that, there’s a special settings mode, where you’ll get to play under various conditions (these aren’t explained), as well as a Versus mode. Hooray! I really want to see how the Versus mode turns out. I think this will actually be a pretty awesome video game, from the looks of it.

Also featured on the site was the Death Note trading card game. Ugh, it seems that Light is heading the way of Yugi.

Sypnosis Credit:Japanator