Get Ready to Be Sprayed

This holiday season, Wii owners have a lot to look forward to. Yes, this year doesn’t have any megaton games from Nintendo such as Super Mario Galaxy from last year or The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess from 2006, but this year has the long-awaited début of Animal Crossing on Wii. If that isn’t quite your cup of tea, there’s a slew of great third-party titles on the horizon. One of them is Temco’s own SPRay, a unique action adventure developed by Eko System.

Spirited Prince Ray

Just by looking at the name of the game, one can tell that SPRay isn’t your typical, casual-friendly game. For starters, the “SPR” in the tile stands for Spirited Prince Ray. The story revolves around a young prince who summoned a duo of spirits representing two sides of his personality, the good side and the not so good side. The duo is almost based on the tired, old cliché of an angel representing the good side and a devil representing the bad side.

Using the duo’s special powers, the young prince sets out to slay monsters and stop an evil queen’s reign of terror on his land. The angel-represented spirit spits liquids like water and ice, whereas the demon-represented spirit barfs vomit and slime. In order to complete some of the games puzzles, you’ll need to take advantage of their powers.

Puzzled

SPRay is largely-based off the famous trial and error concept. The game boasts a respawn system that drops you right back into the action when you die. Since the game is trying to appeal to younger gamers, the developers didn’t want them to feel bad because they tried something new and it didn’t quite work out.

Small Arsenal of Tools

You’ll begin the game with a very limited amount of sprays, just the water and vomit sprays, but as you progress through the game, opportunities will spring up that will allow you to acquire some new ones. Scattered throughout the game are crystals, which when collected can open new levels and grant the young prince new powers.

The various types of sprays in the game allows the prince to interact with his surrounding environment in a variety of ways. Enemies burst from anti-matter that pollutes the area, but since the prince has access to the liquid spray, he can easily clean up the mess. Other uses for the water spray involve moving objects that aren’t bolted down. In one scenario, players have to move a ball unto a pressure switch in order to unlock a bolted door.

The game’s other main spray, slime, will also prove to be a huge asset throughout the game. Primary uses for the spray include slowing you and enemies down to prevent you from falling off of a cliff and to slow down monsters. In addition to these, slime also allows you to cling to a ceiling and walk around, as well as gain access to hard-to-reach areas. If that isn’t your cup of tea, you can spray some vomit on a wall and jump into it to walk on walls. If you want to complete the game, you’ll need to be willing to try these things and see what happens.

Get Ready to Be SPRayed this October!

With almost every game trying to implement motion control in some way or another and failing at delivering an enjoyable experience, SPRay looks as though it can break away from the trend and still offer an enjoyable game even with motion control. In order to truly find out if SPRay breaks away from this pattern, we’ll have to wait until the end of the month when the game hits retailers.