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The Adventures of Darwin (2007) Game Information

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950

Avg. Rating:

4.50/5

# of Ratings:

1

US Release Date:

06/25/2007

JP Release Date:

04/27/2006

Platform:

PlayStation 2

ESRB Rating:

E10+
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Developer:

Vingt-et-un Systems

Publisher:

D3 Publisher

Genres:

Strategy (Real-Time Strategy)

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The Game the Evangelicals Warned You About

“The Adventures of Darwin” (“AoD”) is one of the few games in the ‘Simple XXXX Series’ franchise to see release in North America. While the Japanese developer of this franchise, Vingt-et-un Systems (which means ‘21’ or ‘Blackjack’ in French) has been around since 1999, only three of their games, with “AoD” being the last, were ever released in North America and only eleven were released in Europe, leaving them a largely Japan-locked developer of budget games with generic titles. It would seem, then, that Vingt-et-un is the quintessential shovelware developer, especially with their outside-Japan publishing handled by trash magnate, D3. In fact, I had never heard of Vingt-et-un OR “AoD” before running into this game while working on the MeltedJoystick database. W...

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This game isn't really a Real-Time Strategy game. It's like "Pikmin" or "Overlord" or "Little King's Story" in that it focuses on a single group of weak characters united behind a single leader in order to accomplish significant things.

I'd like to propose that we dub a new subgenre of Strategy, the 'Personal Mob Strategy.'

Yes, that IS the acronym.

02/14/2013
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