Pop Island and follow-up Pop Island: Paperfield are among the best-looking titles on DSiWare, and now developer odenis studio is putting that graphical grunt to a different use in the form of Glory Days - Tactical Defense.
A military-styled take on tower defence, Glory Days sees you building bases, rocket launchers and other weapons to fend off enemy onslaughts. Running at a solid 60fps with up to 300 units on screen at any time, it looks like setting another technical milestone for DSiWare, and you can see the game running in this real-time trailer below.
Olivier Denis from odenis studio tells us the game is finished and has been submitted to Nintendo of America for approval. When asked why the game is so graphically impressive, Denis said:
If the 3D engine is really at this level, it's because we are using the extra power of the Nintendo DSi CPU.
Revel in the graphical and tactical glory below.
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Looks good, I'll probably get it,
Hehe, Pop Island: Modern Warfare Looks nice though, might get it if the price is right.
Nice, I always intended to pick up Glory Days but never got the chance... I shall pick this up and enjoy!
Wow color me impressed! I could always use another tower defense game!
If its good and priced like Odenis Studio's latest game (I still need to play Paperfield), then I'll get it. I have the original Pop Island. It has pretty good content for the price, but I felt there was less of a sense of purpose. Hopefully, this new take on the game will remedy that issue.
Looks good. I agree with shinesprite. Pop Island was good but there was an overall feeling of "what is the point?". Hopefully, this will have more of a story line or missions to complete.
I think they should switch the screens around and have the map on the top screen so that you can use the stylus instead of that stupid cube.
Yes! More odenis studio stuff!
They should have added The Animals.
It would be a Funny To shoot at the Penguins
As I suspected: Paperfield was a side-product of making Glory Days!
I just wish it was a proper Glory days game, not a tower defense. GD2 was the best Armor Alley implementation I've played.
Portable Tower Defense games are always great for me and this looks to be a very fun and fast release in the genre. Still waiting for a price point but it will probably be 500 considering their past couple of releases.
Woah... this looks great! I haven't played any of those "tower defense" games that I hear are all the rage these days, but after being very impressed by Pop Island I'm very excited to try this one out.
As I posten on the game's page, this looks great! But what I really hope for to set it apart from other tower defence games is a co-op mode. Two (or more) players work together to build a defence, each having his/her own resources. Would be really fun and might work considering how well Pop Island did multiplayer, with single-cart mode and all.
Glory Days?? Holy crap
I hear nothing but good things about this one so unless Ninty tries to charge us 800np's for this I'll for sure id* Glory Days.
If this is anything like the GBA and DS Glory Days games, I'll be sure to buy it.
Finally an app that my friend will actually play other than Fieldrunners.
Interesting. It's almost like a star ship defense with pop island graphics. If it gets a good review, I might get it.
AWESOME! I love tower defense games, and I love Pop Island. I am going to get this.
Olivier Denis, you are a genius.
Looks good, but a lot of repetition.
Was Odenis the people who created the Glory Days games?
This looks really good. I can see that they took a lot from pop island though. The company focuses specifically on the battle system for the game so don't expect story but a very easy pick up and play game that is incredibly fun.
@mariofanatic- You can switch the screens on both Pop Islands, so I think you probably can to the extent of you guide the cube with the stylus.
And I'll probably have to get it. I mean, Pop Island (aperfield) was really good, so yeah.
Was Odenis the people who created the Glory Days games?
Yep.
Quite on the fence, mainly because tower defense isn't really my genre, also I stopped purchasing DSiWare after Shantae came out.
But still....
Also, I see that the vehicles in the game were all in Pop Island - Paperfield!
@Sylverstone I noticed that too.
it's like.. killing small soldiers and destroying stuff in a cute way, i may get this
Over one month later, I wonder why there is a delay in announcing the release date?
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