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Square Enix telling 'The Tales of Bearsworth Manor' on WiiWare this month
Kingdom Hearts Re:Coded isn't the only new announcement in Square Enix's E3 lineup. In addition, the company revealed two games called "The Tales of Bearsworth Manor" for WiiWare, which are North American versions of the Kumanage games released in Japan this week. The Tales of Bearsworth Manor: Chaotic Conflicts tasks players with throwing paper bears "into the pages of an unusual picture book" to affect "frantic battles," while throwing paper bears in The Tales of Bearsworth Manor: Puzzling Pages is the method through which players "solve innovative puzzles." Completing both games apparently reveals "an even deeper mystery." Both games will be available in North America on June 21.
Bear witness to Square Enix's new WiiWare game, Kumanage
Square Enix has unveiled something really weird for WiiWare. Kumanage is a pair of WiiWare games set inside a mysterious, living picture book, full of things you interact with by ... throwing paper bears at them. Couldn't Square Enix come up with something original? The two different versions of the game appear to take place in two different books, with two different characters as player avatars. According to Andriasang, "Kiina's" volume is about protecting a blue gem from "strange but cute" characters, while "Piina's" volume is about collecting red candy. Kiina's game is subtitled "puzzle" while Piina's game is subtitled "battle," suggesting more fundamental differences. We'll find out soon enough, as both games will be available in Japan on June 8, and the Japanese teaser site displays an ESRB rating, indicating a North American release is also on the way. %Gallery-94286% [Via Andriasang]
