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A little trailer for Petit Eva
Maybe you've managed to become cynical enough that this doesn't faze you, but we're still overcome with a sense of "whaaaaa?" every time we're reminded of Petit Eva's existence. And that's fun! Publisher Namco Bandai (well, let's be honest, this is Bandai) has released a trailer of the puzzle/communication/minigame title that features the bouncy music and cute, upbeat narration you'd expect from Evangelion. As well as, uh, foot races between Shinji and a personified EVA-01.The trailer shows a bit of the "Heart Touch" gameplay, in which Shinji works to gain the approval of another character. Somehow this works out in this particular instance as "circling Asuka, watermelon, and cake."
Problem-solving in Petit Eva
This Petit Eva screen takes a bit of explaining, and we admit that we don't exactly know how it works logistically. Misato, the teacher, has lost all of her students' report cards, so Shinji and the rest of the class go to her home to help her look for them. But Misato's apartment is such a mess that it is deemed expedient to turn on fans and blow the clutter out of the way in the search for the missing report cards. You see now why Neon Genesis Evangelion is one of the greatest dramas in anime. In addition to "Touch Puzzles" like these, there will also be "Touch Action" segments which seem to involve clearing a path for a running Rei Ayanami clone, and "Heart Touch" segments in which Shinji must answer characters' questions correctly in order to boost relationships.Really, it's just like the original series: synchronizing brain function with a giant biomechanical robot in order to defeat supernatural monsters is roughly equivalent to moving the soccer ball.
Evangelion with all the weird parts taken out, and completely new weird parts added
You may know Neon Genesis Evangelion as a dense work with an inscrutable and debatable storyline built from religious, psychological, and philosophical themes. It's the giant robot anime with the completely nonsensical, abstract ending sequence. You may also know it as the source of a bunch of skeezy figurines and doujin comics. But Petit Eva is ... not those things.Petit Eva: Evangelion @ School, is, in fact, a reimagining of Evangelion as a super-deformed high school comedy. The three Eva pilots are now students at the NERV school under principal Gendo Ikari, and have to contend with bullying from EVA-01. Yes, the robot.Petit Eva is now being adapted into a DS game by Namco Bandai, and said game seems to be modeled after, of all things, Duck Amuck. It's a minigame collection in which events are triggered by interacting with various onscreen items. In the series of screens presented by Famitsu, Shinji and Asuka are fighting over some cake. We don't even think the cake represents unattainable happiness or anything. It's just yummy.
