March 4^th, 2005 (11:50am) - The Nintendo DS has lent itself well to a number of interesting gameplay types since its release. Games like WarioWare Touched!, Feel the Magic, Pac Pix, and Jam with the Band, have offered DS owners unique and sometimes innovative gameplay that is comprised of dozens of mini-games. Well, get ready to add another game to this growing list of wacky Japanese software with Electro Plankton. Yes, you read that right. This game is indeed named after a fish, but alas, it is not clone of Sega’s Seaman (which admittedly would lend itself well to the DS).

Coming from the mind of the contemporary Japanese musician, Toshio Iwai, Electro Plankton is musically driven videogame for the Nintendo DS that is expected to assault the senses of gamers like no other videogame in the past has ever done. The game takes place in a water-based world where ten types of "electric plankton" exist and react to a player’s touch and voice to create unique visual images and sounds.

Readers can get their first glimpse of the game by viewing its Japanese website at http://electroplankton.com/. After viewing the game’s trailer, which can be seen by clicking on the left-most bubble, I’m sure many readers will at least be intrigued by the game.

Electro Plankton will be distributed by Nintendo in Japan on April 7th. Nintendo is referring to the game as "Touchable Media Art."