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Fossil Fighters
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Most creature-collecting games let you find your monsters. Fossil Fighters makes you excavate them. Released in Japan in 2008 and in North America in August 2009, Nintendo's prehistoric RPG hands you a hammer and a drill and sends you across the dig sites of Vivosaur Island in search of fossil rocks, and every creature on your team starts life as a lump of stone you cleaned yourself.
That cleaning minigame is what everyone remembers. You get a tight time limit, usually around 90 seconds, to chip away rock on the touchscreen, using the hammer for the heavy work and the drill for the delicate edges, and getting careless damages the fossil inside. The cleaner the result, the stronger the vivosaur. A head fossil is all you need to revive one, while body, arm and leg fossils add stat bonuses, so hunting down the full set for a favorite species turns into its own small obsession.
In battle, teams of up to three vivosaurs share a field split into an Attack Zone, Support Zones and an Escape Zone. The fighter up front trades blows while its partners in support buff your side or weaken the opponent, and every attack draws on a shared pool of Fossil Power, so deciding when to spend big is a constant calculation. Fire, Water, Air and Earth elements, plus Neutral, add a matchup layer that rewards a balanced roster over simply fielding your favorite dinosaurs.
The story starts as a breezy island adventure with your friend Rosie and the troublemaking BB Bandits, whose real leader turns out to be someone the island trusts, then swerves into dinaurians, mysterious idols and a threat from space far bigger than anyone expects. Reviewers compared it to Pokémon and knocked its repetition, but praised the cleaning and the addictive loop, and it sold well enough to launch a series, with Fossil Fighters: Champions following on DS and Fossil Fighters: Frontier on 3DS. Neither DS game was released in Europe. This is where the dig, clean and revive idea began, in its simplest and most focused form, and it still makes a terrific first expedition into the series.
Fast factsgame data via IGDB
- Released
- 2008
- Publisher
- Nintendo
- Developer
- Nintendo SPD Production Group No. 2
- Genre
- RPG
- Players
- Single player, Multiplayer
About the game
Fossil Fighters, known in Japan as Bokura wa Kasekihoridā (ぼくらはカセキホリダー lit. "We Are Fossil Diggers"[2]?), is a 2008 video game developed by Nintendo SPD, Red Entertainment, M2, and Artdink and published by Nintendo. It was first released in Japan on April 17, 2008 and was later released in North America on August 10, 2009,[1] and in Australia on September 17, 2009.[3] On September 10, 2010, a sequel titled Super Kasekihoridā was announced,[4] and it was released in Japan on November 18, 2010.[5] Near the end of Nintendo's E3 2011 conference, it was announced that it would be released outside of Japan originally titled as Super Fossil Fighters, but later changed to Fossil Fighters: Champions. It was released in North America on November 14, 2011. At E3 2014, Nintendo casually announced the first entry on the Nintendo 3DS, Fossil Fighters: Frontier, released in North America in 2015,[6] the game has been available in Japan since February 2014.[7]
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