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<cite>Space Giraffe</cite> Hits Live Arcade This Week

According to Jeff Minter’s blog, Space Giraffe will finally be hitting the Xbox Live Arcade this week, for a mere 400 points. Yak himself recommends a good solid play through of the trial version before you shell out the virtual cash, and provides tips and strategies for the first nine levels. Microsoft’s James Cope described […]

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According to Jeff Minter's blog, Space Giraffe will finally be hitting the Xbox Live Arcade this week, for a mere 400 points. Yak himself recommends a good solid play through of the trial version before you shell out the virtual cash, and provides tips and strategies for the first nine levels.

Microsoft's James Cope described Space Giraffe, which is similar in feel to Minter's masterpiece Tempest 2000, thusly:

What Space Giraffe does is very clever, it makes the player learn. It is not a game with difficulty settings. It is a game that reminds the human race that we are weak, fleshy and futile creatures that require the combined input of many abilities to progress. If you move without seeing, you will die. If you see without listening, you will die. If you listen without feeling, you will die.

Trippy. Can't wait to try it out.

[via Llamasoft]