click to Firetop Mountain-sizeAspyr kindly sent us some exclusive screens and artwork for Big Blue Bubble’s Fighting Fantasy: The Warlock of Firetop Mountain, the action-RPG based on the classic roleplaying book. Looking over the screenshots, we get a very mid-’90s PC RPG vibe, which is totally cool with us. Stuff like Etrian Odyssey and The Dark Spire satisfies our nostalgia for even older first-person role-playing, but these high-detail 2D sprites on 3D backgrounds hit a different era of nostalgia.

Also in the gallery, two panoramic pieces of environment concept art like the “Dwarven Room” above. The Warlock of Firetop Mountain is expected to reach the Fortress of Retail this holiday season.

First look in first-person: The Warlock of Firetop Mountain originally appeared on Joystiq Nintendo on Thu, 06 Aug 2009 12:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Big Blue Bubble had difficulty finding a publisher for The Warlock of Firetop Mountain, its newly announced DS adaptation of the Fighting Fantasy book series, before finally discovering Aspyr Media. Damir Slogar, the developer’s CEO, told CVG (who also has the first screens of the game) that other publishers expressed a lack of interest in the game based on its platform.

“Everyone we showed the game loved it but the ‘big guys’ like EA, Ubi or Activision were not interested in DS only titles,” Slogar said. That attitude is no surprise from the massively multiplatform EA and Activision, but it’s unusual coming from Ubisoft, which has the DS-exclusive COP: The Recruit on the way and has made a pile of money from the infamous, primarily DS-based Petz and Imagine lines.

Warlock of Firetop Mountain dev: ‘big guys’ not interested in DS-exclusive games originally appeared on Joystiq on Thu, 23 Jul 2009 11:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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