The Last, Adorable Breakthrough For The Nintendo DS

With a touch screen and microphone, the DS has seen some pretty unique games over the years. But wielding the handheld and a giant book at the same time? That’s new! These are a couple of commercials for Level 5’s Ni no Kuni, an upcoming collaboration [[link]] between the Japanese role-playing game developer and Studio Ghibli, the animation powerhouse behind movies like Spirited Away and My Neighbour Totoro. If you’re a parent, this looks like blast. If you’re not, well, it still looks like a blast, you may just have to accept you won’t be playing it on someone’s lap. The DS version of the game will be out in Japan on December 9, [[link]] while the PS3 version — which is an entirely different game — will be out in 2011. With the DS about to be superseded by the 3DS in early 2011, it [[link]] shaping up to be a novel way for the old handheld to bow out! [via Go Nintendo]