Comments on: Smart As Hits PS Vita October 30th, Watch Two New Videos

By: supercyc10

supercyc10 — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 04:48:12 +0000

wow, Nicolo
you got a cool profile pic
kinda reminds me of my need for patapon 3 for the vita
…that hasn’t come to psn store yet

By: dallscowboys88

dallscowboys88 — Sun, 14 Oct 2012 01:15:02 +0000

man, all this stuff coming out on my birthday… I DONT KNOW WHAT TO PICK! AHH (runs around in circles)

By: BShornock

BShornock — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 23:58:36 +0000

After watching the videos, I think I am definatly going to give this game a try, the fact that it has a demo will definatly be a good thing for the sales or people wanting to try new things, like Sunflower.

I know I was on the fence about picking up Retro City Rampage until I played the Demo, and then when I heard you can also play it on the PS3, I was sold.

And if you don’t like the pricing, you can wait 4-6 months until Sony does their next wave of price cuts, but honestly a lot of people are going to be buying Vita’s for:

Persona 4 The Golden
Call of Duty Black Ops Declassified(Not because of Nihilistic, because of CALL OF DUTY)
Assassin’s Creed 3 Liberation
Need For Speed Most Wanted
Ragnarok Odyssey

Bundling games with the system is essentially a price cut, without actually cutting the price.

Smart As will target a different audience, the people that play puzzle games, or are very competetive. And with Assassin’s Creed being bundled with a Vita, some people may pick this game up as well.

By: Nicolo Accordino

Nicolo Accordino — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 17:12:31 +0000

Thank you very much! Really appreciate the friendly comments!

As to your question – the logic games in Smart As are, at their core, very intricate “if-than” games. ie: If I push these blocks, I can move here, etc. They all make you consider the consequences of your actions before you make your move, so to speak.

The Arithmetic games, however, are more of your standard mathematical games. These involve a lot of addition, subtraction, multiplication, etc. Speed is also a factor, so the faster you can solve these, the better!

The idea being that when you perform the Daily Training, you’re giving your brain a balanced, comprehensive, and overall enjoyable workout by playing games of different categories. I think you’ll love it!

By: Nicolo Accordino

Nicolo Accordino — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 16:56:03 +0000

Thanks for the kind words, Elvick! We’ll be pushing hard to get Smart As into as many players hands as possible, so please do give it a shot!

By: Nicolo Accordino

Nicolo Accordino — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 16:53:17 +0000

Hey Axecution. I really appreciate your opinion, and I hope you’ll give the trial a shot! We really think we have a quality experience here with Smart As – it’s a much larger affair than any brain-training type game you’ve ever played before!

It’s also an amazing showcase title for the VITA – if there’s anyone you know that wants to see a game that takes advantage of almost all of the hardware features of the system, Smart As is a very welcome option!

By: Nicolo Accordino

Nicolo Accordino — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 16:48:05 +0000

Hey Cosmis – thanks for sticking up for us! The VITA has an amazing amount of variety of content available – everything from PSOne Classics, to bite-sized PS Mobile games, to extremely large affairs like LBP VITA and Uncharted: Golden Abyss. I honestly think Smart As skews toward the upper end of that spectrum – the team’s been working on the game for a very long time, and there’s a great amount of content there. I promise if you want that platinum trophy, you’ll be playing for months!

Look forward to hearing your reaction when you play!

By: Ryumoau

Ryumoau — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 15:02:57 +0000

@28, the game is overpriced. Deal with it.

By: idDobie

idDobie — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 14:28:09 +0000

Just a quick question, in the logic video a lot of those seemed closer to mathematics puzzles to me than pure logic, particularly the ones involving the paths. I was just curious how one classifies their puzzles? I’ve always enjoyed puzzles and the naming conventions confuse me slightly.

That aside – the game looks really well made! I am excited to try it out, and so very happy you guys have a demo. I won’t be able to pick this up on release, but its definitely on my to-buy list. You even got John Cleese <3

By: Elvick_

Elvick_ — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 06:16:39 +0000

@28: People won’t ever be happy. People want small games, they release on PSN and PS Mobile launches. People complain there are no “real” games and “crap like that” is a waste of “Sony’s” time. Then people gloss over any game that would fit into their narrow view of a “real game” and focus in on something like Smart As and complain about that and continue to whine about “no real games”.

I do think this game would have probably been better off if they were able to release at $20 at retail and digital. That’s what Brain Age 1 & 2 were priced and they did very well. The lower the price for something like this, the more appealing to the bulk of people that bought the Brain Age games. They don’t really care about the quality of the game or effort put in. :/

Personally though, it looks amazing. I don’t recall ever seeing a game in this genre having such clean visuals. It clearly had a lot of effort put into it. So it’s worth the $30 for me. I just want the game to do well, if it’s as good as it looks. Hopefully the demo isn’t the same size as the game so I can manage to play it.