Tornado (2008 video game)

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Tornado
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Developer(s) SKONEC Entertainment
Publisher(s) Ignition Entertainment
Platform(s) Nintendo DS
Release
  • NA: October 27, 2008
  • EU: February 27, 2009
Genre(s) Action
Mode(s) Single-player

Tornado is a video game for the Nintendo DS handheld gaming system, developed by South Korean studio SKONEC Entertainment and published by Ignition Entertainment. The game tasks you as Toki, a member of the Cosmic Cleaner, who must replace all of Earth's items which have been stolen by a character known only as the "Prince". [1] Players do this by following him to Planet 69 and using a "tornado machine" to uproot all the items that the prince has stolen. The game makes use of both the stylus and microphone of the DS system. [2]

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Reception

The game received "generally unfavorable reviews" according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. [3]

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References

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  2. ↑ IGN staff (June 13, 2008). "Ignition Entertainment and Success Reunite to Bring Tornado to Nintendo DS". IGN . Ziff Davis . Retrieved April 21, 2022.
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