Cocoro Line Defender

Cocoro: Line Defender is inspired by Japanese watercolour-style art, with bright environments and striking dark outlines reminiscent of the 2006 classic Ōkami. Sporting a traditional flute-based soundtrack and characters with Japanese names, Cocoro is an audiovisual pleasure that takes full advantage of stereoscopic 3D.


Once you get past the exterior, Cocoro is a very standard 2D strategy game. You control one of four armies based on the basic elements of fire, wind, water, and earth, and battle them against other armies in a series of single-player missions. Your warriors, known as "Yoko," generate one by one in real time on the 3DS' touch screen, and as soon as they're completed you use the stylus to toss them onto the battlefield on the upper screen.