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   Barely did we find out about Koei's Opoona earlier today, and here we are now learning about yet another original - more or less - game heading for the Nintendo Wii console. This one is called Treasure Island Z, and if we were to take a wild guess (details are still scarce), it's likely that the game will share some similarities with Robert Louis Stevenson's classic adventure novel of the same name; minus the "Z", that is.

   Treasure Island Z has so far only been revealed in the Japanese media, and thanks to the vigilent folks from NeoGAF, we can already see how the game looks like via a Japanese gaming magazine scan. As expected from the crazy japs, the art style is completely different from the usual Western take on pirate games, and it already looks like a lot of fun.

   NeoGAF's summary of the article says that Treasure Island Z is an adventure, riddle-solving game coming from Capcom, produced by Hironobu Takeshita (Ultimate Ghosts 'n Goblins on PSP) and directed by Eiichirou Sasaki (Biohazard Outbreak 1+2). The game's main character is a trainee pirate (remember that fake-bearded pirate kid from The Curse of Monkey Island?), and as tradition would have it, he's after some sort of treasure.

   Expect to use the Wii controller to solve puzzles and riddles, naturally, along with the usual pirate humour. Or unusual pirate humour - you never know what the Japanese can come up with when dealing with Western themes...