The Denpa Men: They Came By Wave (2012) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

The Denpa Men: They Came By Wave

A dungeon crawler with nods to Pikmin, Dragon Quest and Pokemon. Use the 3DS camera to capture Denpa Men to build your party. Mysterious little creatures float around near the waves. They're called "Denpa"…

80 8 February 2012 ESRB E

What The Denpa Men: They Came By Wave is

The Denpa Men: They Came By Wave is a role-playing (rpg) game developed by Genius Sonority and released in 2012. It is available on Nintendo 3DS only. It carries an ESRB E age rating.

The premise, in the publisher's words

A dungeon crawler with nods to Pikmin, Dragon Quest and Pokemon. Use the 3DS camera to capture Denpa Men to build your party. Mysterious little creatures float around near the waves. They're called "Denpa" Men. You can't see them normally, but you can find them and catch them with your Nintendo 3DS. This is a role-playing game in which you collect Denpa Men to form a party, and use this party to explore dungeons. Each radio wave territory has its own completely unique Denpa Men, and no two of them are ever the same! Their faces, bodies, and personalities are all different, and some of them even have special skills and strong points.

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are comedy and fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

How it was received

The Denpa Men: They Came By Wave holds a critic score of 80 out of 100. That places it above 61% of the 3,814 rated role-playing (rpg) games in our database, which average 73. Games released in 2012 averaged 70, so it scored 10 points above the year average.

What it launched against

The Denpa Men: They Came By Wave launched on 8 February 2012, within three weeks of Crusader Kings II, Zero Escape: Virtue's Last Reward, Mortal Kombat: Komplete Edition and The Darkness II. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4.

Released around the same time: Crusader Kings II, Zero Escape: Virtue's Last Reward, Mortal Kombat: Komplete Edition, The Darkness II.

The Denpa Men: They Came By Wave — frequently asked questions