If you have any experience with real-time strategy games, you may have occasionally imagined how the games would play if you were allowed to assume direct control of single units. Instead of acting as chief strategist, master tactician, and arbitrary observer, you would get a real piece of the action. Sony Santa Monica's
Fat Princess: Fistful of Cake seeks to deliver an experience that falls along a similar line. I've spent some quality hands-on time with the title, and I'll go ahead and predict that it just might be one of the PSP games to get this year.
Fistful of Cake is action/strategy at its core, but what gives it its draw is its delightful sense of humor. I mean, look at the title of the game. Not only does it contain the phrase "Fat Princess," but the subtitle is an unmistakable reference to a Clint Eastwood spaghetti-western. I'm not going to go into explicit detail until I write my official review of the game, so all I'm going to say is this: if you like listening to smarmy-sounding British men narrate stories that are laden with poorly-aged memes and witty wordplay ("Om Nom Nom Nom, Indeed" is straight out of the game), Fistful of Cake will likely charm the pants off you.
