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Nintendo DS cover art to Crazy Frog Collectables: Faces.

Crazy Frog Collectables: Faces is a 2008 Nintendo DS puzzle game developed by Cypron Studios (now Cypronia) starring Crazy Frog. It was allegedly published by the now-defunct Mercury Games, publishers of several other Crazy Frog titles, including one named Crazy Frog Collectables: Art School, meaning that Collectables Faces was a sequel. Very little information about this game remains online.

Gameplay

Gameplay from French Crazy Frog Collectables: Art School's booklet

A short description of the game is available on the archived Cypron Studios website, which calls it a funny puzzle game for the Nintendo DS which supports Single-Card Multiplayer.^[1] Everything else about the gameplay is unknown. A possible description describes a matching game, where one chooses a face and has to choose all the matching ones. This game is similar to the Wanted! minigame from Super Mario 64 DS/New Super Mario Bros.

History

Besides the mention on the archived Cypron Studios website, little info on the game remains online. It's unknown whether the Mercury Games website contained anything about the game, as it's no longer available and the only archive they have is from 2007, a year before the game was even set to be released.^[2] Two Spanish forum posts have been found claiming that Crazy Frog Collectables: Faces (among other games) would be released for €19.99 by Koch Media in 2008, which might've been the game's publisher in Spain.^[3]^[4] Some French websites also mention the game, but without concrete new information.^[5]

It's uncertain whether the game was released in any form. considering the fact that the game was listed under finished games on Cypron Studios’ website, and that it was fully rated by PEGI (and not listed as rating pending on the cover), one would think it's highly likely that the game was in fact released. On May 27th, 2019, LMW Forum user SpongeBot678 tried to start a search on the game by contacting a Cypronia developer via email. The developer replied with an indistinct message, saying that Mercury Games went ruined in 2008 and the Cypron Studios developers weren't paid, considering that the game was cancelled and never released, alongside another related game published by Mercury Games named Jamster Allstars. No further updates came from the forum user.^[6]^[7]

Gallery

A possible description of the game, courtesy of the LMW Discord (Note that the website is no longer available and has not been archived).

[1] ttps://web.archive.org/web/20081221122617/http://www.cypron-studios.com/company.html

[2] ttp://web.archive.org/web/20070628103733/http://www.mercurygames.com/?txtShow=gameindex

[3] ttp://meristation.as.com/zonaforo/topic/53409/page-170#entry12791244

[4] ttps://uvejuegos.com/foro-aportacion/Re-Lanzamientos-de-Koch-Media-para-Europa/815053#815053

[5] ttps://www.jeuxpo.com/game_test-4845-crazy_frog_collectables__faces.html

[6] ttps://forums.lostmediawiki.com/thread/3500/crazy-frog-collectables-faces

[7] ttps://lostmediawiki.com/Crazy_Frog_Collectables_Faces_(lost_Nintendo_DS_puzzle_game;_2008)#References

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 ==Gameplay==
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 A short description of the game is available on the archived Cypron Studios website, which calls it a ''funny puzzle game for the Nintendo DS which supports Single-Card Multiplayer''.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20081221122617/http://www.cypron-studios.com/company.html</ref> Everything else about the gameplay is unknown. A possible description describes a matching game, where one chooses a face and has to choose all the matching ones. This game is similar to the ''Wanted!'' minigame from ''Super Mario 64 DS''/''New Super Mario Bros''.
+{{#ev:youtube|s7AuE9zUo58|360|right}}
 ==History==
 Besides the mention on the archived Cypron Studios website, little info on the game remains online. It's unknown whether the Mercury Games website contained anything about the game, as it's no longer available and the only archive they have is from 2007, a year before the game was even set to be released.<ref>http://web.archive.org/web/20070628103733/http://www.mercurygames.com/?txtShow=gameindex</ref> Two Spanish forum posts have been found claiming that ''Crazy Frog Collectables: Faces'' (among other games) would be released for €19.99 by ''Koch Media'' in 2008, which might've been the game's publisher in Spain.<ref>http://meristation.as.com/zonaforo/topic/53409/page-170#entry12791244</ref><ref>https://uvejuegos.com/foro-aportacion/Re-Lanzamientos-de-Koch-Media-para-Europa/815053#815053</ref> Some French websites also mention the game, but without concrete new information.<ref>https://www.jeuxpo.com/game_test-4845-crazy_frog_collectables__faces.html</ref>