White Birds, the company founded by acclaimed adventure game designer Benoit Sokal - who previously created the very interesting Syberia adventure -, is announcing that it plans to re-create the videogame Paradise for the Nintendo DS, with a "late in 2008" tentative release date in mind. The game was released for the PC in 2006.

Publishing duties on the title will be handled by the France-based company Focus, with the game being set to deliver a "fantastic journey deep into an imaginary Africa." The character that the players will control is Ann Smith, who has the rather dubious distinction of being the only daughter of the last king of fictional Maurania. Her father was overthrown by rebels and, as she is returning to Africa, she crash-lands her plane deep into rebel-held territory.

The publisher is saying that the PC version of the game has been totally reworked to accommodate the unique control scheme of the DS and the challenge of letting the action unfold on the two screens of the handheld gaming device. One part of the game that is getting a total makeover is the story, which is now "much more coherent and surprising."

The main changes include better "relationships between the principal characters and in the combination and simplification of the dialogues that retain only the essential information needed to understand the story line without artificially prolonging the game."

The PC game also had some action sequences included, but they did nothing to further the story and only frustrated the player with their difficulty. They have now been removed, in an effort to deliver a mainstream Western adventure game to the Nintendo DS, which is dominated by adventures rooted firmly in Eastern culture.

All in all, it will be quite interesting to see how Sokal's unique vision, which focuses on beautifully done backgrounds and complex puzzles requiring a lot of consideration, will hold up on the new platform.