Spot It! Mean Machines (DSiWare) Review
Spot It! Mean Machines falls into the “hidden object” genre of puzzles games, a category that isn’t especially lacking on the DSiWare shop. It isn’t an overly-ambitious title, and it’s not the...
View ArticleCake Ninja 2 (DSiWare) Review
Every bit as disappointing as the first game, Cake Ninja 2 opts to pile on additional modes in favour of correcting any deeper problems with its gameplay and approach. The result is simply a larger...
View ArticleCome On! Dragons (DSiWare) Review
Come On! Dragons is a thoroughly competent DSiWare release, offering some entertainment at a budget price-point. It does suffer from an identity crisis, however; its RPG elements lack any complexity...
View ArticleSmart Girl's Playhouse Mini (DSiWare) Review
For its target audience of very young girls, Smart Girl’s Playhouse Mini could be much worse, but it still leaves a lot to be desired. It delivers a small compilation of activities that might keep...
View ArticleJump Trials (DSiWare) Review
Jump Trials is a simple game. It distills platforming down to its essential mechanics, and prioritizes rapid-fire tests of thumb dexterity over all else. It lacks polish, and its 10-second fits of...
View ArticleWorking Dawgs: A-Maze-ing Pipes (DSiWare) Review
Working Dawgs: A-maze-ing Pipes is one of those games that - silly name aside - really does nothing wrong. The problem is that it also fails to do anything impressive enough to make it stand out among...
View ArticleSpirit Hunters Inc. Shadow/Light (DSiWare) Review
With all due respect to the developer, it's not easy to see two and a half years' worth of effort in Spirit Hunters Inc. While it has good intentions and clearly wants players to engage with each other...
View ArticleBloons TD 4 (DSiWare) Review
There's no polite way to put it: Bloons TD 4 is genuinely unplayable. It's a simplistic tower defense game that doesn't really bring anything new to the table in the first place, but that's not the...
View ArticleInvasion of the Alien Blobs! (DSiWare) Review
Invasion of the Alien Blobs! isn't a bad game, but it's pretty much the textbook example of a limited gaming experience. If tapping coloured circles is enough for you — as there's really nothing else...
View ArticleChristmas Wonderland 2 (DSiWare) Review
Christmas Wonderland 2 is awful. It's dull, poorly designed, unresponsive, and criminally overpriced. There's nothing here that you couldn't find in the first game, and that was a disappointing enough...
View ArticleCrystal Adventure (DSiWare) Review
With a total dearth of variety and a game-wide sense of developmental carelessness, Crystal Adventure is both unfun and feels unfinished. The fact that the autosaves can easily fence you into an...
View ArticleChuck E. Cheese's Alien Defense Force (DSiWare) Review
Chuck E. Cheese's Alien Defense Force is an awful game. On the bright side, it's built entirely around one of the few games from Chuck E. Cheese's Arcade Room that actually worked. Unfortunately...
View ArticleWizard Defenders (DSiWare) Review
If we were presented with the concept of this puzzle game and a plan to release for 200 Nintendo Points on DSiWare, we'd probably say that it's a good idea. The problem with Wizard Defenders is that...
View ArticleZombie Skape (DSiWare) Review
What EnjoyUp essentially did here is take Crazy Hunter, a game so bad that it’s nearly unplayable, and turn it into a much more playable, yet still pretty bad game. Though Zombie Skape is meant to...
View ArticleCastle Conqueror - Heroes 2 (DSiWare) Review
Castle Conqueror - Heroes 2 is a welcome return to all of the things that made the first Heroes so interesting. It feels like a slight step backward — due mainly to a weaker soundtrack, a less...
View ArticleAnonymous Notes Chapter 3 - From The Abyss (DSiWare) Review
Identical gameplay and setup to its predecessors makes Anonymous Notes Chapter 3 a well-known quantity at this point, so whether it's worth diving into is dependent on how much you cared about the...
View ArticleRytmik World Music (DSiWare) Review
Cinemax keeps up its streak of high-quality, accessible music tools with Rytmik World Music, and anyone with a passing interest in music creation will find the suite a joy to tinker with. While the...
View ArticleCake Ninja XMAS (DSiWare) Review
For just 200 points, Cake Ninja XMAS isn't going to break the bank - and we’d be willing to wager that it will be downloaded a great many times based on this low price point and the inclusion of a...
View ArticleGoooooal América (DSiWare) Review
Anyone going into Goooooal América expecting a football game, or even a foosball game, is going to be seriously disappointed. That doesn't make it a bad game, however. Taken on its own merits, Goooooal...
View ArticleJump Trials Extreme (DSiWare) Review
Jump Trials Extreme represents a marked improvement over its predecessor in nearly every way. It controls better, looks and sounds better, and introduces a welcome Time Attack mode and much-needed...
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