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Mar 6, 2007

Danny Phantom: The Urban Jungle

DS Review

In this side-scrolling shooter, Mr. Danny of the Phantom fame blasts his way through screens of ghosts, using selected special abilities to lure them, blast them or vacuum them up. There are four weapon types; each with special attacks, which when combined with the chosen bonus abilities makes this more interesting than the average cartoon tie-in. But its too easy, too repetitive, and worst of all, doesnt have that classic Butch Hartman sense of ...
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May 25, 2007

Death, Jr. and the Science Fair of Doom

DS Review

The Death Jr. games have a ton of potential thanks to a compelling cast. Sure, the Siamese twins joined at the head or quadruple-amputee kid aren't the hottest ideas, but the idea of the Grim Reaper's son and his gothy little crush Pandora dealing with the same problems as normal Jr. High kids sounds fun. Unfortunately, the world, dialogue and gameplay elements these characters are surrounded by always seem to come out unpolished and half-baked, as if the funding got a visit from Junior's old ...
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Aug 16, 2006

Deep Labyrinth

DS Review

Let's get one thing out of the way: Deep Labyrinth is not for everyone. Its long, winding dungeons and emphasis on exploring said dungeons will instantly turn away all but the hardest of the hardcore RPG fans. But, if you are one of those who swoon at the thought of investigating right-angled mazes and tapping the touch screen to swing a sword, then by all means, dive in. Labyrinth plays much like the King's Field series of old, or if you need a more modern reference to sculpt a mental image, ...
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Oct 30, 2007

Dementium: The Ward

DS Review

Oct. 30, 2007 Shocking. That's the easiest way to describe Dementium: The Ward. We're equally taken aback by the technical feat that developer Kid Renegade and upstart publisher Gamecock have managed to pull off, and that there's a terrifying first-person survival horror game that elicits genuine scares on the Nintendo DS. If Metroid Prime Hunters proved the platform detractors wrong, then Dementium proves them infinitely ...
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Jul 6, 2007

Devilish

DS Review

If you think you recognize the title of this DS balls-and-bricks game, you might: it originally came out on Sega's Genesis and Game Gear consoles in the early 1990s. The trouble with this reinvention is that it really hasn't changed all that ...
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Feb 5, 2007

Diddy Kong Racing DS

DS Review

There are so many lame Mario Kart knockoffs these days. They should just band together and form their own bland-vanilla genre and be done with it. You know, just leave the one true kart racer alone and admit they'll never, ever achieve that same level of racing perfection. But Diddy Kong Racing wants so damn hard to be the next Mario Kart that it hurts our eyes to play it for long periods of time. The racing itself is totally fine (if a little slow), but this simple pleasure is smothered in ...
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Oct 9, 2007

Digimon World Dawn / Dusk

DS Review

Oct 8, 2007 The Digimon franchise has always been copyright infringingly similar to Nintendo's world-dominating Pokemon critter-catching games. Both offerings have super-basic stories that charge you with amassing an army of odd, eternally bloodthirsty life forms that love to fight. Both feature battle systems that are far more complex than you'd guess at first. Both tend to release not one game, but a pair of nearly-identical games, each with hundreds of beasties, a few of which you can only ...
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Nov 22, 2006

Digimon World DS

DS Review

It's a shame that the Digimon universe must forever be in the shadow of Pokemon, because had it not been for the latter, Digimon World DS would be a pretty good game. However, because Pokemon set the standard for exciting RPG elements such as wild monster collecting and battling - some years ago, in fact - Digimon World comes off as a game of "meh" ...
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Jun 5, 2007

Diner Dash: Sizzle and Serve

DS Review

To quote a very good movie about a group of very bad men named after colors, waitressing "is the number one occupation for female non-college graduates in this country." So, back in 2004, a casual games developer created a clicky, dot-to-dot waitressing game called Diner Dash. Finally, an entire legion of double-X-chromosomed potential customers could feel like they were slogging though a double shift at work even when they were actually at home “relaxing” at their computer. Diner ...
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Sep 26, 2008

Disgaea DS

DS Review

Let’s face it, NIS makes some fugly looking games. The graphics are charming, but you didn’t spend over 200 dollars to play a 21st century SNES. If you’re someone who doesn’t need all that visual bling, though, then Disgaea DS offers one of the most satisfying strategy RPGs on the handheld. ...

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