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Sep 8, 2005

Pac N Roll

DS Review

Pac-Man's been around for ages, but now he's going around like never before. Balls to complicated action heroes with legs and arms - Pac-Man manages with nothing but his pokey little nose and a permanent grin on his face. Pac 'n' Roll is actually quite similar to Super Monkey Ball. It's less subtle, but just as exhausting as you roll Pac-Man by rubbing the stylus over him on the lower screen, like a track-ball. A dash move is activated by swiping at him with the stylus and letting your stroke ...
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Apr 14, 2005

Pac Pix

DS Review

Draw Pac-Man - the sharp angle of the mouth, then his round body - and he'll animate and move off in the direction you drew him facing. Guide him towards the roaming ghosts by drawing walls in front of him: the direction you draw the wall is the direction in which he travels.That's the simple premise behind this game, and it captivated the crowds when the DS was first playable at last year's E3. But there's more to Pac-Pix than that. It's much cleverer than we originally thought. Although ...
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Jan 18, 2008

Panzer Tactics DS

DS Review

The ravages of portable war have been largely limited to cartoon battles between fictional forces until now, but Panzer Tactics DS lets you twist your noodle on 30 missions pulled from World War II. Panzer Tactics DS isn't for tactical newbies, with a ramping difficulty that makes each of three 10-mission turn-based campaigns progressively more complex without becoming too brutally frustrating. Tutorials teach the basics, but there's no substitute for getting a few losses under your belt for ...
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Oct 24, 2007

Pet Alien

DS Review

Oct 17, 2007 Its definitely a rare skill to be able to craft a puzzle game thats actually easy enough for preteens. Unfortunately, someone at developer Shinen has that exact gift. Pet Alien would be a legitimately decent puzzler if it werent for the fact that anyone with a double-digit age will smoke through its 80 levels in two, maybe three, hours flat. Attempting to save your human “owner” from space kidnappers, youre given a cast of five aliens, each of whom has a different ...
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Apr 3, 2006

Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney

DS Review

Who defends the indefensible? Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney. This bumbling rookie lawyer has to get his facts straight and his perspiration under control, because defendants are counting on him in five cases of Nintendo DS drama. It will have you testifying that the adventure genre is alive and well. Phoenix has his work cut out for him, including examining the scene of the crime, working with law enforcement, consoling the defendant, and cross-examining witnesses. It's a dirty job, but one ...
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Mar 27, 2006

Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney

DS Review

Monday 27 March 2006 Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney (or Finger of the North Star as we're inclined to call it) remains as simultaneously charming, incomparable and inconsistently engaging on DS as it was on its previous format. With the exception of a new and technically adventurous fifth case, this is GBA's Gyakuten Saiban remade, localised for the west and given a touch-screen interface. But the setup/payoff pattern of investigation and courtroom cross-examination remains fresh: characters ...
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Jan 16, 2007

Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney: Justice for All

DS Review

Defense attorneys in Phoenix Wright's world must be stressed to the point of insanity. Not only are their clients presumed guilty until proven innocent, but the only way to actually free them is to find the real culprits and force them to confess on the stand. What's more, the judge is a gullible idiot who allows key witnesses to constantly revise their testimony after being caught in lies. All things considered, it's a wonder these lawyers ever get paid. Of course, it wouldn't be much of a ...
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Oct 22, 2007

Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trials and Tribulations

DS Review

Oct 22, 2007 Phoenix Wright, you stand before us today accused of gross negligence in light of past criticisms. Twice have you stood before this court and twice have you ignored us. Your twists and turns dash rationality to pieces like a logic piñata and yet, for all your snakelike judicial journeys, you are just as guilty of showing your hand too early, forcing us to take ludicrous routes to an answer we spotted from minute one. You punish perceptive players - surely those most likely ...
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Mar 16, 2007

Picross [import]

DS Review

Forget Sudoku. Kakuro: get your koat. Picross is the logic-based mind-meddler of champions. It's well established in Japan - having been invented by a woman flicking a skyscraper's lights on and off, believe it or not. Now the infection's spread to DS. It works like PC timewaster Minesweeper with the randomness taken out. Starting out with a totally blank grid, you chisel out squares with your stylus, according to the numbers at the edges. So: seeing "3" and "7" at the top of a column means ...
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Jul 11, 2006

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest

DS Review

It was a glorious day when developers realized they shouldn't try to cram console versions of games onto the comparatively underpowered DS. Action games with 3D graphics just don't translate well (Splinter Cell, for one), and even though Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest manages to emulate the PS2 game well enough, it's still a sleep-inducing trial of lever pulling and button mashing. Gameplay never changes from the very first level - run from room to room, sword at the ready, and ...
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