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Apr 7, 2008

Bubble Bobble Double Shot

DS Review

Want to make a quick buck? Grab a level designer for a classic arcade series, make up some uninspired, confusing new levels, throw in a couple of pointless gameplay "twists," and slap the old logo on a DS game box. Voila! Nostalgia-filled gamers will come thronging.

So it goes, sadly, with Bubble Bobble: Double Shot, the latest, half-assed retread of a game that - let’s face it - hit its peak in 1988. Gameplay is ...

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Mar 26, 2008

Space Invaders Extreme [import]

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It’s only Space Invaders. Sweep left and right, shoot straight, coin-ops and novelty wallets: you know Space Invaders. But not like this.If you want, it’s just that game. Aliens are coming! Shoot them! Casual players can get through most of the game like this. Look deeper though, and it’s got reams and layers of different hi-scoring mechanics, enough to make even the hardest hardcore maniac drool like an inmate on red pill ...
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Mar 26, 2008

Soma Bringer [import]

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Nintendo evidently liked GameCube title Baten Kaitos enough to splash a large wad of cash on acquiring the company that made it, and here’s the first game from the newly first-party Monolith Soft.Soma Bringer is an action RPG that’s very much like Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles, except with added layers of complexity and even more ways to customize your character. Set in a series of sprawling, monster-packed dungeons, the aim is ...
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Mar 26, 2008

Populous DS [import]

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The quintessential god game of the late 1980s, Populous was the startlingly original work that launched the career of Peter Molyneux and helped define a new genre on home computers. Whether it’s still relevant today is another matter, although we distinctly remember the original being more flexible than this stilted DS update.The basic premise of the game is you’re a god, you’ve got a tribe of people who worship you, and on ...
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Mar 21, 2008

George of the Jungle and the Search for the Secret

DS Review

This is based on the Cartoon Network animation of the same name. Incessant music irritates throughout although the colourful graphics at least evoke the TV show it’s based on. However, the platforming is so dated it’s practically prehistoric, the level design is uniformly poor and the minigames are, without exception, excruciatingly dull. ...
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Mar 19, 2008

Lost in Blue 3

DS Review

The Lost in Blue series has never been for everyone. Scrounging for measly tidbits of food on an empty tropical island sounds more like work than a game, and for many that’s exactly what it would be. We didn’t think it sounded fun either, and yet hours later we were greedily massing our horde of grilled white carp and mushroom salads and gasping in joy when an oil drum washed up on shore.If you’ve played either of the previous ...
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Mar 18, 2008

Eco-Creatures: Save the Forest

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Eco-Creatures: Save the Forest is a hybrid. No, it doesn’t run on a combination fuel cel/electric battery pack. It’s a cross-hybridization of Chibi-Robo: Park Patrol’s re-forestation premise, Pokemon-esque creature evolution and Pikmin-ish group control and combat. If it were powered by an alternative fuel, it’d most likely be adorable squirrel power.You play as the bipedal magical fruit and commander, Dorian, sent to ...
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Mar 17, 2008

Best of Tests DS

DS Review

The puzzles and brain teasers of publisher Conspiracy's new brain-boosting game for DS, Best of Tests, are fun to a point. The questions are typical brain teasers involving observation, memory, speed of perception and analysis, and should be familiar to anyone who has ever taken a standardized IQ test.There are two areas to test: Intelligence, and Memory. Each has 3 categories, Easy, Normal, Difficult; and each category has a sub-category, ...
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Mar 17, 2008

Nanostray 2

DS Review

Peanut butter and jelly. Root beer and ice cream. Hannah Montana and Miley Cyrus. All those things are great individually, but they're even better together. Now, Nanostray 2 brings that "best of both worlds" mentality to video games, in the form of a wicked tight spaceship shoot-em-up that offers both horizontal and vertical stages.Yes, this is one of those hybrid shoot-em-ups where half the levels scroll from right-to-left and the other half ...
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Mar 17, 2008

1701 A.D.: Dawn of Discovery

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Efforts to bring the PC's brand of Civilization style strategy games to the Nintendo DS haven't always yielded positive results. Age of Empires was decent, but they made it turn-based. Sim City had features cut. So did The Settlers, and it was a buggy mess on top of that. For once, wouldn't it be nice if one of those wonderfully engrossing empire sims survived the transition from the PC to DS without losing anything in translation? If you ...
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