What can I say. It's been sometime since a game made me smile while playing it. Where do I start?
Well, there's subtle changes to the origianl game, enough though to keep the player fixed. It's like playing it all over again really. This time however, you start off with Yoshi, he's slower, has his tongue attack, floaty jump and egg throws. There's new tasks to complete even on the 1st level. Remember how you jump into the picture and it ripples? Still there. Visually it's Mario 64, some textures seem to be displayed in a lower resolution, but it's not bothersome at all. Control method though. Almost feels awkward to play the game without analogue control, having to hold a button to run is weird. There's 3 modes of control in the game though, default is using the buttons and d-pad, next is a combination of that and the stylus & thirdly the stylus as the main input. I tried moving with the stylus, and while you get that analgue feeling back, it's gonna take some getting used too.
The sound is everything you could ask for really. Voices are crisp, music is Mario, but brought me another huge smile hearing all those 64 tunes again! This time there's some sort of suround sound buisness at work, something travels from the left to the right of the screen, and it will sound that way ya' know? Impressive for a handheld.
Remember how you could stretch out Mario's face in the original? It was a taster of the whole anologue thing. This time you can do the same thing with the stylus, cept' you got Yoshi etc to mess about with, you can really do some messed up things with the faces.
As if the game wasn't noteworthy enough, there's an option called Rec Room. Now each of the four main characters has two mini games each, all about using the stylus. I've never had so much fun playing a game recently with these! Yoshi's 'Wanted' has you picking out a character, say Mario, from a crowd. Sounds simple, well yeah it is, but like the rest of the games it's bloody addictive! Wanted starts of simple but rapidly get's hard as more faces appear, they start moving and looking for Mario in the crowd really becomes quite hard!
Another favourite of mine includes Luigi's Memory Match game. Luigi in his casino outfit (Toad serving drinks in the background) seves cards and you use the stylus to match flip the cards and match em. An old game given a new lease of life. So much fun!
All I can say is Mario 64 DS really has the magic. There's so much to do, great price for the game, cost me $30 and it's bloody Mario 64 given new life and magic.
Everybody needs a DS and this game. Simple.
Well, there's subtle changes to the origianl game, enough though to keep the player fixed. It's like playing it all over again really. This time however, you start off with Yoshi, he's slower, has his tongue attack, floaty jump and egg throws. There's new tasks to complete even on the 1st level. Remember how you jump into the picture and it ripples? Still there. Visually it's Mario 64, some textures seem to be displayed in a lower resolution, but it's not bothersome at all. Control method though. Almost feels awkward to play the game without analogue control, having to hold a button to run is weird. There's 3 modes of control in the game though, default is using the buttons and d-pad, next is a combination of that and the stylus & thirdly the stylus as the main input. I tried moving with the stylus, and while you get that analgue feeling back, it's gonna take some getting used too.
The sound is everything you could ask for really. Voices are crisp, music is Mario, but brought me another huge smile hearing all those 64 tunes again! This time there's some sort of suround sound buisness at work, something travels from the left to the right of the screen, and it will sound that way ya' know? Impressive for a handheld.
Remember how you could stretch out Mario's face in the original? It was a taster of the whole anologue thing. This time you can do the same thing with the stylus, cept' you got Yoshi etc to mess about with, you can really do some messed up things with the faces.
As if the game wasn't noteworthy enough, there's an option called Rec Room. Now each of the four main characters has two mini games each, all about using the stylus. I've never had so much fun playing a game recently with these! Yoshi's 'Wanted' has you picking out a character, say Mario, from a crowd. Sounds simple, well yeah it is, but like the rest of the games it's bloody addictive! Wanted starts of simple but rapidly get's hard as more faces appear, they start moving and looking for Mario in the crowd really becomes quite hard!
Another favourite of mine includes Luigi's Memory Match game. Luigi in his casino outfit (Toad serving drinks in the background) seves cards and you use the stylus to match flip the cards and match em. An old game given a new lease of life. So much fun!
All I can say is Mario 64 DS really has the magic. There's so much to do, great price for the game, cost me $30 and it's bloody Mario 64 given new life and magic.
Everybody needs a DS and this game. Simple.
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