Sunday, December 14, 2008

Neopets Puzzle Adventure for Nintendo DS

I rented this last week. It is actually a pretty fun puzzle game that is similar to Othello. As you achieve different things you get Neopets prize codes redeemable for virtual prizes on Neopets.com. There are a total of ten codes per cartridge. I was able to get 9 of them. The final one I could not get because you have to know someone else to play a multiplayer battle with and you cannot do it over Nintendo WiFi, which means you have to know someone in real life who has the game. For a game based on an online community it is really sad to see that it does not use the WiFi ability, especially since the Club Penguin DS game integrates well with their online community, so it is definitely possible. Perhaps it is Nintendo that prevented that aspect, as I hear they can be pretty picky with allowing third party games to use that feature, but it seems such a shame. It is a fun puzzle game and the plot is good, but there would be really more depth to it if you could do WiFi.




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