The games I've downloaded from the DSiWare and WiiWare services.
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One of the first (and most certainly not the last) puzzle games on WiiWare, Dr. Mario & Germ Buster has seen an outing on every Nintendo platform since the NES. At it's core it's just a simple game with blocks, but there's more to it than that. On top of the usual Nintendo charm that comes with Mario games by default, we get treated to a big screen version More Brain Training's Germ Buster. Add in lag free worldwide online play and you have a pretty solid package for a downloadable title.
2008/05/20 | 1000 Points | My score: 4/5.
Yet another classic game visiting the Wii through the WiiWare service, the big-eyed Bomberman and his friends have visited most consoles in the past two decades with a core game mechanic that's as simple as it is addictive. You basically play a virtual game of dodgeball in which the last man standing gets the most points and wins the game after a number of rounds. There's a number of different game modes to choose from, including online play, with the downside that the maps on which you play get selected randomly, so you're going to have to live with playing with some of the more annoying options and cards you van turn off in the single player mode. Apart from this though, it's another solid entry in franchise.
2008/09/12 | 1000 Points | My score: 4/5.
At the end of 2008 Nintendo introduced the Art Style series, a collection of puzzle games, both new games and remade Bit Generations titles from the GBA. This particular game is new and makes good use of the pointer function in the Wii Remote. But that's where the praise ends. The game itself far too difficult to be enjoyable. Basically you have a structure made out of differently colored cubes. Shoot other cubes at it, and once you have a combination of four or more cubes, they disappear. The game randomly gives you different colors to shoot at, and it's pretty fun, but that's also where you get frustrated, because even through the end, so even if you've cleared all the cubes of a certain color, the game still gives you randomly colored cubes to shoot at. This way it's very hard or even practically impossible to end a level which, needless to say leads to a very non-enjoyable game experience. Which is a shame, because the concept of the game is certainly good, the execution leaves much to be desired.
2008/11/21 | 600 Points | My score: 2/5.
