Clubhouse games: Chep Parlor Trick or Fun for All?
and finally, "Mission mode": Clear specific challenges to move on: Make X number of strikes in bowling, for example.
Some games are great, others stink, ditto to the music, but that's not we are here..
There are only a few games available at the start as I previously mentioned: *Basic Card Games*
old maid
spit (speed or war)
I doubt it (Cheat!)
Sevens
Memory (yes, memory!)
Pig
*Intermediate Card Games
Blackjack
hearts
president
rummy
seven bridge
last card
last card plus
*Advanced Card Games*
five card draw
texas hold'em
nap
spades
contract bridge
*Basic board games*
chinese checkers
checkers
dots and boxes
hasami shogi
turncoat
connect five
grid attack
*Advanced card games*
Backgammon chess three others to be unlocked:
shogi
field tactics
ludo
*Variety Games
Soda shake
dominoes
Koi-koi
*unlockable game
word balloon
*Action games*
bowling
darts
billiards
balence("Jenga")
takeover
*Single-player games*
Solitaire(Klondike/draw three, go thru deck once; standard/draw 3, 6, or infinate, go thru deck infinate)
Escape
Majongg Solitaire(lots of different ways to play)
Whenever there is unlockables, simply touch the greyed-out icon to find out what you have to do to unlock it! There are even unlockables in the chooseable icons and picto-chat features!
I love the intructions for most of the games! Anytime during a game, you can pull up a help window which will teach you the intricacies of a given game.
Now, this package isn't without stinkers:
In Texas Hold'Em you can't go "all in" or even "raise a bet"
in billiards and darts there is no actual ball physics, etc
however, there is a robust mode of solitaire(both "Klondike" (draw three) and "draw one". Most solitaire games don't have this, and I HATE "draw three!") and majongg which are two of my favorite single-player games and I wasted hours late last night trying them out. The intructions to refresh my memory of majongg were flawless, complete with icons to help!
The computer AI is great, especially in chess and checkers! How many of us have played online or with an electronic handheld game, where you'd play a game against the computer and end up in a "cat" game? (Where no one wins or loses, and no one can move on)? or in chess, where the AI is stupid, and cheats? This one didn't! It "thought out" moves, it made jumps or moves when I wasn't looking, it even won sometimes, though so did I!
While the package isn't without it's duds it does have perkes like redesigned versions of Battleship, Stratego, Trouble, etc(most you have to unlock), and Hanafuda, the game that Nintendo was famous for before they got into video games in the 1800's!
You can download all games(that you have unlocked) to another ds to let someone try them out, and many games can be played onbline through Nintendo's wifi service, or a robust single-card and multi-card download play!
This is a great package overall, but some of the games could have been tweaked a bit more. I have telegame's versions of "Ultimate card games" and "ultimate poket games" for the gba which has better renditions of poker and other games then this game, and I'll be picking up their ds versions; but for everyone who has ever played solitaire on their calculator or hearts and poker on the computer, this game is a must-buy, especially if you have friends online. You can "picto-chat"chat with your friends or use generic phrases like "good job" and "one more game?" with random match-ups.
I'm glad I spent the money for this game, and while not all forty-plus games are available at the start, it's fun to try to unlock them all.
This game deserves a solid 8 or 9 out of 10! Go buy it, and I'll see you online!