Who knew that a childrens game could be so freakin fun!?
So, the game begins with you, a blue slime from the Dragon Quest series. One average day you wake up in your home located in the peaceful kingdom of Boingburg. You , your sister, and your two friends meet in the castle garden where your friend Hooly shows you a mysterious flute, in no time an evil army attacks the kingdom. The invaders, the Plobs which are duck-like creatures come and take away all the slimes of Boingburg, but using your Elasto Blast attack you esape being captured along with the flute. After the attack you set out on a journey to rescue all 100 slimes and unveil the flute's mystery.
Controls work like this, you run (or hop really) around using the directional buttons, to perform a Elastoblast hold down A while pressing the control pad for direction and then letting go making to blast into opponents. Blasting causing them to get knocked out. While knocked out you can carry up to three of them or items and treasures on your head. Then you can either throw'em or place them on train carts located in each level (ill explain about that later). Jumping is also done by pressing A. To pull up the menu press X. B is used to talk and throw. The Y may seen useless but once you're carrying a slime knight (a empty suit of armor that's counted as an item) you can attack with it by pressing Y.
Gameplay is amazing, you can tell its a kids game by how simple everything is but, its still fun. You run around searching for slimes that are kept in treasure chests. After releaseing them you must carry them to a railroad when empty platform carts roll by and into a tunnel. The carts take them back into town thus scracting a missing slime off your list. Later in the game you are attacked by one of the Plobs massive tanks. Using the flute you summon a massive tank of your own. (The tanks are more like fortresses on wheels.) Items or that you throw on the carts will be added as weapons for your tank. Enemies that you've placed on the tanks will also go back to town, once you collect 30 of one kind of an enemy you'll be able to have him as a ally in tank battles. The tanks battles has you and three allies run around in your tank grabbing items that you're collected then firing them out your tanks cannons. Each item does damage to the enemy's HP. Once their HP is gone you can infaltrate their tank and make your way to the tank's core. With a quick blow the tank explodes and you win. The tank battles are great and very addictive. Playing the game on foot is fun too as you enter different areas with bosses while going through a cool story. Eventually you'll meet our rival Slival,a slime who also happens to own a really cool tank.
Grapics are colorful and cartoony but its a perfect touch for the game. (It is a kids game) Sometimes I find the backgrounds really refreshing.
The sound is also cartoonish but like the grapics it just some how fits the game. The tank battle music is also wonderful it puts you in the atmosphere on the battles.
The game is a decent lengh it took me a week to beat it and find all 100 slimes, so it is very easy. The game is very addicting but loses its value after beating it. Multiplyer is fun but it would be better if it supported wifi (I'd give value a perfect 10 if it did) But besides playing a friend all you can do in the game is collect more items, even rare ones, but still all you can really do is restart your game to have fun again. The price was $34.99 which I thought was too much seeing as the value didnt last that much, but a price of $19.99 is perfect. Check your stores, you may be in luck.
All-in-all its one of my favorite DS games. The game is so addicting and simple. I never thought that a kids game would be so good, but Square-enix worked their magic to do so. I know that this game might not appeal to you but I recomend giving this and Chocobo Tales a try.
P.S. I came 2nd in the tournament losing to some 12 year old who had a bunch of rare items. Oh well I got a kool t-shirt though.