A little blob of goo who drives a tank. How can you not like that?
This is a spinoff of the Dragon Quest series but features one of the enemies as the hero. You play as a little slime named Rocket who lives in the tiny town of Boingburg. Then one day out of the blue, the evil Plobs (Platypus mob) drive into Rocket's town and bomb the crap out of it then kidnapp 100 of the town's residents leaving Rocket all alone. Does Rocket sit around and cry? Hell no. He sets out to save them.
Despite the lack of limbs, Rocket can do a lot of things. He can stretch himself and attacking using his "elasto blast" and also use this to carry items as well as fire himself out of cannons. There's two ways you play. First, there's the standard adventuring where you travel on foot (does he have feet?) through the land fighting baddies and collecting items and rescuing friends. You can only save in your hometown however each stage has means of transportation to get back to town quickly and these train cars can be used to send back friends, items or baddies.
The real thing that makes this game shine is the Schlieman Tank. Shorly into the game Rocket gains access to a massive tank and the items you collected in levels serve as ammo and later on, you will find out you can combine items to make more powerful ammo for your tank. Also you will be able hire a crew of 3 members either townsfolk you saved or baddies you caught. The enemy tanks are creativly named and designed. One is called "Chrono Twigger" and shaped like a giant tree and another one is a shameless self promotion for the up coming "Dragon Quest Swords" with the tag line "The Revolution is coming. Weeee!!"
Overall this is one of the best DS games of 2006, even if it feels a little easy at times. Luckily the game never takes itself too seriously and the characters good and bad can be comical. If you're looking for a good DS title, I can't recommend this highly enough.