Difficulty:

Very Easy

Time Spent:

10 Hours or Less

The Bottom Line:

"Boring"

Mario, Sonic and their friends compete in the Olympics. There are a variety of activities such as swimming, running and gymnastics. Play to be number one and unlock medals/trophies to stroke your ego.

Come on, what's the point of playing this?

This is just a collection of boring mini-games that are very similar to each other. The controls are too simple and some of them just make you end up scratching the touch screen. There's this one activity where you have to clap or blow into the mic to "warm up" the character so he gets all pumped up. Might be fun for you, but I felt like an idiot blowing and grunting at my DS while I was out in public.

I guess you could also classify this game as edutainment, seeing as there is an unlocking "gallery". What this so-called "gallery" is, is just more useless mini-games but it's different this time -- you play to unlock information about the Olympics. Wow, I'm having fun AND I'm learning! All right, you also unlock sound tracks, but I'm pretty sure that's not what the sponsors for the game had in mind anyway.

Look, I don't mind playing games to beat high scores but if the game is shallow and boring, I don't really see the incentive to keep playing. You might say it's made for multi-playing, but honestly, I don't think I can get one my friends to play this with me. It would be just as boring, playing alone. On the plus side, the graphics are o.k. and it's cool to see Mario and Sonic together but that still doesn't make the game good enough even for a rental.