Horrible visuals but a constant framerate and overall smoothness

User Rating: 7.5 | Doubutsu Banchou GC
By gamecubedave000 | Review Date:
The game begins with a cinema about how the colorless (The antagonists in Cubivore) more or less enslaved the land in which you are about to be born into. After the cinema you are born with literally nothing else but a pig head, snout and all. The game has an excellent way of easing you into Cubivore with a tutorial that takes place throughout the entire first level. After 10 minutes you will have mastered the controls. The concept of the game is to kill and eat other life forms and when you do so you will grow limbs. You can only gain one limb per level by defeating the boss and eating his...erm...meat, and if you have a limb already it will shift around your body when you mutate. Between each level you are treated to some of the best humor writing I have ever read; it is filled with pop culture references and the creature's (you) obsession with sex.

At certain points in the game you will come across mating grounds and will be able to mate with females. The number of chicks varies on account of how many hearts you have collected through the levels. On my first trip to the mating grounds my little swine fornicated with five females of, get this, completely different species. The payoff for my little swine's labor was in the form of three offspring, which you are shown and you choose which you want to continue to play as. As the game progresses you can gain upgrades to yourself such as horns, humps, tongues and scars and also your species will change often when you are reincarnated.

Contrary to the Cubivore’s visuals the controls are spot on and easy to learn. Everything from attacking, eating and relieving yourself (yes you can do this) is explained in the first level and easy to pull off at will. The game features a lock-on feature similar to the one found in most 3-D games since The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. This makes fighting other animals manageable since there are times when there are upward of 10 enemies on the screen.

The camera is very problematic when things get hectic and while it is possible to manually adjust it, it still persists to be the largest problem in the game play of Cubivore.

Being developed by Nintendo it is no surprise that Cubivore plays very well and is an absolute blast to play. However, the camera is very problematic and you will know anger as I do after getting knocked around a bit because you can't see quite well.

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