Started out full of promise for hours of easy-going, happy-go-lucky entertainment and could so very easily have maintain
The game is a designed around our main character buzzing around undertaking various tasks for other bees in a range of environments. He has to avoid various hazards and learn new skills along the way. The tasks were fun and posed good problems to solve and tested memory. To attain new skills though, you had to undertake "training" back at the hive and this too was fun - to begin with anyway but as the game progressed the training became harder and harder, disproportionately so compared to the rest of the game especially bearing in mind the age rage at which it is primarily aimed. Now that might not necessarily have been a problem except for one small detail which we all agreed with and that concerned us and that was that pressure you ended up applying to the touch screen. Basically because of the nature of the training, you end up stabbing at the touch screen with your stylus trying to grab hold of a ball that is bouncing around the screen whilst trying to avoid two mines which if they catch you, mean you lose your grip on the ball again!
Now normally, I'd just assume that the DS could take this sort of stick but seeing as I'd only just put on a new screen protector before the game and had to replace it after I'd finished with it, it did make me wonder and the amount distortion being created by the stylus on the screen was even more disconcerting. We began to wonder exactly how much pressure the touch screen on our beloved DS's are designed to take so we checked out the Nintendo website - no joy there - so then we began to wonder if Activision had an interest in Nintendo's repair division. All-in-all it was very sad, as the game was so close to being a fun game that earned a decent score but as it is we actually gave up on the game which is something I just don't do!