Hey, at least you can finish the game in under 2 hours, so at least the developers showed mercy. MH deserves better.
User Rating: 3.5 | Monster High: Ghoul Spirit DS
This is more or less the same game as the Wii version with less features. The characters aren't animated while you're talking to them, there are NO other students walking through the halls, it's a ghost town. Once again, Abbey and Spectra are just hanging around without doing anything. The graphics, the wii version had bland graphics, here they are downright ugly. You can finish the game in less than 2 hours, that's because the school is a lot smaller in this version so it takes less time running back and forth doing everybody's bidding. The minigames are kind of the same, only not as good, they're too easy, some could've used a tad more explanation, the sewing machine minigame, I'm not sure I got it in this version, but I got through both times somehow. I did get a different ending in this version, I'm not 100 percent sure how to get a specific character to become scream queen, here it was Clawdeen that took the coveted title, in the wii version, Cleo became the scream queen at the end of my playthrough. Music is worse, they could not even get the theme song, only a bad unimpressive instrumental version. I don't like bashing a Monster High game, or product, because these are such nice, sweet, lovable characters. This game, and this version in particular has sold extremely well thus far, considering it's a rushed, low-budget title, at least in the UK it has a fair price. So I want to see a good Monster High game down the road. That being said, some may find something to like in this game, but it is not an impressive video game debut for the Monster High ghouls.
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