Lots of novelty peppered with nostalgia make this a worthy pick-up for more mature DS gamers that remember the 8-bit day

User Rating: 8 | Game Center CX: Arino no Chousenjou DS
By codezer0 | Review Date:
If you're like me and remember fondly the days when magazines like Nintendo Power were your primary resource of gameplay information, and in which the idea of a single cartridge even holding more than one game in it at a time was considered staggeringly huge, then you can stop reading now and go buy this.

For those of you who can't be bothered to play anything that doesn't have 64xAA and 128xAF and normal/bump/texture/light mapping out the yin-yang, move along. Nothing to see here.

The graphics are a curious mix between the retro 3D embodiment of Game Master Arino whom issues your challenges, and the decidedly 2D of the games which the challenges are issued for. Down on the bottom screen, you'll see yourself and a younger, more innocent Arino, whom is happy enough to help you defeat his nastier, older self.

Controls are simple, matching the old-school nature of the games played. And the novelty of the magazines and being able to read the manuals for the individual games helps provide in-game hints in the ways before the internet was widely available, and sites like this one didn't exist. This was a rather novel way of helping struggling players in-game and also giving a way to refresh your memory on how they are played.

There's really not much else to say. First impressions for this retro player are good, and those who enjoy the quality and charm of them would do well to get it.

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