The controls are simple but solid. Tapping the screen makes the character push off of the snow when going slowly, but otherwise it is unused outside of the menu. The D-pad gets most of the action, since it both steers the boarder and adjusts the board’s angle when in mid-air.
The graphics are similarly basic, but presentable. The framerate is smooth and conveys a decent sense of speed (though not nearly as well as Mario Kart DS). The largely guitar-based music during the race is entertaining enough, but the voices in place for the teen boarders, who exclaim when passed or hurt, got on my nerves quickly.
Snowboard Kids DS probably will not win any awards as a single player game, but it looks to be another great multiplayer title in the growing DS library.
