Topic: The Best of DSiWare's First Year

[NWR_Neal]

Note: I bought Pop Island today.

[UncleBob]

I own a few of the Art Style games, but Base 10 is t only one I've spent real time with. I should probably play the others, because I love Base 10.

Get PictoBits. Best $5 of Nintendo's money I ever spent. Pinball Pulse and Uno are great too. Scrabble kinda lost it's charm when it wouldn't accept "quartzite" as a word.

Bookworm didn't accept a word for me once.  It's a real word, four letters and starts with "F".  I should have gotten points for it, damnit.

[Killer_Man_Jaro]

Does it strike anyone else as peculiar that nearly all the Art Style games have three different names? I own Picopict, Kubos and Intersect, and I was surprised to see them all with alternative titles in the US.

You have to wonder why they feel the need to do that. Kubos is the strangest: on your side of the pond, it's called Precipice and over in Japan, it's known as Nalaku. Funny how a game about a stickman navigating a structure of blocks can have such a disparate nomenclature.

[NWR_Neal]

Day Four for your viewing pleasure!

[Jonnyboy117]

This is a great feature. I see a lot of games that I'll be downloading on 3DS, or on a price-dropped XL.

[NWR_Neal]

Day Five is a paragraph or two away from completion. And that means so is this part of the feature.

Get ready to check out the next part, and then send in your hate mail about what we missed. Or, you know, make us all feel awesome and be like "Good job! Pat yourself on the back! Give your mom a call, she'd be proud!"

[KDR_11k]

By the way, Number Battle was apparently a retail game in Japan and got released on DSiWare without any cuts.

[UncleBob]

Mighty Flip Champs
Got it.  Was super-excited about it.  Just couldn't get into it.  It's not *bad*... but not good, IMHO...

Mario vs. Donkey Kong: Minis March Again
I LOVE THIS GAME.  Well worth it, if you enjoyed the previous Minis title.  Not as good as the first Mario vs. DK or DK '94, by any means.

Dark Void Zero
I don't know if I'd call this "the greatest game on DSiWare", but this *is* a fun game.  I'd recommend it for $5.

Trajectile
You know, I really wanted to like this game.  Perhaps I didn't give it enough of a chance - I bought Starship Defense at the same time and ended up wanting to go back to it rather than play this some more.  Maybe one day, I'll get back to it...

Number Battle
Get this, get this, get this.  It's awesome.  I almost want to import the cartridge of this game.

Link 'n' Launch
Got this.  Played around with it.  Seems more like a $2 title.  It's like a really short, limited version of PipeMania.

[KDR_11k]

MFC requires a planned approach but since you cannot see more than the current and next page you can't plan well, I'd probably have liked it more if I had the option to browse through the pages and plan my path ahead of time.

[Stratos]

Link n Launch is great. I can't stop playing it. Some of the later levels are really challenging. I think it has lots of replay value.

[NWR_Neal]

Feature = Done.

I hope you all enjoyed it!

Also, if we missed something, shoot me a paragraph about why its awesome and, as long as it's legible and coherent, it'll go up next week.

[KDR_11k]

Hm, I'm still determining whether I should write in Alpha Bounce (came out today in Europe), it's strangely addictive.

[UncleBob]

I was beginning to get worried - I kept scrolling down the list and didn't see any games I already had.  Have the last two though.

Bomberman Blitz is good.  Don't get the comment about single player - Bomberman single player is virtually *always* lackluster.  The WiFi is nice, but I *rarely* catch anyone on.  My main gripe is - again - the lack of a download mode.  It wouldn't suck so bad if it wasn't for the fact that none of my coworkers have a DSi.

Bookworm - I do like this game.  I've seen the retail version and have considered picking it up on multiple occasions, but I've always passed.  And, yes, the story is true... I even have a picture.
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