Gaming on the Nintendo DS

Over the weekend I had Neopets Puzzle Adventure out as my rental game.   As usual with a puzzle game I played it pretty constantly until I beat it, which took me about three days to do.  The puzzle part is kind of a cross between Go and Reversi.  The plot line connects the story mode part together quite well moving you through a few different areas of the Neopets world.

The gameplay is mostly pretty easy.  Playing the puzzle challenges can get hard and some opponents it took me a few tries to beat, but the mini games that show up every once and a while are really easy.

The graphics are great for a DS game and what I would expect from Neopets.  The graphics represent the online Neopets world pretty closely.  I am disappointed that there are so few Neopet selections to choose as your character, especially since my favorite the penguin looking Bruce is not included.

As you complete different goals you unlock codes that can be entered on the website and earn you virtual prizes.  I assume if you unlock all ten you complete the virtual prize puzzle and probably get something extra special.  I completed 9 challenges, but I could not get the 10th one because you have to do a multiplayer duel.  This would require you to know someone with the game and be near each other.  I really wish the multiplayer part was WiFi capable, as it would be so easy to find someone on Neopets that has the game and would want to do a duel to get the code or even just for fun.  Having to know someone in real life to play this game based on a virtual world is just very disappointing.

Overall I did enjoy this game and would have bought it if it was available as a Keep It.  Even though I did already play through it, the puzzles are fun and a nice challenge.  It is a fun on the go way to play puzzle games.

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