Jan 29 2009
The Cheetah Girls: Pop Star Sensations for Nintendo DS Review
The Cheetah Girls: Pop Star Sensations is an adventure type music game. It is set after between the happenings of the second and third Cheetah Girls movies. It may be a fun game for Cheetah Girls fans, but other than that it is not a very well put together game.
The game levels are organized into days. You do a variety of tasks helping different members of the band and try to have the target score by the end of the day. You can go back and do tasks to get the target score. The tasks include things like composing music by tapping the notes in the correct order, dancing by tracing paths, and singing in rhythm by blowing or singing or pressing B at the right time. The last part is the most disappointing, as you really cannot just sing along unless you really know the lyrics because it does not show the lyrics and you are just seeing bubbles reach a meter. I found the only way to do it is pressing B as constantly blowing in rhythm is tiresome. I think singing would work, but I do not know the songs good enough to even try that way.
While this game does have a decent plot and some good games that I think fans of the Cheetah Girls will enjoy, I found it tedious and boring. Then again I do not like the Cheetah Girls or music or fashion. The main thing that put me off about this game is the graphics are horrible. I usually could care less about graphics and I tend to care more about gameplay, but boy are these graphics so unrealistic and poor quality for a DS game. The girls do not look like themselves at all and the downtown scenes are incomplete with odd pinkish background stuff around the edges.
