Don't waste your money - got to a real funfair instead! (Carnival Funfair Games (DS))

Member Name: londongirl

Product:	Carnival Funfair Games (DS)
Date:	24/04/09 (123 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: its one of the cheaper DS games out there (there is a reason for this though!)

Disadvantages: Pretty much the entire game

I bought this on a buy one get one free offer - and in fact the shop paid me 1p to take it away as i traded in two other DS games for the two new games while Game were doing a special offer of any two DS games traded in for £25.
All I can say is I'm so glad I didn't actually waste any hard earned cash on this game!
It is vaguely fun for about 20 minutes but the game play is so limited and once you have played each game a few times there is not much point playing them anymore as you don't actually get anything for getting a higher score. You win tickets which can be traded in for new clothes and things for your little person at the carnival but thats it! Whats the point?

None of the mini games are particularly addictive so I found there is not even an incentive to keep trying and getting a better score. The Clown bash ones is probably the best and mildly addictive.

Other games include a racing car game, target shooting, water squirting at a clown, strong man, throwing a ball in a bucket, shooting ducks, shooting hoops with basket ball, knocking down milk bottles - all the usual classic funfair games really but with fairly poor graphics and very little excitement!

I usually use my DS on the train or anywhere else I might get bored - a few of these games you can't really play on the train! One called bubble gum involves actually blowing in the microphone of the DS to blow a big bubble (not something you can really do in public without people carting you off to a secure unit) and another one called Great Swami or something which is a bit like a fortune teller and you have to ask a question into the microphone and it will tell you a yes or no answer. Yay. Of course if you stay completely silent it still gives you an answer. Not exactly a game and not exactly much point.

As you can probably tell I'm not exactly thrilled by the purchase of this game and will most likely take it back to Game and trade it in for a few quid. Sadly I think their offer is over now so i'll probably get about £4 for it but i'd much rather have £4 to put towards a half decent game than keep this one.

Ok so perhaps it would appeal to kids (which is possibly the intended target audience!!)- but to be honest some of it is quite fiddley and not exactly responsive to the stylus very accurately so could equally be quite frustrating for them.

Summary: .