Garfield's Nightmare (DS)

I used to love Garfield. My fandom started with the cartoon series ("Friends are there..."), then the comic strip, then the cash-in magazine and the wall clocks. But not once did I look into the video games based on my favourite fat cat, despite my love for gaming. You see, in the Nineties, gaming was very much about jumping on platforms, smashing up baddies and collecting power-ups. There was part of me that refused to believe that Garfield - that overweight, lazy cat - was capable of Sonic-style athleticism, so I stuck to the blue hedgehog. However, it's 2009 now, and Garfield's still here, still doing his platform adventure games, so I thought it was about ...  Read the complete review

This game came with the package when I bought my DS so I wasn't expecting great things, but I was wrong. In this game you are Garfield and he has a nightmare. You have to guide him around the difference levels of the game collecting doughnuts and slices of pizza whilst killing baddies and gaining coins. It is one of those good old fashioned platform games that I grew up with (like Sonic etc) however I found it more enjoyable than Sonic as you can go at your own pace and there are plenty of things to look out for such as hidden doors which lead to bonus levels and hidden eggs which contain coins. There are plenty of pointers throughout ...  Read the complete review