You'd regret it if you bought it (James Pond: Codename Robocod (DS))

Member Name: _jlee

Product:	James Pond: Codename Robocod (DS)
Date:	02/08/08 (40 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Cheap?

Disadvantages: Boring, pointless, lack of options

I got this game because it was in an offer with my DS Lite console but the game is pretty bad.

The game starts up with multiple language selection, why this is not automatic is beyond my logic. The menu shows "New Game", "Load Game", "Continue Game", "High Scores", "Options"

In the options menu you can choose if you want jump to be the A button or the B button. You can change the music volume and view the credits too. The high scores shows a list of top ten ranking scores with name, score, level.

The game itself- it's sort of a platformer like a mario game (except it's not just left to right) where you collect bells and various pieces of food. You can jump and extend yourself upwards and cling on. The levels are not challenging at all, futile sprawling around the level to free elves, until you bore yourself of the repetition.

There are bucket loads of items to collect to get a higher score

The graphics are pretty bad and the game seems meaningless, no proper goals and is full of random graphics. It is a bit tacky and feels childish. It is 2D but doesn't make too much use of the DS to provide a nice game. The background is wierd, sometimes using tiled backgrounds, or not particularly interesting walls.

The music: what can I say, it's terrible - some annoying cheery jingle over and over, which is really annoying.

The touch screen controls, whilst being a nice gimmick, are completely useless, and you may as well stick with d-pad and a b x y as has worked so well in the past and still does on the DS.

Gameplay isn't fun, it's a pretty poor game.

Summary: Not fun