Ping Pals (DS)

This review is for the Nintendo DS game, Ping Pals, developed by Success Corporation and published by 505 Games. The game is a social networking type game, where you can create your own avatars and chat to others. When you buy your Nintendo DS, you will get a program built into the system called Pictochat, which is a communication program, allowing you to talk to others, create small animations and generally interact with other Nintendo DS owners. Ping Pals aims to better this piece of software and enhance the general interaction experience with others. With Pings Pals, you are able to select from over one thousand items to create your own avatar, ...  Read the complete review

The DS is great and all but there are some really rubbish games for it, a lot of games coming out nowadays are just average games or worse that you'd be better off not buying. Ping Pals is one of them. It's sort of an improved version of Pictochat which is on all DS consoles. What's worse it's not compatible with Pictochat. Luckily people can use Download Play to chat to you with it but it's inconvenient. Ping Pals allows customization instead of the plain Pictochat. This includes avatars, backgrounds and so on. What's bad, you don't these add-ons as standard. You have to purchase them using in game credit for doing things and it takes a ...  Read the complete review