Fun to play, watch, and ...worship?
WHAT WE GOT -
To me, this game is great to pick up, play for a little (maybe try for a high score or just play around with some toys), put back in your pocket and finish your Chemistry benchmark test. Most of the time I cant make myself play this game for anymore than 30-40 minuets, I just cant do it, I don't know why, but what does get my appeal for that great 29 minuets of play is just the amount of craziness this game throws at you.
I see the main story as pretty screwy (in a good way) in itself if you actually pay attention too it, and the game play just lathers it on after that, game after game of insanity. My friends that watch me play are constantly either amazed or confused at how silly or "childish" this game is, but inevitably fun. I can usually play this at school or on the bus going to my friends house. I've played it one time in a truck, but don't -- too bumpy.
After you actually beat the main story mode game (which can be comparable to training) you can go back and unlock all of the different games which you definatly missed your first time through. This alone makes the game have a good replay value and lets you go back and enjoy those moments of your first "spinning" game experience and the rest. After the story mode, you too get these cute little "Bears" (pink, yellow, white) with Gold being my favorite if your just playing for 5 minuets.
GAMEPLAY -
Pretty Solid, fluid, fast. I'm not going to complain about variety, cause theres only so much you can do with the Stylis and microphone, but I'm sure theres a couple more things they could have done that I cant really think about and the mimicking parrot really shows off the DS's Mic-voice record funcion (joking). Fast and hecktic can relate to any hardcore Warioware'er that tries to get the high score, but you get a sense of very very very slow gameplay during the first 20 levels of the stage. The story can be thought of as training missions and then go through again to unlock all of the games, which wont take very long at all, but you have fun going through the games again that you probably wont see much with the Bears (3 of them).
GRAPHICS -
Cartooney, some real pictures, and some (some) 3d effects. All of it feels like Warioware, but some of it could have been better, maybe more 3d. My only conern is that sometimes you will accedently forget to look at the top screen cause it is rarely used, which is kinda good since your attention will be on the bottom screen anyways. But my main complaint is nothing is animated, more or less just frame by frame. Sure there is some animated small things, unlike say, feel the magic's "girl" or even sprung. Its like all of the objects in this game are animated gif's, poor animated gif's, even though they are pretty well drawn. In other words, its like Warioware on GBA with some (some) 3d.
SOUND -
What can I say, the sound is "ok" and you even hear a word or two here and there, and alot of short words like "Yes!" or "Alright!" or "Oooohhh" (Mona). Ashley's' stage even includes full vocals which is a Very nice change, seeing how the sound just replays every time after a micro-game is completed (that just gets faster as you keep wining) where Ashley's doesn't. The sound effects are pretty well chosen, and crisp, while a couple can be a little splotchy here and there. There could have been maybe better music or more stages like Ashley's Mansion where the sound was very bearable.
VALUE-
Very worth the money your gonna dish out for this $35 game, been a while since a game this good has came out for DS and I'm very happy with it. With the DS's function of pausing the game when you shut your DS, you'll never get caught with it from a Teacher or Principle and when the coast is clear, just open it up again, one of my fav. features of the DS. Seeing how this is such a good game and it's been a while since the last one, deffinatly get this game, its worth pretty much all of your penny's. I tilt it so much because even though this game is a little less than I thought it would be, I'm still very satisfied, if not more satisfied then what I thought it would be.