DS/DSi Reviews

Review: Dragon Quest IX: Sentinels of the Starry Skies
By Greg Picken | 19 Aug 2010 | No Comments

Square Enix are the undisputed masters of the JRPG, the very distinctive and traditional style of role playing games that have been emerging from Japan for over two decades. With the legendary developers housing both the Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest brands, they have the two most popular and

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Review: Did it Myself ABC123
By Greg Picken | 16 Aug 2010 | One Comment

A $2 DSi download has taught my 3 year old daughter to turn on the DSi, start up her favorite game and play through it, without any help from me or my wife. Best of all, this little game is helping her learn basic skills like letters and numbers. How… Full Story

Review: Despicable Me: Minion Mayhem
By Robert Emrich | 28 Jul 2010 | No Comments

Based on the movie starring the voice of Steve Carrell, Despicable Me: Minion Mayhem has you in control as you try to avoid traps, and enemies using various minions. Your goal is to get your primary character to collect an object and reach the exit.

Straightforward enough for certain. But… Full Story

Review: Wipeout The Game
By Greg Picken | 20 Jul 2010 | No Comments

Wipeout is a TV show that celebrates failure. Sure, someone wins and takes home a few dollars, but really, no one watches it for that. We watch to see ordinary people falling, splashing into the pools of water and mud beneath each obstacle. It’s dumb for sure, but its… Full Story

Review: WarioWare D.I.Y.
By Jeff Peeters | 11 May 2010 | No Comments

WarioWare D.I.Y., like other games in the “creation” genre, is conflicting. It’s hard to evaluate titles like this purely as games, because they’re so much more than that. But at the same time, why do we choose this particular hobby? To play games. At what point did… Full Story

Review: Build-a-Bear Workshop: Welcome to Hugsville
By Greg Picken | 11 May 2010 | No Comments

Since we’re all about accountability here at GamerPops, I’d like to start off this review by admitting that I have multiple Build-A-Bear creations in my house, adorable outfits and all. And as my daughter gets older I’m certain the number will grow. With that potential conflict of… Full Story

Review: Bakugan Battle Trainer
By Greg Picken | 18 Apr 2010 | 2 Comments

Thus far in my video game journalist career, I’ve learned all about Pokemon, I’ve self-taught myself Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D’s, and this week, its been all about Bakugan, the current hottest boy’s toy property. At least, it was when I wrote this sentence. By the time you read it,… Full Story

Review: America’s Test Kitchen: Let’s Get Cooking
By Jeff Peeters | 15 Apr 2010 | No Comments

The Nintendo DS, in all its forms, is home to many different and interesting titles. Sure, there are your traditional games. But you also have your share of fitness, brain-exercising, and other non-traditional titles. Among these are utility titles, which is where America’s Test Kitchen: Let’s Get Cooking falls.… Full Story

Review: Disney Stitch Jam
By Greg Picken | 4 Apr 2010 | No Comments

Lilo and Stitch remains a buried treasure for Disney, a tiny shining star from a post Lion King period that saw Disney embrace computer generated animation at the expense of hand drawn, produce such “quality” films as Treasure Island and

But tucked in there amongst the dreck… Full Story

Review: Pokemon HeartGold
By Greg Picken | 25 Mar 2010 | No Comments

When a new Pokemon game arrives, there are two things you can take as a safe bet: it will be filled a tremendous number of adorable Pokemon characters and you should set aside plenty of time to play this game, because these games tend to be experiences… Full Story

Review: Pokemon SoulSilver
By Greg Picken | 25 Mar 2010 | No Comments

When a new Pokemon game arrives, there are two things you can take as a safe bet: it will be filled a tremendous number of adorable Pokemon characters and you should set aside plenty of time to play this game, because these games tend to be experiences… Full Story

Review: Deca Sports DS
By Jeff Peeters | 18 Mar 2010 | No Comments

Having released two Deca Sports games on the Wii, Hudson Soft has taken their minigame collection series and brought it to the portable arena in releasing Deca Sports DS for the Nintendo DS. It continues the Deca formula of featuring a number of shallower sports games, many of which… Full Story

Review: Lovely Lisa and Friends
By Greg Picken | 5 Mar 2010 | One Comment

At GamerPops, we provide coverage of the whole broad range of console and handheld gaming, with a special focus on games for children, playable either on their own, or with parents. Within that category is the oft-neglected or ridiculed world of girl games. With most review sites, these games are ignored… Full Story

Review: Ace Attorney Investigations – Miles Edgeworth
By Greg Picken | 1 Mar 2010 | No Comments

Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth is the first spin-off of the hit Phoenix Wright series, bringing the games stuffy prosecutor into his own series. Rather than repeating the courtroom battles of previous games, Miles Edgeworth instead is thrust into the role of investigator, trying toFull Story

Review: Glory of Heracles
By Jeff Peeters | 3 Feb 2010 | No Comments

All right, I’ll admit it. I’ve never played an RPG before. The closest I ever got was Super Paper Mario (which I thoroughly enjoyed), whose qualifications as an RPG are debatable at best. So when I received Glory of Heracles for the Nintendo DS, I was a little afraid… Full Story