If you’ve given into the slave of buying the newest technology out there and you’re also a rabid fan of Nintendo, then you’ve most likely picked up the newest Nintendo Dual Screen model, the DSi. What is the DSi? Well it’s a remake of the DS Lite with a thinner body, larger screens, dual cameras both inside of the machine and on the outside shell, a smudge free shell, and a Wii style menu to choose which of your downloads you will be playing. Yes, the DSi also adds a store to the mix, which will hopefully have Super Mario Bros. 3 in it in the near future…wink wink…but back to the store. Buying the DSi gives the customer 1,000 free points to throw around at the few selections given at launch. A few of the better choices include Dr. Mario Express and Warioware: Snapped! which actually brings great use to that camera that’s always point at you from inside your DSi. But for this review I’ll be focusing on two mindless games that are respectively said in the title. Both only cost 200 points, so if you really only have that much to spend, maybe my review will help.
Paper Airplane Chase
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to play as one of those paper airplanes you’ve fondly made in your third period English class? Able to completely control it as the aerodynamic paper flies through a castle full of transparent walls that, with a single touch, can make the poor plane explode into tiny little pieces? Well now you can with this mini-game taken right from Warioware. Simply put, this game just involves the player controlling their paper airplane’s decent down a spiral castle, trying to avoid those stated transparent walls. Sometimes they move, sometimes their big, sometimes their tiny, and sometimes they make narrow paths, all together forming as many possibilities as you can get by.
The Player can choose between three options:
1. Endless Mode. Fly your plane for as long as you can last while the game records how many floors you’ve descended and the speed at which you’ve cleared them.
2. Time Attack. Fly as fast as you can through eight stages. Likely you won’t score higher then 20 and after which there is nothing to do unless you really want to get under the 10 second barrier for bragging rights. Just so you know, no one will care. :/
3. Race. Well this is fairly simple. One player flies the white plane using the left and right diagonal pad, while the second player flies the red flag using the Y and A buttons. First to the goal wins. I would have liked to see a “race the computer” option.
All around it’s a good timewaster, which any game costing 200 points will likely be. I’ve heard that a few hi scores for endless mode have been around the 160 range, while my own sad score stands at 64 so far. :D But I’ll keep going at it.
Birds & Beans
Maybe you want something a little more difficult, something you feel like you’ll be playing for days on end just to get a higher score. Something..Something that reminds you of Yoshi! Birds & Beans as well as Birds & Beans 2 (unlocked in game after playing the first game 10 times or beating the high score of 10,000) is a crafty little game in which you play as this small bird with a Yoshi sized tongue, whose trying to get his grub on. The thing is, that he’s on this easily breakable floor, and if any of the beans fall all the way to the floor it breaks away. This leaves the player awaiting a white bean that is able to fix a piece of the ground or a flashing white bean that not only fixes a lot of the broken pieces (believe me..by then you’ll be on a small island) and also destroys all beans in play. The longer you go without getting bonked on the head, the more points you can make. Also the higher the bean is the more points you can get for each grab. Altogether a very challenging game that I could see myself trying to beat until three in the morning.
Verdict
Both games can equally a waste of time (which is the purpose of their existence.) Paper Airplanes has a multiplayer mode, while Birds & Beans is really two similar games in one. If you can afford both games then I would say waste the 400 points. They’ll be enjoyable between those times when you’re sick of seeing your pokemon or playing hatsworth. If you can only afford one, then I would go with Birds & Beans. The mascot is cute and the game is quite a challenge.
Winner: Birds & Beans
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