Minute Review: Art Style: NEMREM (DSi)

-Pleasant aesthetics
-Uncomplicated gameplay
Just slide rows and columns, Rubrik's Cube-style

Each world gets more devious

-Challenging
-Addictive

The gameplay rules are always logical and evident

-Relaxing sounds
-Great length/Good value
-Unique presentation

There are 108 levels (12x9) in all

-Some difficulty spikes
-Clearly looping soundtrack
-No game variations

As always, a digital manual is included

Another great skip. puzzler.

Minute Review: Ghost Trick (NDS)

- Beautiful animation
- Perfectly explicit gameplay
- Well written plot + twists
Everything is colourful and intense

Be prepared to tackle some highbrow philosophical questions

- Good length
- Colourful cast

This is when things get more intense, although you can always try again

- Diverse areas
- Lots of interaction + experimentation
Welcome to the ghost world

- Each puzzle has only one solution
- Soundtrack could be more varied
- Dialogue still excessive
The areas are incredible detailed and can be quite large

The DS's last huzzah (?)

Minute Review: Super Mario 3D Land (3DS)

- Great graphics technology and use of colour
- 3D complements gameplay
- Controls like a dream

Picks up the spare

Mario lives in a strange, strange world

- Top class level-design
- Good length/value

...Looks like I'm gonna have to jump!

- Various well-made references to Nintendo
- Good, classic and diverse soundtrack

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- Relatively short levels

It'd been a while since the Great Demon King had been dropped into lava

- Normal Worlds are too easy
- Some frustration to be found in the Special Worlds

To clear it is easy, but to CLEAR IT CLEAR IT...

Perhaps the best handheld platformer ever made.

Minute Review: Conan (PS3)

-Various weapons + dual wielding and spells

-Various combos + parry-kills

Body parts, definitely come off here.

Red orbs unlock new combos

-Great soundtrack

-Boss fights + large enemy variety

-Diverse environments

This one had a disgusting finale, take my word for it.

-Great animated cutscenes

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-Irrelevant story

-Weak platforming
The lions are vicious foes, but you'll also fight all manners of adversaries, of both the natural and supernatural kind

-So-so graphics

-Derivative at heart

Instant kill, just the way Crom likes it.

At budget price: great fun.