I've only read the first book and listened to the rest of the series on audio. I've seen all the movies to date and I don't consider myself a fan, I do enjoy the series. I've only ever played one other game in this franchise, and that was the Goblet of Fire for the PS2. It was quite fun, but overall, these games based off the series don't really interest me. But I wanted something to play on the DS without having to buy a new game, and Seth has a small kiddy selection. So this is what I choose to play next.
The game itself, plot and what I have to do...well, its like the movie that its based off. There's nothing new revealed, no new side story that was was hinted in the movies or books. Its a copy of the movie, so there are no surprises. Which makes the game story, quite boring. But if the game play is fun, then it doesn't' matter that we all know the story. But alas, this is not the case here.
The game play, is using the directional pad to walk around, and you use the stylist to make swishes with the wand to cast spells, followed by a little mini game to complete the spell. And its the same 8-10 mini games over and over again. There are maybe half a dozen mini games that you play once and never see again. That helps to keep things a little bit interesting. But saying that is like staring at those 3D pics where you have to see a picture in it, and just when you think are you seeing something and you get a little excited, your eyes adjust and you see static again. Having a little tiny weeny little ray of sunshine in a shitblock, doesn't make up for the downright boring game play.
Well, one could think, theres more to it than casting spells, theres levels and interacting with the HP characters. Even that is boring. you start out in your dormitory, and the designers of the game must have thought it was cool to really design Hogwarts and have people walk all over it in real time. So in the game it tells you to go to the courtyard and see so and so. So you walk down the 10 flights of stairs and through the hallways, across the walkways, through the doors, etc, etc,. It really feels like they wanted the player to FEEL like they were walking around Hogwarts. So getting to your destination is very tedious. Go here, talk to this guy, go back there and talk with that guy, run into Malfoy and have a wizard duel, make your way back to your room, talk to Ron, practice your magic, go to this room, go to that room.
Over and Over, this is the formula that the game follows. It is nothing but a walk and gather game. But with nothing to do in between to keep it interesting. It would be the same thing if they had Grand Theft Auto , but you could only run on the road and there was nothing you could interact with and the object of the game was to run across town to talk to Jimmy Badass then walk back home to see who is the next person to talk too.
The game is really tedious, the same things over and over, and besides that. The character, Harry, could get stuck on objects that you can't even see. You go through a door, but he wouldn't go through, it was like the game wasn't reading the sprite going through the door. So I back up and do it again and again. Until eventually I would make it through the door way, but doing nothing different than what I was doing all along.
I was wondering if you needed to be a Harry Potter fan to like these games. I enjoyed the Goblet of fire game, so I don't think its a bias thing. But this game was downright boring. There was nothing to do in it, what was there, was so little and far in between. The only people that I think would enjoy this , would be young fans who get a kick outta , "look mom, I am walking through Hogwarts, here's the door that they talk about in the movie".
Stay far away from this borefest. Go pick your toenails or something, you never know what you may find between your toes, God knows it will be better than whats in this game
1/10
Wow, this is a case where the trailer for this thing is far better than the actual game. Don't be fooled, its still boring. Don't believe me, watch the Majhong trailer, I'm worked up for a good ole game of Majhong now!!!!
OK, So I tried to trade in Sonic the Hedgehog for the PS3 for money towards a new game, or trade it in for a cheaper older game. Apparently I can get $5.00 for my sonic game at EB games. But in my search for trade in prices of games, I found out that in Australia, they charge an arm and a leg for games. The average game there cost $109.00, with the more popular games going for $159.00.
That's nuts, at first I thought it must be the conversion from our dollar to theirs. But once I checked it, $1.00 Canadian is $1.16 Australian. So they are paying a ridiculous amount for games and consoles. A 60GB PS3 console (used) is selling for $835.00. WHAT!!! How much do these people pay for toothpaste, $15.00 bucks?!!!
Anyway, my sympathies go out to you poor blokes!
So in my endeavour to trade in this game, and get rid of it forever, because it SUCKS. I decided, because it entertains me. ( DANCE MONKEYS!!!, DANCE!!!!!) That I will give my Sonic the Hedgehog game away. I will even mail this piece of shit to anywhere in Canada.
All anyone has to do, is make a post on this topic, and because I don't really know how many people even read this blog, I will wait to see how many post I actually get. Then stick the names in a hat and draw out the unlucky/ I mean lucky wiener...I mean winner!!!
Yup, that's it, make a post on this lovely game and it could be yours for the low low price of $000.0000.0000. That's alot of not money!!!!WOW!!!
Once the name is drawn,Ill ask for your address, email that to me, and I will send this awesome game for you to enjoy!!!
This game has been out for quite a while now. Everyone who I talked too said that I should get it, its a great game. Mind you now, all the people who were telling me to get it, all played it on XBOX 360. And because the game has been out for while, I was waiting for the price to drop so I could get it at a steal. But it never did, so I broke down and picked it up for full price, $59.99.
This one is going to be pretty short, just like the game. Its your standard First Person Shooter that is set up in modern times. So you get all the weapons of today. Personally, I perfer the WW1 and 2 weapons. I like the rifles and all that. You can pick up any weapon in the game that the enemy has dropped. Unlike some games, (turok, Resistance) you don't get to keep the weapons you pick up. If you pick something up, then it replaces the one that you currently have. But I didn't mind that, just food for thought.
The single player mission IS friggin awesome.! The flying in the plane overhead raining down shells and basically giving artillery cover for your troops, was my favourite part. But that doesn't mean the rest wasn't has good. It was ALL good, it was great. I don't have anything bad to say about the gameplay of Call of Duty 4. EXCEPT...it was short, it was super short.
Which brings us to the next point. This game was made primarily has a Online Mulitplayer game. Which is ok, but if you don't play online very much, like me. Then paying $59.99 is a waste of money. I felt like I got $20.00 worth of gameplay out of it. The rest is online. But if you are a big online mulitplayer, then this is the game for you. It has rankings and upgrades, Experience points to next level. Everything and more that one would want from a online game.
Which takes us to the last point. XBOX 360 has an achievement list for the single player and online player. PS3, doesn't have squat, not even the trophies which the PS network is raving on about. So put out some fucking games that have trophies in them. Anywho, going back and playing the single player mission again in the PS3 version doesn't offer that satisfaction of ,"Kill 3 guys with one grenade" achievement. If I go back and play the PS3 version, the only thing that I can attempt to do is time trials. I hate fucking time trails on any game. So having it in the PS3 version, is a slap in the face.
So overall, I feel that the ps3 version, although probable plays just has well and looks just has great has the xbox version. It doesn't have the unlock achievement list, and for me, I like trying to unlock achievements. Awhile back I purchased a game online called Stardust HD, and it was one of the first games to offer trophies for the ps3. And the trophies were one of the reasons I got the game. Although, the gameplay is great, its short, its geared towards Online and it offers no achievements/trophies. So I must say that I was greatly disappointed by what was offered in the game package.
MegaMan 9 just arrived on the Wii's "Wiiware" and it's well worth the $10! This is by far the best MegaMan game to come out in years, and the best "wii-ware" game to hit the Nintendo Wii so far. It just seems to have everything right about it - Bad 8-bit graphics, NES soundtrack, and a friggin hard difficulty.
The story is a bit crap but the rest of the game is enjoyable. They went back to Megaman 2's roots taking out the charge shot and sliding from later installments of the game.... this is a good thing. Also added is a "store" where you can purchase power-ups and all kinds of goodies just to help you along, and it's needed! Another great feature for freaks is the time-attack mode, and challenges to unlock... but you'd have to be insane to go for some of them (not firing your mega-buster, not getting hit etc etc)
There's a section for future downloadable content as well that seems good and a leaderboard where you can see some people who play way too many games.
Did I mention the game is hard? I found myself swearing and playing levels over and over but swearing in a good way. I didn't mind playing levels over, in fact the game is too much fun to really care about that.
This is one of the few games that I've been excited about for a long time. The last Starwars game I bought was "Starwars, Lego". If anyone knows anything about Starwars games, they are hit and miss.
I must say that playing Unleashed for the first hr or so, I was in lightsaber bliss. Not only because you swing around a lightsaber, but (spoiler alert).......you play the first level has Darth Vader. Hes a heaping tower of power. You have storm troopers to help you along, but by the time I got to the end of the level, I had either chocked them all, or thrown them off a cliff. IT was fun to practice my force powers. I had a great time playing the first level.
Well, the reason for playing has Vader, is he is looking to kill a jedi but also finds the jedi's son and takes him to train him has his own apprentice. Then you spend the rest of the game has an adult doing Vader's bidding and uncovering an elaborate scheme by the empire. Its a decent story, good enough to fill in the bits between the movies, 3 and 4.
The good. ITs great to choke people and drop them off ledges. There are quite a few force powers and combos that you can unlock to improve your skills has a sith/jedi. You can shoot eletricity, throw your lightsaber, add electiral attacks to your saber swings. Various Force pushes, grabs, lifts, stacking. Thats right, stacking, I spent 20 min in the tie fighter hanger bay, trying to stack tie fighter to reach a secret hologram. It was pretty entertaining. After each level was over, it give you a bonus for finishing the game under 15-30 min. Mine was 45-over an hr. I liked to fart around and see what I could do with the enviroment.
Which takes us to the next part, you can pretty much grab anything and throw it, or manipulate somehow. Its pretty satisfying to throw jawa's 100 ft in the air and try to bat them outta the sky has they fall back down. Which is another part I enjoyed about the game. I found myself interacting with the environment and locals more than playing the actual game. And it all helped me get used to the controls.
The controls were fine I guess, the camera did weird things every now and then and i would get stuck at times when I didn't need to get stuck. Fighting bosses I found myself getting stuck on the edge of a platform and couldn't see what direction to go, so I jumped and dashed across the ground and over the ledge to my death. That was very annoying.
This brings up the enemies, they are pretty good AI, but they are relentless, if they knock you down and they surround you, kiss your ass good bye, they will continue to hit, shoot and blow the crap outta your ass till you dead, making it next to impossible to escape. I had many a times that I was hammering the dash button trying to get away from a gang bang of storm troopers.
Also, I didn't like the block button, it was fine for minor attacks, but hitting the button, there was a delay. He didn't block right away, so most times,you see something coming towards you and you hit block. Too late, you are already hit, even though you hit the block button, I guess getting into block stance takes a sec or two to do.
Bosses, I guess there are strategies to killing them, but all else fails, run away and do hit and run maneuvers. Most enemies/bosses could be killed using cheap tactics. One boss, I literally had him stuck behind a barrel and he was in walk mode and was trying to walk around it, and I was on the other side whapping him in the head with my lightsaber until he died. Which I didn't mind, because he was hard and at that point I took what I could get.
Bonuses, there are all the typical Starwars stuff, artwork, models, stories, different outfits for the main character. You can change the color of your lightsaber to your favorite color. I was always partial to green. You could get special gems to go into your lightsaber and enhance certain powers. It was all good.
Overall, the game was ok, it had its things that were frustrating, but not enough in my opinion to warrant it being a bad game. I enjoyed all the things you could do in the levels, and it wasn't just a hack and slash game. There are times that you really had to strategize the best way to take out a group of enemies. It was fun and not just for Starwars fans, I think most gamers would enjoy this. At least give it a rent.
In the past month Megamans 1&2 both made their way to the Wii's Virtual Console to get everybody excited for MegaMan 9. Megaman 1 was okay but MegaMan 2 was really fun! But the better part of these games are the crappy box art. Especially for MegaMan 1:
I wonder if Capcom hired some homeless person to do this cover. I also wonder what Megaman would have looked like if he were designed after this cover:
Jumping would look like this:
The Megaman 2 boxart was a bit better but the artist made him look nothing like he does on the game: This would've sucked: Here's hoping MegaMan 3 comes to the virtual console soon! Other weird/fun megaman stuff on the web:
Super Mario RPG recently became available on the Wii's Virtual Console. I personally never really cared much for the game but found out my girlfriend loved it, so we downloaded it and she's been hooked for the past week now. Instead of me giving the review I thought it would be better if I just asked her a bunch of questions.
What do you like about Mario RPG?
(Thinks)- I don't know.... there's just something about it. It's the only RPG I have ever finished..... and it has Mario in it. It's also way less complicated and shorter then a final fantasy so it's less of a commitment.
Who's your favorite character?
There's Marshmellow Guy..... little guy that looks like... something...(trails off and zones out because of gameplay.)
Buying stuff from tadpoles? That's a little wacky?
They have good shit that helps everyone.
Who would win in a fight: you or the Princess?
She does have a mighty bitch-slap but she also has more hair than I do. I'd grab her by the hair and pull her into my knee.
After you beat the game do you think you'll play it again this year?
Ummmm.... probably not... I'd like to give it some time to forget some of the stuff in it so the next time I play seems fresh again.
Is Mario RPG as good as you remember?
Yes actually! I can appreciate it more now cause I've played so many shitty RPGs.
What don't you like about the game?
Stupid mini-games with bad controls. It's also vague as to what to do as well.
Closing comments?
Oohh I'm in Seaside Town! Maybe I'll get to do some Sailors.
Well there you have it. Girlfriend approved! Her final score is 8/10
I've seen this game out on the market for awhile now. The premise intrigued me, much like the Spiderman-friend or foe game. So one day out, I saw that there was a Cooking Mama 2. So I thought well, no need to get the first one to see what the game is about. I'm thinking that the second one will have what the first one had and more. I'm assuming, since I never played the first one.
The game plays entirely using the stylist in various ways and blowing into the mic. No buttons at all. Which is fine by me, because that's the whole reason I broke down and bought a DS. It was innovative! Anywho, there is no story or plot that one works towards in this game. It is a standalone premise that builds off playing with others who also own this game.
For the most part, you are this little girl, with an typical Asian accent that talks to you when you screw up or do good. Comes complete with no "R's" but substitute with "L's". If anyone has ever seen "Gorgeous tiny chicken machine show", you will know what I mean. If you haven't, do a search for it and enjoy.
Like I said, there is no story, you go into a option where you pick a recipe and you play a mini game that is like doing a part of the recipe. For example, if you are cracking eggs into a bowl, you start with a bowl the left side of the screen and a hand holding a egg on the other. You then have to slide the hand across and hit the egg on the edge of the bowl and pour the egg into the bowl. Hit it too hard and the egg splats on the table. Other things you do, is roll out doe, slice veggies and meats, adding spices, stirring, cooking, there is honestly a ton of different things to do.
The only reason for, (if you are disappointed about not having a story line,) completing the challenges, depending on how well you do, you get a grade, that grade then lets you unlock more recipes, 80 in total. Then there are bonuses, where if you do the mini games fast enough, you unlock a bonus. These bonuses are things like, new outfits for cooking mama, change the decor, the over all look of the play screen. It doesn't feel very rewarding.
Then there are timed challenges, cook for the computer, where if you screw up the receipe once, its over, but get it right and it opens up more bonus items. So really all you can do in this game is unlock bonus items to dress and decorate your kitchen.
The only other reason you would play this game is if others owned this game aswell and you could have cook offs. ....fun. Really, the gameplay itself is just a bunch of mini games in the form of cooking and preparing food and it gets a little boring pretty fast. If you want a good mini game type, then Daffy Duck's Duckamuck is a much better game.
I think this game is geared towards young girls, Its a neat little premise, but it just doesn't hold my attention. Unlike spiderman friend or foe, that I also think is a game geared towards younger kids, this game just isn't fun. Its not bad for what it is, but I definitely felt disappointed by the overall game.
My overall, its a different game, you may like it, i didn't.
Holy sweet mother of fuck nuts!. I've been itchin to write this piece of shit up every since I first played the first 10-15 min of it. But like I say to myself, I don't start a new game until I finish the one that I am currently doing. And its not too often that I don't finish a game. I think the count is maybe 2. Well, I don't know if this is the worst game of all time, but man does it ever rank up there with them. Top 10 Worst for sure, Top 5 Worst maybe and definitely the worst game in the PS3 library.
I've been complaining about this game to anyone who even brings up games to me lately, for that I am sorry. But take a stab at this and you will understand why.
Well, lets take a page from sonic and I will write this section of the review like the load times of the game....So there's the blue hedgehog....loading....loading...loading......loading.............loading.........laoding..... and he like the get rings...loadiing..........loading.........loading.........loading..........laoding...........he also has friends.........loading.........loading....fucking loading..fucklin laslaoid...ashsdfd.
Who played tested this crap...old people who have nothing else better to do then wait. For people who don't know, 10 sec is pretty long for a load time. Well try 20- 25 sec. For example, there are mini games throughout the level. You go talk to a guy to start a mini game. He ask you if you like to play?, you say yes...it goes to a load screen.........then it cuts back to you and the guy again..and he says"Are you ready sonic and sonic says yes....loadtime...........another 15-20 sec. Then it drops you in the mini game. Where most time you are given a short amount of time, lets say 30 sec to get all the rings. The mini game ends.....it goes to load time...it cuts back to you and the guy, the guy says, good job or too bad, then another load time......then it takes us back to the main game. There are levels so short or if you arn't ready for them, you wait through all the fucking load times, then get dropped in the level where sonic hits the ground running and if you arn't ready, he runs off the side of the cliff. Then it cuts back to load times.
But the best, is a challenge called Artimis challenge, where its called challenge of the mind. And again, you go through the first 2 load times to get into the mini game, once there, there are stack of boxes and you have to guess how many boxes are there. You count then go to the side and talk to the guy, he says, "do you know how many boxes are there?" and you answer"yes" it then goes to another load screen. after that it takes you to a line up of boxes with numbers on them. You run to the box with the corrent number on it and it say"is this the number you choose" and you say"yes" it then goes to a load screen. It then comes back to the guy and he says" That correct, are you ready for the next ?" and I say,"yes" load time. It then repeats this process..over and over Then I fucked up and selected the wrong number and it ask, "would you like to try the challenge again"..FUCK NO!!.. screw you !! Could it have been too hard just to have all this in one screen.Why load back and fourth. A game that literally takes 5-10 sec to play, has a load time of 30-45 sec. That fucking crazy. How long is this game, its 15 hrs long, 8 hrs of game play and 7 hrs of load times.Go load your balls!!
Well, now that's outta my system, on to the rest of this crap. The controls, there bad. How bad, shitty bad.bad bad.Insane bad.Doesn't make any sense bad. There are times in the game where sonic is on a set path and he is being controlled by the computer while he spins around goes through hoops, and you can't control him, then there's the same set of circumstances and you go flying of the side of the cliff, because I didn't realize that ,"Oh, I was in control of him this time...how was I suppose to know, and he so fucking touchy, that the slightest tap left or right makes him hurl himself of the side of a ramp almost has if that what your suppose to do....yaaaaah, I did it, I made Sonic end his life, ..I'm awesome..next level.
Then there's the camera, that you constantly fight throughout the entire game. IF anyone ask, who is the bad guy in the game?..nooo its not Dr Eggman, its the camera. the Object of the game is to make the camera show where you want to go and then go there. But the camera will show you random areas that doesn't make sense, like the side of a building when you want to see whats in front of you. And because the camera plays such a pivot role in the game, they link the controls to the camera to sonic, so what was once up is now down, depending on where you put the camera. ...really, is that even ..doesn't even matter...fuck you!
The best example of this, is a level where you are running away from a fire tornado, so the tornado is behind you and its a frantic dash to get away, with the camera over your head in a 3rd person perspective. With the tornado throwing cars in front you and I have to dodge where they land and the likes. But Then half way through, the camera does a 180 on me, so the first time this happens, left is now right and I go running off the side of the road, ...dead! ..The other thing about this, is now I can't see where I am running, I can see the big tornado behind me and its throwing cars infront of me, but I can't dodge them, because I can't see them, so smack..I get hit and die.....What can I do besides look at the tv and be in awwww.
Then there's this move where you see a line of rings and you hit square and it zooms you across the line of rings , like a train on a railway track. Its pretty useful. But then later on in the game, the game gives you a move where once you hit square, it makes you bounce, like a ball straight down, you hit the ground and bounce back higher. Now this too seems helpful. If there are no ring trails around, I bounce, i fI hit the same button infront of a ring trail , I shoot along the trail. What happens is this.in the later levels, I am on a rope, like a tightrope walker, and I can jump up and down on the rope with the jump button and it takes you higher. Once I reach a certain height there's a line of rings infront of me, where I have to hit square to zip across the ring trail. BUT....I don't have ground underneath me, so unless I am lined up perfectly with the ring trail...and I hit square..all I do is shoot straight down to my death has a little blue ball.( blink blink) I lost 25 lives at this one spot trying to zip across to line shit up. Couple that with all the load times it takes to go from level to level , because once you die, you restart from the start of the level. Its fucking stupid.
Which brings me to the next shitball. You have 5 lives, and yes you can get more, but if you start a level and don't finish it using those 5 lives, you have to start all over from the start, not at save point, not a marker ,All over. And if it weren't for the frustration of fighting the camera and the stupid load times and losing all but 1 man at the ring trail, starting over might not a problem. Why would they do that?
Next point, the depth perception in this game is none existent. Which would fix the stupid zip ring trail, but instead, I find myself jumping of ledges, falling of runways, missing the landing, turning and getting stuck between the ground and nothing else. Yes, I get stuck on the ground , the wall, the anything. Anything in this game can make sonic halt in his tracks, because his foot is caught on a pebble in the road.
Then there's the crappy/creepy story line. Where sonic rescues this girl and immediately they fall in love. That's right, they fall in love, but there is a point in the game, where one of the challenges, you have to choose your true love, the girl, or the female hedgehog. You know what....I choose the female hedgehog, it was just too damn creepy to see cut scenes with sonic and the girl sitting on the grass talking about stupid shit, that I had to try and RIGHT something in this fucked up game. Hes not even wearing pants for cryin out loud.
Now, that's about it, I could try and tell some good stuff. Let me see, you can unlock other characters and play has them. That's it. There's finish the game without losing your rings, find all the silver coins. But the game is just so damn awefull that I wouldn't even attempt it.
So this brings us to the end. I didn't finish the game. I got to 81% complete, and died 40-50 times on stupid stuff that one shouldn't die on, the ring trail, jumping to my death because I can't see the distance of platforms. Coupled with the horrible wait times to get back into it all again and again. I said fuck you sonic, and I took the game out and put it in its case. I don't feel bad about not finishing this, I feel good about not finishing it. I plan on bringing the game back to the store and see if I can trade it. Maybe I could get something awesome like Barbies Pony Surprise.
IT truly is one of the worst games that I remember playing in a long while. I don't know who they got to play test this game, but it must have been monkeys. Who built this piece of shit, they should hang their head in shame. Oh my god, what a horrible piece of entertainment. Run fast, run very fast if anyone ever recommends playing this game, but be sure to give them a swift kick to the balls before you run away so that person doesn't reproduce.
0/10
Ain't it great the majority of the shots are of the camera facing the wrong way. It really makes the game interesting when I can't see where I am going.
Haven't had much time to play a game all the way through, good games anyway. lots of crappy ones out there. So I figure a little Nintendo DS game would do the job. While there are tons of crappy games for that as well, most of the good games are almost always Mario related.
Yoshi's Island is no different. A spin off from the Mario series, where all the Mario characters are babies, baby Mario, Luigi, princess, Donkey Kong, Wario and Boswer. Yoshi and all his Yoshi friends have some story where babies stars (actually stars over the babies head) are stolen by Bowser from the future. (Great story line) Which brings up my next question, if Bowser wants all these stars from the babies and the main point of the game is for Yoshi and the Mario babies to rescue the other babies, couldn't Bowser have taken the stars away from the babies by the time we get to the end of the game??
Instead we find Bowser talking about what hes going to do when he gets the power of the stars, but still hasn't done it yet.......hes an idiot and deserves to get his ass handed to him by a baby in shitty diapers riding a sissy green dragon.
The game is set up much like anyone would expect a Mario type game to be. There are 5 worlds, each with 3 levels before we get to a castle with a mini boss, then some more levels and another final castle with another mini boss, then you go to the next world. Al though you don't get the feeling like the new worlds have a theme. It never felt like one was water world or plant world or Ice world, the levels were pretty much just scattered throughout the game. But they all still felt like Mario levels, with the tricky jumps and enemies hitting you just at the right time when you jump.
Instead of having just Mario riding Yoshi, he could be ridden by 5 baby characters, each one gives you a special ability/abilities. Throwing strength, speed, jumping, fire breath, enough to keep quite a bit of variety in the game. Of course having the different characters with different abilities meant there were tons of specific levels and pieces withing levels that were character specific.
The game play is pretty fun, pretty much what you expect from these type of games. For the first, 2nd and even the 3rd world, we all know that the closer we get towards the end, the harder these levels get. Well Yoshi's Island is an exception. Has I was playing this game, I noticed that "Holy COW!.....I have 147 lives!"..get to world 4," holy shit!!..I have 280 lives, whats the deal with all the lives?". Here lies the exception, in all other Mario games, when you get to the last world and all the levels are (scale of difficulty from 1-10) difficulty of around 8-10. Something that anyone who has played a Mario game would know. Well the difficulty level when you get the last world on Yoshi's Island is a 15. It was my first attempt at level 1 world 5 (that's has far has Yoshi's worlds went and seeing how hard level 5 was, I wouldn't want to see world 8) and 10 min has gone by and I have lost 23 lives. I'm still not even finished the level...and when I finally do finish the first level on world 5, I had lost 33 lives. Holy Crap!!!....I am now down to 250 lives...that's still enough ....right?!
Every level in world 5 took me on average 25-40 lives to complete a level. The most lives I lost on one level was 52. Now I understand why getting all those lives through the first of the game was essential. The games later levels are insane. They are mental, idiot savant hard!!
In all the worlds, it says, that if you find all the 20 red coins, the 5 flowers and complete the level with full health and find the secret character coin in each level and you will unlock a great surprise. The surprise are new levels in each world. But I was trying to do this in world 1, the easiest world that one could possible do this. I did all, but 2 of the levels in world 1. The last 2 were just little things, I miss a coin, I get hit by doing something stupid at the end, etc. so when I finished the level, I didn't do what I needed to get 100%. So I said I will go on with the rest of the game and come back to this.
After finishing the game, I thought, there's no way in hell, that someone could possibly find all the secret shit and not get hit in harder levels, let alone even think about doing it in world 5. So I didn't even bother to go back to world 1 and try to fill the requirements. The only people who can do this are kids and maybe adults, who have nothing else better to do, no job, no life, nothing but the love of a little green dragon.
Now saying that this game or the end of the game is hard, exceptional hard. Doesn't mean its not a good game. Its quite fun and entertaining and I recommend it to all Mario fans. But!..be prepared for some hard ass shit levels that will make you curse the Mary mother of Jesus when you get towards the end.
I've only read the first book and listened to the rest of the series on audio. I've seen all the movies to date and I don't consider myself a fan, I do enjoy the series. I've only ever played one other game in this franchise, and that was the Goblet of Fire for the PS2. It was quite fun, but overall, these games based off the series don't really interest me. But I wanted something to play on the DS without having to buy a new game, and Seth has a small kiddy selection. So this is what I choose to play next.
The game play, is using the directional pad to walk around, and you use the stylist to make swishes with the wand to cast spells, followed by a little mini game to complete the spell. And its the same 8-10 mini games over and over again. There are maybe half a dozen mini games that you play once and never see again. That helps to keep things a little bit interesting. But saying that is like staring at those 3D pics where you have to see a picture in it, and just when you think are you seeing something and you get a little excited, your eyes adjust and you see static again. Having a little tiny weeny little ray of sunshine in a shitblock, doesn't make up for the downright boring game play.
Over and Over, this is the formula that the game follows. It is nothing but a walk and gather game. But with nothing to do in between to keep it interesting. It would be the same thing if they had Grand Theft Auto , but you could only run on the road and there was nothing you could interact with and the object of the game was to run across town to talk to Jimmy Badass then walk back home to see who is the next person to talk too.
Stay far away from this borefest. Go pick your toenails or something, you never know what you may find between your toes, God knows it will be better than whats in this game
Did I mention the game is hard? I found myself swearing and playing levels over and over but swearing in a good way. I didn't mind playing levels over, in fact the game is too much fun to really care about that. 
In the past month Megamans 1&2 both made their way to the Wii's Virtual Console to get everybody excited for MegaMan 9. Megaman 1 was okay but MegaMan 2 was really fun! But the better part of these games are the crappy box art. Especially for MegaMan 1:
This would've sucked:
