A little while earlier, we divulged the WiiWare titles Nintendo offered this week. The game included the likes of the My Aquarium sequel and Enjoy your massage! Although there were just two games for the Wii this week, Nintendo has proffered four titles for the DSiWare line-up. These include Turn: The Lost Artifact, Rhythm Core Alpha, Absolute Chess and Did It Myself ABC123.
Turn: The Lost Artifact is published by Creative Patterns and falls under the adventure puzzler genre. Players must guide explorers Camila and Kurt as they embark on a mysterious journey in search of a lost artifact. Through their quest, they must avoid various foes, rolling boulders and rooms filled with many dangers. Gamers can rotate the rooms 90 degrees either way in order to successfully guide the duo through their mission. They also have to master the law of gravity in the game as everything confined to the room will move once it is spun around. There are three worlds complete with nine levels of 10 rooms each.
Published by SoftEgg, the single player Rhythm Core Alpha is looked upon as a superior music creation system that helps DSi owners perform live music. Through the game, they can easily fashion drum and instrument loops as well as dish out solos by using the stylus. It has the ability to detect scale and key while also enabling you to alter the chords with a simple press of the button. There is also a powerful pattern mode for setting up chord changes and arranging sequenced parts for either the complete song or just parts of it. Rhythm Core Alpha offers loads of adjustable drum and instrument sounds, and allows players to even edit the song while it’s being played.
Absolute Chess is a chess game that is simple to understand as it explains all the basic rules as well as aggressive strategies, the Tasuke published title includes two modes with the first being Free Play where gamers can go up against different preset characters such as a grouchy old man and a young kid. The second option is the Challenge mode where they are provided with multiple missions and levels. There are Player support features like an indicator for possible moves and the ability to undo the previous move. Through the DS Download Play, gamers can even conduct and enjoy matches with their friends.
Did It Myself ABC123 is published by Powerhead Games and is noted to be a single player game. There are different activities young children can take advantage of such as colors, counting, drawing, letters and music. Although the company targets early childhood players aged 2 to 3 with this game, it can also be enjoyed by children within the age range of one and five years. Parents can amend the counting range, overall game speed and the number of games that are being played in ‘shuffle’ mode. The company embeds the title with ‘Slow’ and ‘Medium’ speeds for younger kids while older children can set the speed to either ‘fast’ or ‘ridiculous’.
Turn: The Lost Artifact and Rhythm Core Alpha can be acquired for 800 and 500 Nintendo DSi Points respectively while Absolute Chess and Did It Myself ABC123 are priced at 200 Nintendo DSi Points each.