The WiiWare service this week boasted of fun titles such as Dive: The Medes Island Secret, Heavy Fire: Special Operations and Aero The Acrobat on VC. Nintendo DSi owners are not left far behind as they can also expect a wide array to come their way. DSiWare this week includes titles such as Face Pilot: Fly With Your Nintendo DSi Camera!, Crystal Monsters, Puffins: Let’s Race!, Petz Hamsterz Family and Absolute BrickBuster.
Face Pilot: Fly With Your Nintendo DSi Camera! enables gamers to be part of the game by using the Nintendo DSi Camera. It tracks all their head movements and allows them to steer their glider with just head movements. There are two play styles and three different types of game play. Players can burst balloons in various courses, compete in a high-speed challenge or throw balls at targets for that high score. There are hidden medals strewn across the game which will unlock new gliders and courses.
Crystal Monsters introduce gamers to Neo-Seeds, people who can see monsters and who possess extraordinary power and fight using monsters. Gamers must traverse through the title and gather over 160 monsters to emerge as the greatest Monster Breeder. They can explore a vast world, make friends and enemies as well as master the nine elemental types, train their monsters and use team attacks. With the help of the integrated camera, players can even customize three monsters with the faces of their friends.
Published by Other Ocean Interactive, Puffins: Let’s Race! gives gamers a chance to earn the title of Fastest Flyer. They can acquire this honor by going head-to-head with their friends or race against the clock. Strewn across the course are power-ups such as squawk shot and others to gain that competitive edge. There are four different game modes on eight tracks. The game allows up to three friends can be challenged through local wireless play.
Petz Hamsterz Family lets animal lovers adopt their own family of hamsters where they must teach, love and care for them while unlocking new accessories and toys. The hamsters portray unique personalities and react with funny facial expressions to the gamers’ actions. The little furry critters can be taught fun activities such as running on ramps and bowling.
Absolute BrickBuster is published by Tasuke and is noted to be a classic brick game complete with two modes of play namely Free Play and Challenge. Players can opt from eight characters and special items like balls with special attributes, paddle tilt and expandable paddle in Free Play Mode. The title boats of 10 stages with each even-numbered stage a mission. The Challenge Mode offers players different levels of missions to take advantage of.
Face Pilot: Fly With Your Nintendo DSi Camera!, Crystal Monsters and Puffins: Let’s Race! bear a cost of 500 Nintendo DSi Points each while Petz Hamsterz Family and Absolute BrickBuster can be acquired for 800 and 200 Nintendo DSi Points respectively.