It’s not just about the nostalgic glow of games that have stood the test of time (Elite Beat Agents is still the funniest, most insane, most beautifully crafted stylus game ever). Photograph: Yoshikazu Tsuno/AFP/Getty Images Nintendo’s star game creator, Shigeru Miyamoto, with a DS console prior to its launch in 2004. I feel warm and yummy playing it even when I totally fail to boil an egg. Cooking Mama is also great to play, not just because using a stylus for cooking actions makes perfect sense, but also because it came out at a time when my own kids were first going to sushi places, so this was one of our favourites. I remember taking my kids to the movie, which was probably why I bought them the game. And it is a delightful little game to play: Lemmings in 3D, without the time limit.
Luckily, Penguins of Madagascar does have tutorial levels. I am in the middle of a game I have no rules for, and it’s giving me a panic attack. This means that when I play Puzzle de Harvest Moon, it is like being thrown into Squid Game. My old DS games do not have tutorial levels and they aren’t in their original boxes – so there are no manuals.
We complain about how slow tutorial levels can be, but now I realise how crucial they are ever since the world cast aside boxes and instruction manuals. Maybe there’s more to it, but I’ll never know, because there are no in-game instructions.
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They are middle-aged sledgehammers trying to crack the tiniest walnuts. And my hands feel twice as clumsy as they did back then. It’s like using a Ferrari to mow your lawn. Stylus control is just weird in a platformer you can move too freely, compared to D-pad and buttons. Simple rainbow platform fun has given way to some horribly frustrating pseudo-platformer where you drag your guy around the screen using the stylus. Except it’s not one of those good revolutions I enjoyed hearing about at school, which gave the world agricultural independence or trains. Classic platform action just what I need. I try Rainbow Islands Revolution instead. Luckily, they don’t work, so the financial wellbeing of the video games industry remains intact, along with my legacy. I have no idea how they got in there because obviously I, Dominik Diamond, would never have anything to do with video game piracy. You could fit 50 of them on a tiny micro-SD chip. Then I spy gold: the R4 Revolution and Acekard 2! These were special cartridges, bought from mythical, far off lands, that could play illegally downloaded copies of DS games.
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