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Fun, but Shallow

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 22, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This game was a lot better than I'd expected it to be. The combat is very simple, fun, and fast-paced, reminiscent of the old arcade game Virtual On. The customization of the game is a little bit like a simplified version of the popular Armored Core series. The story looks and feels just like the Mega Man Battle Network series.

The customization is fun, and the battles are a blast, but that's all you're going to enjoy the game for. The game's story mode is bad, especially when plagued by lame dialogue that can't be skipped. But you have to cringe your way through the story mode in order to collect enough of the many various parts to customize your robo.

The exploration in story mode is very bare. It looks just like Pokemon or the Mega Man Battle Network games, but closer to the latter in which you'll be given simple tasks like "go to point B and talk to person A, return to point A and battle person B, go home". Your home is where you go every night, have a dinner conversation with your family, and go to sleep. Then you wake up, have a breakfast conversation with your family, and go to school.

It's after school that things start to get interesting. You can go to the various parts shops for your robo, buy dioramas to pose your robo in (A time-consuming but addictive affair that is purely cosmetic and doesn't have any affect on gameplay), and visit the local Robo Center where you can battle various AI characters for fun. It all gets old very fast, but you're getting parts and money while you do it, so that should be enough incentive to keep going.

Some touch-screen features are tacked on, like posing your robo in various dioramas, and the need to polish your Custom Robo to keep it clean, because a dirty robo is impaired in battle and nets you less money after a win. Later in the game you unlock a power-up which requires pressing a button on the touch screen, but that could have easily been mapped to a button on the DS, because one button is left unused.

The game's fun really opens up when in battle, where the story mode's AI opponents range from "stand there and do nothing" to "destroy you in seconds". The game's difficulty is unbalanced and occasionally frustrating, but if you fail repeatedly you can retry as many times as you need; the game even offers you handicaps with enough consecutive losses.

Taking the game online is the funnest feature, but you have to make it through the story mode first to really enjoy it.

Here are my overall ratings (1 to 5):

Gameplay: 5
Story: 2
Multiplayer: 5
Graphics and Sound: 4
Value: 5

This is a game that requires a little work on the gamer's part to enjoy, but once you collect enough parts for your robo and you're ready to take on online multiplayer, you have a fun online multiplayer battle game that you'll be playing for a long time.

Solid 4/5 title worth trying

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: March 16, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Just like the other reviewers, my son enjoyed this game a lot, but it doesn't have the long-term oomph of other top-rated titles. For the price, this is a good value and most kids will enjoy it, including the multiplay, but eventually grow tired of it and resell it for something else. My son (9) liked it quite a bit, so give it a try.

Customize like crazy. Repetitive yet addictive.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: February 11, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This is not an RPG. Still, the effect of improving customization (better guns, better chassis, etc.) gives the same satisfaction as leveling up a role playing character. The variety of customization is excellent.

The battles are quick and addictive. Try to stop at just one... However the battlefields are too repetitive and many of the same style battles happen over and over and over.

This is realtime, not turn based. So there is a clenching tension about each battle that makes it exciting.

I have a new game I want to play. I've had it for two weeks now. But I can't stop playing this game... Maybe just one more battle.

Great Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: August 09, 2007
Author: Amazon User

My son just loves it, he was so happy and he enjoys this game a lot!

Just needs a little more...

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: July 31, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I really want to like this game more, but there just not enough to go on. The battles are fun--in fact, this is sort of what I wanted the MegaMan Battle Network GBA to be like, rather than turn-based clunkers--but they're incredibly repetitive and don't seem to get much more challenging over time. The RPG aspect of it is tedious, slow moving, lacking in rewards for time investment and doesn't add much to the game play at all.

Robo bashing fun with an RPG undertone

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 6 / 6
Date: July 16, 2007
Author: Amazon User

As far as gameplay goes the robo battles are a blast, controls are precise (depending on your bot) and the graphics are some of the better on the DS yet. The game goes into molasses mode though when as a kid ala The Pokemon games you wander around school, your town etc.. this is where you start battles get parts for your bot etc... It is a cool RPGish system once you get into, but the kiddy feeling is inescapable. Cool game just slows way down when you aren't battling.
Recommended for customization, robo fans with a high tolerance for dialogue and map wandering.

Great game, slightly on the short side.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: July 08, 2007
Author: Amazon User

The fighting was great, story was a bit short. Kinda reminds me of the old Gundam games back on the Japanese Super Nes days. You customize the robots, earn $, and actually fight it out in a action battle.

Wish the story was a bit longer, kinda wanted more after the main story finished so abruptly.

A great game, minus the story

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: May 07, 2007
Author: Amazon User

The game itself plays beautifully on the DS. I've also played Custom Robo which was released on the Gamecube, and minus the minor graphics downgrade (seeing the DS isn't quite as powerful as the 'Cube) it ran just as fast. The only thing that I had to get used to was the childish story elements, that and some of the nearly impossible fights as the game progressed. But other than that, great fighting game, and it even includes WiFi. Definitely reccomend this game!

Super Fun game with no blood!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 11 / 14
Date: May 01, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I bought this game because it reminds me the game I used to play in an arcade and it's a right choice i made. I'm not a big fan of RPG game I mean I can go on with some little RPG but when it comes to fighting I'd love to do it myself not only choose a technique and lets the cpu do the fighting.

With this game it's really satified me because it's a RPG base so you will walk around to talk with people to do the task or to progress to another quest but when you have to fight you will be the one who do it.

Another fun thing in this game is you can buy a part and build your own unique robot and you can also test drive the part before purchasing it. It's very fun for me to test drive the part to see which one would work well for me. I spent like almost an hour at the first time i played this game on testing the part in the shop.

One more cute thing I like about this game is you have a very good family and friend who always support and cheer you up. Everyday in the morning (before you go to school in the game) and at night (after you finish the quest), you have to sit in the dinning room and talk to your family and they will give you some compliments, ask about your day and show how much they care about you.

This is not a super difficult game at all that you need to spend lots of time to figure it out but you still need to have a good strategy to win against each robot since they all have their own unique style of fighting.

so, this game is an RPG that you will walk around to do the quest but when it comes to fight you will do it own your own. No blood, No killing and no bad word. Awesome!

good not amazing

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 5
Date: April 26, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game is fun but not great. First of all the combat is freakin amazing. But the story is repetative you wake up eat breakfast go to school and do whatever task afterward. Fortunatly the combat is good controls are simple and to the point no time limit or power to worry about. The costomation is nice not as complicated as armored core but not simple ether. Story mode is fairly easy so far ive only fought 4 hard battles. There isnt very much RPG elements in it basicly you just buy new parts theres also a commander level but it doesent really effect you much. Overall this game is a nice fun portable time waster.

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