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Animal Genius (DS) Status: Stopped playing - Got Bored I started playing this game on Sunday 1 March, 2020 // I stopped playing this game on: Wednesday 11 March, 2020
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March 11, 2020 05:38:21 PM
While I'm definitely not the target audience, it was interesting to try this out and see what it's core design is. It's basically a grindy collection of mini-games you play to get points to unlock animals across a variety of habitats. The grindiness comes from the need to get enough points to unlock an animal, and the more animals you have in a habitat the more points you need. To be honest, it doesn't take all that long (I unlocked everything in the tropical/jungle habitat). I'm not sure if different habitats will have different mini-games or not, and the mini-games were ok. There's lots of them that involved recognizing (guess the animal from a partially revealed picture) and matching (match the closeup of a part of an animal to the animal). There's even one for sounds, which I thought was a nice touch. Perhaps the worst of the lot was the most "gamey" - a navigate a maze to collect things while avoiding enemies. The controls were a bit hard to manage in this one...