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OMG 26: Our Mini Games (DS) Status: Finished playing I started playing this game on Thursday 17 December, 2020 // I stopped playing this game on: Saturday 19 December, 2020
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December 19, 2020 06:10:53 PM
I've got a small pile of mini-game collections for the DS on my desk next to me, but this is by far the most interesting one. My initial impression was that this was a Wario-ware style game - but, it's not quite that since each mini-game is much longer than a typical Warioware microgram (30 seconds to minute and a half AFAIK). But, this collection is different from other collections in that it has a story-mode. 3 friends/characters/adventures enter a haunted mansion and face a series of challenges dumped on them by the evil Dr. Frankenstein-look-a-like and his minions. You start in the house, that has three floors with 4 doors each and each door is a minigame. The last door (for a total of 13 in the house) is to obtain a key. After than there's the dungeon, with a similar arrangement with the final minigame stealing a key from the baddie. I've run through the entire thing twice already - failing both times to get the final key. The first time I also failed to get the first key - and the ending was different. My guess is that you need to get both keys for a good ending and possible win all the minigames to get the best ending? (and presumably a pile of treasure). What's surprised me the most is that it doesn't seem to matter if you fail/succeed at the minigames in terms of the progression - the game just keeps on going. You can also play the minigames by themselves at different levels of difficulty (S, A, B, C, D rank, etc.) so I imagine you would normally practice them solo and then try to run the gauntlet of the entire game. Some of the minigames are notoriously harder than others, but in all they're pretty simple. It's just that under the time pressure some of them are easy to miss. I wonder if there's more - perhaps a "+" story mode once you beat it? But, to be honest while the characters are cute and I enjoyed many of the minigames, they're just that...mini games.

OMG 26: Our Mini Games (DS)