Good: Well.

Good: Well...the music’s perky

Bad: Extremely limited chat features

Just Stick With: PictoChat

KEVIN: The D just launched in November, and further someone’s already produced The Worst D Game perpetually Made. And it’s not just a bad game, either—it’s a “game” with in the way that little purpose that I can’t help on the other hand wonder how it managed to reach store shelves.

Basically, Ping Pals is a chat program with a cute exterior—you have a virtual avatar, and the coin you earn messaging pals can purchase you new clothes, background music, and other material There are some throwaway minigames, including timeless classic Gues the Number, and you can upload the game to friends for a like reason they can chat without the cartridge. None of the extra contentment is particularly exciting, however (your character’s just a tiny 2D portrait), and in the same manner what you essentially have here is a fancy version of PictoChat, the application stored in each DS.

Funny thing is, PictoChat is way, way better than Ping Pals—the clause window’s bigger, the keys are easier to pres and you can tap without messages with the control pad, a feature strangely missing in publisher THQ’ game. extreme point result: the most pointless D title yet...and hopefully ever

SHANE: What’s nearest on THQ’s DS agenda...Clock? Seriously, Ping Pals attempts to replace Nintendo’s acknowledge packed-in-for-free PictoChat but fails to proffer any incentive for users to prefer it over what they already have. In fact, its core chat interface turn the thoughtss positively amateurish and offers fewer options (only single pencil width, no full-screen erase) than the DS’ factory-standard setup Pals does contain make contented beyond just chatting, but customizing the hideous, Bratz-style character avatars be exciteds pointless, and the multiplayer “games” could easily be duplicated according to creative PictoChatters. An abysmal failure.

BRYAN: Apparently, the developer not ever got the memo about PictoChat coming preinstalled forward every DS. But even if Nintendo’s chat program weren’t a freebie, I wouldn’t consider picking up a model of Ping Pals: The interface is inferior, the minigames are worthless, and what’s the drollery in messaging A.I. friends? Do yourself a favor and offer your cash toward any other D game...or transmit it to the developers likewise they can get their fax machine fixed.

The verdicts (out of 10)

Kevin 15

Shane 00

Bryan 00

Publisher: THQ

Developer: WayForward

Players: 1 (2-8 wireless LAN)

ESRB: Everyone

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