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High School Musical - Work This Out DS: Dance and Music-filled Sequel

Monday, July 13th, 2009

High School Musical 2: Work This Out is just filled with music. The title comes from the popular Disney movie of the same name. The Disney movie is basically about a group of youngsters and set to dance numbers and music.

High School Musical on the Nintendo DS features Taylor, Chad, Gabriella and Troy who are employed at a country club for a summer job. They are constantly tagged by Ryan and Sharpay, their part time nemesis.

As a player, you are thrown all around the club grounds. The plot itself is integrated with a host of mini games which are connected to the plot of the movie. Complexity levels of the mini games vary with an unnatural obsession with music as a common element. As you start playing the High School Musical - Work This Out DS game, you are required to watch over sunbathers. You keep everyone protected in the shade by tapping over their umbrellas in keeping with the music. Work this out then takes players through other activities such as making sandwiches and picking up golf balls tapping away to music.

Fixation with music makes the mini games border on chaos. Even the sandwich making involves some effort picking bread and other ingredients from four conveyer belts moving in opposite directions. You have a limited time within which you are required to place lettuce leaves that are extremely thin on to the bread pieces again in keeping with the rhythm of the song.

Another game requires you to practice performing songs for a talent show. As a player you are required to tap on the icons on the screen in keeping with the timings as they continue changing colour, even as you find your current character on the stage strutting around. There is a feeling of being overwhelmed with too much music through the entire Nintendo DS game.

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Princess Debut: Dance like a Princess at the Ball

Monday, February 16th, 2009

Princess Debut is an interesting game of dating and rhythm which is one-of-a- kind. While there are a lot of games on racing, riding, grooming, etc to choose from, Princess Debut by Natsume is the first game of its kind for those looking to date some attractive and cute Japanese boys.

The game is all about having fun learning how to ballroom dance and creating cute boys. A young schoolgirl is transported to another universe and taken on a fantastic fantasy journey. She has an opportunity here to switch roles with a doppelganger after pulling a Prince and Pauper. She has thirty days to learn ballroom dancing and attend the royal ball with a date. In her search for a perfect date, she comes across many prospective suitors.

She meets Vince, the clown, Tony the six-footer, Luciano, the mysterious quiet man, Kyle the dreamer, Liam who only talks about his sister, the snobbish Caesar and the genius with silver hair, Keifer.

Players spend their day exploring around the kingdom and practicing various skills in dancing. Meeting up with new people, going on dates, identifying the dream boy who will ask the princess for a date is some of the other interesting activities. There are endings to unlock before getting a prince.

Though slow, the dances are interesting and appealing. Dancing steps, twists and turns are as realistic as possible mimicking the actual ballroom dances. Whilst Princess on Ice lets you play as a princess on the skating rink, the action in Princess Debut takes place in the ballroom. In the Ballroom Mode, there is a tournament kind of a set up. For those who are fascinated with being Princess, this game offers fun and entertainment on DS Lite.

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