Tagged: DS Puzzler

Cradle of Rome was one of the hit PC flash games in 2007 and is now on Nintendo DS under its new guise Jewel Master: Cradle of Rome. So how does the game cope with the transfer to handheld, find out in our review of Cradle of Rome for DS. Cradle of Rome DS is a spinoff to the classic Jewel Quest series of games where you have to quickly match 3 or more tiles in a row to complete a large game grid before time ran out. Cradle of Rome takes the same gameplay principle but adds a few...

Sumio is a ‘searcher’. He searches for things, that’s his job. He claims the word ‘lost’ isn’t in his vocabulary, which must make it difficult for him to write down his job description. However, even professional finding-guy Sumio has problems when he finds himself stuck with a massive list of missing items to find, a bomb to defuse and an endless temporal loop making the same day repeat itself, Groundhog Day-style, slowly driving him mad. Also, there’s a ghost in his hotel room. It can only be a weird Playstation 2 port of Flower Sun and Rain for DS. Flower,...

I’ve lost count how many times the strange bulge in my jeans has caused a stir whilst travelling on the bus. Unfortunately this wasn’t because God has blessed with an uber generous midriff but rather that I was carrying a Rubik’s Cube in my pocket for some portable brain teasing action on the way to work. Luckily I need to worry no further about embarrassing bulges as The Game Factory have brought the amazing world of Rubik’s Cubism to the Nintendo DS in the form of the ingeniously named Rubik’s Puzzle World. It is estimated that 5% of the world’s...

Before we start let’s clear a common misconception up. Mah Jong is an old four player Chinese game (primarily for gambling) that typically uses 144 hand painted tiles. Mah Jong’s origins are still speculated to this day and to make matters more confusing there are many other offshoot games which have lazily been dubbed as Mah Jong too, so to be sure if you are playing Mah Jong or one of its siblings takes some research. As it turns out the version of Mah Jong I’ve played on computer over the years is actually known as Solitaire Mah Jong (or...