Tornado :: DS Game Review oy3x

Reviewed by Adrian on Oct 23, 2008

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Toki and his tornado-riding Cosmic Cleaners need your help to save the Earth from a Black Hole! We review this new DS game here.

Toki and his team of Cosmic Cleaners spend their time zipping around the King Kong (Ok, ok, his name is Big Kong but that's just for the lawyers.) There's a fun comic-book-ish art style for Toki and the gang as you play, and the levels keep tossing crazy stuff at you. It's a cool twist that's a lot different from most games.

Stop the Tornado, I'm Gonna Hurl... f6j37

The coolness of this game gets hit in the junk by a few problems - first is that the controls have you drawing circles like mad and blowing into the mic for the speed boosts you need to levels. It's frustrating and an easy way to end up with your stylus jammed up your nose. The biggest problem though is that the levels are really tricky to . Not because they're hard, but because it's murder to figure out what you need to do! Normally you're trying to find someone hidden in the level, but there's no way to know where they are and not enough time to search the entire level. Then, after you scramble around in a panic, the Cosmic Cleaners snark at you for mes and you have to re-launch the whole game to try the level again. ARGH!

A Stormy Summary 1r6n6y

With a pack of cool characters, multiplayer challenges and a fun twist on gaming action, Tornado has potential. Unfortunately, a fistfull of frustrating issues knock the A+ fun-factor out of it, but once you get the hang of things it's a decent game that can get you hooked. Plus, riding a tornado through downtown and sending buildings flying as you pitch lightning at King Kong = awesome!

Thumbs Up:

Racing around and uprooting landmarks = wheee!

Toki and the crew = cool.

Multiplayer tornado bumper-car battles!

Thumbs Down:

Hard to see what's near your tornado.

How the %^&* do you finish the levels?!?

Restarting the game to re-play a level is annoying.

Having to constantly draw circles and blow into the mic = awkward.

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Available for: DS.