And while you're blowing out the end of the year and all, don't forget to head over to our two polls and vote for your picks for best games of the year.
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Reminder: End of the Year Blowout (day ten)
And while you're blowing out the end of the year and all, don't forget to head over to our two polls and vote for your picks for best games of the year.
DS Fanswag: End of the Year Blowout!
But enough of the details -- let's get to the prize packages!
DS Fanboy's End of Year Fanswag Blowout
Grand Prize
- Limited Edition Gold DS Lite + The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass (bundle) ($149.99)
- Nintendo DS headset ($9.99)
- Custom Robo ($29.99)
- Dementium ($29.99)
- Drawn to Life ($29.99)
- Fullmetal Alchemist: Trading Card Game ($19.99)
- John Deere: Harvest in the Heartland ($29.99)
- Mega Man ZX ($29.99)
- Pokémon Diamond ($34.99)
- The Legend of Spyro: The Eternal Night (GBA) ($19.99)
- Geometry Wars: Galaxies swag
- Dementium skin
- Pokémon Diamond stylus
Best Buy offering $5 gift cards with kid-friendly games
Likely positioning this deal as an incentive for Christmas shoppers to purchase family-oriented titles for younger gamers, Best Buy is throwing in a $5.00 gift card with every video game purchase from its selection of E (Everyone) and E10+ (Everyone 10+) ESRB-rated offerings. Here's a list of the electronic retailer's DS games currently on that list:- Ben 10: Protector of Earth - $29.99
- Cars (GBA) - $19.99
- Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker - $29.99
- Drawn to Life - $29.99
- Jam Sessions - $19.99
- Looney Tunes: Duck Amuck - $29.99
- Ratatouille: Food Frenzy - $29.99
[Via CAG]
Amazon gives us a reason to be jolly
Amazon has put over two dozen Nintendo DS games on sale, some of them marked down as low as 50% of their original price! Some of the titles are trash, but there are more than a few that you should consider picking up. We've listed below the ones that stood out to us, but make sure to check out Amazon's page for the full selection of DS deals.- Front Mission - $24.99
- Looney Tunes: Duck Amuck - $19.99
- Master of Illusion - $19.99
- Nintendo DS Headset - $9.99
- Prism - $19.99
- Spanish for Everyone - $14.99
[Via CAG]
DS Fanboy Review: Looney Tunes: Duck Amuck
Looney Tunes: Duck Amuck is a very rare game: it has mostly mediocre minigames, and yet is one of the most compelling games released this year. It absolutely triumphs in most aspects not related to gameplay and a few that are; most notably-- and this isn't the boldest thing I'll say in this review-- it is the best Looney Tunes material created in any of our lifetimes. It completely redeems a license and character that have fallen into obsolescence. Forget that Back in Action ever happened. (Sorry if I reminded you that Back in Action happened.) This is a Daffy who can genuinely get away with a Captain Picard reference.
The Duck Amuck/Esurance/Leapster connection
Can we admit to something? It's not that bad, but ... we kind of like the animated Esurance commercials. They're shrill, and senseless-- why is she stopping to get car insurance while being chased? And why is she being chased? And why is she always meeting that one David Seville-looking guy for the first time? But we overlook all of that stuff, because the geometric art style is brilliant, and the commercials are gorgeously animated. Whenever we watch one of those commercials, we hope that they are leading the animators into fantastic new opportunities.We were then pleased to learn that the Flash animation for Looney Tunes: Duck Amuck was being done by Ghostbot, the company responsible for the Esurance ads. We don't know if a DS game is really a step up in prestige from a national advertising campaign, but at least the subject matter isn't horribly banal. Besides, doing official Daffy Duck animation for Warner Bros. seems like Real Prestige as far as the animation world goes. So, good for them! They're using the original 1953 "Duck Amuck" model sheets, too, which shows some wonderful attention to detail.
This information comes out of an interview between Newsweek's N'Gai Croal and WayForward designers Rob Buchanan and Jeff Pomegranate. Apparently WayForward and Ghostbot already had a connection, after Pomegranate worked on a Batman game with them for the Leapster. Which means that something good came of the Leapster after all.
DS releases for the week of October 8th
Don't relax just yet, fanfolk -- that wallet isn't getting a break any time soon. Just when you thought you might get a chance to recover from buying Phantom Hourglass, a bevy of new and interesting releases is coming our way. You want action? Check. You want humor? Check and check again. There's a good set this week, and we're not even up to the holidays yet.- Bleach: The Blade of Fate
- The Cheetah Girls: Pop Star Sensations
- Flipper Critters
- FIFA Soccer 08
- Looney Tunes: Duck Amuck
- Touch Detective 2 1/2
