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I got it and although my phone is the only internet I have right now and its really bothersome to type on, I enjoy being one of the first to dive into unknown territory and telling those of you here about it so here we go! I was a little hesitant to download thisat first since money isn't plentiful right now but I did and I'm glad I did! You could describ this one as augmented reality...sort of. You point the camera at a serface and "zoom in" to the surface as though the ds is a microscope. Obviosly the dsi/3ds camera isn't a microscope so that much is fake but the zoom in effect is quite cool looking and does look fairly lgit the way it does it. So anyway, when you're zoomed int a surface you can move you view around with the control or circle pad, zoom further in with r an zoom out with l. You can also move the view around by physicaly moving the system ala face raiders but its a little glitchy and not recomended. While searching around, you'll come across various elments such as oxygen, hydrogen, carbon, etc. You can capture these elements by holding the reticule in the middile of the screen over them for a few seconds. You will also come across various bacteria and microscopic creatures. In order to capture them and add them to your collection of species, you must hold the reicule over them for several seconds until you get the option to capture them by pressing a button on the touch screen. You then enter a battle of sorts with the creature in which you must take speces you already have and send them to weaken the newcomer for capture. If you successfully defeat the creature within 30 seconds, you will capture it and it will then be yours. Fail to capture it in 30 seconds, and it will escape. All your captures go into your sample collection. There are quite a few species to capture in all. I didn't count but I would estimate about 30-40 gettable species. Now that you have captured a creature, you must feed it so it can thrive and multiply. Each species eats a different mix of chemicals and elements so you must feed tem with all the stuff you pick up with the microscope. Early species are easy to feed eating whole elements like carbon. It gets a bit complicated later on when a species may eat calcium caronate. In these cases you must go into your cemicals and mix various ones together to get the mix you need. You are given a recipe book of sorts for all the combos you'll need. It tels you which elements you'll need and how many parts or each you'll need. It woorks quite we'll and various chemical mixes actually use the real lifeproportions of ingrediants to make. I found myself remembering things from chemistry a few years back which I thought was cool. So that's the game in a nutshell. As far as real life camera mechanics go its pretty cool. a certain spicies you're hunting may for example be found in grass. So by investigating grass or greenery, you'll find the creature you seek. It boils down to a game about finding the correct colored surface to sca to locate the creature you're looking for. It works well and is actually prety addictive. I enjoy mixing up new chemicals amd finding new and interesting species. It was quite worth th 5 dollars imo and I'm having lots of fun with it. If anyone has any questions please feel free to ask me also, sorry for the amount of errors that are likely in this post. My phone keyboard kind of sucks
@bboy2970 thanks for the review!! i'm sure many of us will find that useful before we, too, take the plunge! (i can't tell you how many times i took the plunge before others, too. lol) thanks alot!
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Thanks for the review bboy2970 I was interested in this game I wasn't sure if I would actually like it once I played it but thanks to your review I will download it later.
No problem guys. I enjoy lending my thoughts and opinions to those still unsure about a game.
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-As far as things to get goes, there are quite a few. There are exactly 50 different species of creatures to find (i counted since my initial post). Then there are a plethora of elements to gather ranging from carbon to phosphorus. They can all be combined in various ways to create new, more complex things. As far as things to collect that's about it.
-The game seems like it will last a fair while. I've been playing for roughly 6 hours and am currently missing 14/50 specimens. But take into consideration that I've been taking my time a little bit. So I guess you could realistically say that this game would last a solid 7 hours if you really tried to speed through it as fast as possible. Its not like you can just go find every specimen in one shot though. As you progress, the species you find will become stronger and more difficult to take down. It can be a daunting and sometimes impossible task if you don't have large numbers of strong species to fight with. In this case you must feed your specimens and wait for them to multiply making battling and capturing new ones easier.
-As far as replay value, I don't know if there would be a whole lot of stuff to do after collecting all species. You could always continue searching around and recapturing various ones for the hell of it. Plus you still have the duty of feeding your various specimens and keeping them alive. Something more could open up after getting all species but as far as I can see, there isn't.
It really is one of the better applications of the camera I have seen. Each species you have yet to find will have some hint on it like "This species likes to live in grass" So then you go to scan in on some grass and you'll probably find what you're looking for. Even though the microscope hook of the game is a load of bull it is still pretty fun and looks really neat. Probably the only negative thing I could say outside of possibly limited replay value is the fact that you really must return to the game on a daily basis to feed your specimens. The levels of whatever they eat will slowly drop as time goes on and you must keep them fed and healthy or they will start to die off. It can be a little irritating being bound to the game like that but it does add to the realism. Also the game does have an educational angle going for it. I'm fairly certain that all the species featured here are real and the facts given about them accurate. Plus the combining of chemicals is very true to life expecting very specific and realistic combinations. A simple example would be water or H20. If you know anything about reading formulas, you can see this one if 2 parts hydrogen and 1 part oxygen. So you would literally take 2 drops of hydrogen and 1 drop of oxygen, add them into the mixer, and mix them. It gets more complex than water down the line and does feel like you are legitimately learning a little something. All in all its a very neat little package and very much worth the 5 bucks IMO.
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