March2011

  • Review Puzzle to Go Sightseeing (DSiWare)

    Still no new sights to see here

    We originally only got two Puzzle to Go games before the series took a break for about a year, but since its return we've now already very quickly gotten three more of them, including this newest release, Sightseeing. It should now come as absolutely no surprise that this instalment is once again pretty much exactly...

  • Review Successfully Learning Mathematics: Year 2 (WiiWare)

    Do the math

    For many years, even before the heady days of Mario is Missing, gaming has given something back to the community in the form of educational titles. Whilst rarely excellent in the traditional entertainment sense, they aim to integrate fun challenges with learning, thus creating the edutainment sub-genre. Successfully Learning Mathematics:...

February2011

  • Review Puzzle to Go Planets and Universe (DSiWare)

    Not even if it was the last game on the planet

    Tivola has three Puzzle to Go games under its belt already, with almost a year between the second and third instalments. The first two games were, understandably, very similar, but with almost a year between those and the third game, you'd think the team would've taken the time to refine some of the...

  • Review Model Academy (DSiWare)

    Are you pretty enough?

    The life of a photogenic model is well known amongst the Nintendo Life team, and now Tivola is giving all DSi owners a chance to live the dream with Model Academy, a simulation game that sees you progress from girl in the mall to World Supermodel. The question is, does this title provide a fun experience, and can you walk the...

  • Review Puzzle to Go Baby Animals (DSiWare)

    A puzzle best left unsolved

    It's been almost ten months since the last time we received a Puzzle to Go game. We've clearly stated our complaints about the previous two games in our past reviews, but have the developers taken the time to improve this latest outing? When you first start you'll notice that the menus look, expectedly, exactly the same...

April2010

  • Review Puzzle to Go Diddl (DSiWare)

    Just change the puzzles and release what is essentially the same game for more money!

    A while ago we got Puzzle to Go Wildlife, a relatively decent jigsaw puzzle game marred by one major flaw: over half the puzzles had to be unlocked, which took an eternity. Did developer Tivola learn their lesson from this or not? For this second Puzzle to Go...

February2010

  • Review Puzzle to Go Wildlife (DSiWare)

    Puzzling

    DSiWare's got more than enough puzzle games already, so we can't say it was unexpected that the service has now finally gotten one based on the traditional definition of the word. Based on nothing more and nothing less than jigsaw puzzles, all you'll be doing here is dragging around pieces of a puzzle in an effort to snap them all together...