Sunday, June 22, 2008

Toki Tori -- Final Opinion.

Toki Tori is an action puzzle game focused on a lot of trial and error. You control a fat yellow chick thing that's not quite a chicken and not quite a duck. Your objective is to collect all the eggs on the stage which advances you to the next stage through seventy plus stages in all. You can use a variety of items with a set number of uses per stage. It differs for every stage. On one stage you'll be able to create makeshift bridges three times for example and not have that ability at all on the next stage. Some of the abilities include making bridges, vacuuming up enemies, moving columns, setting pit traps, creating blocks, and warping among others. So you have to figure out what to use when and exactly where to get through a stage.  One stage for example sees you needing to avoid  the numerous enemies while you make your way through the stage collecting eggs while altering it so that all the enemies are all on a specific edge on the other side of an egg holding them in place. You'll then have to fall down collecting said egg and then instantly warp across a pit and turn around and ready the tool that turns each enemy into a block of ice. You'll have to time it so you hit each one as they walk off the ledge into the pit turning them to ice and stacking each one upon the others creating a column that you'll be able to fall down onto which tops out just next to the final egg. This puzzle alone will take both nimble action skills and a decent amount of cunning to pull off. And it's one of the earlier easy puzzles. Toki Tori is a great action puzzle game that will test both your action and your logic skills. I'm giving the Wii Ware version of Toki Tori an 8.5. It's good to see some great and worthy titles on Nintendo's service. Now if they could just get a hold of the Virtual Console side of things and get it back on track, they'd actually have something great with their service.

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