Electroplankton Review

As you all may or may not know, music games are digging themselves quite a niche market right know. Gaining popularity a few years ago with games like DDR. We now have Karaoke games, more DDR and new and innovative new hits like Guitar Hero. With Music games growing popularity you knew Nintendo couldn’t be left out in the cold. They took their innovative DS hand-held system and innovative artists Toshio Iwai… and Electroplankton was birthed.

Graphics
This game isn’t really about graphics, however with that said, the game has a pleasing and interesting look all it’s own. Actually the game is surprisingly crisp when compared to the jaggie low texture mess some DS games can be.

The bulk of the games graphics is mostly composed of amebalike characters placed in surreal locals. The game gives you feeling of looking down a musical microscope. You can zoom in and out of certain areas of the screen and the game stays pretty clean the whole time.

While the graphics are certainly not jaw dropping, they suit the game just fine.
Rating: 7 out of 10

Sound
This game is dependant on sound and it delivers in that department. The game is composed of a few sound elements like loops, played sounds and recorded sounds.

Loops are played throughout a far amount of the different game play modes, they sound great and are very melodic and ethereal. Sounds played by using the stylus sound crisp and clean. Voice recordings are as good as you can get recording into a tiny pin hole mic.

I noticed a small issue with sound when using earphones. Some of the sounds played with the stylus often have some slight noise towards the end. It’s a tiny issue that shouldn’t hinder your game play/fun.
Rating: 7 out of 10

Gameplay
The game play on in Electroplankton is pretty much all stylus driven, and very simple. The game is comprised of simple taps and easy movements. Some modes have you arrange leaves in various ways to ricochet tiny tadpoles, spinning arrows to set your plankton on a path, spinning your plankton in circles, drawing lines for your plankton to follow and just simply tapping in random locations on the screen to make your plankton respond.

The game mechanics are really simple and makes playing the game easy and entertaining.
Rating: 9 out of 10

Story / Presentation
There is no story, but the games presentation is well done. There are very few screens to go navigate through, but what they do have is really clean and easy to use. You even get some music tones when selecting your game mode, which can end up being a fun mini-game all on its own.
Rating: 9 out of 10

Replay Value
It’s hard to gauge replay value on a game like this. If you love making music or noise in general then this game will have tons of replay value. For those of you who aren’t’ very musical, the novelty can wear off fairly quickly.

Even if you love music most of you won’t be playing this game night and day. This is the perfect game for short spurts of nothing to do. It’s on of those games that you’ll keep with you most of the time for quick spurts of music fun.
Rating: 7 out of 10

Multiplayer
N/A
Rating: out of

Overall
This is less of a game and more of a musical experience. If you go into the game with that in mind you’ll enjoy it much more. The game has no set objectives to complete, you pretty much make some noise, loops or recordings then turn the game off when you’re done.

With that said it’s still a fun and innovative experience and use of the DS, one that most of you will keep in heavy rotation.
Rating: 7 out of 10

Electroplankton
Graphics: 7
Sound: 7
Gameplay: 9
Story / Presentation: 9
Replay Value: 7
Multi-Player: N/A
Overall: 7
Publisher: Nintendo
Developer: Nintendo
Genre: Music
Players: 1
ESRB: E for Everyone
Treat your DS to some Electroplankton

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