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Saturday, March 15, 2008

[Mag kid] Fun Casual Game with a Cool Add-on





This is a fun casual action game from Nintendo. It has a add-on that you need to plug into the slot 1 of your DS. The add-on works the same way as a mouse does, tracking the movement of your DS on a surface as you push it around. The interface of the game is all controlled through this add-on. Its objective is to control the main character - "Mag Kid", to move around the house to help a small boy to handle daily chores or funky tasks. "Mag Kid" is essentially a a small piece of magnet. It can attach to metallic objects and pull stuff around to help the boy out, like reassembling broken toys. Another amazing talent of the "Mag Kid" is the ability to copy the enemy's special skills. Inside the house, the kid will meet with a lot of bugs that also reside in the house. They each have their own skills, like shooting bubbles, shooting bullets or can do a dash to charge at the kid and hurt it. And when the kid knocks them out unconscious, it can attach them at its tail and pull them around. And the kid will then also be able to use the same skills as the bugs it is currently pulling.

Here are some more photos of the game box and the DS with the add-on.






The official game site is here. Clicking on the yellow box in the middle of the page will pop up another page to explain the gameplay with the add-on. You can check out this promotional video as well.



BTW, can someone hack this add-on and make it act like the mouse of my PC, with buttons on the DS screen for me to tap on and act as mouse button?

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