Eco Creatures: Save The Forest
From Majesco Sales Inc.
Eco-Creatures: Save the Forest DS
- Amazon Sales Rank: #7225 in Video Games
- Brand: Majesco
- Published on: 2008-03
- Released on: 2008-03-05
- ESRB Rating: Everyone
- Platform: Nintendo DS
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: .75" h x 5.00" w x 5.50" l, .25 pounds
At the foot of Mana Mountain is the naturally beautiful Mana Woods. Animals, spirits, and wizards once lived peacefully here until the adjoining kingdom set out to industrialize and destroy the forest. With the help of an old wizard, an army of woodland creatures and magical powers, you must conserve and revitalize the woodlands in this unique real-time strategy game for the Nintendo DS.
Features:
- The first eco-friendly adventure for the Nintendo DS! Eco Creatures promotes awareness of the perils of over-industrialization, deforestation, pollution, extinction, and global warming, as well as their effects on various life forms.
- Use the Touch Screen to control magical powers and units of woodland creatures with ease and precision.
- Employ woodland creatures to strategically protect the woods and recover the polluted land. Each creature type has different abilities: Ecolis grow trees, Ecoby build bridges and swim, and Ecomon move objects and fly.
- Manage your powers and creatures wisely in a robust single-player experience filled with more than 40 challenging missions.
- Nurture your woodland creatures to help them evolve and learn new abilities so they can better assist your environmental missions.
- Plant new trees to prevent deforestation of the woods, earn power-ups that grant enhanced or new abilities, and grow your army of creatures.
- Choose between an enormous array of strategies to defend your homeland from enemies and bosses like the evil Mecha Army.
- Play with friends through local ad-hoc connections or via Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection.
- Two to four players can play over a local connection or via game sharing with one cartridge.
- Two players can play via Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection and see where they rank in an online ranking system.
- Land Make feature lets you build your own maps and invite friends to play in levels you've created!
Attack, my furry minions!!!
Eco Creatures is a RTS that is, a real-time strategy. For those that don't know what that means: If you stand still time passes, just like life. Now that we have that down you play as a large furry... well, lets just say yeti, who lives in a forest full of cute furry critters. So, when a nearby kingdom begins bulldozing and polluting your home what do you do? Why attack with hoards of bright pink squirrels of course!
You move around with the D-pad, nearly everything else you control with the stylus. There are three basic types of creatures you can control, each with their own abilities. You level them up with crystals that you gain through beating scenarios. So, start of a level you get goals, a map and losing conditions. Most of the time the goal is destroying particular targets, the map varies, and to lose you get your tree-house destroyed. Every now and then you get a boss.
Those are the basics, and I know it sounds bad when I tell you "It's fun as heck!". Yeah, you heard right. The control scheme works, though things will get in your way when you're trying to select something. The missions are repetitive but different enough to be interesting, and the bosses are everything from easy as pie to AAAGH! hard. The visual style of the game is cute and original, the music is repetitive but doesn't wear on your nerves. It's good.
I don't know why anyone hasn't picked this up, in fact if you like any type of strategy games, say Fire Emblem, then this is for you. I'd even go so far as to say that it's a great kids game, with little to no violence, suggestive themes, or crude humor. The bottom line is, that it's one of the better RTS I've played, and it's cheap. Do try this one out.
Fun to play.
This was a good fun game. Multiplayer was good, too. My son bounces around from game to game, but this one has remained in the mix, though not the most popular one, so solid 4 stars.
Eco-Creatures
Bought this for my 6 year old daughter and she played with it from time to time in the beginning.As she has gotten more games she played it less frequently and now doesnt play it at all.Will trade it in at the game store with about 6 other games that she doesnt play anymore in hopes to get 1 new one free!
