Japanese February DSi Ware Release Impressions

Nintendo has unleashed the February releases onto the DSiWare store. Two calculators, a calendar, a couple of Art Style games, another Club House compilation, and the services first third party game went up on the store, so weve picked the best of the bunch so you can decide once the DSi gets here what is worth picking up, or if youre just curious as to what its all about. Impressions of the Animal Crossing Calculator, Art Style HACOLIFE and Nalaku and Mr Driller await within. Animal Crossing Calculator
Ill let the video do the talking as its just a calculator. There is also a Mario Themed version for the same 200 Points.

Art Style HACOLIFE
First of the Art Style games released this month, but both of them have a cube theme going on. This one has an 8bit/Pixel Art style look, but the music is pretty basic. Squares get laid out in a shape on the ground and you have to roll the squares into a Cube. There is a factory mode that is unlocked later on, and that raises the stakes with bombs.

Art Style Nalaku
Another cube type puzzle. This time you control Bob (that’s the name I gave him) on a floating cube stack, the aim of the game is to try and walk on as many cubes as possible and at the same time more cubes are falling to make the next layer up. The stack keeps building, but the ones on the bottom fall away eventually. Weird to explain, but the video below reveals all.

Mr Driller
The first third party game on the DSi Ware service and its not entirely new, reusing a few assets from the Mr Driller Drill Spirits game. It does contain the Dristone mode, which was in the Japanese release and means well get the mode too. The game is bright and colourful on the DS screen but doesnt really make use of any of the DSi features.