Custom Robo Arena - Nintendo DS

by Nintendo

• Explore a sci-fi landscape as they fight toward the Custom Robo championship, powering up their Robos as they go
• Get complete control over how Robos fight their battles -- literally millions of possible Custom Robo combinations
• Challenge friends to one-on-one Robo battles using either Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection, Multi-Card Play or DS Download Play
• Touch screen to customize every aspect of their Robo -- give it new weapons, polish it up after every battle to bring it back to top fighting form

Product Details

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• ASIN: B000HE9LKE
• Product Dimensions: 4.8 x 5.2 x 0.5 inches ; 4.8 ounces
• Media: Video Game
• Release Date: March 19, 2007
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (31 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #15,985 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)

Product Description

Custom Robo Arena DS

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

30 of 30 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Fun March 26, 2007

By Eric M. Lee

Fun: 5.0 out of 5 stars   

This game is all about battles, and the battles are a blast. The RPG elements and story are simple yet fun. They don't require a lot of time and energy but can add a lot to the strategy if you want. If you're looking for a deep RPG this isn't for you. But if you want to play around with a ton of different weapons/parts/arenas and test your skills online real-time Custom Robo can't be beat. These battles are not turn-based, so Pokemon fans may be dissappointed but if you want fast paced action you're in for a treat. Custom Robo's battles are intense and strategy is key. He/She with the fastest reflexes will not always win, which is great for me because I'm coming up on 30. They story is a little childish but leads you well into a lot of battles, which is what you want anyway. Being a parent, I like this title because the violence is restrained to Robots battling, no people die.

Take it from a +20 year gaming vet, you will have great fun with Custom Robo.

16 of 19 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Super Fun game with no blood!! May 1, 2007

By Digital Musician

Fun: 5.0 out of 5 stars   

I bought this game because it reminds me the game I used to play in an arcade and it's a right choice i made. I'm not a big fan of RPG game I mean I can go on with some little RPG but when it comes to fighting I'd love to do it myself not only choose a technique and lets the cpu do the fighting.

With this game it's really satified me because it's a RPG base so you will walk around to talk with people to do the task or to progress to another quest but when you have to fight you will be the one who do it.

Another fun thing in this game is you can buy a part and build your own unique robot and you can also test drive the part before purchasing it. It's very fun for me to test drive the part to see which one would work well for me. I spent like almost an hour at the first time i played this game on testing the part in the shop.

One more cute thing I like about this game is you have a very good family and friend who always support and cheer you up. Everyday in the morning (before you go to school in the game) and at night (after you finish the quest), you have to sit in the dinning room and talk to your family and they will give you some compliments, ask about your day and show how much they care about you.

This is not a super difficult game at all that you need to spend lots of time to figure it out but you still need to have a good strategy to win against each robot since they all have their own unique style of fighting.

so, this game is an RPG that you will walk around to do the quest but when it comes to fight you will do it own your own. No blood, No killing and no bad word. Awesome!

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Like a mini Armored Core March 26, 2007

By Linh T. Huynh

Fun: 5.0 out of 5 stars   

This game is like a miniature version of Armored Core except with some cutesy Japanese quirks thrown in. The "RPG" element of the game isn't for everyone; but I found it to be cute. The meat of the game is in customizing and battling robos. Since this is a handheld game you really can't expect Armored Core type customization or battles. But it's pretty darn fun anyways. There are a ton of unique weapons and different strategies. For example, should you go for weapons with good homing abilites but slow rates of fire? Or fast weapons that just shoot straight? What weapons and strategies will your opponents use?

I haven't tried the wi-fi option or the wireless pvp option yet. I'm sure playing against a human opponent would be pretty intense. Those features should also give this game a longer life-span. I definitely think Custom Robo Arena is worth a try for anyone who likes mech games.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars Fun, but Shallow March 21, 2008

By J. Singer

Fun: 5.0 out of 5 stars   

This game was a lot better than I'd expected it to be. The combat is very simple, fun, and fast-paced, reminiscent of the old arcade game Virtual On. The customization of the game is a little bit like a simplified version of the popular Armored Core series. The story looks and feels just like the Mega Man Battle Network series.

The customization is fun, and the battles are a blast, but that's all you're going to enjoy the game for. The game's story mode is bad, especially when plagued by lame dialogue that can't be skipped. But you have to cringe your way through the story mode in order to collect enough of the many various parts to customize your robo.

The exploration in story mode is very bare. It looks just like Pokemon or the Mega Man Battle Network games, but closer to the latter in which you'll be given simple tasks like "go to point B and talk to person A, return to point A and battle person B, go home". Your home is where you go every night, have a dinner conversation with your family, and go to sleep. Then you wake up, have a breakfast conversation with your family, and go to school.

It's after school that things start to get interesting. You can go to the various parts shops for your robo, buy dioramas to pose your robo in (A time-consuming but addictive affair that is purely cosmetic and doesn't have any affect on gameplay), and visit the local Robo Center where you can battle various AI characters for fun. It all gets old very fast, but you're getting parts and money while you do it, so that should be enough incentive to keep going.

Some touch-screen features are tacked on, like posing your robo in various dioramas, and the need to polish your Custom Robo to keep it clean, because a dirty robo is impaired in battle and nets you less money after a win. Later in the game you unlock a power-up which requires pressing a button on the touch screen, but that could have easily been mapped to a button on the DS, because one button is left unused.

The game's fun really opens up when in battle, where the story mode's AI opponents range from "stand there and do nothing" to "destroy you in seconds". The game's difficulty is unbalanced and occasionally frustrating, but if you fail repeatedly you can retry as many times as you need; the game even offers you handicaps with enough consecutive losses.

Taking the game online is the funnest feature, but you have to make it through the story mode first to really enjoy it.

Here are my overall ratings (1 to 5):

Gameplay: 5
Story: 2
Multiplayer: 5
Graphics and Sound: 4
Value: 5

This is a game that requires a little work on the gamer's part to enjoy, but once you collect enough parts for your robo and you're ready to take on online multiplayer, you have a fun online multiplayer battle game that you'll be playing for a long time. Read more ›