Foto Showdown

by Konami

Product Features

• First DSi platform specific product to incorporate photography as an active gameplay mechanic
• Battle through single player mode or compete against friends and swap monsters via local wireless connection
• Winning tournaments allows gamers to use their prize money to upgrade their monsters powers and purchase new more powerful capsules allowing for advanced monster collection
• Compete to collect 4 types of cameras opening new monsters and new levels
• More than 120 monsters to collect and over 100 different floors to explore

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B002W5GI84
• Item Weight: 3.2 ounces
• Media: Video Game
• Release Date: March 9, 2010
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #20,073 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)

Product Description

Use the DSi camera to take photos that’ll spawn monsters and bring them to battle! As you win and grow, you’ll collect better cameras to snap more photos and create more powerful monsters! Adventure through a universe of over 100 levels snapping photos using the exclusive Nintendo DSi camera function. Advanced color recognition will take your photos and generate monsters which you can take and battle other monsters throughout the game. Build your monsters, upgrade their powers and provide increased weapons and fighting power to wreak havoc on your duelist partners! It's an adventure that encourages creative photography, where the photos you take have lasting effects on the total gameplay.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the few to make use of the DSi camera! Fun fighting game with RPG elements, March 29, 2010

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AlexJouJou (D.C.) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Foto Showdown (Video Game)

I seldom use my DSi (now my DSi XL) camera. I have a digital camera that I like way better. I think the DSi camera was really only put there for kids (even with the neato commercials showing adults or older youth) as they are less likely to have a nice quality digital camera. When I say kids I mean the 5-10 year old crowd -- most kids older than that (some younger) have their own cell phone to snap pics. So when I saw this title I had to pick it up -- I thought it would be a great way to use that thing I never use on my DSi. Frankly at this point I expected way more software that takes advantage of the DSi features.

Foto Showdown is primarily a fighting game. It has RPG elements. You are stuck on some island and have an objective (standard video game fare) and there's a girl with you. You need to use the camera to take pictures of, well, anything that then gets put in the capsule and a monster gets created from the colors in the picture you took. It's a simple concept really. Theoretically every color variation should result in a different monster. It is quite fun to watch the monsters spawn. Since you need this little canister thing to do it I haven't wanted to waste one (or the money to buy one) just seeing if the same colors spawn the exact same monsters. I'm a hoarder in any video game - a collector -- and I dislike wasting resources.

The fighting is fun and turn based. You can chose a skill and then you fight. You have to organize your deck (group of monsters) how you like - adding or deleting based on the monsters unique fighting capacity and strength. While you level up it really just allows you to control higher level monsters. At this point I can't find any indication that it increases skills and so on. Each monster has a cost and lower to higher = their level of control. So a monster with a cost of 3 means that, if you are level 3 or above, you should be able to control it. You can buy items as well. The tutorials are pretty good for the game and the manual will be of some help.

I'm not finished with the game but so far have not lost interest. As far as story its just your same old same old. It feels almost like Pokemon as well where you amass a group of monsters and then fight with them. There isn't any blood and the creatures seem to go unconscious (see why it reminded me of Pokemon?)so this would be fine for any age child with a DSi.

The graphics are o.k. The sound is o.k. It's the concept that gives this game its glow. Another really excellent thing is you could put this game down and come back to it later. Since it is primarily fighting there isn't a ton of story that you have to keep fresh.

I'm awarding 5 stars. I would rate the game itself as around 4 but I added a 5th star due to the fact that this uses the DSi camera in a new and unique way. I think its important for the game developers and companies to realize that we would all like new and unqiue ideas in our games!