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33 of 43 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
ignition entertainment wants to steal your money, January 10, 2006
Fun:1.0 out of 5 stars
This review is from: NDS Elf Bowling 1 and 2 (Video Game)
Please, whatever you do, don't buy this. I had no intention of reviewing this "game" until I noticed that it was actually in the top selling games for the DS (albeit within the top 100, but that's beside the point regarding such filth as this).
It's twenty dollars. Sounds cheap, right? Looks kind of funny, right? "Elf Bowling"! You knock down elves, how hilarious!
Okay. Now that you've smiled (or perhaps not) at the thought of knocking down elves mimicking bowling pins, there's absolutely no reason for you or your mom or something resembling a person with a heartbeat to buy this. The two games on here (bowling and shuffleboard) resemble poorly made PC shareware circa 1992, because that's what they pretty much are.
Google "Elf Bowling." There. Play the two games included on this $20 compilation for FREE. Kinda glad you didn't pay anything for such a mildly amusing fun-for-five-minutes-at-best triviality, huh?
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Ported from the GBA? WHY??????, December 14, 2009
Fun:1.0 out of 5 stars
This review is from: NDS Elf Bowling 1 and 2 (Video Game)
For a child this game might seem ok, but being someone who checked this out because I thought the PC version was fun, this one is a really poor excuse for a game that is just a really cheap clone that lacks in options, replay value and fun. Whats even worse, the NDS version is a clone of the GBA version, they didn't even bother to upgrade any options, features, and most importantly, the graphics... why did they even bother?
You only get two games to play here. One is Elf Bowling, where you control Santa to bowl over 10 elves as the pins. They say a couple of cheeky things, but there is just not enough of them to keep you from getting annoyed at hearing the same thing repeated over and over again. I had not even completed 1 round yet before I was bored of it. There is no real skill to the throwing the bowling ball technique, and it doesn't even involve the stylus.. you can tap the screen to shoot, but ya may as well save the little amount of effort that takes and just hit the A button when the moving arrows light up the area you decide you want to roll the angle at. Least on the PC you could pull the mouse back and depending on how fast you pushed it forward determined your speed, but this cheap knock-off port does not even have any skill to it remotely like that. The other annoying thing is the lack of pace. You HAVE to watch the gutter cleaner drop down to clean up remaining pins(elves) and you cant just hit a button to skip it it and have your next bowl. Even tho it may only be a second or two, after a while, it just slows the whole pace down and leaves you annoyed at how long it takes between bowls. Then there is the music.... there is none, ya just have to listen to silence until you complete your shot.
The other game is basically backgammon. You see how far you can toss your elf down the alley, the further you go, the more points you will get for it, but you can also throw them too far off the end of the alley into the mouth of a shark that looks really lame. You also have to watch the computer take its turn next, and the elves distances are really annoying in the fact they look like there just in front of you, and as you throw an elf down the alley they come into focus of where they are on the alley.
There are no options, no bonus' to unlock, no powerup throws, no nothing to keep you coming back for more. I wont be surprised if anyone else agreed that one you finished your frames, you had no desire to ever turn the game back on ever again.
For the lack of effort put into this, you would think it might be a decent little mini game contained in some other game, but I for one am glad I did not actually pay money for this game, as anything more then a dollar would seem like a complete rip-off... and i certainly hope that amazons price of 114 bucks is a mistake, as the whole thing is not worth 114 cents.
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3 of 23 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
funny idea, January 10, 2006
Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars
This review is from: NDS Elf Bowling 1 and 2 (Video Game)
super-happy-funtime game!super toy #1
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