What do WarioWare, Rhythm Paradise and Flipper 2 have in common? You only need to press one button to play them. Yet there is one thing that sets Flipper 2 apart from its counterparts - it's not remotely funny.
Anyone who didn't laugh as you pressed A to pick a nose in WarioWare or watched the man swallowing ping pong balls in Rhythm Paradise is tired of gaming. Flipper 2 has no such moments and it suffers for it because a game this simple really needs to be more entertaining.
You'll be told what to do on the touchscreen and then you just press A in each platform level to perform the required action - shooting an enemy, ducking under a penguin or side-stepping spikes.
The story mode won't last long, but there is a random castle mode and a level editor to keep you busy in what is no more than an okay download.
66%
I bought this game as soon as it became available. I watched the trailer and it looked like an awesome, Earthworm Jim inspired platform game. I couldn't' have been more disappointed when I actually started playing. Levels are broken into areas which are only the DS screen size in length, and you press only one button to perform a random manoeuvre on each of these screens. Definitely not anything like what the trailer suggested it was to me. And it cost me £9 as there was nothing else I wanted to buy with my DSi points. Wish I'd not bothered.
