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| List Price: www.amazon.com's Price: $19.99 Condition: New Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Release Date: 2009-03-17 Average Customer Rating: 4.0 Lowest New Price: $17.67 Lowest Used Price: $13.71 | Features• Keep an eye out for gems and treasure to purchase your favorite weapons and abilities along your way.• Make quick switches between the intense action-adventure gameplay and an increasingly challenging puzzle world. • Jump, fight, and shoot your way through 30+ levels, including nearly a dozen of hidden levels and take on outrageous world-ending bosses. • Explore 5 exotic worlds in a mad hunt for artifacts, each of which grants new abilities for Hatsworth and unlocks a massively powerful golden mech suit. • Solve challenging combo-puzzles in order to gain more health and energy and enhance your melee and ranged weapons and help transform Hatsworth into multiple powerful forms. Riddiculously Fun, Riddiculously HardThis is not your kid's puzzle game! This game is great- difficult and just slightly frustrating. It has some depth to it- the basic gameplay is a mix of Mario Bros on the top screen of the DS, and Bejeweled on the bottom (you only play one at a time). So far I'm not even halfway through the game, and I've already played hours of it.Inconsistent DifficultyI ended up getting this game for free from a friend and was ecstatic about it. From the start the top screen mario-style action was consistently challenging enough to remain fun. The bottom screen bejewled-style game play was never overly challenging, but clever and fun in the way that it effected the top-screen play. After getting to the third or fourth level though I found myself completely unable to beat the level boss. I checked with a friend to discover that he had also had a lot of difficulty starting around that level. I've seen reviews from others who seem to have completed the game with no difficulty, but I was unable to complete this game as I grew too frustrated to wish to continue. This is perhaps not a good game for children or those who get frustrated easily as one might initially assume.Great idea, needs a little work.This game is a mediocre side-scroller with painfully bland level design combined with a tweaked Tetris Attack puzzler. There are also some aspects of upgrading several attributes, such as melee attack power. Each game has an effect on the other, so you need to constantly switch between them. I really love the idea and certain aspects are well-executed, but the boring level design combined with the enemies, especially bosses taking way too many hits before dying, leaves for an experience with a ton of potential but lacking in execution. The game needs more varied/interesting level design and some mechanic tweaking. Extra points for a fun world, great character design, and humorous dialogue.Time for TeaI'm truly not sure how to begin on the subject of Henry Hatsworth. So I'll begin with the thing about the game that struck me the most - the brilliant musical score.It is, (although I'm hesitant to say anything could be) on par with Rare(ware)'s efforts on their N64-era games. The individual tracks have that same instant recognizably and pizazz that distinguished the soundtracks of Banjo-Tooie and DK64; and the reason I'm able to discuss them with such familiarity is because Electronic Arts was kind enough to put the complete soundtrack to the entire game for free download on the Henry Hatsworth site. But, alas, this is just icing on the roast beef, or gravy on the cake. Mixed metaphors aside, what really distinguishes a game is it's gameplay. Which, although flawed in some areas, shines brillantly through a lens of unique characters and surprising accessibility. In essence, there are two "worlds" which are represented on the two screens. There is the "real" world, on the top screen, where most of the action takes place. Henry platforms, shoots, finds treasure, and generally is a generic Mario on this screen. But with a quick tap of the X button, you switch to the bottom screen, where a high-stakes game of Bejeweled takes place. In this screen, encased in blocks, lie your vanquished enemies. In order to defeat them for good, and stop them coming back as annoying flying blocks, you must match them with two other blocks of the same color in either direction- sound familiar? Also encased in blocks are various other items- extra lives in the forms of hats, powerups to deal with troublesome enemies, and others. all in all, pretty standard, genericish stuff on either end, and the level design is less than impressive, but the symbiosis between the puzzle and real world is a treat. The other exceptional thing about HHITPA (sorry) is the cast of colorful characters who fill the screen with their British-ish-ness. Charming Henry, devious Weaselby the Third, Banson, The Captain, Lady D... All of them exceedingly memorable and lovable. In short, were I to give a Metacritic review blurb, I'd say that it's an interesting and fun blend of Platform and Puzzle, with a charming atmosphere and awesome music, who's shortfalls are almost glazed over by the triumphs. Probably not for younger kids.The previews made this game look really wacky, silly, and fun. Frankly, I thought it was! The story line is pretty typical, but it's just so much fun to play! Each "half" of the game is pretty mediocre at best, but when played together, they influence each other and create a unique gaming experience. The game play does get rather repetitive, but I still couldn't put it down! It's just so much fun to play!The characters are very cartoonish and amusing; the main villain reminds me a great deal of Snidely Whiplash. The "voice acting" was kind of weird. Seems like there's a set of "Sounds" each character makes and when their dialogue appears on the screen, it makes a different sound for each word in the sentence. That was strange, but it sounded funny to me and made me laugh quite a bit early on in the game, got kind of old later on, but it's nothing a volume control couldn't fix. The music was fantastic! I found myself humming the music while at work. I even downloaded the games' soundtrack from the official website and listen to it periodically. The game play can get pretty hard; some of the levels are really tough! Some of them took me somewhere between a few hours and a few days to get around. Most levels aren't like that; maybe about 8 out of 30 levels. The end boss really took me a long while to defeat. This makes me say that this game is probably not best for younger kids. I'm thinking that anyone under the age of 8 or 9 would probably get really frustrated with the game and quit. I had to stop playing a few times because I got so frustrated myself, and I'm in my 20's! It's still a really fun game; I've beaten it and I still can't put it down! I'd recommend it to anyone from pre-teens and up. Product DescriptionLove puzzle games, but also love an adventure? Now you can have both in one game with Henry Hatsworth in the Puzzling Adventure, an exclusive Nintendo DS adventure-puzzle game that adds a new element of fun by combining the action of an adventure game with the challenge of a puzzle game all in one. Meet Henry Hatsworth, a quirky, light-hearted character who will guide you on your journey through a new style of gaming adventure on your Nintendo DS. In this two-in-one adventure, explore five exotic worlds, fight a variety of opponents, and venture through more than 30 levels, including nearly a dozen hidden levels while taking on outrageous world-ending bosses. The separate worlds on the two Nintendo DS screens have a cause and effect inter-relationship, and you choose when to switch between conquering the action-platform realm and mastering the increasingly challenging puzzle world. A wide variety of power-ups will help Hatsworth in both of these worlds. Complete puzzle combinations and defeat puzzle enemies in order to gain power ups, health, and energy to supercharge Hatsworth in his adventure.Amazon.com Product Description
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