February 10, 2012

Mario and Sonic at the London 2012 Olympic Games demo

Just get off the bike Sonic, you'll be faster!
Date played: February 9th
Platform: 3DS
Time played: 15 minutes
Session fun rating: 6/10

Whew, what a mouthful that title is! I was browsing the eShop for a bit and saw that there were two demos available. The first is Resident Evil Revelations which I bought. The second is this Mario and Sonic game. I've never played these games before but it turns out it's a mini game collection. Thankfully, it seems pretty well made. The five events from the demo were fun and the game runs well. It has good graphics, a nice frame rate and an overall good presentation.

The five mini games were trampoline jumping, swimming, soccer, target shooting and BMX. I found the best one to be target shooting and swimming. The game mixes it up a lot in terms of controls too. Some games had me just pressing a button, others were using the stylus and some used the circle pad. The BMX game even uses tilt control for the bike's pitch. It worked well enough but it screws up the 3D. It's kind of a cool game but it might get really boring really fast.