Play for the vibes alone. This game takes about 3-4 hours to complete, and you'll spend maybe 30 minutes of that actually playing a handful of mini games that happen once and never again. Except for this one mini game where you squash bugs in the bath tub which you can do whenever you want, but it gets you nothing, and I don't even think you're required to do it in the first place. The mini games in question are dreadfully explained and make no sense, but you can just tap randomly and get by on blind madness. The one where you have to play the instruments with the mice was basically impossible, but even though I failed my first attempt, the game just let me skip it. I guess they knew that one was especially ridiculous.

The majority of your time will be spent running in and out of the house, clicking on everything until you find the right item or dialogue trigger to advance the story, and if you're both stupid and unlucky like I am, it will probably be in the last location you check every single time. Having seen the movie doesn't help much.

The imagery if the movie translates well into the DS's graphical limitations, so there is a serene feeling that comes with playing it, which probably just comes from wishing the game was better.

You can unlock outfits for Coraline, and there are even some new minigames you play from the main menu after beating the story, but like, why would you want to? There's basically nothing to do in the game other than walking from point A to point B. I suspect this game was made in a month. Shocker for a movie based DS game, I know.

If you want to play a puzzle adventure game on DS about a dark haired weirdo girl running around a spooky house, play Emily the Strange: Strangerous instead