This game is just great all around! It's your typical rhythm game where you press the buttons along with the beat and the corresponding cues on screen. The visuals are really colorful and super cute! The hard and extreme modes are actually pretty difficult, but it's nice that you can choose to play the game calmly and casually or challenge yourself and test your sanity. The song selection is pretty good too and so are the available songs that you can purchase from the eshop. The multiplayer minigames are really fun as well and keep you engaged whether you play alone vs CPU or with friends.

Before the closure of the Nintendo eshop, I wanted to re-download some of the old games I had as a kid. I remember I was really addicted to this game when I was about 10 years old, but I don't remember it being so bizarre.

This game is a platform game where you can create your own characters using various available parts and shapes. You can create anything from cute little creatures to absolute abominations. If that isn't already fun, you can also give them a voice and some of the voice settings sound so cursed yet, it's endearing in a way. Your own little monster can run freely in the FreakyForms world that you create. You can also customize the world itself and change the colors around it. The platform gameplay is as predictable as it sounds. All you do is use your character or "Formees", as they're called in the game, to collect coins and eat fruits. You can explore land, underwater, and inside caves and even open treasure chests.

Honestly, this game doesn't really have anything beyond just that. The main selling point is that you can create your own characters, but honestly it can be a bit limiting with the shapes and colors that are available, but it's still some good and honest fun and there are still ways to get pretty creative with the shapes. This game is probably more fun to kids than adults, and I think I am a living testament of that. I remember I spent hours on this game when I was 10, but 12 years later upon redownloading it, I find it a lot less entertaining. I am no longer part of the target demographic, so I can't really talk bad about it, but if you ask my 10 year old self, she would give it a solid 4.5 stars. It's a fun game to waste some time on and get a couple laughs out of, but you might not reach for it very often at all.

This game is such a cute little gem! It's called "Ochaken no Heya" which means "Tea Dog Room". Ochaken is a franchise that unfortunately never made it to the states. The characters are little puppies that are themed by different types of tea.

This game is a cross between a card/puzzle game and a virtual pet game. The main objective is to collect matching furniture for your Ochaken by playing card games or puzzle games. There isn't any guide online that I've been able to find, but it seems that each dog has its own set of furniture that matches its own personal style that you can decorate the room with. Eventually, once you complete a room, another floor will appear on top and eventually you will get a whole apartment of different ochaken rooms!

Honestly, while this game is super cute and charming, it can actually be kind of difficult at times. You kind of have to be familiar with and good at all the classic card games (like poker for example). I am neither of those two, so a lot of these games I had to figure out myself and the CPU that you play against can actually be quite hard to beat at some points. Unfortunately, this game was never released outside of Japan so there is no English version. Truthfully, the Japanese in this game is not very beginner friendly. There is quite a bit of kanji and also the font is a bit hard to read sometimes. I would say this is suitable for an upper-intermediate speaker. However, if you are good at card games, then that's all you need to be able to enjoy this game since there is not much important written dialogue. It is fun to decorate the rooms and see how the little dogs interact with the furniture and accessories (sometimes they'll even visit each other!) but it's a very slow and casual game, so it can get a little boring after a while. This game appeals to a very specific niche; people who like cute characters and card games. There are more card games than puzzle games, as the only two types of puzzles offered are sliding puzzles and the regular kind of picture puzzles. It's a cute little game to reach for when you're bored but want to challenge yourself a little, same as you would play solitaire on your laptop.