A contemptible chore. [Winter 2009, p.57]

A big disappointment from a one-time great. [Christmas 2010, p.73]

Solving puzzles suits the bear-hurling format. It's a shame about the terrible motion controls though. [Aug 2010, p.76]

Frustrating in a hurl-the-cartridge-into-the-North-Sea way. Easily the worst of the three versions. Unacceptable! [Dec 2006, p.40]

So yawningly uneventful we were able to play it with one eye, while watching Flight of the Conchords with the other. A waste of disc. [Christmas 2007, p.67]

Even with a year to polish it up, Bleach feels like a rushed Wii launch job. Very poor. [Mar 2008, p.59]

For those with no taste in music whatsoever. [Feb 2008, p.68]

A tidy little package. [Oct 2007, p.70]

Underwhelming in every single way. It's a weak fighter, made annoying by silly minigames and a story so messy it made our poor heads fall off. [Mar 2007, p.71]

Fans may see past the clumsy structuring, but from a gamer's perspective this is slightly too flawed to pick up for throwaway fun. [Christmas 2007, p.62]

Not as good as it used to be. [Apr 2010, p.76]

Nothing to see here. [May 2008, p.65]

A strong action RPG title that, due to a meticulous and inflexible storyline, is sadly at times as impenetrable as a remake of "Van Helsing" cast by the Goons from "Popeye." [JPN Import]

A bit disappointing in terms of its presentation but we can recommend it to anyone with a hankering for an unusually sweet god game. [Mar 2009, p.54]

Well worth a go but be warned that the designers care not for the concepts of reward, relaxation and human fatigue. It's quite a commitment. [June 2007, p.52]

We're going to leave this out on the street and hope it gets towed. [Aug 2011, p.74]

It's nicely made, just rather dull. [Oct 2010, p.64]

The game's entirely stylus controlled, which generally works well, but it can descend into incoherent screen-swiping during combat. [Aug 2009, p.77]

There's a surprising amount of depth to the combat, which only makes the sluggish movement and decision to use an isometric view more maddening. [Mar 2007, p.81]

It's a fun multiplayer-with-the-family experience, not really a keeper. [Jan. 2007, p.40]

A passable clone of Nintendo's classic brawler is undermined by a frustrating single-player mode. You're better off waiting for the real thing instead. [Feb 2012, p.97]

N-Space's reach exceeds DS's grasp. Give this nonsense a miss and wait for their excellent Heroes of Ruin on 3DS instead. [Christmas 2011, p.68]

A disappointingly bland brain-teasing stew.[Feb 2011, p.74]

Save the 30 quid and spend it on a side salad in one of Gordon's restaurants instead. It'll be better and should last longer than this pile of ****. [Dec 2008, p.62]

Boogie has its moments, but the game lacks fluidity, the karaoke lacks cool tracks and the rhythm sometimes just lacks, full stop. [Oct 2007, p.62]

The fighting's better than expected, but it's outdated, unimaginative and you'd want to wait for it to be cheaper. [Sept 2011, p.71]

A flimsy mess. [Christmas 2009, p.70]

Just not terribly exciting. [May 2010, p.68]

Awkward and oh so frustrating - it's WWII through and through. [May 2007, p.48]

Forgive the painfully slow token collecting and it's a pretty absorbing title. [January 2007, p.44]

A pleasant fishing sim. [March 2012, p.101]

We can't dismiss it entirely because it does have a nice-looking bonus update of classic Bomberman. But the adventure mode is seriouly poor. Think twice, bomberfans.

Wholly unnecessary. [July 2010, p.62]

Localisation hasn't improved this fatally flawed game. It's a shame, as some good ideas have been smothered by lame controls. [July 2009, p.72]

When cutting and pasting "Mario Kart" into a Pac-Man template, someone forgot to include the folder marked "Incredible Fun." Does anyone really like Pac-Man a a person? [Nov 2006, p.58]

Despite quaint touches, this is cumbersome and wholly unoriginal. We didn't come here to get the mick taken out of us by talking mice, you know. [Nov 2006, p.71]

25 quid for four minigames. [Christmas 2009, p.70]

It's going to sell by the bucket-load to the younger fans of the film, and most of them will find it a diverting enough adventure. Just a shame that it throws away such a knowing premise.

Only the most hardcore fans are going to persevere with it, and even then it just doesn't work properly. [Jan 2008, p.52]

Whether you're into Warhammer or not, this is fantastic turn-based strategising, great to see on DS, with a brilliant multiplayer. [Mar 2008, p.69]

Appalling voice acting makes this feel very shoddy, though with the sound turned down it's a passable 'entry level' point 'n' clicker if you can find it cheap. [July 2009, p.77]

Far too simple to satisfy as an anime fighter and too bitty to enjoy for any length of time. [Sept 2007, p.71]

A series of unpredictable laughs and little else, disguised within a vibrant luchadore mask. [Sept 2007, p.70]

What a shinobi bumble. [Mar 2011, p.73]

It veers between demanding precise movements and accepting vague waves. [May 2009, p.78]

With rabbids like this who needs enemies? Solid but very average platformer starring a fairly unresponsive hero. Still, the music's quite cheerful when it's not driving you mental.

If you have "Rome," knock 30% off the score. [July 2010, p.67]

But hey, at least the characters look nice. [Christmas 2010, p.74]

Xevious on 3DS was inevitable. Shame they didn't do anything with it. [Sept 2011, p.77]

Horribly dated and lazy, this mind-numbing puzzler only exists on Wii because of motion controls. [Apr 2009, p.70]

The game chugs harder than Captain Haddock at a distillery. [Dec 2011, p.75]

The characters are still charming but they're fronting a dull, lazy game. [June 2009, p.60]

The platforming's stupidly fiddly, the driving is very dull, and the obstacle dodging is the worst sort of touch-screen bodging nonsense. [Dec 2006, p.54]

Easy, brief and lacking variety. A better DS version of this may arrive one day, but this remains strangely addictive all the same. [JPN Import; July 2007, p.51]

Amazingly, Rooms manages to turn hateful tile-slide puzzles into something compulsive and fun. As a package, however, it's a little disappointing. [May 2010, p.61]

With what we expected to be the main selling point - the parachuting - reduced to an introductory mission gimmick, Vanguard's bringing up the rear when it comes to WWII shooters. [May 2007, p.60]

LOL certainly brought out the funny in the NGamer office, but apart from that this is about as lightweight as DS games come. [Sept 2008, p.64]

This game only confirms our anti-Thor prejudice. He IS crap. [June 2011, p.64]

Too slow, too short, too annoying. Only the graphics have any real quality. Stick with "Sonic And The Secret Rings," or even "Excite Truck" if you don't mind the lack of hedgehog.

Certainly not dreadful, and better than the first Family Trainer, but if feels like a budget release with a full-price tag. [Nov 2009, p.69]

A teeth-grindingly stupid premise belies a few okay gameplay ideas. [Aug 2008, p.75]

Some enemies that weren't can-based would have been even nicer. [Mar 2010, p.73]

More of the same culinary-based action again, but this time it's more of the same in three dimensions and for up to four players. [Christmas 2011, p.68]

Not a great game. Not really even a good game. But a very funny game. [June 2009, p.69]

A few good ideas, but it's mainly happy to fall back on some geriatric genre conventions. [Oct 2008, p.67]

As a tribute it's more souvenir than towering statue. [Christmas 2010, p.69]

The coolest of all cool ideas, pieced together in a profoundly uncool way. Wait for MotionPlus to throw up something more substantial.

"Wii Play" fans will like this inconsistent bunch of around 25 minigames, with competition mode keeping it lodged in your Wii for longer. [Christmas 2007, p.58]

When it's dark - when the screen is gloomy, and only illuminated by the zoom function - it can be like looking for a needle in a rough school. [Feb 2010, p.75]

A very basic DS game dressed up for Wii. [Mar 2011, p.69]

Button-mashing with a few RPG-ish stats thrown in. More of a light breeze than a huge hurricane; don't expect to be blown away by this title. [Feb 2007, p.73]

Another joyless lump of registered trademarks designed with vulnerable kiddies in mind. [Winter 2009, p.63]

We can't deny the initial thrill of creating your own dungeon and looting it for meat, but it wont' take long before its charm turns into sheer annoyance. [Dec 2008, p.64]

A package riddled with niggles. [Sept 2009, p.69]

Novel controls that take some mastering, but are quite effective. The cheap feel prevents it from developing into anything great. [Mar 2007, p.71]

There are some cheeky thrills - roughly two per character - but this is tiresome. [Apr 2009, p.58]

The aiming is too imprecise to be less than an irritation and the different game modes are too similar to each other to be interesting. [Feb 2007, p.82]

Monkey Ball has grown flabby and gutless. A real shame. [Apr 2011, p.52]

Outdated, frustrating, repetitive and only intermittently fun. [June 2010, p.68]

Although not quite as challenging as it could have been, there is still much fun to be had in this quaint little forestry world. [June 2008, p.55]

A great idea for a puzzle game, with a cool minimal art style, but it's just stretched too thin. The baffling slowdown and useless mini-map only make it worse. [July 2012, p.92]

Absolute minger of a game. [Christmas 2009, p.66]

Thunderously dumb combat in an endless succession of technically borked corridors. [Nov 2011, p.65]

This is by turns frustrating, fun, exciting, dull, a technical achievement and a bit of a mess, but it's the most authentic Indy game yet.

Possibly the most cynical and tawdry ripoff of "Mario Kart" we've ever seen....A horrible kart game, with pathetic handling, idiotic AI, and no racing tension at all. [Feb 2007, p.83]

Terrible platforming and puzzling. [June 2008, p.58]

Far too hard at the beginning, even on Easy mode, and all poorly explained. One for the only the hardiest strategy fans. [Sept 2007, p.63]

Curse you, feeble minigame collection. [Oct 2010, p.60]

Stupidly expensive. [June 2010, p.76]

Contains both ghosts and busting, but neither is as fun as it should be, despite good intentions. A chore to play through. Boo. [Sept 2009, p.68]

Too hard for kids and too dull for adults. [Apr 2011, p.75]

Rubbish, stupid games in a cheap, tacky collection - who on earth keeps buying these games and egging them on? [June 2007, p.71]

A nice approach to DS development, but the whole thing was slightly doomed to failure by the hardware. [Dec 2008, p.72]

Short on charm and challenge. [July 2012, p.98]

It's like someone reduced Super Mario Bros to its essence, then skimmed the fun off the top. [May 2011, p.51]

There's no close-up work, only abstract coarse plotting between cookers and customers and, as such, it's a bit tedious. [Christmas 2007, p.70]

Even non-Potter fans may find they get some enjoyment out of this. [Sept 2011, p.72]

The film was duff; the game's duff. [Aug 2009, p.77]