An idea's nice, but this one's been left to decay. [July 2013, p.86]

While we can appreciate what Dust Strikers is trying to do, it just doesn't work. [Nov 2007, p.85]

If you're after some boxing action on the Wii, it might be best to stick with Wii Sports for now and wait for Punch-Out!! This simply won't satisfy.

It's what a bag of roast beef crisps is to a Sunday roast with all the trimmings. [Sept 2007, p.90]

It tries to be different but falls flat on its face. It's repetitive, dull and we doubt that you'd see out the first hour. Avoid. [Sept 2008, p.93]

Dull, and in many cases, incredibly annoying and frustrating. [July 2007, p.86]

It looks basic and is over quicker than a Darlington FC season highlights DVD. [Mar 2010, p.95]

Monotonous enough - and once you've finished that, you go back to the start to begin again as the 'dungeon' recreates itself. Hilariously, there's a second chapter to download, if you haven't had enough already...

There's a certain amount of tension as the clock ticks, but moving the stylus up and down to mow lawns is both fiddly and a bit dull - you really need to keep all three mowers running at once to succeed. Add in a ravenous dog that wants to bite chunks out of your kids and the result is a gruelling, unforgiving... well, chore.

It is, and always has been, a horribly vanilla platformer with very little soul to it. [Christmas 2008, p.103]

Decent gameplay let down by a lack of any multiplayer or other modes whatsoever.

Will scratch an itch for a new strategy RPG, but expect the dull ache of disappointment as a side-effect. [Christmas 2012, p.111]

We couldn't even play the Super Mario Bros. theme, and if you can't do that then there's no point. [Feb 2010, p.83]

Playing the same six mini-games 11 times isn't even remotely enjoyable, especially when you're paying 5 quid per mini-game. [May 2008, p.92]

Frustratingly inaccessible. [Jan 2011, p.87]

A tie-in that will only disappoint anyone hoping to play as a "real" MiB character. [Aug 2012, p.104]

The new best worst game ever. Briefly entertaining in a terrible B movie sort of way, but once that wears off this is just insulting.

A dull game that makes no use of the Wii U functionality. [Jan 2013, p.102]

This is surely one of the most intensely frustrating games ever, but is not rewarding enough to be worthwhile. [May 2014, p.90]

Avoid like the plague. [Jan 2010, p.86]

Too pricey for our liking. [Christmas 2010, p.94]

A huge disappointment. [Apr 2010, p.92]

Unless you like hammering the A button for eight minutes at a time while getting a headache, stay well away. Even young kids will get bored.

Pointless. [Aug 2008, p.103]

For a kids' game, Travel In Time is horrible at guiding the player. It's all over the place.

It isn't terrible, it's just dull. [Feb 2014, p.84]

Never have we seen a DS game fail so badly to capture the fun of its Wii sibling. [Christmas 2009, p.92]

You're getting plenty of puzzles for your 4.50, but it's presented badly and it seems unfairly difficult from an early stage. [June 2012, p.109]