IGN: Toki Tori Review

IGN writes: "first time I played Toki Tori was more than a half-decade ago. It was a great design that happened to have fallen into the worst possible timeframe: by the time this Game Boy Color game found a publisher the entire market had already moved onto bigger and better things on the much more impressive Game Boy Advance platform. Still, if you managed to snag one of the limited number of copies sent to market you would have enjoyed a clever Lost Vikings-like puzzle game. And thanks to WiiWare the game’s been given a worthwhile second life: what was once well worth the $20 price tag for Game Boy owners is now ten bucks for Wii gamers. And it’s a design that still holds up and definitely worth the download.

Toki Tori is this fat little bird who’s put to the task of collecting up his buddies trapped in eggs. Levels have been designed in a way to capitalize on his abilities, or lack of them: he can’t fly and he can only climb short steps and ladders. But the deeper you go, the more functions open up for this little guy: if the level calls for it, he can build bridges across one-tile-wide gaps, teleport across wider areas, shoot enemies with freeze guns or slurp them up in a vacuum, and move pillars behind him. Some levels allow for an infinite number of special moves while others limit the amount of times they can be used."