Graphically and visually, DK is a solid affair. The game looks like a nice SNES game with its colourful sprites and top-down view. The dinosaurs (all 70+ of them) look particulary good. The music is suitable, though not particularly brilliant in any sense. There are plenty of Dinosaurs to collect and raise (aka level up) in the game, so it is sure to keep you busy if you can persist through the flawed battle method and the constant battles. In all, DK is a solid Pokemon clone that ultimately falls short due to a battle system that is more about luck than skill and the fact that you can't go 10 seconds without being attacked.
TTFF:
"Overall the game is fun and once we got over the initial learning curve, the boys seemed to really take to it. The battles are kind of Pokemon-esque so that carries some street cred with the kids. The fossil cleaning is fun and different- we haven't used the stylus for much up to this point in our 2 months of DS gaming. I have seen other reviews that call this game basic and geared toward kids but for us, that works out perfectly."
GI writes: "No one person is truly immune to hype. It's a part of life from which we cannot escape due to the way society currently functions. There are things we can resist or ignore rather easily. Such as the past 20 years of the show Law & Order. I did a rather good job resisting NCIS until now (curse you USA Network ... curse you!). Or the latest Mary Higgins Clark novel. But back in the mid 1990s, there was one craze that no child - or gamer - could truly resist. And that game was the Red and Blue versions of Pokemon for the original Nintendo Game Boy. What made those two games work underneath the crazily cute monsters was the simple fact that it was a solid, traditional role-playing game. Well, folks, Sega has released a game for the Nintendo DS in this vein known as Dinosaur King. So is this clone any good? Well, no, it is not that great."
NintendoLife Writes:
"It's just a shame that there are so many battles to navigate. I just timed a section and found I didn't even manage seven seconds between battles; imagine that repeated over the whole game. It's the crucial flaw that makes it so hard to enjoy Dinosaur King in anything other than very small doses, even if you do really, really like dinosaurs."
