It's somewhat ironic that DodoGo! Robo, a game in which players protect a gaggle of ill-fated aves from certain death, should arrive on DSiWare. With the exception of Mario vs. Donkey Kong and Nintendo's very own Art Style games – which spliced inventive gameplay mechanics with retina-appeasing visuals – the service has in itself gone the way of the dodo in recent months. Third party developers have all but abandoned the service, and while it looks as though we'll have to wait for the 3DS eShop for our digitally-downloadable thrills, DodoGo! Robo bridges the gap quite nicely.
Alien After All and Neko Entertainment today announced that the Nintendo DSiWare DodoGo! trilogy consisting of DodoGo!, DodoGo! Challenge and DodoGo! Robo is now available to a new audience through the Nintendo eShop, the digital store for Nintendo 3DS owners.
GamingUnion.net writes: "When one thinks of titles on Nintendo's DSiWare service, one will generally think of low-priced shovelware titles like the multitude of calculator apps or high-priced gems such as Dairojo! Samurai Defenders. Alien After All's latest DSiWare title, DodoGo! Robo, is a spin-off of their previous DodoGo! title, but it takes the special stages present in that title and makes a full downloadable game out of them. With Robo's much smaller 200 Nintendo Point price point (compared to the original's 800), is this just another cheap release or does the title have all the charm and ingenuity that so many people enjoyed from the original?"
DHGF: DodoGo! Robo is a fun and interesting take on the puzzle game genre popularized by games like Lemmings, and while it’s largely not going to convince people who aren’t fans of that sort of puzzle game of its value, as a two dollar download, it’s generally good enough to be recommendable to those who’ve never tried such games. It’s not a technical marvel, visually or aurally, and it’s not an exceptionally diverse product, all in all, but it does what it does very well, providing a challenging and fun puzzle experience that’s generally well designed.
