Feel the Magic on your DS (or your browser)

Now that they are not in such short supply (or, at least, not a sufficient constrained market to justify my speculative instincts to overrule my curiousity), I bought a Nintendo DS last week. I had been curious to tryout the touch screen function in the lower screen of the Dual Screen (hence the DS)

The touch screen is an interesting element, but the question is how will developers work this into the games…as a primary aspect or a mere add on? I also purchased Sega’s “Feel the magic” game, which seemed to be one of the more quirky and interesting DS games at launch.

I’m only a little way into the game so far, but I am enjoying it. It is collection of numerous mini games which are designed to used the touch screen feature. The premise of the game is that you’re a male who sees this attractive woman (who is always shown backlit or in shadow) whom you want to impress. You end up doing all sorts of odd stunts and feats to curry her favor. It is all a bit too odd to explain here, but you can get a sense of gameplay (and the DS touch screen and how it can be used in a game) by playing a short Java based version that will load in your web broswer. What you see on the screen and how you interact with it is exactly like the DS version. Here's the link to the site
http://kimishine.sega.jp/ds/index.html?sid=ds
It takes a while to load, but does include the music from the game which I enjoy in a mindless way. The first game is very hard, but the second and third are pretty good. The instructions are in Japanese, but in the second game you should tap on the bulls but avoid the skiers…In the third game, the woman got a bit dirty from all the dust the bulls kicked up…your job is to wipe off the dirt off the woman’s arms and face…but don’t do it too hard or she’ll pull back in pain.