GI.net: "Rubik's World DS is a series of minigames using the blocks that make up the cube. I'm going to make the assumption that you know what a Rubik's Cube is; if you don't, please go look it up before going any further. Eight games are available with the standard Rubik's Cube to solve in multiple sizes. I still can't solve the darn thing; I don't care if it does teach me how.
The remaining seven games use a single block as a cube. In some cases, you may only see the top side of the block and its single color. Other games may require you to color each of the six sides a different color in order to solve the puzzle. There's a bit of math, art and music thrown in as well. My normal method for this type of title is to describe each minigame in detail, but I'm going to try something a little different with this title because, well ... the difficulties for the games are simply so uneven. Just when I was zipping along having a good time, I'd start a new game and WHAM, brick wall. So ...
Rubik's Cube is only hard if you don't want to devote time to learning how to solve the cubes (I didn't). Compose uses the colored blocks, stanzas, sharps and flats and a lot of knowledge of music in order to create compositions. Unless you have this knowledge, it's a pretty rough learning curve and not exactly a game but a simulation. Create is where you "tell" the cubies (as they're affectionately called) what something looks like - a tree, a cloud, whatever makes you happy. These items show up later in other games."
MyGamer writes: "Rubik's World is probably one of the only games to come out last year with vastly different game types that almost never connect to the greater whole and still managed to be very playable. At the lower 20 dollar price point, it does put it in direct competition with better, more well known puzzle games, namely Brain Age. This probably shouldn't stop anyone obsessed with interesting puzzles from buying it. While Rubik's World shouldn't be on the top of anyone's puzzle game list, it should still probably be somewhere on it. With interesting puzzles and vastly different events to jump into at any given moment, Rubik's World manages to be an easy recommendation for the person looking for another DS puzzle game".
GiN writes: "When I was in college, a favorite pastime had me sitting down and timing my then-girlfriend, now soon-to-be wife, Mary at how fast she could put together a Rubik's Cube. She could usually do it in just under a minute.
I've always been one for a good puzzle, and in my mind, there is no puzzle higher in fun or prestige than the Rubik's Cube. So imagine my intrigue and skepticism when Rubik's World showed up for the Wii with its multi-colored "Cubies" in tow."
Gaming Nexus writes: "Ah, the Rubik's Cube. That innocent little puzzle that almost every kid has owned, and subsequently gone crazy trying to solve. The twisting, turning 3X3 cube made of cubes can be more maddening to solve for the inexperienced than the perverse "spilled milk" all-white jigsaw puzzle. The Cube has inspired competitions between professional solvers, insane time record videos on Youtube, and the popular Kobayashi Maru solution of disassembling the Cube and putting the pieces back in order. The Rubik's Cube has been a national phenomenon for several decades, so publisher Game Factory thought it would be a good idea to make a game based on the puzzle, and set developer Two Tribes to work making the games. Two Tribes developed two titles based on the Cube, one for Wii and DS, and I tried out the DS one first."
