Game Vortex writes: "I have had a Neopets account for 8 years now. Granted, I haven't kept up with my poor pets like I should in recent years, so it was really nice to get Neopets Puzzle Adventure to get me back into Neopets again. My pets are sure happy about it since they're no longer starving!
Graphically, not much has changed with Neopets over the years, which is a good thing. The pets (and pet pets) in Neopets Puzzle Adventure look pretty much exactly like they do in the web game. Some of them, like the Kougra and Lupe, have been redrawn so that they could walk on 2 legs instead of four, but they still look the same. The places that you visit have the same look as the web game, but with a lot more detail. They all have a lot more places to visit, so there's a lot more buildings. The one thing that I found funny was the way your hero walks from place to place. It's just not quite as smooth as some games I've played, so it looked like the character was shuffling their feet along."
Proving that it sometimes pays to blatantly rip off other peoples' ideas, Neopets were originally unleashed upon the world via the internet in 1999, four years after the birth of Pokemon. Like Nintendo's pocket monster franchise, Neopets are virtual pets which can be tamed, trained, and interacted with in a variety of ways, albeit through Neopets.com rather than a highly popular Gameboy game.
GameVortex writes: "Neopets Puzzle Adventure is a fun game to play. There are disadvantages to the Wii version, most notably being the small text size. But there are also some really good advantages as well; the story is a lot longer and there are more in-depth characters. I recommend that you get them both. Besides, it gives you more virtual prizes that way".
Back in 2007, Wii owners were served a shoddy port of a good game in Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords. Once again, Wii owners are served up a broken version of an Infinite Interactive title. The Wii version of Neopets Puzzle Adventure is technically baffling, with broken framerates, aggravating hiccups, and other programming problems that really damage the experience. Neopets fanatics pining for a fix will do better to look to the superior (and cheaper) DS version rather than this rushed Wii project.
