FFG writes: "Neopets Puzzle Adventure is a fun little Wii game from Capcom that is part strategy, and part board game. Players get the exciting choice of being blue or red coins. The crips and bloods could really get into Neopets Puzzle Adventure. Just kidding. In all seriousness Capcom provided a lot in Neopets Puzzle Adventure for families. There are a plethora of cute little characters the player can pick as their avatar, and selectable emotions. That is all window dressing as the core of this Wii game is the coin turning action. Create a line (straight or diagonal) that bridges one of your coins with where you place the second one, and all the coins in between become yours. Neopets grant special powers like turning a specific tile from theirs into yours. Strategically use these for some super combos which lead to high scores. Getting the high score is the goal of this game."
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.
