WP: "The Neopets license is no stranger to video games. Years ago, Sony made some Neopets-themed adventure games for the PS2 and PSP. While the games were decent, it was generally accepted that the adventure genre was a logical place to take the immensely popular Web site property, since they're pretty simple and straightforward. When Capcom got a hold of the license recently, they decided to do something different with it. The result is Neopets Puzzle Adventure, a puzzle game for the Nintendo Wii. While they are to be applauded for doing something different with licensed games, they should also be scolded for putting together such a technically poor product."
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.
