WP: "It's hard to imagine that a game about great writing come to life could feature stiff, bland characters with completely wooden and unnatural dialogue and no compelling action. Instead of instilling an interesting in literature, Inkheart makes boring fiction writhe and suffer on the Nintendo DS' two tiny screens."
Snackbar Games writes: "Inkheart for the DS is attempting to capture the magic of the movie based on the book (about a book), but the problem is that a video game, especially one with such terrible graphics, isn't an appropriate medium to do so".
Gamernode writes: "Books and movies don't often translate into magnificent videogames, and Inkheart is no exception. This DS adventure will not be winning any GN Nodie Awards this year, yet still maintains a few redeeming qualities and will appeal to less experienced gamers."
The one saving grace that the game does has is that is references plenty of older, classic novels that young kids may have never heard of. Having two protagonists that are so strongly into reading is never a bad thing, and if some kid plays this game and then decides to go off and read "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz", well good on you, kid. Welcome to the wonderful world of reading.
It's a shame that the best part of the game is that it may make you want to go and do something other than playing it, but in the end one needs to take praise where they can find it, and at directing the player towards other, more interesting pursuits, Inkheart is a resounding success.
