WorthPlaying writes: "There's a slight feeling with 101-in-1 Explosive Megamix that they picked the name before they'd finished the game. You can imagine the marketing team in a meeting deciding that 101 mini-games should be enough to separate them from the crowd, and then they left it to the designers to come up with the ideas. The challenge has broadly been a success, for there are indeed 101 mini-games on the cartridge, and though they're seldom "explosive," they are mostly competent and engaging, even if there's very little here that you haven't seen before in Flash gaming Web sites. At times, they even manage to make you hark back to the early days of the DS, when the touch-screen was used for innovation rather than tacked-on controls to console ports."
Nintendo Life - One hundred and one games. It's a tempting proposition isn't it? It's unlikely that as an average consumer you will play, let alone purchase, one hundred and one games in a whole year, so when Nordcurrent comes a-knockin' at your door and offers you exactly that many titles for the low, low price of 700 Points, you'd be forgiven for thinking it's a Billy Bargain.
Atlus, a publisher known for its role-playing games-a genre not easily embraced by beginners has taken a stab or two at handheld puzzle games and do so again with their latest offering called 101 in 1: Explosive Megamix for the Nintendo DS.
WTP writes: "Beyond those initial games, you'll encounter even more distinct game types, like ones in which you guide a skydiver through hoops, brush a large set of teeth, fire arrows at a target, play sudoku, and avoid missiles in a spaceship. Each game can be played individually on a single Nintendo DS, and if you have a friend with a DS system and a copy of the game, you can play against each other via a local wireless connection. Though most of the games are easily learned via trial-and-error, you can read a text description of each from the menu screen, including details on how to play the game".
