The latest Nintendo-published downloadable game for the DS may be one of the worst-named Nintendo games of all time. It's also another proof that top Nintendo-affiliated developers could school a lot of iPhone game creators.
Link 'N Launch is a DSiWare game from Intelligent Systems, the development studio behind such Nintendo-published greats as Advance Wars, Fire Emblem, and the Paper Mario series. For their second DSiWare game, IS has made a variation on the pipe-linking game Pipemania, a clever offering of linked puzzles that all involve connecting paths of pipes between fuel sources and and a rocketship, each "level" of this puzzle game resulting in the rocket being fired only as far and as on course as the player's pipe-arranging enables it.
Siliconera: ''Club Nintendo USA has revealed four new digital rewards that will be available throughout the month of June.''
Metro writes: "We've been desperate to give an Advance Wars game 10/10 for years, but there hasn't been a new one since 2008's not-quite-perfect Dark Conflict. Ever since developer Intelligent Systems seems to have been mostly stuck making downloadable games for the Wii and DSi."
Eurogamer writes: "Give people what they want and they'll only want more of it. At least, that's the trend that appears to be emerging when it comes to the weekly Download Roundup.
Already onto the 21st edition, we've covered more than a hundred games already. We've also looked at the best iPad launch titles, the Game Room launch and the best ports. You asked us for an Android special and we obliged. We even did full reviews of download titles like like Limbo and Castlevania, and unexpected indie gems like Ancient Trader."
