Nintendo Life: Flametail began life as the "Square" bit of the rather unique WiiWare release Maboshi: The Three Shape Arcade. Instead of a straight port of the game, the developers chose to not only give the game a nice little visual facelift but also a host of new gameplay twists and options to add to its depth. Oh, and it's (obviously) portable too, which is a great place for a puzzler to be.
The good and bad of Flametail is that you may already own it. It was released in simpler form as one third of Maboshi's Arcade, a WiiWare game from a couple of years back. Good thing that was obscure too! But is it worth the expense of a $5 game locked to your DSi? It has a lot of levels presented as both a linear "Space Tour" rush through various planet-themed stages as well as a variety of time-limited side games involving special layouts and power-ups. Flametail has a good mechanic, a nice helping of content and even some fun sound effects. It's good, if you don't mind that it's a riff on Snake you may already own.
IGN writes: "Flametail is an inventive and addictive little puzzler with a science-fiction spin on a pro-environment message. Its story presents a future where mankind has not only filled the Earth with garbage, but also most of the surrounding planets -- and you control the Flametail pod, an interstellar spacecraft equipped to travel through the solar system and burn up all the refuse, piece by piece, using its signature flaming tail".
