Spong writes: "Zombies! Teenagers! Turns out there's a difference. It's implicit in the title of Ignition's latest DS release, Teenage Zombies: Invasion of the Alien Brain Thingys! If there weren't a difference, surely Ignition wouldn't have bothered to tell us the protagonists of this platformer were both. Did I just betray the fact that I haven't been a teenager for five years now? I suspect that I did...
Teenage Zombies: Invasion of the Alien Brain Thingys!, for the uninitiated, is a mash-up of B-movie, retro sci-fi and comics influences all bound together in a tidy little DS package.
Things get under way with a sequence that turns the DS on its side to mimic the pages of a comic. The comics fan within me was instantly warmed. The sequence (and those that follow the style at later points in the game) works well, with the lack of space for each panel being made up for by speech bubbles that fade in and out over a static image. I didn't quite fall off my chair and into a pool of my own laughter-induced urine, but it was amusing and dodged being condescending. Score one for Teenage Zombies."
