This is a slime. If you’ve logged any time with any of the Dragon Quest / Dragon Warrior games, you are intimately familiar with its grinning visage. This little glob of mucus is the weakest and most common thing you will fight in this game series, so it stands to reason that it would somehow become the mascot for the series, right?
I’m not sure how that happened either.
So, many years later we get a game that stars this little snot-ball, which I just played through. Turns out to be not half bad.
The game goes something like this: Your hero, Rocket, lives in Boingburg, a town populated by slimes, in the kingdom of Slimenia. One day, the town is destroyed, all the inhabitants are kidnapped (except for Rocket, who happened to be away at the time, lucky dog!). He eventually embarks on a quest to rescue the kidnappees, and save the kingdom. You do this in two ways: adventuring around a few stages, collecting items and rescuing your buddies. Occasionally, though, you’ll also have to do battle with a giant tank. Why? Who knows. But it makes the game a bit more complicated. See, during the adventure stages, you can send what amounts to trash back to town, you can use this trash to craft ammunition for your tank.
This game has that ‘pick up and play for a little bit at a time’ thing going for it, which is pretty important for a handheld game. The only thing that I didn’t like about it was that it was a little short on content. I blew through it my first time through in about 10 hours. I managed to do just about everything in that time, too, so I don’t think I’ll be playing it again.
