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Moshi Monsters Moshlings Theme Park

by Zack Kaplan - November 17, 2012, 9:46 am PST
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The Crappiest Place on Earth.

Moshi Monsters: Moshlings Theme Park is the sequel to the DSgame Moshi Monsters: Moshling Zoo, both of which are based on Moshi Monsters,an online game for children ages 6-12. After successfully managing MoshlingZoo, the Moshi Monsters decide to vacation at Moshling Theme Park.Unfortunately, a storm crashes their plane next to the theme park, which is indisarray. Your goals in this game are to fix the park, drive up attendance,rescue stranded Moshlings, and find Buster Bumblechops, the monster whosuggested visiting the park in the first place.

The problems with this game would make any Moshi Monstercringe. The way it has you go about accomplishing goals is especially suspect.To do anything, you have to play a mini-game. Want to find keys to unlock a newattraction? Play some mini-games. Want to get more monsters to visit MoshlingTheme Park? Play a mini-game. Through playing mini-games you unlock not onlykeys but Rox, the currency of the game. The need to acquire Rox makes ThemePark the first mini-game collection in which you need to grind—though earlyportions of the game do not require it, the further you get, the more Rox thatare required to progress.

Theme Park’s activities are hurt by their sharedrepetitiveness and simplicity. One, Hockey Hustle, is just air hockey; anotherjust involves dropping prizes into score multipliers while avoiding obstacles.While simple can be a good thing, the games are often hampered by poor touchscreen controls, and vary little among themselves.

The game’s progression of unlocking mini-games is alsolimited. In each world, which represents an area of the theme park, you nlock6 mini-games. Instead of accessing all new mini-games in each subsequent world,though, you unlock the same ones with only minor gameplay tweaks that add verylittle. One version of Hockey Hustle, for example, simply adds a moving goal. Youcan also unlock “attractions,” but even these are just a single mini-gameinvolving collecting items; the only difference between versions is the backround.

Moshi Monsters Theme Park 3ds Reviews

For a game targetedat kids, Theme Park is pretty easy. The game’s overly simple concepts shouldn’tpresent a challenge for players of any age. A six-year-old will breeze throughthis game; a 12-year-old shouldn’t even bother. The game provides a lot to do,but should only occupy those who can stand its repetitiveness. The 3DS hasplenty of great kid-appropriate games, but this is not one.

Summary

Cons

• Overly repetitive
• Too simple for even the youngest players

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Moshi Monsters Moshlings Theme Park
Release	Oct 30, 2012
Publisher	Activision
Rating	Everyone