Wagamama * Fairy Milmo de Pon! DokiDoki Memorial Panic

"So, you feel like watching some anime today?"

Because that's the main point of this game, as by accomplishing tasks you will get some jewels, and each time you do it you will get to see an anime sequence that appears to have been taken from the series. Personally I never had the opportunity to see such anime series, but if the story is the same as you get to see in this game, it includes some fairies trying to recovers jewels that some bad guys (5 guys in black clothing with a band of a certain colour... sentai anyone?) stole and tried to use on people. Appears that those jewels make people do strange things, so you have to try recovering them by taken them off people.

In this game, such operation is performed by having your character do a strange dance (which is shown to the player in a full motion video sequence) when facing a character that has a jewel above his/her head. Sometimes you will also be able to play across some mini-games before advancing further in the story, but that's all. There isn't much to do as part of the gameplay, since it's all about picking different locations (all of which are quite small), go there, take 1 jewel out of a person (or fairy) and keep repeating until you complete the game.

There are multiple storylines that you are able to follow but unfortunately it seems hard to spot new ones, so once you get around 50% of the jewels (which total around more than 80) it will become really hard to know what to do next, as it is not possible to find how to change the normal course of history.

Returning to the mini-games, this game features 15 of them (some of them being among the secrets of the game) and you can find in here many different types of these, the player being given the opportunity to control 1 among 4 different characters on events like "stone-scissors-paper", "pressing a certain key at a certain time", "clearing the dust in an entire room" or many others, some of which the player has to see in order to believe. Yeah, most of them are great and quite original, but not even that saves the rest of the game.

All the things stated above grant this game a really high replay value, but who cares about that when you have to see that same storyline lots and lots of times to get a new jewel (which also unlocks a new anime scene) or just to unlock a new mini-game? It's not worth it.

Concerning graphics, the anime scenes are as perfect as possible in this console but I've seen way better when it comes to the actual gameplay, the player finding in this game the quality that older players could find in the last titles for the old SNES console. Don't get me wrong, the graphics are nothing special but they do the trick.

About the sound, the musics and even the voices you can hear in the anime scenes are absolutely amazing, but since you will have to replay the game many, many times in order to fully complete it, it surely will become boring after a couple days of play.

So, who should get this game? ONLY fans of the series, as everyone else may find it to be quite boring.

Reviewer's Score: 4/10, Originally Posted: 12/16/05