Warner Brothers takes over this Nintendo DS exclusive game series with a third, brand new, mini-game compilation organized in card, strategy, action, puzzle, and word categories. The game contains both relatively easy to understand games like target royale, dice king, triples plus, and domino run as well as vague titles like Electro Maze. Whether they are intuitive or not, some games can sustain players for hours.
Besides featuring single player play, the two player option allows for hosting or joining game sessions via multiplayer or download play. The game's success is based on its stimulating players rather than containing more entertaining elements like good, old-fashioned fun like dropping bombs and firing cannons.
The developers have infused each mini-game with popular games and have even sometimes combined a few popular games like golf with the card game solitaire. Players with basic or in-depth knowledge of the base games (poker, etc.) will have the best advantage in head-to-head modes. The “honeymoon” phase of each game is relatively pleasant due to the short game times and engaging gameplay elements. As the games are quite quick, don't expect much depth in them, and automatic saves ensure progress will not be in vain.
In an example of a typical game here, the chef memory mini game combines a memory card game with food dish recipes based on the player's matches. The chef character’s “tasty” smile or green-faced, “gross,” reaction from resulting creations do not add much entertainment though the creative titles like chocolate cheese orange cake do amuse.
The card category revolves around poker variations, while the action category involves basic weapon games as players adjust multiple cannon dials to lay waste to slime creatures laid out on a horizontal field, or drop upgradeable bombs on them at just the right moment. Electro Maze has players lead a ball through a maze while avoiding the “shocking” edges. In bumper ball, players guard with a mallet in the middle similar to air hockey in this pinball variation.
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