Raising them is a huge part of the game and requires a fair amount of time to get it done. But you will eventually get the chance to change up the roster and fight alongside the Spectrobes that you raised yourself. The better they do in those battles and the more experience and levels they attain. When you start the game, you're already flanked by two experienced Spectrobes who help you fight in battles. Doing this repeatedly raises their experience and growth level, which eventually causes them to evolve into adulthood. You have four different rooms that you can place them in (only two at a time), and from there, you allocate minerals and throw them down into the rooms for the Spectrobes to munch on. Doing this in public will usually garner some strange looks from people, but that's to be expected. Indeed, all the minerals that you uncover from the ground are meant for the growth of the Spectrobes.Īwakening them is easy, as you only have to make a certain amount of noise into the DS's microphone to get them moving. A majority of the gameplay is based on finding the fossils, drilling to get them and then going through the process of nurturing them. The backbone of the game lies in the process I just described. The only problem is that most of these little guys are buried within the crust of all the different planets in the solar system, which means they have to be excavated, awakened and then raised to become the formidable fighters they're meant to be. The problem, he says, is that no conventional weapons can beat them, so the only hope for the galaxy is - you guessed it - the Spectrobes. Long story short, the evil Krawl are causing so much trouble that Aldous's homeland was overrun by the critters. A pretty big job for such a small guy, but all the jet-setting eventually leads to a discovery of a comatose man named Aldous with a massive beard lying in a pod of some sort. As much as you play the character of Rallen, a flamboyant, albeit very loyal officer in the Planetary Patrol, you actually don't do all that much with him.īeing a part of the Patrol means that he has to be ready, along with his female sidekick, Jeena, to help any of the peoples living in the solar system. The idea of raising a creature isn't new, but it's important to note that the way it's done here is completely different than it would be in, say, Nintendogs. What can best be described as an action/RPG title, Spectrobes pits you in battle a little less than it does in testing your ability to raise a wide array of creatures from infancy to adulthood.Ĭhild-rearing… or make that creature-rearing Going back from E3 last year, Disney had released five 'Webisodes' that gave gamers an indication of what they could expect with Spectrobes, a title that seems perfectly suited to the DS platform.Īt first glance, this is a game that seems a lot like Pokemon but actually turns out to be very unique in the way it goes about things. The Verdict: Who knew excavating could be this much fun.The Bad: Rallen isn't very useful in battle graphics and dialogue aren't all that great you can end up excavating too many of the same Spectrobe fossils.

The Good: Great gameplay themes that are split into three makes very good use of the stylus and microphone learning curve is very short creature-rearing system is a lot of fun.

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