Sending star-like Luminaria around a grid of arrows produces a harmonious experience that's enhanced by the players' manipulating of their direction on the field. Hanenbow's melodies are performed by leaping tadpoles and the players' focus on manipulating a plant's leaves for them to ricochet off of like a harp's strings. Players create the audio in Tracy, for example, by drawing a path for one of four little microbe fish to follow - notes triggered by the speed and direction that the player drew the path. There are ten outlets for the DS owners to mellow out and explore their musical aptitude, each putting the handheld's touch screen functionality, as well as its relatively powerful audio and visual capabilities to use.
And, ultimately, that's where the experience takes a dive: as creative and impressive and original and, most importantly, fun as Electroplankton is, it lacks a specific set of expected elements to keep the players' interest beyond the initial hypnotic sessions. Though much of what's produced in Electroplankton could be musical, this experience is not intended as a music maker. It's meant simply to explore the different ways the touch screen can be used as an interface to create audio and transform it into something melodious. Its accomplishments aren't level based and there's nothing here to tax the minds or hand-eye coordination of the player. A character can also attack a leaf and the leaf's position will change as well as it's color and pitch.It's a very difficult title to review simply because Electroplankton is not a game. If a character jumps on a leaf or touches the water, a sound will be produced. The Guinness World Records Gamer's Edition 2008 deemed Electroplankton the first game in which the player could compose their own music.Īn Electroplankton themed stage (Hanenbow) appears in Super Smash Bros. There are ten different types of Plankton that you can touch that will produce different sounds and performances. The game, or rather "toy", is also often times considered a demonstration of what the Nintendo DS hardware can do, as it takes advantage of most features, including the touch screen and microphone (with the latter one being featured more so than most other games that were released at the time). In the US, it was released in limited number because it is not a mainstream game.Īlong with not being considered a mainstream game, it's also commonly considered not to be a game at all, but rather a toy, as there is no real objective, and there is no way to actually loose (in fact, its probably even less of a game that Brain Age is, seeing as that game actually features an objective/time limit/and score).
Electroplankton is music game, in which you create music by touching things on the touch screen.
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