yo what is up with NINTENDOGS?

It is just the new Tamagotchi, but with lovely dogs instead of creepy pixel monsters! The thing I'm most excited about, is "that it takes advantage of the DS's wireless play and fold-in-half standby mode. When you turn it on, and close up the DS (which I hear uses barely any more power than turning the console off properly, I've left mine on for over a week by accident and still got a few hours play out of it) the game goes into "bark mode", and if you ever come into close proximity to someone else doing the same thing the console will bark to let you know, so you can have a random wireless throwdown. Obviously this would be much better in cities, and probably matters more in the States than over here, but it's still something I'd like to see a lot more games doing.

Complaints about DS replay value would probably apply to the vast majority of games out there anyway. I'm kind of stoked about Advance Wars Dual Strike but worry that I'll get aggravated with it the same way I did with Fire Emblem. The Kirby game is supposedly awesome but fuck if I'm paying $40 for it, you know?

anyway the line-up for the DS autumn range is pretty strong: electroplankton (I think is still only jap import, lik-sang.com); ouendan; castlevania; advance wars; and there are others I'm forgetting.

I played Advance Wars the other day, and it is brilliant. Unfortunately, the wireless multiplayer was a silly real-time combat mode which played like a bad version of Bomberman with guns. I assume if you've got two cartridges, you can play the proper game (I hope so at least).

http://www.edge-online.co.uk/archives/2005/09/ds_wifi_tech_pr.php

Haha! When I'm playing Warioware Touched on the train and a "blowing" level comes up, I always have to pause it and wait until everyone in direct sight's got off the train, just in case they think I'm having some kind of fit.