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well...

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 6 / 21
Date: January 14, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This game is pretty much like Picto Chat,but it has color,music,you can customize your character and you can put a background.Dont use your money on this.Keep them until Dynasty Warriors comes out to sale or Need for Speed.The game are cool.Also Gundam is coming out.

N/A

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: March 24, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Now this is a game that REALLY isnt worth your money. All this does is make chatting a little bit weirder. Now if ur a young person trying to look old or an old person trying to look young u might wanna buy this piece of one of ds's little failures. Little minigames and buying clothes while chatting is all u can do on this game take my advice and stay away from this game.

A Must Buy For Lively Chatters!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: April 02, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I LOVED this game! It was well done. As I walked into EB, I thought this would be a bad game. I was SOOOOOOOO wrong

At first sight, this looks like a cartoony vesion of PictoChat. Well, It's a cartoony, FUN version of PictoChat.

You can chat, play games, and shop for clothes for your Avatar.

Multiplayer is it's strongest point, though. You can chat with up to 8 people at once (with download, too), and you can buy stuff for others for your Avatar.

All in all, if you own a DS, and you think PictoCHat is too boring, RUN, don't walk, to your local video game store!

Fun...at first.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: March 28, 2007
Author: Amazon User

When you first get the game, it seems really fun, and it is for the first three weeks. You're thrilled by the mini-games, and you go wild when you get your allowance, but when you really get your avatar how you want it to look, there's really no point unless you have several friends that have this game. If you do, great fun, but if you don't, you can't play two of the mini-games. My advice: either get it as cheap as possible with no intention to keep it for more that a month, or make a friend get it with you.

Ping Me Up, Scotty! There is no Intelligent Life here!

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: July 23, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Reviewed for Big Boss Games by: KBN

"Ping Pals Won't Earn DS Owners Many Friends" Although the Nintendo DS is at it's heart a revolutionary step forward in gaming tech, the major problem with it's feature rest in support.

Release titles for the NDS were scanty, and though there were a few hard-hitters there were just as many that leave gamers scratching their heads and asking why. Therein lies the flaw with Ping Pals, an upgrade of sorts for the Nintendo DS's built-in standard Picto-chat feature.

The major problem with Ping Pals is that it is technically a game, not a software patch. Which makes it incompatible with normal Picto-chat. Anyone who owns a DS will attest that it's hard enough to find someone in chat mode within 65 feet without also requiring them to be running the same game. But as you'd expect, Ping Pals does support the DS Download Play system which would allow a friend to download the game and then chat with you.

However, that leads us into the second problem. The allure of Ping Pals comes from the customization of the chat experience. Namely Avatars, Music, Backgrounds and textured 'paper' on which to write. However anyone who downloads the game from you won't be able to see or use any of these features. And as you may or may not have expected, these add-ons don't come free. You must use in-game money to purchase items, which can be earned in a variety of ways, most of them painful. Additionally, all the items are very expensive. Many times, you will see an item which is a lot of money, spend hours playing and finally buy it only to find out you hate how it looks. And you can't return it, only sell them to other Ping Pals which can be quite frustrating.

All in all, despite it's total uselessness, Ping Pals does have have a few redeeming factors. You do earn a weekly allowance if you log on the first day you booted up the game, and it's not too shabby. Also some items are only available on special days at certain times, so if you're a collector, you need to log on often. So basically the customizable Avatar is the only saving grace.

Ping Pals for the DS gets a pathetic 2/5 stars.

big piece of crap

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 6
Date: April 04, 2005
Author: Amazon User

3 things why u should not buy this piece of crap. 1 it is the same thing as picto chat. 2 it gets boring the first 20 min. 3 it is a waste of your money.

This game is dissapointing

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 10
Date: September 06, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I do NOT like this game. Its was such a rip off. the only fun thing about it is trying to pick a number beetween 1-10 to get coins. and i even that gets anoyying!

Good Game!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: March 04, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I've never played this game myself, but my friend loves it. She enjoyed all the mini games and chatting with people. I think she would give it 4 stars, though, because it isn't really a game, and there are funner games for the nintendo ds.

Not That Much Fun!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 16
Date: January 31, 2005
Author: Amazon User

When I first played it I was confused.So I read the directions.But when you talk to a character you half to say yes or no or they go off line so my point is read the directions first, thier clothes but thet cost coins so it's not a really fun game.

No clue!

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 27
Date: July 16, 2005
Author: Amazon User

i really dont know what this game is about because i saw it in a store. Is it really good? Please tell me!

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