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Blame It on the Animals

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: April 11, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Yes, many people will compare this game to Bejeweled. It's an obvious one to make, but Bejeweled doesn't have the item type quotas to reach the next level. The recent price drop from $40 to $20 makes this game a must-buy. I held off until the price drop myself, but now I'm imagining all the fun I was missing prior to owning this game. The animal graphics are cute and the head zookeeper's comments are ridiculously funny because many times his intended meaning is lost in the translation ("Let's be loud!"). The game is addictive and will provide a lifetime of good use.

Pretty Good

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 7
Date: August 28, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I played this game at my friends house and it was more fun than i had expected. When it was 40 dollars the game was a rip off but now that its $20 its worth the price.

Cute, Pointless

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 6
Date: February 10, 2006
Author: Amazon User

At times, I find the entire 'puzzle' genre suffering from a misnomer. Puzzle titles often feel more 'twitch' than cerebral. Tetris catalyzed this genre's marriage of pattern-recognition with near-instantaneous player reaction, which has long since become the primary element of games from Dr. Mario to Bust-A-Move. The reason Tetris remains the archetype for the genre is lost on a game like Zoo Keeper; in a round of Tetris, the player is always 'building' their game, despite the mound of blocks being constructed only to then be skillfully eliminated from play. Games that successfully model the Tetris experience ooze a sense of control and personality.

Zoo Keeper keeps it simple, but not in the refreshing, Spartan manner of its superior competitors. The gameplay consists of you switching the position of two adjacent animal icons in order to make a 'capture' of three straight animals. Variants of this game abound (for historians, this is the Sega `Columns' genealogy); there are several online derivations, but often they challenge you to clear the screen - thus, a puzzle with a solution. No such goal in Zoo Keeper; in the main mode, you play until retinal failure. They count on the quirky presentation to get you in the door, what with the intransigent balding Zoo Manager and a slew of blocky, impossibly cute zoo creatures.

While any constant visual input can be mildly engaging, Zoo Keeper ultimately feels like a game one would find free-of-charge on Yahoo games ("Bejeweled," to be precise). Primarily, I question how much gameplay exists beyond the simple recognition of available moves. The game's puzzle mode would have you believe that there is something resembling deeper gameplay here involving combos and chains, but the nature of the constantly refreshing screen (pieces fall from above as they are eliminated from the playing field) lend this game a degree of randomness that belies any sense of planning. Granted, maybe I'm just not apt enough at reading the entire screen as a whole, but this game delivers scant satisfaction when the occasional 10-chain hits the board. How much does the player have to do with the chains when they are so often supplied by the pieces randomly falling from the top of the screen? A Zoo Keeper Zen state would be about as interesting as mastering a word search puzzle, your eyes blurred on a field of letters.

There have been times in life in which I have sought out fairly mindless diversions such as Zoo Keeper; the modicum of skill they award, combined with the hypnotic gameplay and eye-darting around the screen, can produce a pleasantly thoughtless state (a state I enjoyed in avoiding my undergraduate work). At the end of the day, this game dutifully serves its function of wasting your free time.

minute waster

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 7
Date: October 03, 2005
Author: Amazon User

It's a great game when you don't really want to get involved. Just turn on, choose the style you wish to play and go. No-brainer. It's a great game to play when you don't have alot of time to play, or you're too tired to really concentrate.
Too bad you can't save your game on a certain level to return to it later.

Mary

Love it, love it, love it!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 8
Date: September 08, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I cant stop playing this game! Its addicting and fun! Makes you use your brain too:) Overall, its a great game.

GREAT FUN FOR ALL AGES

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: April 08, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Zookeeper is a lot of fun. It is very addicting. It is very easy to learn and will keep you playing for hours. It would be a great game to take on a trip to pass the time. Great for kids or adults. Hope you enjoy it if you decide to try it.

Not the best game out there

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 9
Date: July 14, 2005
Author: Amazon User

It seems to me that this game was rushed to get on the market. Not only is it badly translated to english, but the game is pretty repetative and boring. The producers could have spent more time on this game or included it into an arcade style game with multiple other games. The graphics on it could have been more expirimental than just a bunch of 2-D animals and people. I have to admit that there was hardly any distortion, but what else would you expect from a new handheld? This game is definately not worth your money and if you have to have it buy it used or wait for the price to drop. Dont waste your money when you could be getting a good game.

This game sux

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 24
Date: December 27, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This game sux when I got it for christmas and put it on my ds all is, is 1 puzzel game and its all about timing and rushing you when there are no matches to hit. dont get this game, get something like robots trust me!

stink burger

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 26
Date: March 25, 2005
Author: Amazon User

this game was the worst game exer i would never reccomend it to anyone accept 3 year olds.

Good game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 27, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I bought this game a few months ago and I can say it is a pretty good game. Zoo Keeper is a puzzle adventure game where you have to slide three like animals to score points. I really like the music in this game because it's catchy and fun to listen to while trying play the various modes. The one thing that could have made this game amazing was the multiplayer, it was not as fun a I expected. Even without the multiplayer, Zoo Keeper is pretty addicting and is a game that you can come back time after time to beat your highest score or to spend a lazy sunday afternoon with. I recommend Zoo Keeper to anyone who loves puzzle games, you'll won't regret it.

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