Review: Treasure World (DS)

So you’ve collected all the Pokémon, and your monster rancher collection is maxed out. You have all the collector cards from Yu-Gi-Oh. Then this game will make you happy. Imagine you’re involved in the world’s largest treasure hunt. The scope of the hunt is as big as you can fathom. It is the entire wired world. Welcome to Treasure Word a truly innovative game for Aspyr. I’m going to tell you right up front, I was surprised at how much I enjoyed playing this cart and I’m also going to tell you I played this game in 3 separate countries: USA, Korea, and China. So for those of you that enjoy collecting, welcome to the hunt.

Let’s Go Hunting For Stars!

I first need to discuss the game’s gimmick. The Star Sweep, a wise old spaceman, asks you to hunt stardust that is a power source for a starship. You are given an Invader Zim’s G.I.R.-esk robot called a Wishfinder to help you clean and find stars. But since you can’t fly in the sky, it turns out that wi-fi signals are the same as stardust. This is surprisingly addicting. But if you don’t like collections, you will become bored quickly. Collecting can be done with the DS open or closed. When you find a “Star” the DS dings and if you are walking, or have the DS open, you can find the name of the wi-fi spot you just “collected.” This is really great, as long as you live near Wi-Fi spots. If you don’t, the game is a waste of money. Example my travels in the United States were fine as long as I was near cities.  But the more rural I got, less wi-fi. Korea, had wi-fi everywhere. And in China, if your not in Beijing? You’ll find nothing.

G.I.R?

This game play falls under the open-ended category. No princess to save, no dragon to slay. It is a collection game. The game gives you goals to achieve through your searches. Some stars are just dust which can be used like money to get items, while others contain keys, and treasures that upgrade your environment and even your robot. Yes you get to play dress up and change the animations of your robot (Including Chun-Li and Indiana Jones-esk outfits). For the most part you utilize your stylus to move your robot around or to move about in the game’s environment. Via wi-fi and a computer you can also register with Treasure World’s online community to share songs and get items for keys you’ve found. You can swap items with friends 1 for 1 but that is the total extent of multi-player, other than the online leader boards. The one thing that would have made it better is perhapse some mini games to do with the Wish Finder.

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The audio work in this game is different. All the little sound effects work for the game, and the nighttime soothing musical loops also match the visuals nicely. Also you can collect or buy “Songs” from the Star Sweep and play little 4 measure ditties on your DS. Every treasure in the game also has a sound attached, and by adding treasures to the surroundings you can make your own songs. I tried to make a Super Mario song myself.

Scope this out!

It’s kind of nice to have a DS cart that actually wants you to get out the chair and move, and rewards you for it. Again, this game won’t be for everyone, if only because it is not story or character driven, and there are many places that don’t utilize wi-fi. However, as original games go, I welcome it in my game "collection."

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