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Comic Mischief GamerDad saw lots of cartoony Looney Tunes style antics. Turn it Around is a quirky Nintendo DS game. 24 arcade style mini-game challenges await you. Each one revolves around the same type of touch screen control scheme. Use the stylus to spin an imaginary dial around and around. Spin to swing a golf club or baseball bat, reel in a fish, crush ice to make snow cones, and much more. Since Turn it Around was made by the famous game company Taito, several of the mini-games are based on their classic arcade titles, such as Arkanoid or Bubble Bobble. Try to beat your high scores on each game in the one player mode, or challenge a friend who has a Nintendo DS and a copy of the game in multicart wireless play. The game saves your high scores, but not your progress if you're trying to beat all 24 games at once. Graphics and sound are quirky and cartoony, but the music is a bit repetitive. Play control is easy to learn on most of the mini-games, though some of the instructions before playing are a little vague, and some mini-games work better than others with the dial controls. The best way to control the game is to spin the dial near the outside of the spinning area, not close to the middle. Even though there's 24 mini-games, since there's only one kind of control scheme, the games can get kind of repetitive pretty quickly. Probably the only people who will enjoy Turn it Around are gamers who like quirky little games in short bursts. At least it's only 20 bucks, too. For a more detailed description of all the mini-games in Turn it Around, visit Cary's Blog at GameSanity!  
Kids will probably like the cartoony and quirky style of Turn it Around, plus the simple, easy to use controls. Although they may get bored with the repetitive gameplay quickly, and frustrated that some games work better with dial controls than others. Reading skill is helpful, but not required to play, since most of the games are pretty similar. Violence is only the wacky, fantasy kind. For instance, in the Hammer Throw game, you toss a person into the air, not a hammer, and when he lands head first, his legs are wriggling in the air with his head buried in the ground. In one of the mini-games, you have to guide a tipsy boss to the train station in time, but there isn't any reference to alcohol consumption other than the fact that your guy walks a little wobbly and the screen leans left and right. Kids who like games like Wario Ware will enjoy the silly quirkiness of Turn it Around, but the fun may not last as long as anyone would like.
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