New Nintendo DS Slide Accessory
August 6, 2007 by Lauren
While [in terms of add-ons] it may never keep up with its fellow system, the Nintendo Wii, the DS has added a new accessory of sorts. It's a piece that almost turns the DS into a mouse, speaking in functions. In addition to the already innovative controlling of the touch-controlled DS, you may now be able to move the DS around on a flat surface in sync with your game.
After moving the DS like a mouse, the DS computes your action as always and the game will respond accordingly. If it all isn't too much for you to think about while gaming, this could be a very cool and very natural feature. I don't know about you, but I tend to move my controllers and handhelds with the game I'm playing anyway, at least out of frustration.
The peripheral is actually released as an included piece of an appropriately named DS game, Slide Adventure: Mag Kid. The feature is described as similar to the trackball, simply reversed. Naturally, instead of rolling it with your palm, you would roll the controller around to move the creature known as Mag Kid. The slide controller plugs right into your NDS' cartridge port, after which you can roll the NDS and Slide Controller together.
Mag Kid itself is "a little spherical beast who's special ability is magnetism which attracts metallic objects onto its body so that they're linked and pulled when moving." Mag Kid apparently has to put back together a busted-up Robot, of course giving reason to wander all over the place to find the appropriate missing parts. There are said to be a total of 12 mini-games included, as well as a wireless multiplayer feature enabling a contest of up to four players.
It could be brilliant, though I'd really like to see it included in other titles. If this is only the beginning and release, it should be excellent. However, I doubt I'd buy a game just to try out a new accessory, despite just how cool of an accessory it is.
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