In a nice touch, the judges are present on the top screen and show you exactly what they think of your performance with drumming fingers, sleeping and ecstatic grins. You don't want to be getting the latter too often or you'll fail the level - to win you've got to impress the judges by keeping a 'heat gauge' above a certain point. To move about the rink players tap on numbered snowflakes that appear around the screen in ascending order, timing taps in accordance with outlines that enclose around the snowflakes - hit it bang on as the outline matches the snowflake and you get the full amount of points, do it a little early or late and you get some points, miss completely and it's nil poi. Princess On Ice distinguishes itself from other child-targeting simplistic games by partially nicking off with the gameplay mechanics of DS music champion Ouendan/Elite Beat Agents. Now, all of this still probably has the majority of you preparing to plug your ears and duct tape your eyes shut at the prospect of the game ever coming near you, but hang on a second. Plus, you get to buy them new costumes between games, because that's what girls like to have in every single game aimed towards them.

Your task is to pick one of the girls to guide to glory by making them prance about with the aid of your trusty stylus. become really good at skating around ice rinks). The game features a typically girl-based tale about a group of young lasses who all want to become the Princess On Ice (i.e.

That's not to say it's a AAA title that you should all be rushing out to buy by any stretch of the imagination, merely that it is much better than the low expectations you could easily garner by peering at its box art. Every so often, something shows up that makes you realise that there is actually some truth to the phrase 'never judge a book by its cover'.

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