Software:Dinosaur King (video game)

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Dinosaur King
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Developer(s)Sega
Publisher(s)Sega
Platform(s)Nintendo DS
Release
  • JP: November 11, 2007
  • AU: September 4, 2008
  • EU: September 5, 2008
  • NA: September 23, 2008
Genre(s)Role-playing
Mode(s)Single-player

Dinosaur King (古代王者 恐竜キング 7つのかけら, Kodai Ōja: Kyōryū Kingu 7-tsu no Kakera, literally "Ancient Ruler: Dinosaur King - The Seven Shrine Fragments" in Japan) is a video game for the Nintendo DS game based on the Dinosaur King TV series.

Plot

The game's story is about Max, Rex, and Zoe, the members of the D-Team (of whom only Max and Rex are available as player characters). One day, they find mysterious stones that allow them to summon dinosaurs, after creating special cards from fossils, using a special device called a Dinoshot. However, an evil group called the Alpha Gang steals a Dinoshot in order to create a dinosaur empire. It is the D-Team's job to stop the Alpha Gang.[citation needed]

Gameplay

The gameplay is much like that of the Pokémon game series. Players collect dinosaurs by excavating and then cleaning fossils. Fossils are cleaned using a pick. However, the pick will only last a short time before it breaks. In addition to this, a perfectly clean fossil will produce a higher leveled dinosaur than one that is not, making it important for players to carefully use the pick.[citation needed]

Battles take place as random encounters on the overworld map. Each side has a maximum of three dinosaurs which they can send out. The battle system is based on the game of rock, paper, and scissors-winning allows the dinosaur to attack, losing allows the opponent dinosaur to attack, and a tie inflicts neutral damage to either side. Several of the moves in the game become more powerful according to wins or losses, or they allow attacks on a tie.[citation needed]

Dinosaurs become stronger as they gain levels through experience. At certain levels, they generate move cards, which can be attached to dinosaurs as the player desires. Moves vary in function from dealing damage, inflicting status effects, summoning other creatures to assist the dinosaur, or changing the battlefield itself to power up a specific type.[citation needed]

Dinosaurs in the game are categorised according to elemental types, which include specific types of dinosaurs. Each type also has a strength and a weakness against another type. There are 72 dinosaurs available normally in the game, not including Secret type dinosaurs or dinosaurs which can only be obtained through entering a special code at a specific place in the game.

Reception

Reception
Aggregate score
AggregatorScore
Metacritic61/100[1]
Review scores
PublicationScore
IGN6.6/10[2]
Jeuxvideo.com14/20[3]
Nintendo Life7/10 stars[4]
Nintendo World Report8/10[5]
PALGN5/10[6]
Pocket Gamer2.5/5 stars[7]

The game received "mixed" reviews according to the review aggregation website Metacritic.[1] IGN journalist Mark Bozon embraced the game's gameplay that he found nostalgic and its 3D animations, while dismissing the sound effects and bland 2D overworld.[2]

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