Product Description

Big Bang Mini is an intense and high energy shoot 'em up that puts a new spin on classic arcade gameplay. Players use the stylus to launch fireworks at the enemies whilst simultaneously dodging incoming fire. The stylus can also be used to slow down time, create a vortex or draw a shield.

• 9 different worlds each with unique art, sound and desig
• Every world contains a different set of rules including new abilities previously unavailable
• Dynamic difficulty - the game adapts to the player's technique
• After each level design the Final Bouquet - a one-of-a-kind masterpiece that will illuminate the sky
• Challenge mode with global online scoreboard via the Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3465 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: Southpeak
• Released on: 2009-03-06
• Platform: Nintendo DS
• Format: Unknown format

Manufacturer's Description
Big Bang Mini is an intense and high energy shoot 'em up that puts a new spin on classic arcade gameplay. Players use the stylus to launch fireworks at the enemies whilst simultaneously dodging incoming fire. The stylus can also be used to slow down time, create a vortex or draw a shield.

Customer Reviews

Another Unusual Gem
Bought purely on the reviews here and also because the price from Amazon market trader Basementni was very good as well. This is a very addictive shoot-type game where your aim is to fire fireworks with a flick of your stylus at enemies on the top screen (balloons, weird japanese-type characters etc) and at the same time collect the stars they give off by dragging a little triangle over them as they fall as well as keeping out of the way of any debrise from the fireworks that don't hit targets. To unlock levels you have to fill a bar meter on the left with the stars. This is a mad insane game and as other reviewers have said you will die lots BUT it is so easy to play - the tutorial takes only a couple of minutes - and then you can say goodbye to hours and even more hours if you play the two player game included.

Finally, the graphics really are worth a mention in their own right - colourful, realistic and unfortunately quite mesmorising (making it even easier to die).

Fiendishly addictive
This is a game that is easier if you have eyes that can look two ways at once and have three hands. OK slight exaggeration but it starts off deceptively easy, becomes incredibly difficult, but you have so much fun that you will want to bag the next level again and again and again...
Each level can be done in potentially a few minutes but you will "die" so often that you will need to keep trying, but as I say this such a beautiful and fun game that you really won't mind.

Amazing!!!
First of all this game is AMAZING!!
Its also very addictive so you'll while away many hours on this without knowing it!
Graphics are gorgeous mainly, though sometimes you can't notice detail as game is so frantic. Could do with watching someone else play. The sounds great too.

You need to shoot enemies out of screen by firing at them.If you hit - they could need a few hits - they turn into stars that you collect to fill a meter,if you miss then what you actually fired is a firework that explodes and the debris comes down and can kill you if hit. Sound simple?? Hmmm not quite. You are a 'spaceship'. . .(snowball,bunch of dots,triangle and more). . .and can move round bottom screen using the stylus. You can fire anywhere from bottom screen not just near ship, by making a flicking action. The enemies can fire things at you so you have to dodge, try to aim somehow and dodge debris, collect stars,watch both screens at same time,dodge enemies that come on bottom screen at you all while the landscape background is zooting along at a fair pace. The enemies come in waves and you need to collect a certain amount of stars from each batch or they respawn then disappear when you have set amount. The game doesn't stop at all though. Each level is around 5 mins long and you die A LOT but funnily enough I didn't mind at all.Press restart and it begins immediately again.

Theres a tutorial first, then arcade mode which has nine worlds.
These are - in order - HONG KONG, AURORA, KAMAKURA, LUXOR, SAVANNAH, NEW YORK, RIO DE JANEIRO, PARIS and ABYSS. I'll leave it for you to discover all about them.
You need to complete each world to unlock next. There are 5 levels unlocked that you play in any order, these unlock next 4, they unlock boss. Each world is completely different. They are explained in detail in the manual. Each world has a page telling you what powers you get etc. Some you get special powers like a reflector screen or stopping time. One has the enemies turning into burning rays when you kill them as a last act of revenge, another the sides of screen come in - the sides are lethal too - restricting movement of ship then you kill an enemy and they go out a bit again.You get some permanent powers like fireballs.

Now I've had game for around 24hrs.It arrived yesterday morning but got in from work around 4pm. I've reached the 6th world New York but haven't unlocked 2nd lot of levels. I'm thinking I could have been playing it a lot. Even though i've eaten, slept etc. The worlds seem jumbled as far as difficulty,some are funner than others,the Savannah seemed easy, yet Kamakura was very hard and Luxor was just annoying at first I think i put down ds in a huff for oooooh at least 30mins then thought well I have to do it to unlock next one so i'd better get it over with. Theres dots everywhere I thought I'd go bong-eyed, the musics techno-ie. Not too bad really once I got used to it. Thats the reason for the 4 fun. I'm sure everyone will have faves and find different levels harder.

I seem to be rattling through the levels at a canny pace even though im stuck at the mo, but theres plenty more.

Theres bonus levels after each level thats like dot-to-dot(with a twist in later worlds)complete all these and you unlock relaxation mode,setting fireworks off I think!

A screen popped up along the lines of 'Hello You Have Been Hijacked and selected?? - welcome to the retro randomiser, play cos theres nothing to lose. . .or win.' There was a crazy version of Space Invaders - more retro than graphics in the game but nothing like SI I remember, it was mental. I didn't really know what was going on so died rather quickly, then was told 'goodbye from the retro randomiser, we may never meet again, we'll let you return to BBMini now' Then the game came back on....I thought ok what the hell was that!

Theres Mission Mode when you finish arcade mode. 25 things like beat HONG KONG stage 2 without hitting a cloud or Defeat KAMAKURA boss in 45 secs.

Complete these to unlock an alarm clock which seems a bit pointless.

Then theres challenge mode with simplified graphics that you can load scores via Wi-Fi.

Versus Mode can be played with 2 players/ds',one gamecard. Looks good. You get 4 power ups each and its a different version again.

As well as that you can replay your fave worlds, or the levels you just to say scraped through to complete the game.

So its fantastic fun. Play it in the pitch dark as well its even better. Just try to get some sleep, eat and maybe leave the house once in a while. . . and I don't mean play in your garden or sat on doorstep!!