It's adorable and there's more to it than I thought, but the fact remains that most of this thing is minigames that would have been rejected from Mario Party. Some of them are fun, some of them are miserable. Some of them are sort of fun for about a minute, and then you realize that you're never, ever, ever going to hit the target score you'd need to get all of the possible rewards. The play control on about half of the minigames just is not up to par.

Then there's the card duels, which have about three times the animation bloat they should. They're... not TOTALLY un-strategic, but the deck-building isn't going to live up to the expectations of... basically anybody who is into Card RPGs.

You don't need to go out of your way to play this. Again, it's cute. It's generally inoffensive. If you had this for your DS back in The Day, I'm sure there's plenty of wholesome nostalgia here, and that's wonderful. For those who don't have that nostalgia, and aren't freaks like me who feel compelled to chase down every one of the infinite Final Fantasy spinoffs, you're unlikely to find much treasure here.