Puzzle Fever Message Board

I'm going to kick things off by mentioning a 21-year-old Game Boy game that I expect about 1% of you all will remember Daedalian Opus. It was a puzzler that gave you a set of Tetris-like shapes in each stage and tasked you to piece them all together to fit perfectly inside larger target boxes. I mention it because Puzzle Fever uses the same idea, updated and modernized a bit from when we first saw it back in 1990...

Put your brain to the test in this DSiWare puzzler.

The biggest release on 3DS this week isn't a game at all. It's the Netflix app! Should you decide to watch movies while you're near a Wi-Fi signal but not a TV and a streaming-capable device, now you're all set.

The 3DS also sees a pair of Virtual Console releases, including one that is, itself, a collection of even older games. And WiiWare hosts 3D Pixel Racing, a racer set in a 3D Dot Game Heroes-esque voxel environment.

A portion of a Nintendo Life review… Puzzle Fever isn’t bad, just completely mediocre. The collection of 193 levels sounds great, though it’s a shame the two available modes simply recycle the same puzzles. It’s been said countless times before, but there really are far more worthy puzzle games on DSiWare, making this one only worthwhile [...]