Review: Mr. Driller: Drill Spirits
Digging yourself into a hole may be the best thing to do on the DS.
In the absence of the standard puzzle game for a Nintendo hardware launch (i.e. Tetris), Mr. Driller does a good job with entertaining the brain.
Mister who? you ask? Its Namcos cutesy drill guy whose sole objective is to dig way down beneath the earth. Theres not much to it: Just point the direction you want to drill and thats it. That may sound simple, but then you need to consider all of the colorful blocks that can fall on top of you as you go deeper and deeper. Plus, youll need to constantly re-supply yourself with oxygen, which can only be done by reaching the few air icons spread out underground. Playing Mr. Driller takes a lot of practice. Newcomers will want to speed all the way down without stopping while trying to beat the falling debris above. But as you play more, youll realize that it takes a certain amount of strategy to successfully drill downward. If done right, you can have the same colored rock fall onto each other, which causes a long chain reaction, and in turn, then makes it easier to reach your final destination.
Like the gameplay, Mr. Drillers presentation is simple. A colorful display of solid rock, a little man holding a drill, and a few oddly shaped boulders make up the entire game. If you like to think just a bit more and still have a good time, then dig yourself a hole with Mr. Driller.
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