nanovar.

So I just got done playing the Nanovar handheld gaming "nanoscope" for a while this evening, and I thought that I would talk about my impressions.

First of all, the box opening is a pain in the a**. Also, the plastic box is a little soft, and I was rather disappointed that my box got torn up while trying to open the package.

The volume was incredibly loud immediately after turning on the nanoscope, and immediately had to find a way to turn it down. Once it was down, I began to battle.

The points system with the game is really dumb in my opinion, I found myself not caring eventually in battles and just chose random attackers. Then after attacking I was bummed that nothing happened the first time and immediately had to take the nanovars apart and go through another attack selection.

Then, after battling twice the thing died and we had to start over...very frustrating.

Now for the "skill building" games...

What do they actually do for my characters? I still don't know after playing for a while. These games get me nothing and they are one of the only things I can do on it, since I can't battle. Not to mention that the mini-games cannot be muted! How can you mute the main game, but not the mini-games, a horrible error and I hope this gets fixed.

Now after all of those bad things here's what I did enjoy.

The mini-games were fun to play, but I just wish that the games counted or that I could see real-time what my play was doing, some instant positive reinforcement.

The battling itself and the animations were also great and I enjoyed watching the deaths of each character. The game is very good, but the quality of the hardware needs to be improved.

Also, I like the box that the nanoscope came in, but it was a little soft and I think they should just put it in the plastic so that you don't damage it when cutting the zip-ties.

Overall, a good game, but they just need to tweak some things and it'll be great!