Fossil Fighters
$26.98
- Find and fight! Collect over 100 different vivosaurs and pit them against enemy vivosaurs in strategic, turn-based battles.
- Your skills enhance your vivosaurs’ powers.
- Each fossil must be carefully cleaned of excess rock. With a steady hand and keen eye, you can make your vivosaurs stronger
- Battle and trade with friends.
- Using DS Wireless Play, you can take on a friend within range of your system for head-to-head battles or trade your extra fossils for new ones
Product Description
Welcome to Vivosaur Island, home of the world-famous Fossil Stadium, where dinosaurs revived from ancient fossils fight in thrilling battles! As a Fossil Fighter, you’ll dig up dinosaur fossils, clean them, and revive them into powerful “vivosaurs,” ready to battle. In your adventures, you’ll delve into ancient ruins, explore sunken pirate ships, and uncover secrets that will shake the planet to its core!Amazon.com Product Description
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Fossil Fighters
This game holds mans quest to bring back the terrific beast of the past.Plus it didn’t hurt to throw fighting in to the picture.So please if your going to buy this game take the name Fossil Fighter in to considration.
Rating: 4 / 5
I bought this for my son’s b-day but becuase it was only a single player game and looked to young for him I sent it back
Rating: 3 / 5
For me, ressurrecting dinosaurs was the main lure of this game, especially since there are over 100 different dinosaur species to unlock!
You play as a young boy (meaning female players will have to endure taking on a male perspective) who is on his way to Vivosaur Island, a resort location funded by a rich old man and his perky granddaughter. The main attraction on the island is Fossil Stadium, where people watch ressurrected dino-battles.
New features, locations, and gameplay mechanics are introduced as you progress through the game’s chapters (so a guide book isn’t really necessary). In order to revive your dinosaurs (which are called vivosaurs in the game), you will have to dig up fossils and take them to the Fossil Center to be cleaned. You will have 90 seconds to clean your fossils as best as you can. Using a hammer on the touch screen, you can chip away layers of rock until you get close to the fossil, aiming carefully so that you don’t damage the bone. When most of the rock is removed, you can switch to the drill for more precise cleaning. You will be given a score between 0 and 100, when the timer runs out. The higher your cleaning score, the stronger your vivosaur will be. This process can be extremely time-consuming, especially if you’re trying to score more than 85 points.
Each vivosaur has different powers and abilities. There are also different elemental types that determine how effective your vivosaur’s attacks will be. As the story progresses, you will be encounter new characters and challenges.
Although I’ve only played this game for a few hours, my overall review of the game so far is “blah.” The graphics are pretty horrible. All the human characters are rather boring, seeing as they don’t change their facial expressions and they move like stiff crank-up toys (only the dinosaurs are well-drawn and expressive). And it erks me that the player does not get to choose his/her gender, especially since there are subtle hints of a love story between the player and the granddaughter. Also, the repetitiveness of digging for fossils, cleaning fossils, and battling vivosaurs can become dull. The only thing that really keeps me playing is the desire to find all the different vivosaurs.
Overall, I think that this game is good for young kids, preferably young boys. Older players might find the game to be too predictable and gender-biased (yes, I am a girl and it REALLY bothers me that the entire game is based on a male perspective >_<).
Rating: 3 / 5
I bought this based on a previous love of both dinosaurs and monster battling games such as Pokemon. Of course I wasn’t expecting much since previous incarnations of that combo have amounted to little more than electronic “Rock, paper, scissors” and I was pleasantly surprised when the battle system at least was decent, but it has other issues.
To start, the rating is accurate. The story is so squeaky clean and typical that even the parts meant to be interesting and funny won’t make anyone who’s over the age of five so much as crack a smile. You start as a boy who somehow has the funding to travel to a tropical island and live in a fancy hotel without parental supervision in order to train large carnivorous animals to battle other large beasts, perfectly thoughtless setup. This island is mostly populated with women yet for some reason you can’t play one: Score one for equality, right? Wake up Nintendo, and realize that women are 30% of gamers now. As if that wasn’t good enough, to progress and level up you get sent on fetch quests (Everyone loves a pointless fetchquest!) to hurry the plot along, and fight the same baddies it seems like an infinite number of times.
“SPOILERS” DO NOT READ NEXT PARAGRAPH IF YOU WANT TO BE SURPRISED BY THE PLOT OF THE GAME!
Some parents also may want to know that this game eventually delves into beings evolved from dinosaurs from another planet that are trying to colonize the earth by de-evolving all humans back to our rodent ancestors. One character gets turned into a giant rat, another gets fossilized and then resurrected, yeah, it’s that level of stupid. Make sure that if your kid gets interested in dinosaurs you buy them a good fact-filled book or something. I know it’s a kids game but they could’ve easily done an educational game instead of this drivel.”END OF SPOILERS”
On the pro side are the cleaning minigame, which is varied in difficulty and genuinely fun at times, and the battles. BUT, the amount to which you have to clean during the game borders on obsessive. To get all the species it could be hundreds of rounds of hunting and cleaning, not counting cleaning gems for cash. Battling is in actuality a very small part of the game and what battles you get are often repeats. You never really need to change dinos from your initial team, it’s more than easy to beat everyone in the game with one arm tied behind your back.
In all the entire game is great if you’re 5-7 years old. Easy battles, repetitive gameplay, and simple plot. Even the characters seem to push the camera towards items of interest (“Just go through the door on your left” Game pauses, then shows left door) and you seem to be constantly followed by a horrible excuse for a female companion who is not only always one step behind you, but who also loves nothing more than entering into 5 minutes of dialog when you just want to explore. Imagine my dissapointment when I discovered you couldn’t hit her with the pickaxe!
Even as a fan of monster games I just can’t give this more than two stars. I swear this game has turned me misogynistic, AND I’M A WOMAN! For better games in this area of interest check out Spectrobes for DS, no dinos, but other similar elements with better execution. Unless I was buying this for a very young child I would avoid it, or at least make sure to give it a try-before-you-buy. If you buy it for yourself, you may end up burying it before you’re done.
Rating: 2 / 5
This game is pretty cool. If you like easy games this would be a perfect for you but there are some realy hard parts. to me this game is a mix of Zelda, pokemon,and Yu-gi-oh. But i must warn you,a girl kisses you on the cheek ’cause you saved her life.
Rating: 5 / 5