DS Review: My Dress Up

The companion game to My Make-Up, My Dress Up is another title put out by the Oxygen line of games. Unlike My Make-Up, this one isn't practically impossible to play. Rather, it seems to have the opposite problem... it's so mind-numbingly boring that it's almost impossible to stick with for long.

Instead of coordinating different makeup and hairstyles, you're coordinating outfits. Shirts, pants, shoes, socks, dresses, belts, purses, hair accessories, earrings, necklaces, bracelets... Which could be decent enough if you didn't have to scroll through each item, one by one, to find what it is that you're looking for. If they were on a grid showing maybe 8 items or so at a time and you could scroll through different pages of items, it would have been a much better interface and much less frustrating. This seems like little more than the online doll dress up games that have been floating around for over a decade. You have to create different outfits for different scenarios (such as a beach day or a fancy dress party). Depending on how well you create the look, your client will either be happy or disappointed. (Your failures aren't met with as rude of reactions in this game as the other.) Your clients will earn your friendship over time and periodically send you messages about their everyday lives on your PDA, and that's about the only extra to this as opposed to online dollmakers. In small doses, this game is alright, I suppose. But trying to play it for any significant period of time, you'll find yourself being driven nuts by it. (The loading screens also take even longer on this game than on My Dress-Up.) Add to this that the girl on the loading screen resembles Barbra Streisand, and you have a fairly disagreeable mixture going on here.

I can't really say that I particularly loved or hated this game, so I'll go middle of the road and give it a 5 out of 10 models.