Ubisoft Imagine: Figure Skater - Nintendo DS

Wasn’t cleared of past data but it works perfectly so far

This game is really fun!!! You are a skater and you are training for competitions. You have to train in different areas which is what you can do on the mini games. And you have skating moves you have to learn, which are easily done with the stylus. You train and once you are trained you enter a competion. The moves are easy to make and the competitions are fun. You can to choose your music and even the order you want to do your jumps and spins! There is also a little story line which is a little "girlish" if you are an adult. But teenagers and younger kids would probably enjoy the story line. Definately worth the buy and the most fun of all the imagine games!

I have always wondered how they would create a figure skating game. How to manuever the jumps and make it interactive with some sort of skill or ability on the player. The developers have designed an interesting tool of tracing patterns, once for each revolution, in order to complete jumps and various other stylus manuevers for spins and footwork. So i was very pleased with that. Then, they felt the need to add a storyline and a very annoying series of mini-games to strengthen your skater. You end up "skating" very little while fulfilling the requirements of your coach. You also don't have a freezone to practice manuevers and thus some can be tricky during competitions with only one run through to master say a jump combination, something you don't practice.The townsfolk become an annoying chore to talk to with bizarre romance things and other storylines that run without your control but you have to acknowlege the dialogue or you cannot advance. The skating is fun. I just wish there was more of it. I thought what better way for a skater to strenthen their performances than to practice skating but apparently I don't understand the appeal of the mini-game. Perhaps, they'll do another one with more skating/more sport-oriented and less life-ish. For the first figure skating game that i've found, it has good potential to build on.

I purchased this game with my own money and was a fair buy. i have never been ice skating, so i might not know what it is really like, but this game isnt realistic at all. the graphics are also pretty bad.the game starts when you are at the skating rink and you get your first weekly goal. every single week you have to raise your stamina, coordintation, or artistry. then you learn a new trick which is very fun. the game is to involved in the story line too. the characters talk for half the game. when you finally get to a competion, you get to design the program. you decide on the music, choreography, and your outfit. if you mess up on 1 trick your score goes down ALOT. you most likely lose then.it is good and long so you dont finish it a few days also. i have had it for a couple weeks and still havent finished it . happy skating:D

My 11 year old daughter plays this on her DS and enjoys skating as if she were the one on the ice!