Originally Posted by IGN.com
Nintendo's been having an uphill climb trying to convince gamers that a touch-screen set-up can truly be innovative in videogame design. The company's certainly been having a varying level of success with its system, showing both consumers and developers that there's certainly a lot of room for creative game creation on the dual-screen handheld. But Touch! Kirby, just released in Japan, may be the most creative and original game developed on the Nintendo DS, and what's more, the touch screen actually offers up a unique way to make standard platform gaming both original and fun.
Even though Nintendo's thrown its Mario character in every situation imaginable, it's the blobamorphic Kirby creature that gets the wild and uninhibited game designs outside of the standard platforming fare. ... Chalk another game up for the pink puff: in the hour or so we've spent with Touch! Kirby, this may be our favorite Kirby game yet.
It's one of the most creative and innovative 2D platform games since Yoshi's Island on the Super NES, and what's more, it's actually a full-fledged game presentation this time. Yoshi Touch & Go this is not -- Touch! Kirby is a full-on beginning/middle/end game design complete with contemporary level structure and boss battles.