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I’ve managed to borrow my little cousin’s Nintendo DS for a day, and have been playing Metroid on it for awhile. The touchpad really seems like an interesting concept for a handheld game, and yet a problem presents itself already: most of the players are going to be a younger generation, and younger generation of kids tends to lose small things like the stylus …

Luckily Metroid allowed me to select a control mode that doesn’t use the stylus. In total there’s 6 buttons (4 usual ones on the right + 2 on the sides) + the D-pad. It’s quite an interesting item to play with, but for $199 CAD, I think I’d rather spend it on a PS2 or XBox.

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