You can adjust the text size to whatever suits you best and a bookmark feature means dog-eared pages are a thing of the past. The Classic Book Collection allows you to search for books in a number of different ways, such as subject matter and length, meaning you can find a suitable story in seconds. As well as the novels, you can access book introductions and find out more on the authors themselves - there are also additional books that you can download via Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection!
Buy on. Developer: Genius Sonority Inc. Critic Reviews. Score distribution:. Positive: 4 out of 7. Mixed: 2 out of 7. Negative: 1 out of 7. All this publication's reviews Read full review. It may have taken a long time coming, but Nintendo has put together a fine collection of classic books to keep everyone happy, packaging them in a superbly user-friendly format and offering up plenty of extras to ensure that true value for money is provided.
If you are a book lover and have a Nintendo DS, then this little bargain should be right up your alley. Official Nintendo Magazine UK. It does what it offers as well as you could hope, and it's ideal for anyone who reads in the dark. All this publication's reviews. This edit will also create new pages on Giant Bomb for:. Until you earn points all your submissions need to be vetted by other Giant Bomb users. This process takes no more than a few hours and we'll send you an email once approved.
Introduction Classic Book Collection is a Nintendo DS game that, as the title suggests, contains one hundred of the world's greatest literary works. All books contained in the game are their original versions, and footnotes are provided to help readers understand some of the language used that is no longer common today. In an unusual move, Classic Books is unrated in all regions.
Because the title is simply a literature compilation and not an actual game of any sort, Nintendo did not deem a content rating necessary and was not required to submit it to content ratings boards such as the ESRB, whose rating process is voluntary. Features Classic Book Collection provides a certain number of features that make the reading and selecting of books easier: All the books are displayed on a bookshelf in which you can scroll through to select the title you are interested in.
Every book has a small summary and a little biography of the author. In order to keep track of which books you have finished, a small "r" will appear on the spine of the book when you finish reading it.
Two different font sizes. You can look up books either by scrolling through the bookshelf or by using the search feature that will let you type in the name of either the book or author.
A special quiz mode will suggest titles to read depending on how you answered a short number of questions. Most of these are not musical tracks however, but rather background noises. That was way too distracting. I was actually pretty impressed by all the different background tracks you could play although several are very cheesy, they were all outside the box and a lot of fun.
To go forward you tap the right side of the touch screen held vertically and to go back a page you tap the left side. You can also slide the stylus in those directions to trigger the same effect.
You can make some changes in the settings so that the shoulder buttons can have the same function, but this is even more awkward and you will end up hitting the one on the bottom regularly. There is also an option to make the D-pad turn pages and this feel more natural, but only if you orient your DS so that the D-pad is at the bottom when you are reading, rather than the top. Touching the top of the screen brings up a menu that includes items like placing a bookmark on a page so you can go back to it, close the book, changing settings on the fly and more.
I suppose this was done to keep you from clicking on even MORE pages, but it is very awkward and hard to read. Still, the sheer amount of content and the quality of the books means you can come back to this for years, or even decades to come, and still have something to enjoy.
You can tell both the developer and publisher tried to balance things out, but when you look at each category, things break down. There is also a type option, but this too has some issues. There are a few categories that could have used some more padding.
Non-fiction, for example, only contains two works — Rights of Man and The Prince. The genre option bears looking at too. Detective and Mysteries are listed as two separate genres, although there is a lot of overlap. Yet we are missing a horror option even though the cart contains Dracula , Frankenstein , Dr.
Jekyll and Mr. Hyde amongst others. Although the collection in Classic Books is rather nice and there is definitely something for literally everyone to read, certain classifications are missing while others are just plain odd. Most of all, Classic Books could have used a bit of balancing with authors and types.
I even take this and sit by my pool before and after swimming laps. This is a wonderful and innovative idea along the same lines as the three different DS cookbooks I have or the My Coach language programs. Although I enjoyed flipping through a few books via this cartridge, the novelty quickly wore off for me. At the end of the day, the screen is just too small for my liking and I get annoyed with all the extra flipping.
This is a bit tricky. In fact, I primarily use my DS for these sorts of titles rather than gaming. Out of the twenty titles I have kept for the DS as my permanent collection, three are cookbooks, three are language learning programs and now I have a collection of books.
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