Bloons DSi

Bloons DSi is a Bloons Game for the Nintendo DSi. It is a port of the original Bloons and can be purchased from the Nintendo DSi shop for 500 points, the equivalent of $5 USD and is published by Ninja Kiwi and Hands-On Mobile. It was first released on May 3, 2010. it was discontinued on 27 March 2023 due to the 3DS EShop closing. The game is still retrievable, but is not able to be collected legitimately because of the Eshop and DSI shop's closing, the only way to get it now is from the Hshop. The Hshop, being a homebrew app, allows users to get apps for free that were from the DSI, Eshop, and snes etc. The Hshop had sucessfully pulled and dumped a version of bloons DSI, so now it is still available if you have a modded DSI or a modded 3DS.

Description

"Bloons is based on the very simple fact that popping balloons is fun. Pop your way through a variety of puzzling levels. Each level will have a different arrangement of balloons, so try and pop as many as you can with the darts you are given. Look out for special balloons, blocks and darts, and have fun discovering what each item does."

Public Reception

Although the game shares several commonalities with the Wii edition of the game, it is generally still regarded as being better than its counterparts but is still rated higher due to its slight improvement in designs as well as the gameplay in general. Nevertheless, it still unfavored by critics, attaining a score of 4/10 from IGN . Thus, the game still turned out unsuccessful overall, similarly to its Wii variant and PSP port.

Display

Upper Screen

The upper screen entails the level number, the name, and how many darts you have and the target amount of bloons you need to pop. This comes alongside the amount of darts you have already popped. The top screen, also uses a cloud from some of the backgrounds to add decor along with a bloon which also, due to the DSI's limitations, is a bit crunchy as a texture. The upperscreen is also the title screen for the game saying "bloons" even though it has more bloons 2 things such as slopes.

Lower Screen

The lower screen is the gameplay, there is also a reset button at the top right of the screen. But the player can also reset using select. During gameplay, the textures as per the upper screen, is also scrunched. This does not matter if your playing on DSI or 3DS, it applies to both systems.

Control

The controls for the game, not for the editor, uses the Directional pad, A button to fire, and the stylus as a non-obligatory option to use as a directional pad. The directional pad and stylus control how far the dart throws by going up and down, and left and right on the stylus and D-pad are used to aim the dart. The A button will also, fire the dart, and when pressing start, the pause menu will appear, and using the D-pad, the player can select something to do in the pause menu. Additionally, when pressing A in the editor, it will actually be the pause menu, and discarding a level in the pause menu only means the level's edits were removed.

Directional Pad ↑↔↓- Dart Direction and force

A button - Firing the dart

Stylus - Optional control (Similar to D-Pad)

External links

Bloons DSi trailer (The trailer is just gameplay)

Bugs and Oddities

• During play, sometimes if you are playing and you clear every bloon from the level, you will still be able to fire darts if you still have any leftover.
• The game, when closed, blacks out the screen of your system for a second, this is for emulation purposes if your on the 3DS, this is unknown if it applies to the DSI.
• The game has a full background carousel, and a full soundtrack, but it is disorganized instead of being like how Bloons 2 uses it as zones.
• The game has 2 other developers alongside ninjakiwi although BTD 4 for the DSI and 3DS was made with gold fish games, just like how Minecraft for the 3DS has other ocean instead of 4J studios.

See Also

• Bloons (DSiWare) Level Editor
• Bloons (WiiWare)