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Style Book Junior City: Reviews

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Game Score: 8/10

Style Book Junior City

Console: NDS
Developer: Narumiya, Bandai 2006
Genre: PDA
Players: 1 + wireless connection
Rating: G

Style Book Junior City is a PDA type game that takes your DS and turns it into your own personal diary. It has various organiser tools that all feature Narumiya Junior City characters - (a popular merchandising giant in Japan, and very successful childrens' clothing line). There's "Mezzo Piano"- a cute little bunny suit girl, "Angel Blue"- a character that very much resembles anime's Milk-chan and three adorable pets: "Daisy Lovers"- a monkey, "Blue Cross"- a gorilla and "Pom Ponette"- the teddy bear. Part of the Style Book series, this Junior City version is more suited to younger girls aged 10-14.

Gameplay

When you first play, you are required to enter your details such as name, date of birth and picture. You can choose from a set of pictures of girls, boys or animals. Because Style City has its own handwriting recognition technology, you can also write in information (in english!) using the stylus - or you can tap on the alphanumeric keyboard.

Once personal details are recorded, you can access the PDA features, categorized in the 6 following menus:

1. Calendar
This feature allows you to schedule important dates in monthly, weekly and daily view.

2. Accounting / Alarm
This is a great tool that lets you record your finances - you can enter your daily expenses, incoming and outgoing, and calculate your balance. The currency is changeable from Yen to Dollars and you can specify any daily expenditure with cute icons like transport, phone, entertainment, make-up, food/drink, stationery, CD/DVDS and etc. The alarm function is very cute - You can choose from 8 different greetings to wake you up - all in Japanese, but spoken by the cute Junior City friends themselves! Also, once the alarm is set, you can opt to put your DS in sleep mode.

3. Profiles
This menu is divided into 3 sets - My Profile, Junior City Character Profiles, and My Friends' Profiles. Here you can amend or add to the profiles.

4. Diary
This is a daily diary where you can record 2 pages, 90 characters each of your most deepest darkest thoughts. The diary is lockable and you can assign your own password.

5. Wifi / Local DS Connect
Here you can connect with other Style Book owners and exchange information, play games and even send and recieve mail.

6. Shop
The more you 'use' your PDA, the more "SP" you receive - much like DGEmu DP's, this is the Style Book local currency. The SP's can then be spent here, on various customisation tools for use with your PDA. You can buy things like pencils of different colours, games like memory and puzzles to play wirelessly with friends, different notepaper designs, Junior City icons and bonus art. More items are unlocked at the shop as you "progress" in the game.

Audio / Visual
The graphics are very cute. Background music is soft and you don't need to read through the dialogue - they are all voiced out (in japanese though).

The Good
The PDA is very useful, especially the accounting feature and the sleep mode. And there's a Help Menu on practically every page to helpyou use it all. The handwriting recognition technology is very cool and the extra customisation brings some fun to it all.

The Bad
Although you can input information in English, the game is in Japanese which can make the menus confusing and difficult to navigate. And there's no actual 'gameplay' - just a PDA.

The Verdict
As a DS game - 0/10. As a PDA, 9/10.

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