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Big Bang Mini
Generally favorable reviews
Based on 39 critic reviews
How did we calculate this?
Based on 18 votes
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Game Info
Publisher: SouthPeak Interactive
Developer: Arkedo Studio
Genre(s): Action
Players: Multi
ESRB Rating: E (Everyone)
Release Date: January 6, 2009
Summary
In Big Bang Mini, your main objective is to use the stylus to create fireworks and destroy the waves of enemies that loom overhead. Miss and you’ll be forced to tackle another challenge - avoiding the sparks created by your falling fireworks. Celebrate the completion of a level by designing the Final Bouquet – a one-of-a-kind masterpiece that will proclaim your victory. [SouthPeak Interactive]
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What The Critics Said
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
Gaming Nexus
With amazing graphics and a control scheme you've never seen before, this $20 DS game is a no brainer!
Read Full Review >Gamer 2.0
Big Bang Mini is a game that will come as a pleasant surprise for anybody that gives it a shot.
Read Full Review >GameSpot
Beautiful visuals, great music, exciting gameplay, and an innovative control scheme make Big Bang Mini one of the best DS games out there.
Read Full Review >AtomicGamer
Couple the pyro-firing controls with diversified addictive gameplay and some truly engaging art direction, oh, and a $20 price tag, and you’ve got a DS experience that's more fun than lighting illegal fireworks on the Fourth.
Read Full Review >WonderwallWeb
Big Bang Mini is a great addition to the DS. With over 90 levels, great visuals and some excellent gameplay, this title will keep you hooked for a long time, and at the end of the day what more can you ask for than that?
Read Full Review >Cubed3
Big Bang Mini takes the shooter formula, shakes it around and serves up a definitely triple-A piece of gaming goodness that will test gamers to the maximum.
Read Full Review >Zentendo
"Big Bang Mini" really came out of nowhere and totally surprised me. What appears to be a innovative take on the vertical shooter genre then explodes into a content-rich title that is constantly changing and expanding.
Read Full Review >GameZone
Big Bang Mini is a distinctive game that simply wouldn’t work on any system but the DS—but there it works brilliantly. With so much content, challenge, and visual insanity packed into a $20 title, this game deserves a spot in any DS owner’s library.
Read Full Review >IGN
The touch screen shooting and dodging controls feel great, and over 90 levels the game always has a new trick up its sleeve. On top of that, there are fun multiplayer modes and a no-fail "relax" mode where you can just enjoy the fireworks display.
Read Full Review >Nintendo Power
Nevertheless, Big Bang Mini offers plenty of satisfying action at a bargain price. [Jan 2009, p.91]
Destructoid
Shmup veterans will recognize tributes to classic favorites at every turn.
Read Full Review >3DJuegos
Big Bang Mini is an innovative game thanks to its good control. The experience is simple, crazy and original that brings to us the memories about the classic games in the arcade machines. A beautiful visuals, innovative control scheme, amazing fireworks theme and the touch screen shooting works very well. Definitely Big Bang Mini is one of the best funny shooters.
Read Full Review >Official Nintendo Magazine UK
Original, polished and heaps of fun, this is one of the finest shooters available on the DS.
Read Full Review >GamingTrend
The great graphics and sound will grab your attention, and the diversity of the worlds and the ability to pick up and play will keep it.
Read Full Review >NGamer UK
This little gem was made by three blokes in a Parisian attic. Basically a shoot-'em-up, but one stuffed with loads of great ideas and lots of content. Tres bon. [Mar 2009, p.67]
Game Revolution
It's great to play a shooter that contains more than just planes, tanks, and machine guns. The fireworks theme gives the game an excuse to take you around the world, celebrating local cultures with glittery explosions, while still granting you the rare opportunity to blast a hole in a flying squid.
Read Full Review >Cheat Code Central
Big Bang Mini is a $20 title that will rival many of the top releases on the system in 2009.
Read Full Review >GamingXP
Big Bang Mini is an extraordinary shooter for the Nintendo DS. Easy to learn and hard to master – a title worth playing!
Read Full Review >Armchair Empire
A somewhat eclectic game, Big Bang Mini offers all the spectacle of fireworks with plenty of visual attraction paired with an old-school-tough level of challenge and classic arcade-style gameplay.
Read Full Review >Gamervision
Big Bang Mini is a tremendous success. It isn’t an incredibly deep game, but the mechanics work on a number of levels, and set a bar for what gamers should grow to expect from budget titles.
Read Full Review >DarkZero
It is one of the most perfect examples of bite-sized gaming, giving you a pleasant feeling of accomplishment even if you were just looking to kill time for 5 minutes.
Read Full Review >Worth Playing
This is a title that's definitely worth checking out for DS owners, and while it's a relatively smaller game that hasn't received much media attention, I hope players will still give this a shot.
Read Full Review >Modojo
For $20, you get your monies worth from Big Bang Mini. Multiplayer actually serves a purpose here (rather than being a tacked-on gimmick), and the single-player modes will keep you busy for hours. The best part? You won't lose any fingers.
Read Full Review >GamePro
Talk about full-featured-Big Bang Mini is a $19.99 package that is hard to pass up.
Read Full Review >Games Master UK
Pretty as a picture with crazy themed levels and enemies. [Feb 2009, p.87]
Thunderbolt
Big Bang Mini retails for $20, and it’s truly a lot of “bang” for your buck. There’s a ton of fun and a ton of style crammed into this card, and ultimately, the game lives up to its name – it’s a big bang of enjoyment on your tiny DS screens.
Read Full Review >Kombo
Big Bang Mini comes together nicely with a great combination of simple yet addicting gameplay, innovative design, catchy music, great production value and unbelievable price point.
Read Full Review >N-Europe
For the wealth of quality that has been put into this title plus the enjoyment to be had from it this really is something that deserves to be in every shoot 'em up fans DS collection.
Read Full Review >Game Informer
The simple mechanics work well, providing an ingratiating twist on the top-down shooter. [Feb 2009, p.87]
Read Full Review >SpazioGames
Big Bang Mini is a funny shooter, and it easily provides more quality than most of its competitors on NDS. A try before buying could be the right choice: to do this, just download the Demo available on the Wii.
Read Full Review >Vandal Online
Big Bang Min is a pretty similar game to Nervous Brickdown: a simple game, without much aspiration in the technical part, but extraordinarily addictive, at least during the first hours of gameplay. The problem is that it can become too repetitive, and in a few hours can come to bore the player.
Read Full Review >Pocket Gamer UK
Big Bang Mini is beautifully presented and innovative in terms of its design and gameplay but the further you progress through the 90 stages, the more the flourishes get in the way.
Read Full Review >VideoGamer
The shmup is a genre that's struggled to find a place in gaming's mainstream, and we doubt Big Bang Mini on the DS will change that fact. But it's an impressive effort with an interesting control scheme that, for the most part, works well.
Read Full Review >games(TM)
With nine mostly identical levels standing between each boss and each change in style, the game can become rather monotonous when it could so easily have soared, had it changed styles a little more frequently. [Apr 2009, p.118]
Edge Magazine
The fact that Arkedo has made such a simple gimmick work as well as it does over a longer distance is a testament to the developer’s skills at providing cheerfully mindless variety. [Feb 2009, p.95]
Teletext GameCentral
A hugely original and beautifully presented shooter sadly in search of proper difficulty curve.
Read Full Review >1UP
Like so many games that try to straddle a balance between mass market and fervent gaming enthusiasts, what Big Bang does well and what it does bad are both incredibly noticeable. Yet, on the whole, it's worth a try. Weird.
Read Full Review >Eurogamer
If you've got massive amounts of patience and skill you might enjoy this game, but we're talking the kind of patience and skill required to solve Rubik's cubes in the dark and balance marbles on tightropes.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this game is 9.6 (out of 10) based on 18 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Ewan M gave it a10:
The immense style of this game alone makes it one of the best games on the DS.
nikos g gave it a9:
Shame Arkedo stopped developing for DS. I love their graphics designer(s). Great game overall.
