Product Description

Explore the Amazon while playing games infused with rain drops, exotic flowers, waterfalls and giant trees. Zenses Rainforest encourages you to recharge your batteries while playing puzzle games such as Sapphire Wheel, Mirror Maze, Stack Jack and Bumble Breaker.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2159 in Video Games
• Brand: American Game Factory
• Model: 855433001823
• Released on: 2008-10-28
• ESRB Rating: Everyone
• Platform: Nintendo DS
• Dimensions: .25 pounds

Features

• Lets you escape from the stress of daily life while challenging the mind, body and spirit through relaxing puzzle games, soothing ambient sounds and authentic rainforest and oceanic visuals
• Designed for casual play - whether it's for three minutes or for a three-hour escape - and offers a collection of six easy to pick up, yet addictive puzzle/brain games that are as fun as they are challenging
• A clean, fresh and spa-like interface highlights the earth's natural wonders and beauty
• A pleasant mixture of 2D and 3D - Zenses is controlled using the stylus only. Not a single key press is necessary

Customer Reviews

Addictive fun in a beautiful setting!
First I must say that I absolutely LOVE nearly all puzzle games and minigame collections, almost as much as I love tropical settings. So if you're not into that sort of thing you might not enjoy these Zenses games (I have both Ocean and Rainforest) as much as I do. That said, I can't put these games down!!

Zenses: Rainforest has a very tropical theme with lots of bright green palm trees, butterflies, flowers, and waterfalls. The ambient music is sweet and relaxing, and the graphics are actually quite nice.

There are 6 puzzle games, all of them different from the games included in the Ocean edition. Rainforest includes: Treasure Spin, which involves moving blocks and rotating the screen to get little jewels to touch each other and disappear, Stack Jack has a cascading waterfall with different shapes to match up, Twist & Turn has two rotating jewel wheels to match up (honestly I don't get this one), Flower Board uses strategy to make matching pairs disappear, Sapphire Wheel has jewels of different shapes that you must make fit into a puzzle, and Solitaire is not like card solitaire at all - it is the game where you must hop one stone over another until only one stone remains.

I like them all (except Twist & Turn, which I'm just too impatient to bother learning when the others are so much more fun) but my favorite is Stack Jack. The waterfall in the background is nice and the puzzle is addictive! Sapphire Wheel is a close second, hard to put down. Overall I think the games in Ocean edition are slightly more addictive but that's just my personal preference. If you enjoy puzzle minigames and pretty scenery, it's definitely work picking up both Zenses for your DS!

Own Ocean, Own Rainforest
Both games have a similar style, even though the individual games are different. I own both. These are relaxing, addictive games to help unwind from the daily grind. I have seen a growing number of adult games for DS that have really impressed me. These two games are wonderful play while watching t.v. or just for taking a lunch break....

Good but Software slightly buggy
This game is fun to play and nice for people that enjoy puzzles. The puzzles themselves are easy to get into and eventually become difficult to master.

The two shortcomings of the game, as I see it, are in the programming and in the variety. After a few days of playing the game I was getting tired of the puzzle choices. Also, there is some type of software glitch in this game. Occasionally it will just lock up, sometimes with a loud buzzing sound. I'll have to shut the game off and restart. All of the games involve playing ever-more-difficult levels to increase your score, so it is not uncommon to play for almost an hour on the same puzzle. It's annoying when you've played the game for an hour and it locks up.

Overall this is a fun relaxing game, and it's only locked up on me about 3-4 times, which isn't too bad, so I do recommend the game.