

It is the focus on collecting them all that will no doubt encourage fevered play from children and rather despondent reactions from older gamers. Gradually the plot takes you skipping between the game’s planets, with the vast majority of your time spent fighting the Krawl and digging around to hunt for the Spectrobes that lie beneath the soil in fossilised form. The dazed space man named Aldous gives you a tool called the Prizmod, which can be used to store and transport the obedient Spectrobes. Quickly you are charged with confronting and eventually defeating the Krawl, a vicious alien race intent on the destruction of every new culture they discover.Ĭrash landing on the first of the game’s planets, you discover an unconscious old pilot, who wakes to teach you of the power of the battle hungry pets known as the Spectrobes. The plot sees you assume the role of Rallen, a roguish young adventurer sent through space with his team mate, the overly cute Jeena, to complete basic tasks for the leader of your home Planet.

Spectrobes’ main distinguishing feature comes with its emphasis on excavating fossils to gather your gang of eager pint-sized combatants, as opposed to rifling through the flora of Pokemon’s worlds. The game sees you explore seven planets, collecting, nurturing and fighting various cute alien creatures in what is something like a saccharine version of badger-baiting. Though Spectrobes does everything it can to distinguish itself from its famous rival, it is impossible to play the monster-hunting game without constant reminders that you are playing a Pokemon clone. It is a sad truth that these two shortcomings feed into each other and sadder still that a game with as much potential as Spectrobes is peppered with the same faults that so many inferior children’s games suffer from. Yet at the same time, it is equally common to find evidence of lazy game design in titles aimed at youngsters, who rightly deserve the same standards of quality that their elders take for granted. To win the prize, you must complete all of the rounds in the sequence.It is all too easy to stumble across a well made kid’s game given a critical savaging by a reviewer who clearly hasn’t considered the target audience over their own gaming requirements. To unlock the vortexes which award Geos, you must first beat the game.


Note: Thanks to everyone on the board who helped compile this list and a special thanks to whoever it was who first came up with the system for displaying the codes. K - Below the "een" of the word "Screen" on the third line of text J - Below the "T" of the word "Touch" on the third line of text H - The letter "s" of the word "arrows" on the second line of text G - The second "the" on the second line of text The codes are entered in the form:ī - Above the word "the" on the first line of textĬ - Above "port" of the word "portion" on the first line of textĮ - To the left of the first "the" on the second line of textį - The letter "d" of the word "card" on the second line of text These are all the codes that can be entered at the card port machine unlocked by the Upsilon cube which can be found on Kollin 1 to the right of headquarters under the tree in the upper left by the museum or downloaded from the wi-fi downloads section for 1 point.
