


If your chieftain does this and he happens to be right-handed, his staff won't disappear when he takes out the marshmallow, making it look like he's roasting the head of his staff. He thinks it's okay to eat, and puts it away. Then suddenly, the marshmallow catches on fire, and the villager puts it out. After a short while, he checks on it, then thinks it's undercooked, then moves it over the fire again. Another skit is when one villager decides to cook a marshmallow over the fire.The humor is doubled when the skit happens near the fire. He laughs at his schadenfreude, then the pushed villager gets up, walks up to the prankster, and slugs him in the jaw with an uppercut, then calls him out on it. While the other villager jumps to look to see what's behind him, the prankster pulls a smug grin on his face, and pushes the villager onto the ground. One skit in the Tribal Stage is one villager tells another that there's something behind him.If it's a smiley face you can grab it and rub the creature to cuddle, and if it's a flower you can tap it to initiate an actual waltz. Waltz up to a new species and providing it doesn't bite your head off you can hit a "call" icon to issue a friendly greeting, and a little icon with float above its head. It's not all violence, body harvests and surgery, though - there's also cuddling and dancing when you make friends.

Once dispatched, enemies often drop extra body parts for you to sew onto your warped but merry-looking charge. An early example replenishes your health. It's not long before you start getting into scraps, and combat turns out to be a mixture of basic attacks - performed by making slashing motions with the stylus - and special abilities linked to your choice of body parts. A map on the top-screen points out items of interest and mission objectives, while the ever-ready Sporepedia tops up your knowledge and alerts you to incomplete objectives. Getting around is easy thanks to stylus controls, although if you prefer buttons you can fall back on those for a mixture. Out in the world, you're exploring simple, slightly stylised 3D islands with plain textures and geometry, but your little creature, his friends and some of the foliage are 2D sprites that rotate sweetly depending on the position of the third-person camera. The creature tool goes to a surprising level of depth. Give it a couple of mouths, for instances, and its attack stats will go up. The choices you make here also have an impact on things like your creature's metabolism and combat proficiency.
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The creature customisation tool is obviously more limited than its PC uncle, Spore Creature Creator, but developer Foundation 9 still crams a lot into the interface: you can pick from a range of options for each body part, drag them around with the stylus and use slider bars to adjust size and orientation.
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Evolution, in this case, comes down to experience points, which upgrade your hit-points and magic (bio-power) energy, and allow you to graft more and more parts onto your body. You'll do this by making friends with other animals, duffing up bullies and accumulating body parts to customise your rapidly evolving creature character. This tutorial phase quickly establishes the basics: you're hunting down an evil spaceship that's kidnapped your friend. In a manner that will be familiar to oodles of gamers old and new, you start off with a tiny, rubbish little hero with no idea which way to turn, give it a name (unless you like the default "Oogie"), and then stroll off on a mission dictated to you by on-screen prompts.

So it's a bit of a surprise to discover Spore on the DS is secretly an action-adventure. The obvious reaction to Spore Creatures is that it can't hope to rival its big brother - daddy, perhaps - for depth and scope, and that EA's decision to launch it alongside the PC version on 5th September suggests it's a spin-off for a different market.
