#digidrive

Never played an Art Style game? That’s a shame, but I don’t blame you. They were largely ignored due to their status as “DSiWare,” a service that felt years behind the times when it debuted and seems practically prehistoric now. (Anyone griping about the eShop doesn’t realize how good we have it.) DSiWare became a magnet for the stinkiest of shovelware, so I think many just dismissed the whole library completely.

But that would be a mistake! The Art Style games were so wonderful, and more importantly, inventive. Anyone can make a match-3 clone; Making a truly original puzzle game is considerably tougher. And Skip (with some help from Q-Games) managed to do it a dozen times. There's the beloved pixel-dropper PiCTOBiTS (above), which as a nice bonus features some of the best Nintendo music remixes ever. BOXLIFE managed to redeem the maligned box industry after years of ridicule. And I’m not even going to try to describe DIGIDRIVE, but trust me when I say that it’s magical. I swear, it will just click eventually!