Gaming to Go: N+ (p3)

And considering the game runs for twenty bucks on Amazon and most major retailers, why not pick it up? A single Benjamin twenty isn't hard to give up when you consider the staggering amount of levels and the infinite possibilities allowed by a level editor and online sharing of custom content. If you're still not sold on it all, there's also the original version of N floating around the internet, though it is very much lacking in the portability that the DS so clearly excels at.

Ready for the stats?

Sleep time: N+ doesn't pause when you close the lid, so be sure to hit the start button before you do.

Load time: About twenty-seven seconds to get into a single-player episode. The process would go just a touch quicker if you didn't have to slog through three screens of ever-entertaining company logos.

Play time: Gold pieces can extend the time beyond your ninja's ninety seconds of life, though getting through an episode — excluding the inevitable retries after dying — shouldn't take more than a few minutes.