Pinobee - Wings of Adventure - PC Games

While the game itself features a lot of inventive takes on the 2-D adventure genre, they are, at best, merely takes on what has come before. The diary is mostly useless, due to limp writing, which is probably itself the fault of poor translation from the original Japanese text. But Pinobee's cute and inoffensive nature makes it perfect for children. Also, Pinobee has the advantage of being one of the only non-sequel launch games for the Game Boy Advance; out of all the 2-D side scrollers you'll find at launch time--and there are quite a few of them--this is the only one you haven't played before. --Andrew S. Bub