Spore Creatures

Spore Creatures is the Nintendo DS spin-off of Spore, developed by Foundation 9, in which a player controls and evolves a creature of their creation.

Gameplay
The game focuses on the Creature stage of the larger game. Unlike the characters of Spore, the creatures in this game are completely 2D, but the environments remain 3D.

Spore Creatures is a more story-based game as the gamer plays as an Oogie. Another Oogie creature is kidnapped by a UFO piloted by an evil creature named Gar' skuther (a cyborg alien),and you are forced to survive in strange islands over the course of 5 planets. When the game is completed, the player can play the replay mode. The player's creature is created and modified in an editor, using points earned to give the creature different body parts and skills. The player is given 20 points at the start with which to build their initial creature.

The game focuses on survival, which includes finding food, with mini-games such as cuddling and dancing for friend-making. A large part of the game involves collecting items, allowing players to earn 60 badges based on game moments and actions. The players can also perform side quests and play mini-games to unlock skills and 280 hidden creature parts, which are given to the player by other friendly creatures. Some parts grant "Bio-Powers", such as an in-combat healing ability or flame-breath.

Combat consists of the player initiating the fight with another creature by selecting it to go into a one-on-one combat screen in which the creatures face off against each other.

Befriending is either cuddling with another creature or dancing with it. In the case of dancing, the player has to click the flowers when the blue flashes light over them.

Multiplayer
The game allows the player to save thirty different creations, including those from friends over a local, peer-to-peer connection. Players can have their creatures interact via the Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection; Spore Creatures is one of the few Nintendo DS or Wii games to allow a player to opt out of needing to input Friend Codes.

Trivia

 * Unlike in the PC spore, The type of body a player chooses determines the type of sound the creature makes, not the type of mouth.
 * This game is rather glitchy, with parts disappearing if there are many creatures around, especially if near a nest.
 * In Spore, there is a rare artifact called the "Tablet of The Tribes," which was written in Oogie blood.
 * Unlike it's PC counterpart, Spore Creatures utilizes a name censorship system, which means that creatures with any form of profanity in their name whatsoever will have asterisks in place. However, this system is highly flawed, and even creatures that have profanity in their name after the first letter or any name with it(for example, Bass,Spike and a type of creature named Whiplies) will be censored (in this case, B***,****e and ****lies), which means that players must choose carefully what to name their creatures. This has achieved a lot of controversy. However, it is possible to bypass the censorship system by changing the ingame language, but the Creature's name will be censored if you decide to change it after reverting to the original language.
 * There are hidden sporeling parts in the game( Arclart Sporeling Body, Prunebugs Sporeling Body, Skuzzalope Sporeling eye, ect.) and there is absolutly no way of getting them with playing the normal game.
 * When replay mode is unlocked, another planet becomes available, called Freezle. All your creations and other creations by other players you shared with over Wi-Fi connection(if any) will appear here. This is a good place to earn the Big Bully and Welcome Wagon badges.

Cheats
You get cheats after beating the game. You have the ability to change the terrain, as well as some others. They also have parts to unlock, including boss parts, making it fun to make creatures.

Beating The Boss
The boss is very strong, so make sure your creature is a full bio-power creature or you can just befriend him.