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Charlotte's Web for Nintendo DS
Charlotte's Web for Nintendo DS is a platform adventure about Wilbur, the piglet trying to escape his fate with help from Charlotte the spider. You explore the farm, countryside, a junkyard and the fair. Wilbur and Templeton the rat receive all sorts of jobs from the animals living there. You jump over obstacles, look for objects and help your friends. The film's story becomes a route through barns, outdoor areas and attractions, always with something to collect or solve.
Collect letters for Charlotte's messages and check which passage suits your character. Between levels, you unlock short fairground games such as ring toss and bumper cars. The touch screen plays a part too: for example, you pull a ring back before launching it. In Pig Pampering, you care for Wilbur using the stylus. The game provides three slots for saving your progress on the cartridge, allowing different players to keep their own adventure.
You play the main story alone. Some separate minigames support local wireless contests for two to four players. Everyone needs their own compatible Nintendo DS system and their own Charlotte's Web cartridge: this is Multi-Card Play, not Download Play using one copy. Additional systems and cartridges are not included. The variety of searching, jumping, caring and short contests gives the different animals a role of their own.
Region and language
Our Nintendo DS games are European editions, unless stated otherwise. This product contains a loose cartridge for the European market. A box is only included if explicitly stated in the product details. We note any different region in the product details. In almost all cases, the game is playable at least in English, and often in the other five common European languages too.
Manual
With Charlotte's Web for Nintendo DS, you receive a loose cartridge. A box and manual are not included unless we explicitly state otherwise in the product details. This is the standard way we supply this copy.
The history of Charlotte's Web
Sega announced Charlotte's Web in May 2006 as a game accompanying the then-upcoming film. Backbone Entertainment developed the Nintendo DS and Game Boy Advance adaptations. The story goes back to E.B. White's book about the friendship between a pig and a spider. The game followed in 2006, using the film as a recognisable starting point, with the same farm residents and the attempt to save Wilbur by drawing attention to his special qualities.
The Nintendo DS adaptation received extra touch-screen activities and wireless minigames. Backbone therefore used the handheld in two ways. The adventure retained levels with animals, tasks and collectibles, while the short games allowed different actions. Launching a ring or caring for Wilbur requires a different gesture from jumping between platforms. That combination fits a story where helping and caring are just as important as moving forward.
Dominic Scott Kay, who played Wilbur in the film, also voiced the piglet for the DS release. The game additionally includes a Storybook section with unlockable film stills and story text. The film's world could therefore appear outside the main adventure too. Charlotte's Web belongs to the early wave of DS film games that added stylus controls to a traditional handheld adventure. Its separate minigames clearly distinguish between the story you follow alone and contests requiring each participant to have their own game equipment.
Similar games for Nintendo DS
Madagascar on Nintendo DS likewise has you guide familiar film animals through platform levels. You switch between four animal friends to use their abilities at obstacles, whereas Charlotte's Web weaves in more jobs involving the farm and Wilbur's rescue. Both interrupt the adventure with short minigames. Madagascar places greater emphasis on the animals' physical differences; Charlotte's Web alternates searching and jumping with fairground games and stylus-based care.
New Super Mario Bros. for Nintendo DS also offers side-scrolling levels full of jumps, hidden objects and short detours into touch-screen minigames. Mario's adventure focuses more strongly on moving obstacles, enemies and making use of temporary powers. Charlotte's Web ties its platform routes to jobs for farm animals and objects connected to the story. Anyone mainly wanting to practise precise sequences of jumps will find more of those with Mario; Wilbur also leaves room for collecting and helping.
Drawn to Life on Nintendo DS combines a side-scrolling adventure with stylus use and meetings with villagers. That matches the alternation between platforming and calmer activities in Charlotte's Web. The major difference is what you draw: in Drawn to Life, you design your own hero, equipment and parts of the world. With Wilbur, the characters and environments are fixed, and you use the stylus to perform specific tasks such as caring or ring toss.
Kirby: Mouse Attack for Nintendo DS shares the search for hidden objects and clear side-scrolling platform routes. Kirby can inhale enemies, copy their powers and use them to reach new parts of a level. Charlotte's Web draws its variety more from tasks and minigames. Kirby therefore more often asks which ability opens a passage, whereas with Wilbur you also work out which animal needs help and which objects are missing for that task.
Yoshi's Island DS likewise has you travel with animals through side-scrolling landscapes and rewards thoroughly searching its levels. The baby riding on Yoshi's back changes his abilities, so you deliberately switch between skills. Charlotte's Web uses its characters within the story about Wilbur and the farm. Yoshi focuses more on aiming eggs, hazardous jumps and collectible routes; Wilbur alternates that platform structure with tasks, caring and fairground activities on the touch screen.
