The Japanese pedigree of this game is immediately obvious from the moment the title video starts. The art and sound design have the characteristic wacky fun quality of a very Japanese game, such as katamari damacy.
You are a smiley faced domino with legs that walks around a track that changes every level. The first level is a Casino, the second level is a shopping center, I never made it to the later levels. Your character can be steered and his or her speed can be adjusted but it will never stop walking. beyond this you have only one other control input, that is to hold down a button (any button) and leave a trail of dominos in your wake. The objective is to set up a string of dominos that will hit the little check points around the track, on your next circut around the track you knock down your string of dominos and when they hit the check points they will set off events such as knocking over a house of cars, or a tower of playing dice, or sending a ball down a ramp. This game would be much more fun if it had embraced the continuous play, impossible to lose, complete the objectives in your own time, style that one would expect from this sort of nontraditional and off beat game. The timer that kills you if you do not complete all the objectives in time detracts heavily from the game play in my opinion.
Here is a video of some game play.
I give this game 3.5
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