Nintendo of Japan has refreshed the DSi Ware available to Japanese DSi owners.That of course means we've downloaded the bulk of them to let you know what might be instore for when Australia gets the DSi offically. Text and Video impressions of all the new Art Style games, the DSi Version of Panel de Pon and the Clock application and also the Solitaire bundle. More inside.

Chotto Panel de Pon

It’s Panel de Pon, the old favorite which hasn’t changed much since it first came out. The new DSi Ware version offers you the ability to play in either vertical or horizontal mode. There are also various ways to change the game, such as changing the background music. The title also comes with several modes, to give players variety. There is the old famous endless mode, a couple of other clearance modes and a puzzle mode. Apart from that there is not much to report at this point.

Art Style PiCOPiCT

Now apart from the Made in Wario game, this is the first DSi Ware game that I can clearly say that I’ve thoroughly enjoyed. It is a sort of a mix between Picross and Tetris. PiCOPiCT has you putting in Cubes from a bank at the bottom of the screen to make up shapes above. As you go along clearing blocks it eventually makes a sprite from a classic Nintendo game above, also while you progress in building the sprite a song from the game is also “put together”. Progressing from beeps, to the full tune.

Art Style Somnium

While not as cool as PiCOPiCT, Somnium does have its charm – it’s a simple swap colour puzzle, there is a play field of orbs and you must slide the background tiles either left or right, up and down so none of the other colours are under an orb. To see it in action, see below.

Solitaire DSi

DSi Ware Clock

Also released is the Chotto Suujin Taisen puzzle game that is very Japanese. So much so I have no idea what’s going on and doubt most westerners will also. This game will probably not be released outside of Japan. A Clubhouse Compilation with 3 card games and an application to use the Japanese public transport system were also released.