I'm a huge fan of Nintendo's handhelds and love how StreetPass can combine the real world with the virtual one in a fun way, so I decided to buy the two new games without even looking for reviews. Turns out, I wasn't let down!
Ultimate Angler is a pretty basic game where you collect bait types based on StreetPass Mii's shirt colors. Certain fish like certain bait, and you have to try to collect all the fish from different fishing holes. When you hook a fish there is a simple but fun mini game where you have to reel them in without breaking your line, but that's pretty much the whole thing. Two things that I really like about it though is that it uses real life fish (unlike the disappointingly fake flowers in Flower Town) and there even seems to be a bit of a story involving a girl and her crazy scientist father who was ridiculed for his ideas of giant monster fish until it turned out they were real.
In Battleground Z you are just some rando on a subway who finds a phone left by a medical woman who can probably cure the disease. It's up to you to go to different spots in the city and fight off the zombies using "weapons" based on StreetPass Mii's favorite hobbies. This one has a level map set up kind of like Mii Force, but each level is like an arena, and the game play is more of a hack n slash/beat em up. Each weapon has a basic combo, and a limited number of charge attacks that do something special. If you get hurt by zombies too much, you lose your weapon (similar to losing a pod in Mii Force) and running out of weapons means you lose the level. Each level seems to have objectives (like protecting a civilian, guarding a door, or timed things like finding 4 new tires in 3 minutes) and failing these will cause you to lose the level also. If you lose you get an extra chance (probably three extra chances but I haven't needed that many yet.)
There was also a paid update available for the plaza, so I grabbed that too. It just added a Mii VIP room so you can basically set up a "favorites" gallery for Mii's you've collected. I think that was the only real part of the paid update. I wouldn't say it was actually worth the 5 bucks, but I like StreetPass enough to want to have all the stuff.
