That extremely successful marketing phenomenon known as Mary-Kate and Ashley has released a dance game for the GBA, Girl's Night Out. Dance mode is the main activity, where players basically match keys on the control pad to falling symbols of the controls, similar to Tetris or Dr. Mario, except there's no flipping the falling symbols. During the Dance activity, Mary-Kate or Ashley will be dancing on the left side of the screen. Girls can choose different music tracks to play in order in Mix mode, then watch either Mary-Kate or Ashley in a dance video set to their music mix. Jam mode allows players to add special musical effects to different music tracks such as scratching, Mary Kate and/or Ashley's voiced comments, musical sounds and other effects. These jams can then be listened to, or even played against in Dance mode (the sound effects are chosen by selecting correlating control buttons, which will become the pattern of falling symbols in Dance mode). Clothing outfits can be selected in the Closet, with new clothing items being unlocked by playing the Dance activity.

The dancing did look great, but in my opinion, dancing games just aren't a good match for handhelds. The best ones are the ones that have the kids dancing along with the characters, and that just isn't feasible with a handheld. Dancing as a spectator sport gets boring after awhile.

Gameplay: 5.8
There isn't much to do, and what there is gets boring fast.

Graphics: 9
Wow! The dancing looks incredible, the designers did an exceptional job.

Sound:  7.5
The music is nice, with lots of variety in the tunes.

Difficulty: 7
The difficulty levels are varied enough so that young children and older kids can all play with some challenge.

Concept: 7.5 
While there are other dancing games out there, there aren't too many on handhelds, as far as I know. The question is, should there be dancing games on handhelds.

Overall: 6.5
I believe that the programmers and designers put their all into this game, and it shows. The dance moves on the GBA have to be seen to be believed. That doesn't change the fact that the gameplay is somewhat lacking, more because of the limitations of the medium, than the game itself. Maybe having a choreographing activity would have helped, but probably not much. The arcade activity could have been improved on by linking directly to dance moves on the screen, such as having Mary Kate/Ashley dance certain movements according to how well you hit the correct buttons during gameplay. But in my opinion, dance games are more fun on bigger screens, and your kids will especially enjoy games such as Dance Dance Revolution, where they can actually dance to the game.