Comments on: It’s Not FOR You

By: Ethic

Ethic — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 17:27:30 +0000

I’m a pretty big fan of Boom Blox.

By: bonedead

bonedead — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 21:46:18 +0000

Mario Kart was the first game I ever picked out. It is still pretty much the only racing game I have wanted to play (any version perdy much). But Trackmania is pretty good too.

By: Capn John

Capn John — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 19:49:02 +0000

Zack & Wiki is a cute, point & click adventure with some devilishly clever puzzles that are definitely not for the kids, even if a couple of the puzzles have more than one way to solve them. Of course being a Wii game, performing actions in the game (when Zack interacts with items) makes extensive use of the Wiimote’s motion sensor. It does seem a little gimmicky sometimes, like when you hold the Wiimote vertically & press the 2-button to open an Umbrella, but it also adds a little bit to the gameplay that would be missing if you used a standard controller.

Mumamasa is a visually appealing game. On the easy setting (which my son plays it) it seems more a button masher than anything else, so if you want more of a challenge you need to play it on the regular/hard setting.

Then there’s Sky Crawlers which flips the controls around (if you want to play that way) and has you holding the Nunchuk in your right hand while using it as joystick/Flight Yoke, with the Wiimote in your left hand acting as a throttle.

I’ll admit that there’s not a lot of great games for the Wii, but they are out there.

By: Syncaine

Syncaine — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 17:33:16 +0000

Just finished New Super Mario for the Wii, and had a great time. Amazing that you can basically re-make a 20yr old game and still have it be so entertaining. I more or less get the same from Mario Cart Wii. Mario Strikers on the other hand… Nintendo hard.

By: mbp

mbp — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 09:52:44 +0000

I got plenty of opportunity to watch young relatives playing Mario Kart over Christmas. It was easily the most popular game – particularly the DS version.

There were effectively two different games being played – serious single player with kids spending hours working their way through all the tracks and casual multiplayer games which were great for a laugh but they never got beyond the first few tracks. Nintendo cater for this perfectly by allowing single cartridge multiplayer of just those first few tracks.

It seems to me that Nintendo managed to combine a great casual multiplayer (party game) with a serious single player game (at least in terms of time played). The one thing Mario Kart does not even try to offer is a serious multiplayer game.