It's full of fail and lose. http://www.g4tv.com/xplay/reviews/14...ret_Rings.htmlQuote:
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It's full of fail and lose. http://www.g4tv.com/xplay/reviews/14...ret_Rings.htmlQuote:
Originally Posted by frogbeastegg
That's a tough call- it would probably depend on the person. Personally, I like Elebits- but otoh, I haven't played it for awhile now either since there are so many other Wii games that I want to play more. Whipping things around and generally trashing a room while searching for Elebits can definitely get pretty fun. But, others say it's tedious and more like work than fun. :shrug:Quote:
Originally Posted by frogbeastegg
I think Sonic looks pretty good. But, I bought the Godfather instead- I wanted to play something a little grittier on my Wii for a change. I think the Wii version is pretty well recognized as the best of the current crop of Sonic games. Here's a listing of review scores for it. You also might want to read their own Full Review. The main gripe I keep hearing about the game is the jump controls.Quote:
How about Sonic? I've seen a few people calling it the only good 3D Sonic. Also, can you turn off the music without muting the rest of the audio? Bad metal isn't my thing at all.
I want something to fill the gaping void left by the lack of a PAL Super Paper Mario release. I haven't picked up anything for my Wii since early January, excepting a couple of virtual console titles.
I have:
Wii:
Zelda (Nice, but the controls feel so tacked on)
Red Steel (Nice, but somehow loses my interest after a bit, despite being the most enjoyable console FPS I've played since Perfect Dark)
Rayman (tiring. Very tiring. And I'm a fit frog.)
Monkey Ball (fiddly)
Wii Play (basically a tech demo)
Wii Sports (I'm very bored of it now)
Virtual console:
Zelda: TooT (Already finished it several times)
Mystical Ninja (loved the N64 games in this series)
Story of Thor (decided to pick it up this morning)
Mario 64 (played it a lot back in the day)
Gunstar Heroes (don't like it much)
I own a copy of the PSP edition of the Sega Megadrive Collection, which wipes most of the megadrive virtual console games off the list because I can't see the point in paying £6 for a duplicate of any of the games. Ditto the SNES games which have GBA versions, like Link to the Past.
Think I shall pass on Sonic for now. The problem with being the best of the current crop is that the rest of the crop is completely awful. The music is a drawback for me, as are control issues. Maybe when it's half price I'll rent it and see what it's like. That will take a few months.
Elebits doesn't sound like a £40 game. If I can get it for £20 I think I'll like it. So no Elebits for a few months.
Prince of Persia was some hope for me. The conversion isn't great, the controls are dodgy, and nothing is added, so it's pointless for me; I already own (and have played a lot of) the xbox version.
Godfather ... I don't know. I'm not interested in the mafia, crime and all that. Not sure whether it would be something I could enjoy. The idea of missions and all I could like ... but not the slamming people's heads into walls and threatening innocents. Is there still a chance I may like it?
:sigh: Looks like Story of Thor is all I've got. It had best be good; my Wii is gathering a layer of dust which defies my spring cleaning. Unless anyone can think of anything? I just want something fun, something I can sink my teeth into a little, and maybe something I can play with my boyfriend.
Which reminds me - he would like to know if there are any decent golf games on the Wii. Something with controls as good as those in the Wii Sports golf game, but with more holes and variety.
EDIT: Chucking out another name here: kororinpa. Rolling a ball about a maze. Sounds a fair bit like the first monkey ball, back when the idea was pure and unsullied by annoyances like boss battles. Anyone?
I think that's probably my plan too. It looks decent enough, but I think I'll wait for a price drop.Quote:
Originally Posted by frogbeastegg
That's probably a fair assessment.Quote:
Elebits doesn't sound like a £40 game. If I can get it for £20 I think I'll like it. So no Elebits for a few months.
Just the fact that it was retreading old content was a big turn-off for me. A definite pass.Quote:
Prince of Persia was some hope for me. The conversion isn't great, the controls are dodgy, and nothing is added, so it's pointless for me; I already own (and have played a lot of) the xbox version.
Well, your main source of income in the game is extortion money that you get from shop keepers. It's definitely a high-violence, guilty pleasure sort of thing. If you liked the GTA series, you might like this. Personally, I don't think it's quite as shallow as GTA though...Quote:
Godfather ... I don't know. I'm not interested in the mafia, crime and all that. Not sure whether it would be something I could enjoy. The idea of missions and all I could like ... but not the slamming people's heads into walls and threatening innocents. Is there still a chance I may like it?
For golf, all I know of is Tiger Woods Golf for the Wii- that and Super Swing Golf. The only game I have that we haven't already covered or you don't own already is Excite Truck. I think it's definitely a great game and the ability to add your own mp3s via SD card is also a nice touch. It has impressive graphics and gameplay that I'd liken to Waveracer- you try to get through the course while pulling off as many stunts as possible. I thought the Wiimote as a steering wheel works great too. But, if you can't stand the genre, you may not like it regardless of how good it is.
It's quite good actually, but someone should shoot the guys that made the soundtrack.Quote:
Originally Posted by frogbeastegg
About the Wii, the offerings so far sure aren't that good, do you guys think that the shortage of Wii's is clever marketing from nintendo? It keeps the hype alive despite major suckage, I predict a lot of Wii's will be in stock once Maria Galaxy and Metroid hit the stores. So far the Wii is a dissapointment, pressing a button made complicated. Red Steel was good imho and Wario is pure brilliance, the rest is kinda meh.
I expect the Wii will see something similar to the DS: shockingly strong sales by something dismissed as a silly gimmick, a scramble by publishers to get onboard, dire games with half thought out control systems, and then slowly an increasing trickle of good games as developers find their stride. The DS seemed to hit its stride about the time the Lite version appeared.
I am disappointed with the virtual console. Definitely. I expected more games, and better games. I hoped for demos. I expected to be seeing games which didn't get a release here, such as Mario RPG, but now Nintendo say games will only come out in the regions they were originally sold in. Meaning Europe misses out yet again on some very fine titles.
I'm also disappointed with the backwards compatibility. Gamecube games aren't being made now. They haven't been made in a long time. So they are very hard to find, and invariably used, also expensive. Where's the point in having this feature if only gamers with an old Cube and collection can use it? Ditto the GBA and DS - could I find a copy of Zelda: Minish Cap when I looked? Could I heck. Most shops only had a single shelf of battered pre-owned GBA games. Several had none at all. I had planned to use the BC to fill some gaps in my Cube library; I ended up having to import the US editions for my old US Cube.
I don't like the release schedule either. Nintendo have revived the big lag times between US and PAL releases which they had nearly done away with in the later days of the Cube and with the DS. Where's our Super Paper Mario release date!?
Still, there is one thing I cannot deny. There's no other console which can provide an experience to match playing (and winning! Go me! ;p) Wii Sports tennis against my boyfriend
No Godfather for me, then. I wouldn't like it.
Excite Truck is one I keep hearing about as a good, fun game. Alas, I don't like racing games much ~:(
I'll look into the golf games, see if there are any I'll allow him to play.
I'm increasingly tempted by Koroinpa, but at £39.99 it's overpriced. However choicesUK.com have it for £27.99 ... which is still a bit more than I'd like to pay :cheap frog:
Hmmm, gamecube titles galore for sale here, just about each and every one of them for a very modest price. The same is true for the GBA. And unlike the xbox360 (and ps3 so I have heard) backward compatibilty gamecube titles with framerate issues actually seem to run better on the Wii, it doesn't get any better imvho. Still madly in love with my wii, it's still so exclusive, I feel like the lucky few, the knights that play wii :yes:
I got Kororinpa. It's good, better than Moneky Ball. Once you get to the third world it gets quite tricky, it takes a fair bit of skill and a steady hand to progress. Narrow pathways with uneven surfaces, more gems to collect, moving platforms, lasers which burn your marble, and the need to repeatedly rotate the level through 90 degrees ...
It's quite relaxing to play. You can fall off the level with no penalty, and there's no time limit. Larger levels have continue points at various intervals. The downside to this is that the game goes by very quickly; I did 25 ordinary levels and 4 secret ones in an hour and a half, then my boyfriend had a go and did a further 15 levels. We do need to go back and collect the green gems on apporximately half those levels, and then there's some more secrets left to unlock, so there's still some left.
Being a Japanese game it does have a touch of weirdness. Aside from levels made up of biscuits floating in the sky, the balls you guide through the levels range from marbles to bloated mewling cats and flatulent pandas.
Sounds like the old "Marble Madness" for the original NES.... with better controls, obviously. :beam:
Yes, there's some similarity.
The controls are highly impressive. This is the first game I've seen which makes use of the Wiimote's ability to sense 360 degree rotations; it also makes great use of the sensitivity, with very fine motions being possible and even necessary in certain situations. There has not been a single instance of dodgy or awkward control, something which I can't honestly say about any of my other Wii games.
There's one thing which I feel is very apparant when playing Kororinpa: the developers get it. It's a Wii game which has been designed around the console, taking advantage of what it offers to do something different. It's not yet another port with dodgy controls taped on, shoved out to take advantage of the Wii's unexpected popularity. It's been tested, it's been polished, and it is all about the most important aspect of any game: fun
Best of all, the game has a frog ball. How could I not like it? :gring:
Sounds good. That Dewie game looks interesting as well, also appears to make good use of the Wii's graphical power,
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