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noname2200 on 07 May 2009
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Killergran said:

To illustrate what I mean by 'bad reviews', here are some nuggets from Gamerevolutions Wii Music review:

No matter what song or instrument you play, everyone’s always in tune and on tempo.
This is wrong. You are always in tune, but the real challange to music is often to coordinate your tempo with everyone else playing.
In Wii Music, there’s nothing to learn, nothing at stake, nothing to win. You’ll never sound better or worse than you do during your first minute of play.
If you practice, you can create music. If you don't, it's just noise. And that's the entire point of Wii Music.
Even five-year-olds need some stimulation and sense of achievement. Wii Music provides neither.
Again, if you practice, you'll get better. That's how music works. If you need highscores to give you a sense of achievment, you've been brainwashed by gaming too much.

And some from the Gamesradar review:

This brings us to the biggest, most disappointing way Wii Music resembles a toy more than a game: Its open-ended, rule-lacking simplicity. You literally can’t lose.
When I play my guitar I cannot loose either. But I could play earsplittingly bad, and in my opinion, that's worse.
A music game with such a strong auto-pilot that you don’t usually do much, and what you do doesn’t really matter or look or sound all that cool. It’s a fair party game - there’s a certain novelty charm to seeing a roomful of people gyrating and gesticulating along to the music.
  There's so much wrong with this quote I don't know where to start. Auto-pilot? What you do really doesn't matter? It's fun to watch people Waggle? I dare you to find another game that gives you the opportunity to create music with your friends in realtime.

These reviewers did not review Wii Music from what it is supposed to do, but from what they think a game is supposed to be. Just as the IGN review of Football Manager reviewed the game from what he thought a soccer game should be, and not for what it really was. That review was withdrawn, but the Wii Music reviews are considered fair?

 

I see Killergran's beaten me to the punch. All I can add is that I've played the game extensively and found it very enjoyable. I'm only sad that it hasn't sold more.