Nintendo game Hall of Shame (Wii)

[jalsonmi]

Wii Play: As others said. Every minigame is dull and shallow (yes, mini games don't have to be shallow) and with weird ways to play. Ping Pong is just rallying for a long time? The only thing you can do is move the remote into place? Blech.

Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles: My Life as a King: I wanted to like it, I really did. I love RPGs, I LOVE Sim City games, I thought it would be a perfect fit. But in the end, once you've built all there is to build, what's the damn point? You wait for them to level up? This is exciting? I eventually got to a point where I didn't need any elementite or gold and the game was solely about issuing behests. I'd issue them, visit the two bulletin boards, send out the adventurers and go to sleep. Day after day after day.

And the in city pathfinding is atrocious. I tried grouping the shops together, but of course the plots of land are only so big. So I instead built the shops slowly getting closer to the gates of the city, so the adventurers could go to them on their way out. Instead, they randomly go from one shop to the next in no order whatsoever--often bypassing the shops right next to the one they left for one farther away, then going back to the close shops that they bypassed. They don't leave the city until late in the day and often have to "come back early." And if I want to talk to them to boost morale, I have to wait until they're done shopping and ready to leave--but when will that be? It impossible to tell because of the random and poorly reasoned order in which they go through the shops. I want to boost the troops's stats with a morale boost to fight the Dark Lord, but who knows if I'll run into them in time. It's just dumb.

In the end, I liked the idea of building a Final Fantasy style town complete with all the type of shops you see when you enter a town in one of those games--it's a neat idea--but the game simply did not seam put together well enough--a tacked on half assed game. It's the closest I've come to playing shovelware on the Wii. And no, I don't think downloading extra stuff would have done much to offset these problems.