while the gameplay certainly left people divided. I think the games relative failure wasn't so much the concept as it was the execution; primarily music selection and quality and a lack of game options.

Games like Guitar Hero based much of their success on having songs people wanted to play, where Wii Music's public domain and franchise music was hardly exciting to anyone outside of the Nintendo core. It also didn't help that it was all Midi. No matter how good you made a song, it could never quite qualify as "beautiful music"

Also, a lot of people were expecting the ability to make music, not just offer your own spin on existing songs. A music creator would have brought in so many more created minded people than the limited and mostly uninteresting songs provided.

And finally, the lack of online. For a game all about collaborating to make music, it was quite bizarre that you couldn't actually get together with people who weren't sitting on the couch right beside you.

Just imagine if the game had online, a great selection of songs, Downloadable content, non midi and even a song creator.

Instead of talking about why the game failed, we'd have the "official VG chartz band thread" in which people from all over the world get together online to rock out to newly available songs or even to make their own. And with a sound quality good enough to actually want people to listen.

I really hope that they eventually make another one (with either M+ or the next Wii) and give it the muscle and attention to detail that a concept like that needs to succeed.

Give us the Brawl soundtrack to screw around with.

BAM!

Sequel.

That joke almost seemed serious in combination with your avatar.

I'm not bing sarcastic. I have been vocal in past conversations concerning my affections for this title.

Okay, but how does it define this generation. Wii Fit and Wii Sports maybe, but Wii Music? Please explain.

One of the defining games in that it embodies the reactions of the public to many of the ideas exemplified in the Wii - indeed, it exemplifies them perhaps more strongly than the more iconic games do. It breaks all the conventions of games - even Fit and Sport give you scores to grade your performance. Wii Music was a throwing aside of what we tend to think of in video games, a game in the purer sense, a game one played solely to have fun and make music. It was beautiful for that.

Hopefully next time they'll have the formula just right, i think Wii Music was a good game, it was just a little too shallow for me.

I can attest to the musician comments, I really enjoyed the game but the half of me that is also a "core" gamer saw where the issues happened, its really a HUGE difference between the artistic and imaginative types and the gamer types that need a direction weather it be a high score ala Guitar Hero or a story to play through while still being a very open do what you want type game ala Saints Row.

Yes you COULD make "music" by randomly pressing buttons, much like a three year old makes "music" with a spoon and hitting on pots and pans. The big issue is reviewers are generally not the first type of person I described, in fact most people aren't for a "casual"/mass market product it was limited to generally those types and the people interested in the arts as the game would try to hold your hand and teach some music fundamentals.

So in the end the "gamer" market will completely reject this game no matter what you tell them, its garbage, and from their perspective they're right and they have just about all other "gamers" on their side. All I'll personally say was this game was a bit too soon and not open enough to those that want/need the objective based gameplay or some guidance beyond "here's how you do it now make music".

thats a bannable offense, you know?