Metroid releases on Friday...and no one has started the Metroid Countdown yet?

I can see this game averaging 8.5+, a coup for a point and click adventure game.

 ouch...that stings to the core.  

hmmm ... Might to pick this up. Price is right, but I already have a big backlog.

OK, I give. I was wrong. If GameSpot gives a Nintendo game an 8.5 and IGN says it is amazing, it must be good. All of you are right. I will still not buy the game as I have serious problems with the cover, name, characters, and graphics (the only cell shade game I like is Zelda). However, I will rent the game and even play it as a 2 player game. I hope it does well as I would like a more mature version of this game.

If your decision was affected by the cover and the name... =

 I have never found a more correct time to say 'never judge a book by its cover', in fact to top this I would probably have to go to a book forum =P

Will pick this up pronto ^^

only two more months......

 originally i liked the name zack and wiki, but that was before i knew it's a puzzle game.  i also think i'd rather have the characters to be less like zack and wiki, the title not containing words like "treasure island".  "mature" probably isn't the right word but by and large i agree with your points, except for graphics, which i don't care about, especially in a puzzle game.

Dear everybody saying this is the first real big third party game for the Wii,

Red Steel.
Raving Rabbids.

Neither were ports. They were both built from the ground up for the Wii remote. They both broke a million in sales.

So what if they both had some wonky control issues? They both did well enough to get sequels, and one's coming out soon. Maybe Zak & Wiki will do better critically, but that does not discount those 2 games. That is all I have to say.