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« on: November 21, 2006, 11:08:01 AM »
I'm totally loving my wii, seems like I'm constantly finding things that suprise me about, things I hadn't heard from anywhere else. Like you can turn the system on or off with one of the wiimotes and if turning the system off, it automatically turns all the controllers off. The controllers won't turn on if the system isn't on, and they seem to be pretty good with the batteries, though that'll remain to be seen. If someone wants to jump in a game, all they have to do is pick up a controller and the controller automatically turns. If a controller sits for a while unused it will turn off. If you have multiple controllers on, and you jump into a single player game (Zelda) the other controllers turn off. I'm sure there's more, but it honostly feels very high tech.
The remote does seem a bit heavy to me after playing for more than 15 minutes or so. I've found that to play longer I need to hold it in a certain way.
Most of the problems I've had with motion detection honestly feels like more of a software problem than a hardware problem, meaning that the next wave of games should feel better in that regard.
The games I picked up on launch day were Red Steel, Zelda, Rayman, Excite truck and of course Wii sports. Wii sports was suprisingly fun. I'm sure you've gathered that's it's a good game collection from the reviews. My friends seems to like bowling best, with boxing being a close second.
Raymen takes very good advantage of the wii controllers. It's probably my favorite game so far, my arms are very sore thanks to it, heh. The humor in the games is really great, you're constantly torturing those rabbids. The mini games seems to be made with endurance in mind as part of it, like with "Bunnies love carrot juice" after 1 minute, the bunnies really start coming at you, but you've been pumping for a minute, so your arm is starting to get tired. It gets frantic as you're strugling to keep your arm pumping and keep the bunnies off you. I really like how the physical aspect is incorporated into the games. All but one of my friends had a blast playing this. My biggest complaint against raymen is there aren't enough mini-games that let you play simoultaniously, usually it's not too painful to play turn-based though. The games are funny enough and quick enough. Other complaint is that you have to unluck games to play in multiplayer in singleplayer mode, which isn't a problem except that means you have to play single player before your can jump in with your friends. Me and my friends took turns in singleplayer mode, and this worked well enough.
Zelda is definetly good, though I don't really like having to flick my wrist to swing the sword. It just feels like work, probably becuase I need to swing twice to get a swing of the sword, the first time to draw the sword, the second time to actually swing it, and in a fight I tend to swing faster than the animation goes, so I don't always get a swing for every flick. Everything else works great.
I'm definetly sold on the potential for the wii, the first wave of games doesn't capture it exactly, there are kinks to work out and such, but they definetly show what's possible. I don't regret any of my purchases here, after playing it I'm pretty sure that this is definetly the way of the future. The possibilities are endless, I'm excited to see what type of game will behere a year from now.
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