Fuzzy's Media Consumption

It was a fun little experiment, but I've folded the content from Fuzzy's Media Consumption back into the main FuzzyCo blog and new updates will appear there, mixed in with regular posts.

Rayman Raving Rabbids is an engaging series of mini-games that utilize the innovative Wii controls in a variety of ways. The design and style of the game is delightful, with the grotesque "Rabbids" filling all sorts of roles, along with pigs, cows, and sheep. There's a slight, but reasonably satisfying framing device that ties all the mini-games together, and it ends with one of the most unsatisfying and frustrating FMVs I've ever experienced in a video game. It's all "our princess is in another castle" with no "just kidding". Seriously, after Erica and I had had a great time playing through the entire game (the story mode is single player, but we'd switch off playing the games and cheering each other on) and having a great time, I wanted to throw a controller out in the window in frustration at that ending. Jerks.

FuzzyCo grade: A- (and the minus is solely from the ending.)

Wii Play has just 9 mini-games and it's a good thing that it comes with a free Wiimote, because you'd be really mad if you'd spent $50 and only got this wafer-thin hint of a game. As it is, you're really getting the second Wiimote you need anyway and getting the game for $10 -- which still might be a bit much. Though Erica did get lost in the Mii-matching/finding game (38 levels is her current record).

You're never going to buy Wii Sports, because it comes with every Wii. Bowling, Tennis, and Golf are pretty fun, but it might be nice if there was more to Baseball than pitching and hitting and I've never met anyone who could actually control Boxing -- everyone just flails around and whoever flails the most wins.