Latest Depressions - Wii Music
This morning I tried out the latest “game” from Nintendo, Wii Music. I must say, I’m not impressed.
The “game” starts up with a breif tutorial on how to use 4 basic instrument styles then puts you on a piano and tells you it’s time to play twinkle twinkle little star, something I can play very well on the piano. How do you play? You get some bouncy balls on the right that keep the rhythm (a metronome) and you wave the Wiimote (or nunchuk or both, your choice) to the beat of the song. The catch? You can play it as fast or as slow as, and with as few or many notes as you want. Without a grading system you could essentially sit there and still win.
Filed under Games | Comment (0)One Sentence Reviews (Sep27/08)
I’ve been playing a crapload of games this week. Instead of doing a “Latest Obsessions” I’m just going to do some quick 1 sentence reviews.
Samba De Amigo (Wii) - Controls are kinda crappy but the game is still crazy fun and worth the pickup - 7/10 (Pick of the Week)
Wario Land: Shake It! (Wii) - Wario turned into Saberman, not a bad thing. - 9/10
De Blob (Wii) - Best 3rd party, full priced Wii game to hit the system. - 8/10
Sonic Chronicles The Dark Brotherhood (NDS) - The best Sonic game since Sonic 3 and Knuckles and it’s not developed by Sega, imagine that. - 8/10
Line Rider 2 Unbound (NDS) - Fun little puzzle minigame not worth the price tag. - 5/10
Megaman 9 (WiiWare) - I don’t remember ANY game being this hard, ever. - 8/10
Latest Obsessions - Viva Pinata: Pocket Paradise
I’ve been playing Viva Pinata: Pocket Paradise the newest Rareware game to be released on a Nintendo system over the past day or so. Featuring a totally over hauled and easier to use item and event system aswell as a much easier to navigate Pinata encyclopedia. The game has various different modes compared to its 360 counterpart and all of the pinatas you love are there too!
Did I like it? Did I hate it? find out after the break!
Filed under Games | Comments (2)9pm do you know where your kids are?
I’m sitting around with Kylie and Erika watching her play Mario RPG on the Wii VC
Hint for later: “me do so do ray la ti do”
Fantastic game every one should get it!
Lachlan started his new job tonight at 3pm it’s now 9:30 and he’s no where to be found if he’s not back by 11 I guess I better call.
Here’s here’s some photos!
Building a Better Snorlax
Those of you who follow me on Twitter know that I have been talking cryptically about building a Snorlax from Pokemon. Now before you get too curious know that it’s nothing fantastically whimsical but I have had some fun, it’s just a small art project I started last night out of boredom.
I started with 3 coloured sets of post it notes.
And this
Follow my progress after the break.
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Papercraft: Conker’s Chainsaw!
Saw this one around the net today and once again you know how much I love Papercraft AND Rare! So here’s the chainsaw Conker uses in Bad Fur Day!
Mumbo Jumbo Paper Craft!
Not sure who made this but as we all know we love Banjo-Kazooie so I couldn’t help but post it!
I think I’ve got my afternoon planned!
Click Here to Download the template
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Lastest obsessions - Chibi Robo
Chibi Robo is a game for the Nintendo Gamecube made by Bandai and Nintendo. It came out on 2006 and is still $45 to buy new. (despite the Wii being out)
Chibi Robo slipped under the radar and still lingers in the shadows of obscurity, so there’s a good chance you never heard of or know very little about it.
So what is it about, anyway?
The game starts of with a mother and father celebrating their daughter’s birthday. The daughter, who thinks she’s a frog, is delighted to recieve a Chibi Robo for her birthday. The mother makes a comment about them not being able to afford something so expensive and thus the plot is born.
As you play the game you see everyone’s lives and relationships deteriorate while you try an pick up the pieces.
While this is going on there is a parallel plot that’s down to your level, so to speak. After traveling to the basement you discover a giant robot that has been shut off. You learn that this robot, or Giga Robo, was around when the mother and father were first married but was too expensive to continue to run. You are also explained that Giga Robo met some aliens and wished that the toys in the house could come alive so that they could be his friends. (Up until this point you just assumed the toys could talk because you’ve seen crazier things in games.) You decide to recharge Giga Robo’s battery (out of your own pocket) and to find his missing leg.
On top of this, there tonnes of other sidequests and stories. You have to help out the toys, find Chibi Doors and collect stickers.
This is a platforming, action and puzzle game all rolled into one where one day you’re cleaning the floor and the next you’re fighting Spydorz. It’s a seemingly innocent title with a deeper stroryline that you shouldn’t let slip under your Chibi Radar.
With an amazing story, awsome gameplay, great graphics, and controls that are only mildly annoying, I have no choice but to give this game a solid 5 out of 5.
Go check this game out, you’ll love it .
Banjo-Kazooie mega face-off prizes!
Well guys it’s only 4 days away! Can you feel it! I already put this up on MarathonGamer but I figured I’d put it on here too.
Here’s a quick run down of some (not all) of the prizes that will be up for grabs for entrants to the face off:
- 2 pieces of Banjo-Kazooie artwork signed by the Banjo team at Rare.
- A copy of Banjo-Kazooie: Grunty’s Revenge on the GBA (not boxed sorry guys)
- A Marathon-Gamer shirt.
- And a few other surprises that we’re still working out the details on.
Members of Spiral Mountain will recieve:
1. The member of SM who clocks the fastest time (whether they win it overall or not) with 10,000 tokens.
2. The member of SM who clocks the second-fastest time will win 5,000 tokens.
3. Third-placed SM member will win themselves 1,000 tokens
So remember if you want to sign up do it soon and please spread the word that this is happening to everyone you think will find this interesting! Blogs, Podcasts, Corporate websites! Please help us make this event huge!
The Face-Off will begin on June 6th at 7:00pm MST.
To register or check out the rules, click here.
Please tell everyone you know that this event is happening and signup soon if you wish to enter!
Filed under General | Comment (0)Insert any game into the Wii Virtual Console
For anyone who caught the tail end of the Mario 64 marathon we did this weekend you will remember I talked about the fact that you know have the ability to inject any rom of your choosing into the Wii Virtual Console.
The process of this is pretty technical but overall quite easy if you have the right tools and are confident. I’ve experimented with this myself and have managed to get a few games that arn’t for download on the Wii VC playable from the Wii channels just like any other VC game.
Remember that not every game is compatible with the wii right now, the problem lays with the emulator used by the VC. The newest roms on will have the newest version of the emulator for each system. eg. Sin & Punishment will have the latest version of the N64 emulator.
Now I could write my own tutorial for this but it is very long and like I said very technical and why bother re-inventing the wheel if someone’s already done it so here’s some links you will find useful
Wiki of games that have already been tested
Some of the files listed in the tutorial may be a little legally ambiguous and as such I can’t provide them for you but the easiest way to get them is just google and torrent.
Goodluck with your hacking and please if you get a game running add it to the wiki! (I personally hacked in Banjo-Kazooie and when it didn’t work I found the wiki and realised I’d just wasted an hour, so please, it really helps.)
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