The more I hear about Wii Music, the more I want to throw up.
Rock Band = cool: You get to play drums.
Guitar Hero = cool: It has great tunes and the guitar is awesome.
Wii Music = crap: You use the Wii remote to simulate playing Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star on the flute?
Give me a break. Nintendo’s bragging about all the instruments you get to simulate. It can only be so fun using a Wii remote to play the cello, guitar, drums, etc. And what’s with the song list? Who really wants to play the Legend of Zelda theme over and over?
I watched some Nintendo rep yak on some G4 Tech show (probably EP or X-Play), and he was saying, “The great thing about Wii Music is there’s no score, you can’t get kicked off the stage and everyone plays together not against each other.” And that’s fun??
The whole thing reminds me of the kids’ sports league’s that are trying to eliminate scoring in games because they don’t want any children to have to suffer the pains of losing.
Nintendo stop pandering to the nursing homes and give gamers something that isn’t absolute rubbish.
As the game is, I basically agree with you. The one thing that would have saved it for me would be if you actually had a robust tool to compose your own music.
They already set so much of it up… for starters, you have access to over 50 instruments (way more than any other music game). Plus, they managed to make a decent music composer as a part of a game for the SNES called “Mario Paint”. Let me say that again… a game about painting for a system 15 years old had a music composer in it, but “Wii Music” doesn’t?
I love the Wii, but in this case, ball = dropped.
The Wii has so much potential. Some games are amazing and make perfect use of the Wiimote. But it seems Nintendo has spent too much time trying to make fad games.