Okay, so the Wii showed up yesterday – a few days earlier than originally anticipated. After it was booted up and proved to be working properly we then started playing the mini WiiSports games that came with it. Five hours of bowling, baseball and boxing later – we decided to head over to EBGames and pick up the WiiPlay game pack. It comes with like 10 mini-games for $50 but there was also an extra controller in the box as well. The Wii only comes with one standard controller by default.
On our way home we stopped off at Blockbuster because Sean had a Free Game Rental that he’d printed out before we left. And something I kept seeing all over EGM was Rayman Raving Rabbids and knowing full well that anyone else I’ve spoken to knew nothing about it, even though they seem to be DS game collectors, I picked it up instead of MarioKart 8. Knowing that he’s got another one coming in on Monday, we can always pick up MarioKart later.
Rayman is a series of mini-games that all have to be unlocked as you go along, which is typically like any Nintendo based game when you think about it. Then again, I’m basing this on Brain Age, Super Mario Brothers and Sonic Rush. But even the mini-games that came with WiiPlay had to be unlocked as well.¬† You start off with like four or five of the games, a few of which confused the hell out of us until we read further into them. Ammo for the entire game isn’t a gun, it’s plungers. And based on the amount of plungers one goes through in a single game, you wonder if this were real life, how many Home Depots would have to be called in to sponsor? heh.
The first one you land on is dance related. Knowing full well that my back was starting to crap out on me thanks to 9 straight rounds of boxing earlier, I decided to sit this one out. The key of the game is as the rabbits touch the little bases you have to shoot them off with either the Wiimote or the Nunchuk. You’re basically dancing along to the music and after a little while it just got boring so we left that stage and wound up in one named “How far can Bessie fly” or something like that. There’s a cow on a leash that you have to fling around and then throw her as far as you possibly can. You’re supposed to hit like 60 but Sean tried his hardest and couldn’t even get out of the ring. I managed to do it (fucking up my rotater cup in the process) but she flew about 200 something. I guess this would be great information to know about myself if I ever actually wanted to chuck a cow 200 yards?
The game itself is a little strange and quite morbid to some degree but at least you aren’t shooting guns, you’re just shooting off plungers. To me it kind of seems like those NERF suction arrows that kids still play with. Unless you have the stamina to go crazy with a tiny little controller, I’m not sure I’d recommend the game. There are sections of the game that are completely stupid and worth the laugh and play time. It’s just hard when you’re so used to single controllers to get around to using two of them.
I love my DS, for the most part it reminds me of my original Nintendo controller way back in the day. I like simple controllers which is why I have so much trouble with the XBox360 controllers. Sean tried to teach me how to play Halo, there’s too many extra buttons that you have to control just to fire at someone so that’s truly just a waste for me in the long run.
Either way I enjoyed myself and knowing I don’t have any work to get done today I figure I’ll wait until my back unlocks and then maybe play some duck hunt or something for a while. I’m in a lot of pain today because of all the moving around yesterday. It’s not that I’m not used to the activity so take that theory and shove it up your ass. It’s the fact that I’m not typically twisting my arms around as fast as humanly possible just to throw a cow and I sure as hell don’t bowl for 6 hours at a time either. Hopefully my arms will get used to it though.
I just signed up for a Nintendo.com account so I can get my games and consoles registered. Supposedly when you register a game it unlocks something but I think that would only work out on the Wii, so I’m going to punch my numbers in and see what happens.
Off to get something to eat, I’ve been hungry since I went to bed but figured I’d just eat after I woke up.