It gets worse folks.
SpongeBob SquarePants: Creature from the Krusty Krab - Oh you know what's coming up. You're gonna be frothing from bad jumping, the inane laughter will want to make you deaf (or in my case, more deaf than usual), and the garish colours make you feel your wasting the gift of sight you were given.
Well, it is.
Super Fruit Fall - One of the most frustrating puzzle games I ever played. And not in a good way, this game is just inane and stupid. Also, is it me, or do backgrounds that are obviously photographs really fucking irritating?
Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess - I'm not gonna get into an argument about Wii/Gamecube controls here so let's just say it's Zelda, it's the same quest with different places but everyone loves it for the damn good reason that the series is great.
Wing Island - it feels like a bad Pilotwings with only one way to play it. Goddammit, I miss being Birdman.
HA HA! Crappy game.
Super Paper Mario - Combining the old-skool Super Mario with the depth and colour of Paper Mario (hence the title), it's a wonderful game with a great sense of humour, smart puzzles (except that hamster wheel bit, that was just really awful) and actually perhaps the most darkest story in the Mario saga.
Alien Syndrome - A crappy sci-fi third-person shooter using a camera angle from Baldur's Gate. That's not a compliment, because at least in Baldur's Gate I can remember moving the damn thing around.
Hot Wheels: Beat That! - This is actually a cool racing game. Nice unlockables, decent simple controls and a few weapons like from Wipeout as well as optional challenges and good music. If you liked Micro Machines but kinda hated the top-view, then you'll love this.
Anubis II - Remember in my mini-review on Ninjabread Man of how it was entirely copied into another game? This is the other game. So because of this, I'm going to just copy and paste my review of Ninjabread Man entirely into this one.
Oh yes, the motherlode. Next to Bubsy 3D it's the worst platformer I ever played, so bad it got copied into another game exactly with just different graphics. Terrible speed handling, atrocious jumping, and the game didn't even respond to 20 wiimote waves to strike out. If Bubsy 3D handles like a tank, this handles like a jetski with a rocket. But in the very bad non-awesome way. I fucking hate games that are set in Ancient Egypt except for Tomb Raider, and this game makes me hate it even more. Fuck you, fake chibi Anubis.
See, I put in just as much effort as they did there. Changed a few words but it's all exactly the fucking same. It has EXACTLY the same fucking controls, the same music, even the very same fucking level layout of the bad jumping, the atrociously unresponsive attacking, and the spastic long-range attacks. I shit you not, the tutorial mission was laid out precisely the same, platforms and all except they changed the scenery.
Spiderman 3 - Not as good as the last two, kinda like the movie is not as good as the last two, you can't call it out for not being true to the movie anyway. The dialogue is funny enough, the controls are bland but responsive at least. Nothing much more to say here.
Also, I fucking hate that logo.
G1 Jockey Wii - This is the same case for me with the Rapala Tournament Fishing. Great if you love the sport and have enough patience to go through all its complex controls.
Cooking Mama: Cook Off - Here's a Ritalin-high game for ya! Cook with a shiny-eyed momma doing all kinds of things from stirring bowls to cracking eggs. Actually makes good use of the Wii controls, so worth renting anyway if you're into this.
Bust-a-Move - Bub and Bob the bubble-popping dragons return with their classic puzzle game, the wiimote being a fine control for this classic series.
Elebees - Konami's unique shoot-em-up puzzler of capturing electrical pikmin-like creatures to charge up power to rooms and electrical appliances, in order to power up your capture gun and progress to new areas. Certainly original and kinda addictive too.
Mario Strikers Charged - Another Mario sports game, and whaddaya know, it's actually real good. The controls are simple to get used to, the characters are fun and variable with enough madness on the pitch to get you into it. Certainly way better than FIFA 08.
Counter Force - Slowest shoot-em-up ever. You're a giant robot destroying monsters at the speed of 10 knots, and you dodge just as fast as a Millennium Falcon (moving lazily to the left? Wow you know some maneuvers!), so it's really a time limit on when you'll eventually die. Also, worst voices in a game since Zero Wing.
"Prepear fore Bartle."
Mercury Meltdown Revolution - A strange puzzle game like Kororinpa but with more obstacles, you control this blob of mercury to navigate through mazes filled with hazards. If you enjoy puzzles, this is actually pretty fun.
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End - The only fun I had with this game was when I actually managed to spell Caribbean right. Also, another game poorly using QTEs. Fuck this.
Billy the Wizard: Pocket Broomstick Racing - I would have been a little more fair to this game if there was at least ONE kid with a badly drawn scar on his head, but nope, not a Snitch in sight. This game is a piece of shit's own shit. Controls are poor, graphics look familiarly bad, and the music....wait....it's the SAME music from Ninjabread Man/Anubis 2! THE SAME FUCKING PRICKS!!! At least this game is different, but that's not a compliment.
Speaking of scar-headed wizard boys....
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - I'll be honest folks. This game isn't bad. The wiimote is perfect for casting Expelliarmus, Wingardium Leviosa, Depulso and other spells. The Harry Potter games haven't been that bad actually, I remember the Chamber of Secrets on PS2 which was actually a decent platformer with a lot of collectibles, and the voices are just as okay. If you REALLY love Harry Potter, yeah this isn't a bad deal.
Crash of the Titans - Now, I am not a fan of Crash Bandicoot, but the old PS1 games were fun. Then, like Spyro, he suffered in the jump to the next generation badly, and was soon forgotten in favour of....what's the name of that weasel thing with the elf kid? Anyways, Crash is pretty much forgotten now and this poor platformer with annoying voices.
Also, Uka Uka may not be white, but he should not sound like he's from Detroit.
Spiderman: Friend or Foe - A rather decent beat-em-up with co-op mode readily available which isn't bad at all, and actually is better than Spiderman 3. Also, no fucking PS3 font, bonus!
Pangya! Golf with Style - The only style in this game is nauseatingly cute. This has the worst controls I've ever seen in a sports game. You whack the ball and it just flies off wherever the fuck it wants to no matter how straight you chip it. And this is from Tecmo, the people who made Tecmo Super Bowl. Oh how the mighty athletes have fallen (insert Barry Bonds joke here).
Shrek the Third - Meh.
Mario Party 8 - Having never played a Mario Party game since the very first one (which I finished 100%, bitches), this is a pretty fun game, naturally perfect if you have friends and not a sad lonely wanker living at home with no friends nearby and no internet connection for his consoles (yet).
I only really hate the announcer in this game, he's really really irritating and if there was an option to turn off voices, I would except that I like hearing Yoshi.
Rock 'n' Roll Adventures - Oh yes, the motherlode. Next to Bubsy 3D it's the worst platformer I ever played, so bad it got copied into another game exactly with just different graphics. Terrible speed handling, atrocious jumping, and the game didn't even respond to 20 wiimote waves to strike out. If Bubsy 3D handles like a tank, this handles like a jetski with a rocket. But in the very bad non-awesome way. I fucking hate most country/western music, and this game makes me hate it even more. Fuck you, Elvis rip-off.
(Yeah guess who came back with ANOTHER copy of Ninjabread Man with a different texture)
Driver: Parallel Lines - I hated the first Driver so I went in this with little expectation of fun for me, but the whole layout's been changed now. Now it plays like a poor man's GTA Vice City, except instead of the 80s it's the 70s. The music's great in this though and it's not a bad game, with more focus on cars than people.
TransFormers: The Game -
MEH!
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Now we near the final 11 games, bitches. 11 is a number I do not like (I have a thing against double digits like 11 or 33) so already ill foreboding is on the horizon. Stay tuned for the final conclusion of
TALES
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INTEREST!
"Videogames are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n' roll." - Shigeru Miyamoto
Hail Slither, The Eternal Champion!