At the behest of my wife I have recently purchased a Nintendo Wii. Actually, she wanted to get the Wii Fit, but since the Wii is somewhat of a pre-requisite, we had to get one first.
Anyway, I’ve been keeping my eye out for some good party games that the whole family can enjoy together, when I came across this list of the best ever Wii games, on Gamespot. As you can see, Warioware Smooth Moves scores 9.1 out of 10 and is even credited with editors choice. Reading through the review, it sounds like the perfect party game – fun, innovative, hilarious, easy to play etc.
However, to play the multiplayer game (for which this game comes so highly recommended) you must first complete the single payer game! In what universe does this actually make sense?
I came home from work yesterday, showed the game to my kids and of course they immediately wanted to play it. I fiddled around with it for a bit, but couldn’t get the multiplayer game to activate. I finally went to the internet and discovered the amazing truth – that you must complete the single player game to unlock the multiplayer game!! So there we all are, crowded round the TV and looking forward to a night of hilarity and the game is useless. Well, unless everyone wants to watch someone else play through it first.
The really daft part of this is that whoever completes the single-player game will have an innate advantage over everyone else who has never played it! I’m really finding it hard to understand why Nintendo decided to cripple what is essentially a party game, by forcing you to play it alone first.
I’m seriously thinking about taking it back to the store for a refund.
