We all watched Nintendo's E3 conference (with a little shock and embarassment on our faces) when Nintendo announced their next biggest project - Wii Music. So should you buy it? Alex Riviello of chud.com doesn't think so ...

Simple as this- if you contribute to the (sadly inevitable) sucess of a product that pushes Nintendo further away from making anything of interest to gamers, I'm going on a rampage. I'd sooner they went back to making playing cards than see them reduced to this.

First off, it's not a game- it's a music simulator. You pick from a group of songs (that contains such classic and knee-slapping anthems as "Yankee Doodle" and "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star") but don't actually hit notes, you just freestyle them with the remote and nunchuck. I don't know what the hell Nintendo's doing- the main factor in Guitar Hero's success was that it made you feel like you were actually playing the instrument. Only weird Air Guitar players could possibly get into this, and hell, it might even be too close to handling a real instrument for comfort.

The other big question is what the *bleep* is up with the Midi sounds in the game? They couldn't even record the real instruments for this?

Miss Razz via chud.com »