My husband and I are obsessed with the games you can download from the Wii Virtual Console. He has beaten the original Mario Bros (the princess looks like a guy, BTW), and we played Mario Party until we were blue in the face. Mario Kart 64 still holds joy for us, especially when we bet chores on the outcome (Steve has cooked a lot more). However, I felt the need for something new. Welcome to...
The reviews were good, the graphics cute, and the fact that there are unlimited continues seemed great for a person like me that's eye-had-coordinationally challenged.
I mean, you get to beat people with leaves! It's gotta rock, right?
Yeah, not so much.
The unlimited continues are constant throughout the game, never making you start over--ever. Which means that we beat the entire game in 40 minutes.
And, as Steve so eloquently put it, "I want those 40 minutes of my life back."
I've been trying and trying to justify spending $9 on this, and the best I could come up with is that it'd be fun for kids to play, because you can never die.
Oh, wait, that doesn't work, either, because it's just frustrating enough, in spite of being immortal, to shrug off almost any child, of any age. We wouldn't have finished the game if we hadn't been desperate.
Starting to think I should have bought
