Comments on: Wii Music – Review

By: sanchez.david16

sanchez.david16 — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 20:52:10 +0000

Can you send me more info on wii music at sanchez.david2009@yahoo.com which is my email address thanks!

By: Ryan

Ryan — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 19:52:42 +0000

@drktrpr1

True that! A serious review was needed for this game. Gamers were quick to hop on the “hate” bandwagon for this game!

By: drktrpr1

drktrpr1 — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 18:09:07 +0000

Great review, Christian. I’m glad you can provide us with an informed take on the game.

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By: Christian

Christian — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 16:12:57 +0000

You’re correct, I had forgotten that you can hold “down” on the Wii Remote’s D-pad to enable both down- and up-strokes. Perhaps I overlooked it because it’s the only control scheme that uses that button.

I’m glad you enjoyed the review. I think you’ll find that those Wii Music players with formal musical training (such as you, me, and 1UP/EGM’s Jennifer Tsao) will better understand the game’s potential right off the bat. I’m not saying everyone else won’t understand it, but rather that it will be hard to look beyond the Guitar Hero schema of note accuracy initially.

I’ll be doing a set of articles in the very near future to try and help skeptics realize the creative and educational potential of this game. In the mean time, be sure to spread the word that the game needs to be given an open chance the first time you dive in.

By: warioswoods

warioswoods — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 13:21:58 +0000

Thank you for this review – your approach to the game is exactly what I’ve been looking for in the countless reviews I’ve read elsewhere. Save for the 1up reviewer who is also a musically educated individual and at least gives the game some due credit, your review is the only one I’ve found that addresses what I see as the central idea of this game: the simple joy of improvisation.

Also, perhaps it is best to think of the game’s challenge more in terms of a band leader than in terms of an individual part – it’s not that it is in any way difficult to play something on a particular instrument if you know what you want (unlike in other rhythm games), but building an arrangement out of five or six instruments and keeping everything interesting and balanced takes a considerable amount of taste and judgment.

Note that I don’t own the game yet, but I’ve been following every piece of information regarding it since its release, and I began to see its creative possibilities when I watched numerous youtube videos of clever song arrangements, posted by players. Nintendo’s “Iwata Asks” article concerning the game, in which the developers are interviewed, also provides a glimpse into the idea behind the free nature of the gameplay.

I’m curious about your remark concerning the guitar allowing only downstrokes, however – I feel almost certain that I once read that you could hold certain buttons in order to enable down- and up-strokes to register. In fact, in a couple of videos I’ve watched, the banjo was played too fast for only downstrokes to be involved. In any case, I plan on finally picking this game up in the next few days, so I suppose I’ll get to try it out then. Thanks again for your excellent and thoughtful review.