FlingSmash comes packaged with a black wiimote+. Sometime before the Wii U launch, it was selling for around $25-30, new, certain places. So I bought it, and now that the price is back up to match wiimote prices, I wish I had bought another.
My 10-year old nephew comes over once in a while and I decided to give this game a shot with him. We've put in about 5 hours over a few weekends and are currently on the final boss battle. It's a side scrolling game that moves right to left to accommodate right-handed players, I'm assuming. The idea is to jerk/waggle the wiimote to the left (sometimes up) in a "slapping" motion to push your character along the stage, collecting items and avoiding obstacles. Chris Brown plays this game often, I hear...
I checked some reviews before writing this. One of the biggest criticisms of the game was that the player's motion input did not translate properly into the movement of the character. I see this complaint often with regard to Motion+ games, and I don't understand it. The game tracks the wiimote motion properly, and these criticisms are rather subjective since it depends on a person's self-assessment on their hand-eye coordination. It is, however, kind of hard to keep track of your character in a 2-player game, or be disciplined in your wagglin' when the "action" picks up.
Anyway, my nephew likes the game. The stages are well put together and have interesting obstacles and minigames. It's pretty easy to clear stages, but not so easy to earn an A or S rank. Minigames unlock when you get an A rank in all three stages of a world, 8 worlds in all. We're almost done beating it; we are on the final boss. Most of the boss battles are meh, but my nephew doesn't think so. He also thinks that the final boss is not badass enough.
I would not buy this at the $50 full retail price even with the Wiimote+ included. That said, it's a video game with an interesting gameplay mechanic. It's appealing to children and I don't think their video games should be overlooked. There actually should be more "children's game" awards in the VGAs, IGN, Gamespot review sties, etc... There probably should be a larger effort by these journo-sites to promote titles that appeal to children with parents as their audience. And I personally can't stand reviews of games that are clearly intended for a younger audience where the adult reviewer says personally dislikes the content of the game and gives it a bad score - they should be reviewing from the perspective of the intended audience of the game. Oh yeah... there's no Mario in this game.
And I want this:
My 10-year old nephew comes over once in a while and I decided to give this game a shot with him. We've put in about 5 hours over a few weekends and are currently on the final boss battle. It's a side scrolling game that moves right to left to accommodate right-handed players, I'm assuming. The idea is to jerk/waggle the wiimote to the left (sometimes up) in a "slapping" motion to push your character along the stage, collecting items and avoiding obstacles. Chris Brown plays this game often, I hear...
I checked some reviews before writing this. One of the biggest criticisms of the game was that the player's motion input did not translate properly into the movement of the character. I see this complaint often with regard to Motion+ games, and I don't understand it. The game tracks the wiimote motion properly, and these criticisms are rather subjective since it depends on a person's self-assessment on their hand-eye coordination. It is, however, kind of hard to keep track of your character in a 2-player game, or be disciplined in your wagglin' when the "action" picks up.
Anyway, my nephew likes the game. The stages are well put together and have interesting obstacles and minigames. It's pretty easy to clear stages, but not so easy to earn an A or S rank. Minigames unlock when you get an A rank in all three stages of a world, 8 worlds in all. We're almost done beating it; we are on the final boss. Most of the boss battles are meh, but my nephew doesn't think so. He also thinks that the final boss is not badass enough.
I would not buy this at the $50 full retail price even with the Wiimote+ included. That said, it's a video game with an interesting gameplay mechanic. It's appealing to children and I don't think their video games should be overlooked. There actually should be more "children's game" awards in the VGAs, IGN, Gamespot review sties, etc... There probably should be a larger effort by these journo-sites to promote titles that appeal to children with parents as their audience. And I personally can't stand reviews of games that are clearly intended for a younger audience where the adult reviewer says personally dislikes the content of the game and gives it a bad score - they should be reviewing from the perspective of the intended audience of the game. Oh yeah... there's no Mario in this game.
And I want this:
