After having some more time to examine Trauma Center Second Opinion while sober, TheWesker forgot to take it home, I have to say it still creeps me out. You play as either doctor Stiles (read use the stylus duh) or as Dr. Weaver (read I'm on the Wii duh) preforming surgery on people and uncovering some strange evil menace. First off the puns, why does everything DS related have to be a pun on the stylus, and for the love of god they just had to keep it up with the new character and incorperate the Wii theme.
But what really creeps me out is the noise when you screw up. A sound approcimating a sharp object being quickly inserted in to raw meat fills our ears and I can't help but flinch. If I could just get over the sickening effects you get when something goes wrong I coudl really like this game.
As for SMB: Banana Blitz, I have to wonder what game the Gamespot editors were playing to give it such a high rating, because it sure wasn't the same one I played. First player mode is infact well done but short. My only complaint there is how the extreme ntilting of the landscape seems to make my wife sick, but as for the party games I am Largely dissapointed.
Of the Fifty games about half are well made and worth playing, of the remaining twenty five half are playable but not well made, and about a dozen are broken.
For example,alien attack, and Monkey Boxing are both very well done, in fact I would say that Monkey boxing may be better than Wii sports boxing. Space Attack and Yachting are also well made. Even disc golf is fun but lacks a power meter for practice.
Bowling is much to easy, but at the same time easier to control than wii sports, Whack a Mole has slow responce time when moving your Wiimote in the "depth" field, and Banana theif has good movement controls, but laggy attack times. Frog ball would be fun, but the game misses about half my jump commands.
Golf is completely unplayable, no power meter to test your swing, and more importantly it just plain refuses to regiser my back stroke to start the swing. I think it accidentally switches over to left handed too easily, ( when you pull the B trigger maybe? I can't tell). Simon says on the other hand should be easy, but the freaking thing keeps miss registering my position.
As some other games use almost Identical controls without any problem I have to say that the party games that have problems are just poorly coded and are not an indcator of the consoles abilities. When I finally reach level ten I hope to include some game play video, but for now you just have to believe me.
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