Originally Posted by
Regus
This might be TLDR, but whatever.
I've held off passing judgement on the wii until after I played this game. Because I guess after Zelda, this and metroid would be the do or die games for the sysem.
Granted, I only played the demo, so my concerns might go away later on in the game, but as it stands, I'm not impressed.
The game itself actually looks like fun, I like the idea of the planets and the interesting stuff they do with the gravity/geometry of the game worlds.
My concern is with the "gimmicky" nature of the wii itself. I know that this is a dead horse, but I didn't want to weigh in until I played this.
From the very begining I was afraid that the wii was just a gimmick machine, that new control scheme does nothing to enhance gameplay (and can actually hurt it at times), because to me it just seemed that wagging the wiimote just took the place of pressing a button on a standard controller.
A reccuring theme kept popping up whenever I played a game on the wii, I would think to myself, "wow, this would work so much better with a standard controller", and this is just how I felt about mario galaxies.
In the demo, the only thing I saw that required the use of the wiimote was moving the little star around and shooting starbits or whatever they were, and this seemed clumsy to me, like most other wiimote specific movements that seem to have the best intentions, but never seem to work right.
I'm still waiting for that one game that uses the wiimote to the fullest, a game that would be impossible to play with a standard controller. If this game is out there I've yet to see it.
