WiiBlog - No-Holds Barred Wii Blog Site

So the latest worldwide poll on Everyone Votes boiled down to brains and brawn.

Now, as the target demographic for Wii users is kids and old people, they're not much for using brawn. So I selected that, and predicted that would be the common answer.

Not so, Japanese! Now, I think this has to do with the fact that the Japanese have some sort of superiority complex when it comes to using their brains.

"Aso! Me rikey being smalt! Stupid Amelicans use backs, not blains!"

Right. Which is why they got a 50% correct prediction rate on "which do you use more - brains or brawn?"

So I've been getting into Tiger Woods PGA Tour '07 and, after using a cheat code to give myself a sweet Oakley shirt, I've decided that I like this game quite a bit more then I originally did.

You see, TWPGAT07 (as I will now refer to it) was the first game I bought, since I felt it necessary that with a motion-sensing control I need a good solid golf game. Perhaps it was the unfamiliarity of the Wii Remote or the fact that I had drank about 14 beers, but the first play session went horribly wrong. There was much swearing.

However, firing it up now reveals a deep, interesting golf game, with all the nuances of the actual sport. Backswing? Check! Follow through? Check! Punch shots, Nike apparel, and me missing a 6 foot putt? Check, check, check!

Golf is a frustrating sport, but I know I'll keep going back to the real thing. And now, to Tiger Woods as well.

So after a few rounds with Meng, we head back to his apartment to play some Mario Party 8.
With Bowser (my favorite character ever) unselectable as a player character, I had to go with someone decidedly less dastardly and more comical. WARIO TIME!

What at first seemed to be a random game later seemed more the proverbial onion. Jumping and hitting blocks to buy stars and get coins... Woo. Until the candy factor is taken into account. Miserly as I am, I had accrued 2 stars and 59 coins... And then I found out what a Thwomp Candy is. I didn't want to lose half my coins! Position, it seems, is just as vital as stars, coins, and all the other flotsam that found its way onto Shyguy's train.

This onion further peeled away when I discovered that you get stars for shopping! It then becomes a game of predictionmixed with a healthy dose of our good friend Adam Smith. Do I save my coins for a star, I wondered, or should I buy a Thrice Dice candy to improve my shopping score and hope I land on the DK square, followed by another thrice candy to get to DK before anyone else does? Crafty. (I wound up in 2nd place)

Oh, and on the Wii? If you shake the remote your character says stuff. Shake it fore and aft, and Wario lets out a wet-sounding fart, followed by "Excuse me!"

Shake it up and down (as if masturbating a prone horse) and he calls everyone losers. After 6 beers, that was quite entertaining.