The goal was clear: If getting people to grok Wii Music truly means getting them to play it first, Nintendo has a massive Catch-22 situation on its hands. Questions were restricted to Wii Music only - no asking the man about his 30-year legacy of hit games at Nintendo - and the entire first hour of the 90-minute session was a one-way presentation in which Miyamoto ran down the bullet-point list of features in Wii Music, something any PR flack could have handled just as easily. While any videogame writer worth his salt would kill to get an audience with Miyamoto, the round-table discussion was more of a lecture. Sitting someone down in front of a Rock Band drum set and tell them to hit the red drum when the red button lights up on the screen is much easier to understand than saying, "OK, take this controller, hold it like you're sitting at a piano, then tap out a jazz arrangement of 'Happy Birthday.'"ĭuring the Wii Music design process, Miyamoto, the legendary creator of Super Mario, learned that putting first-time directors in charge of a huge game is far from the path of least resistance, and that games that never give you a "game over" screen aren't necessarily easy to pick up and play. The problem is that it's hardly pick-up-and-play.Įven though Rock Band is considered to be a hard-core game and Wii Music a casual one, Rock Band is arguably far more of a pick-up-and-play experience. Aside from a few snags in the process, it works. The challenge is not to complete the song "perfectly" - it's to create something that sounds nice by artfully arranging your playing style and choosing complementary instruments. *Wii Music *does penalize you for playing badly, but it penalizes you with cacophonous music.
Add in the game's 60 different virtual instruments, and you can see how many options you have for changing the way the tunes sound. In Wii Music, the game attempts to make every button-press pleasing by inserting harmonic grace notes into the song's melody.
Likewise, in Guitar Hero, if you strum the guitar at the wrong moment during a song, you hear an agonizing squelch and lose points.
Wii Sports makes sense instantly: Hand someone a Wii remote and serve them a tennis ball, and odds are they'll return it back to you on the first try. It is the most inscrutable of the four, the weird black sheep of the family. Wii Music is a cousin of Wii Sports, Wii Play and Wii Fit.
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