Wii Music, then. It has its pros, it has its cons. It has its supporters, and it has its detractors. Quite a lot of the latter, truth be told. But then there are some people willing to post impassioned defences of Wii Music, while remaining sensible enough to acknowledge its flaws.

For ’some people’, read: 1Up.com’s Jeremy Parish and Jennifer Tsao. And you know who else? Me. Yep, that’s right - thanks to the delightful Keith Stuart, editor of the Guardian games blog, I’ve been given a soapbox to stand on and holler my opinion at anyone who happens to be browsing the Guardian’s website.

Quoting myself feels a bit (okay, a lot) weird, but here goes:

“Ostensibly all too simplistic, Wii Music is undoubtedly a product with significant hidden depths. When you consider that each and every song needs to cater for any potential controller input at any time, you begin to realise that this is no throwaway plaything, but an elegantly designed creative tool that just happens to be a lot of fun. Far from the disaster some were predicting, and clearly worthy of a more substantial time investment than some critics are willing to give, Wii Music might not achieve the sales success of Wii Sports, Play and Fit, but it deserves to be treated with respect as a superior example of a mass market-friendly play experience that offers rich rewards to those prepared to give it a chance.”

The rest of it’s here. Feel free to have a gander if you’ve a spare five minutes. Thanks, readers.

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This entry was posted on Thursday, October 30th, 2008 at 12:02 am by Chris Schilling
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