Holding A and pointing in the general direction you would like your character to move about the screen is fine, when you then need to open the 'chute you must – with the accuracy of Billy The Kid in a quick draw scenario – immediately press an on-screen button to execute the move. Maybe that was a duff game though? Maybe the other hundred are fine? Another, in which you must guide a skydiver through hoops until just before you hit the floor, at which point you must release your parachute, is even less suited for the control style on the Wii.
It's so much more fiddly and imprecise, though no concession has been made for this lack of fidelity. Where you would touch and hold to pick up the ball and throw it with a simple swipe of the DS console's lower screen, here you're required to directly point at the object, hold the A button, flick your wrist inaccurately at your TV, let go of the A button and hope that it heads towards the net. While this is a tedious task that never changes or throws up any sort of a challenge, it's made worse by this emulation of direct control. Take the basketball minigame for instance: the action required is to point and hold the ball and chuck it into a net over and over again until the time runs out. Starting out life on the DS and made with the stylus in mind, Nordcurrent have attempted to mimic the input of the handheld for the big screen and it simply doesn't work.
The fundamental issue is one of laziness.
But when not a single game in 101-in-1 Explosive Megamix title manages to struggle above "palatable", when its inherent structure is broken and when the release has all the charm of influenza, the Lithuanian publisher's latest becomes one to avoid at all costs. It's a tempting proposition isn't it? It's unlikely that as an average consumer you will play, let alone purchase, one hundred and one games in a whole year, so when Nordcurrent comes a-knockin' at your door and offers you exactly that many titles for the low, low price of 700 Points, you'd be forgiven for thinking it's a Billy Bargain.
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