I haven’t bought many games for my Wii yet – aside from a few WiiWare downloads, all I have are Guitar Hero: World Tour, Samba de Amigo and, of course, Wii Sports.

I really haven’t had the opportunity to play any Guitar Heroes up until this point, so I’m starting fairly inexperienced.  Nevertheless, the game is, in my opinion, extremely fun. Most of the songs are pretty fun to play.  There is, though, one complain that I have about the game, one that I think is an issue of poor game design:

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Last week or so, I bought the WiiWare game Megaman 9. Its fun, but its HARD.  The game has an amazingly realistic retro feel to it.  You could absolutely believe this game out on the NES around 1990 or so. Its not just the 8-bit graphics: the music  and sound are totally authentic (including limited channels, leading to missing music when too many sound effects play at one time.)  The game also realistically emulates the NES’s flicker when too many sprites are on one scan line.  Even old-school Megaman bugs are included, like enemies disappearing into the ether the instant they step off-screen.

I doubt the game will be of much interest to younger gamers, but for the people who grew up playing NES classics like Megaman 1-6, the game is a blast.  I still haven’t beat it.  As I said, its hard.  No harder than Megaman 2&3, but my skills seem to have degraded significantly since then…

I got a Wii the other day. I actually won it, back in October or so, from Red Baron pizza. They were running a contest where you entered a code printed on the inside of the pizza box on their website with a chance to win prizes instantly, and I won a Wii.  It took from around the middle of October or so until the end of January for it to arrive, but it finally did.

I don’t really have any games yet. The Wii comes with Wii Sports, of course, but bowling gets old rather quickly. The only thing I’ve bought for it was a $20 Wii Points card, with which I bought the Wii internet browser (500 points/$5) and Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: My Life as a King (1500 points/$15.)

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