awesome shit you should own if you are a fan of awesome shit
1. a Nintendo Wii
2.
ZACK AND WIKI: QUEST FOR BARBAROS' TREASURE.
OKAY, yes, this looks like a tie-in to some jive-ass Nickelodeon anime crap, but first off it ain't and second off it's AMAZINGly fun and also addictive and frustrating, like the best of video games. Frustrating because you'll be dead repeatedly yet enjoying it every step of the way. And not dead because you didn't time your jump perfectly or because you accidentally made physical contact with water but dead because you didn't figure out the puzzle quickly enough. Yes
ZACK AND WIKI is a puzzle game, not like falling blocks but like here's a situation and there are various steps you need to take to resolve this situation but there are no pointers as to what these steps are so good fucking luck with this god-damn situation. But the satisfaction you feel once each situation is successfully figured out and resolved is overwhelmingly enjoyable and highly flattering to the intellect. It took me a couple hours to figure out the best way to arrange a series of mirrors so as to direct a light-beam through a lens and free my flying monkey buddy from a frosty deathtrap. Elsewhere I had to turn caterpillers into saws and moles into drills and implement said animal-tools accurately as two of only twenty steps necessary to successful level completion. It is in a sense like a 3-D cel-shaded
ADVENTURES OF LOLO but with point-and-click controls instead of direct action. As it stands this game couldn't really exist in this format on any other system, as it effectively and (yes) elegantly utilizes the Wii's controls at least as well as
METROID PRIME 3. And best yet
ZACK AND WIKI is only forty bucks brand new, and completely utterly worth it for real.