- The Guardian, Thursday 20 November 2008
Wii Music arrives with high hopes attached - and the stamp of Shigeru Miyamoto, resident development genius at Nintendo and all-round legend. But for the first time, Miyamoto-san has crafted an absolute dog. Wii Music lets you play a bewildering number of instruments in any musical style. It does this by grouping them into categories, so anything that has to be strummed, for example, you play by holding the Nunchuk in your left hand and wielding the Wiimote like a plectrum in your right. At first, you can jam along with computer-controlled bands - though you have little enough impact to leave you wondering what the point is. When you open the advanced music lessons, it at least makes more sense - now you can lay down individual parts for tracks and learn, for example, how jazz drum patterns differ from rock ones. However, at no point does Wii Music become anything more than a chore to play. And the music it contains is beyond awful. Buy Guitar Hero World Tour instead.
