Wii Music - Here to Ruin the Music Experience for Everyone

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Yes, Wii Music, even worse than Rock Revolution, has arrived for the Wii. Actually, it did a while ago, but now that I got the monthly issue of Game Informer, I realize how bad it is. Here's what Game Informer had to say about it:

"Finally, Nintendo has seen fit to deliver us from the horrors of Guitar Hero and Rock Band’s intuitive gameplay, accurate mechanics, and great song selections. Thank God. Now I can stop pretending that I was having fun rocking out to Metallica and live my dream of playing backup cowbell in a cruise ship band version of “Yankee Doodle.”

Yes, what an accurate statement by Game Informer Magazines!!!

First of all, the song list sucks.

1. “American Patrol” the march by F.W. Meacham
2. “Animal Crossing’s K.K. Blues” by K.K. Slider
3. “Animal Crossing: Wild World” Theme
4. “Bridal Chorus” by Richard Wagner
5. “Chariots of Fire” by Vangelis (from Chariots of Fire)
6. “Daydream Believer” by The Monkees
7. “Do-Re-Mi” by Rodgers and Hammerstein (from The Sound of Music)
8. “Eine Kleine Nachtmusik” by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
9. “Every Breath You Take” by The Police
10. “F-Zero Mute City” Theme
11. “Happy Birthday To You” the birthday celebration song
12. “I’ll Be There” by The Jackson 5
13. “I’ve Never Been to Me” by Charlene
14. “Jingle Bell Rock” by Bobby Helms
15. “La Bamba” the Mexican folk song
16. “La Cucaracha” the Spanish folk song
17. “Legend of Zelda Overworld” Theme
18. “Material Girl” by Madonna
19. “Minuet in G major” by Johann Sebastian Bach
20. “My Grandfather’s Clock” the bluegrass song by Henry Clay Work
21. “O Christmas Tree” the Christmas carol
22. “Oh My Darling, Clementine” the American folk ballad
23. “On the bridge of Avignon” the French song about the Pont d’Avignon
24. “Over the Waves” by Juventino Rosas
25. “Overture” from the opera Carmen
26. “Please Mr. Postman” by The Marvelettes
27. “Sakura Sakura” the Japanese cherry blossom folk song
28. “Scarborough Fair” the traditional English ballad
29. “September” by Earth, Wind & Fire
30. “Sukiyaki” by Kyu Sakamoto
31. “Super Mario Bros.” Theme
32. “Swan Lake” the ballet by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
33. “Symphony No. 1’s Titan” by Gustav Mahler
34. “Symphony No. 9’s From the New World” by Antonin Dvorak
35. “Symphony No. 9’s Ode to Joy” by Ludwig van Beethoven
36. “The Blue Danube” the waltz by Johann Strauss II
37. “The Entertainer” by Billy Joel
38. “The Flea Waltz” is usually the first piano piece learned
39. “The Four Seasons’ Spring (La Primavera)” by Antonio Vivaldi
40. “The Loco-Motion” by Little Eva
41. “Troika” the Russian folk song
42. “Turkey in the Straw” the American folk song
43. “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star” the English nursery rhyme
44. “Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go” by Wham!
45. “Wii Music” Theme
46. “Wii Sports” Theme
47. “Woman” by John Lennon
48. “Yankee Doodle” the U.S. patriotical song

Second of all, the gameplay sucks. All you do is press the 1 and 2 buttons for a wind instrument in any order at all, or if you're playing a string or vocal instrument, swing the remote back and forth, which usually is unresponsive.

For a first-party game, Nintendo sure made this worthy of the trash can. I didn't expect this at all from a consistent software developer like Nintendo.

Game Informer rated this as a 3 out of 10, which is pretty bad considering most of the games they review get at least a 6 or more. Just goes to show you that not every Nintendo-developed game is worth playing.