Review - Kororinpa: Marble Madness
Kororinpa: Marble Madness is a game similar to Marble Blast for the computer, only more. Your goal: guide around a marble through an obstacle course. There isn’t much more to say than that. Kororinpa allows you to unlock tons of content, and has a whole load of levels. You can pick marbles with different ‘difficulties’ (i.e. bounciness) to make the game even more challenging.
The controls are quite intuitive and simple. Tilt the Wii remote. That is all you have going for you as far as control goes, and yet the game manages to get quite complex. The graphics are good, and while the game lacks a story, it doesn’t really need one. You can race with friends, or set best times and progress up the levels by yourself.
All in all, this is a thoroughly ‘casual’ game, but a pretty good one. One interesting fact that popped up somewhere or another, surgeons who played the game before their practical test rated higher than surgeons didn’t. So I suppose, if you want your kid to become a surgeon, get this game while she’s young.
Much like the popular Marble Blast for the computer, things get tough. One might go so far as to say very tough. But also like Marble Blast, finishing the newest level isn’t the only goal, so if you are stuck it isn’t a big deal. All in all, I would give Kororinpa: Marble Madness a 7 out of 10. A great casual games, but really it doesn’t really have anything to bring it above and beyond any other marble game (except maybe all the content).
If you like Marble Blast, which many people do, Kororinpa is definitely the next step. Controlling the marble by actually tilting is a totally cool sensation and really shows of both the simplicity and complexty that can easily be integrated into the Wiimote. I don’t know if I can particularly recommend Kororinpa over other games, but if it sound interesting, it will definitely live up to expectations. Plus, it is quite adorably cute… in a rugged manly way of course.
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