{"id":1276,"date":"2008-02-18T11:43:39","date_gmt":"2008-02-18T17:43:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/granades.com\/2008\/02\/18\/hey-the-wii-has-adventure-games\/"},"modified":"2008-02-18T08:50:41","modified_gmt":"2008-02-18T14:50:41","slug":"hey-the-wii-has-adventure-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/granades.com\/?p=1276","title":{"rendered":"Hey, the Wii Has Adventure Games!"},"content":{"rendered":"

At least, it has adventure game. Zack and Wiki<\/a> is, at its heart, a point-and-click adventure game. It’s fun seeing a game on a new console make all the same old adventure game mistakes.<\/p>\n

They do a nice job of keeping things manageable by only letting you carry one thing at a time, which greatly simplifies the puzzles you can solve, and a number of the puzzles are satisfyingly twisty. They lean heavily on mechanical whatsits that you have to frob in just the right way, but they also are doing a good job of teaching you how to use Wiki’s special bell-ringing powers to solve puzzles. Each level that we’ve gone through has gotten just a little more complex. It’s a learning curve that is actually curved.<\/p>\n

It’s a shame they use so many 1980s-era unfun elements. There’s a lot of unexpected, instant death, which they keep track of so you feel like a loser. Worse, when you die, you go back to the beginning of the level, unless you’ve bought a platinum ticket, which then gets used up. Money is limited, as you might expect, so you can get to where you have to play a level over and over and over again, dying with every mis-step. (I’m looking at you, “Keeper of the Ice”.) It discourages exploration and experimentation, which is the exact opposite of what you want to do in an adventure game.<\/p>\n

Don’t get me wrong — it’s still fun. I’m just sad that no one on the design team seems to have paid close enough attention to the last thirty years of adventure games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At least, it has adventure game. Zack and Wiki is, at its heart, a point-and-click adventure game. It’s fun seeing a game on a new console make all the same old adventure game mistakes. They do a nice job of keeping things manageable by only letting you carry one thing at a time, which greatly … Continue reading Hey, the Wii Has Adventure Games!<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t