Wii Music
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Wii Music is a music video game developed and published by Nintendo for the Wii video game console. The game was released in Japan and North America in October 2008, and in Europe and Australia in the following month. Wii Music is part of both Nintendo's Touch! Generations brand and the Wii series.
Gameplay
Wii Music gameplay focuses on playing and arranging songs through improvisation using various instruments. Similar to how Wii Sports simulates playing sports by mimicking the required gestures using the motion sensitive Wii Remote, Wii Music simulates playing music by mimicking the actions associated with the different instruments. Like all games in the Wii series, the players control Mii characters created using the console's Mii Channel.
Not-So-Musical Qualities
- You cannot customize your Mii's voice on the singing instrument, there are only two available voices which depend on the gender.
- The singer is extremely high pitched and also does not sing the song, it is literally treated as an instrument, and just says words such as do, la, and Wii.
- However, even with this, the singing is still quite decent.
- You cannot create your own songs. While you can make your own tune, you cannot name a song nor can you name the band that makes it.
- In the game Mii Maestro/Open Orchestra, it is hard to make the song sound perfect, so your best option for a good score is to go as fast as you can (this does not work with "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star") however it is difficult to put the Wiimote down every millisecond.
- Can become boring and repetitive after a few hours.
- While there are more songs than in the first two Guitar Hero games (which have only 47 and 40 songs respectively, though the Xbox 360 version has 48 songs, while Wii Music has 50), the setlist is very limited in variety, consisting primarily of public domain tracks, traditional songs and generic pop music.
- Lack of a score system. Jam Mode does not objectively penalize for missing or playing "incorrect" notes nor do players have any control over the pitch of the notes played.
Musical Qualities
- There are a lot of good instruments, such as the singer, the NES horn, etc.
- Many of the instruments are also extremely humorous, such as the rapper, the cheerleader, the beatboxer, the dog, the cat, etc.
- In addition to above, the game can be really fun if you take it as a joke.
- It is actually quite good as an application - it is just not much of a game.
- As mentioned on BQ#4, Open Orchestra can be more fun and easier if you go fast.
- The music actually sounds somewhat decent, especially with the female singer.
Reception
The game received mixed-to-positive reviews from critics. It is regarded as the black sheep of the Wii series and one of the least commercially successful entries, selling 2.65 million copies worldwide as of March 2009. It has been used to recreate songs, thus becoming a meme.