Carnival Games for the Wii aims to bring the lighthearted fun of a carnival midway into your living room. It features a collection of classic carnival games like ring toss, balloon darts, and the ever-frustrating milk bottle knock-down. While the motion controls can be a bit finicky at times, the game offers straightforward amusement and easy multiplayer sessions for families or casual groups. However, the lack of depth and limited variety of games means it's unlikely to hold your attention for very long.
Every week on friday my mom would take me to gamestop and let me get a game. Well, when she was laid off work we couldn't go on fridays anymore. Being a spoiled kid, I played this game for maybe 6 hours straight everyday for four or five days to guilt my mom into buying Mario Party 7. It worked, because this game was so awful, she actually felt bad for me and my siblings. Granted, we loudly complained about how boring and sucky it was at least 20x an hour.
Thanks Carnival Games for sucking so bad my mom got us a different game.
Thanks Carnival Games for sucking so bad my mom got us a different game.
We ALL had a horrible shovelware game we were duped into asking for as a kid, don't fucking lie to me.
The slow creeping sense of dread as you realize that there is a difference between good games and bad games. The disappointment as you're stuck with the latter until you work up enough goodwill to ask for an actual good game, so you have to grit your teeth and settle for a minigame collection where you win virtual prizes that do nothing but play an animation.
These guys were eating so good that they managed to finance 2 sequels, in hopes of conning even more dumb kids out of a good video game.
The slow creeping sense of dread as you realize that there is a difference between good games and bad games. The disappointment as you're stuck with the latter until you work up enough goodwill to ask for an actual good game, so you have to grit your teeth and settle for a minigame collection where you win virtual prizes that do nothing but play an animation.
These guys were eating so good that they managed to finance 2 sequels, in hopes of conning even more dumb kids out of a good video game.
Played as a kid.
This game was fine? It gets way too much hate.
Essentially a collection of mini-games on the DS connected through an overworld. You'd earn tickets to unlock new games in the carnival.
I recall expecting this game to be absolute trash, but going in it was just ok.
Not groundbreaking, but a fun little time waster on the DS.
This game was fine? It gets way too much hate.
Essentially a collection of mini-games on the DS connected through an overworld. You'd earn tickets to unlock new games in the carnival.
I recall expecting this game to be absolute trash, but going in it was just ok.
Not groundbreaking, but a fun little time waster on the DS.
For some reason this game looked really appealing to me early in owning a Wii, and it's a title that a whole lot of us played and suffered for it. Maybe it's that appealing box art that caught our attention, but like any low-rent shady carnival, this title will leave you feeling ripped off by its emptiness.
Carnival Games features a fairly extensive assortment of mini-games but most of them control pretty terribly. The game looks absolutely terrible- it would have been super rough looking at the start of the Gamecube era.
Each game will leave you either frustrated with the controls or just generally unimpressed. When it's time to collect your prizes they are extremely lame items with no interactivity or dumb cosmetics for your hideous avatar. Generally avoid this game if you can- shovelware that somehow passed itself off as a legimitate enough Wii title to sell really well. Yuck.
Carnival Games features a fairly extensive assortment of mini-games but most of them control pretty terribly. The game looks absolutely terrible- it would have been super rough looking at the start of the Gamecube era.
Each game will leave you either frustrated with the controls or just generally unimpressed. When it's time to collect your prizes they are extremely lame items with no interactivity or dumb cosmetics for your hideous avatar. Generally avoid this game if you can- shovelware that somehow passed itself off as a legimitate enough Wii title to sell really well. Yuck.