Gamestop pre-played piles and Wal-Mart bargain bins are categorically stuffed with such stuff - they can barely give mini-game collections away just a few scant weeks after they debut. Because they're bad. Most vying for title as "worst game ever," it seems.
As it happens, Majesco has launched a new brand of casual mini-game collections called "GoPlay."
In a concerted effort to appeal to the casual commonwealth of the Wii's massive audience without appearing like a stark raving rip-off to anyone who knows better, the line's two debuts, GoPlay Lumberjack and GoPlay Circus Star, both have the decency to cost $30. Wii games typically cost $50.
The mini-games of each collection, meanwhile, range from unexpectedly shallow to downright counter-intuitive to genuinely engaging - for a short while, anyway.
Basically, you're talking point, waggle, twitch, and mash with the likes of target shooting/ax-tossing, pole climbing, and log boom scampering in Lumberjacks; target shooting/knife-tossing, Human Cannonball flying, and tightrope scampering in Circus Star.
Both sport plainly adequate visuals, cutesy character selections, and multiplayer support so grandma can join in the fun.
Problem is, neither GoPlay Lumberjacks nor GoPlay Circus Star are cheap enough. The mini-game gravy train broke down at the station a while back and there are brand new $20 Wii games on the market these days, some better, some at least as good, all trying to shuck the shame of shameless knock-off, going for "affordable simplicity" instead. PlayLogic's Vertigo, for example, is a heck of a marble rolling game for just $20.
Majesco is on the right track with its cost-conscious GoPlay line, but the ticket price is still a tad steep.
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