Simple and redundant
posted by denvermax (SYRACUSE, NY) Dec 4, 2012
Member since Oct 2009
I rented this game with the expectation of some cheesy fun with my friends. It failed to provide that. It is a collection of minigames, most of which do not provide any sort of feigned "lumberjack" action - no swinging or chopping or sawing. It was more centered around pressing buttons or shaking the Wiimote as fast as you can, which gets EXTREMELY tiring after just a couple games.
The most frustrating part of this game is that everything is locked when you start it. There is one tournament available and three freeplay minigames. Everything else must be unlocked by winning the available tournament/game in single-player mode against 3 CPU players. This severely limited how much fun you could have playing it with other people. And, let's be honest, who is renting/buying this game to play it by themselves? We ended up having to take turns playing the single-player games in order to unlock more things to do for multiplayer. And by the time we had opened up enough multiplayer options, we were all sick of the games. A vast number of them are the same game with only slight variations - for example, the same axe-throwing game with different iterations for "get x points to win," "get the most points within x amount of time," and "get x points by hitting only targets of your color." There is not a lot of replay value in these redundant minigames.
Granted, my friends & I are all in our mid-20's, so perhaps we're too far beyond the demographic this game was intended for. But I had much higher expectations for this game being something that was kid-friendly but ironically fun for adults to play as well. Sadly, it wasn't.
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