Wii Review: Namco Museum Remix

First impressions:
Well my first impression was that it looked pretty cool and I thought I should go out and buy it. So I did. It says on the box… 14 Games in All! It looked like something I would want to play. I got it home and put it in and started it up to find myself selecting which game I wanted to play by rolling Pacman around with the analogue stick. I was pleased to see Pacman though this selecting is not good. It’s just wasting time trying to roll Pacman close enough to the different game ‘areas’ just so you can see what the games are. The music is annoying and repetitive.
Gameplay:
14 classic Namco games with some that have been ‘remix’ed. Sounds pretty cool. After rolling around the menu for a while, I realised there were only 7 different areas to go to. It turns out there is a ‘carnival arcade’ which houses 8 of the games in retro styled arcade machines. Still sounding cool? Well don’t let it fool you, this isn’t a very fun game. The retro games are awful… and to my knowledge you can’t actually play the original Pacman. I find this stupid. The retro games you can find include:
Cutie Q, Dig Dug, Galaxian, Gaplus, Mappy, Pac & Pal, Pac-Mania, Super Pac-Man and Xevious.
Admittedly I didn’t waste my time playing all of these, but from what I saw… they didn’t look good.
But I guess that’s fair enough with the 6 new remixes they’re giving us… 6 remixes that aren’t at all good. I’d like to say that they were amazing and a nice new spin on Namco’s retro games. They felt pretty much the same to me but with some Wii controls (which I’ll talk about next). Sure they might look a little bit better than the originals but even the graphics aren’t that smooth.
Controls:
Wow… these controls are superb… is what I should be saying after complete disappointment with this game so far, however I won’t be saying this because it would be a lie. I’m going to give one example of TERRIBLE controls and that is Rally-X. I used to love this game, I can’t stand this version. The controls are perhaps the worst I’ve experienced on the Wii. There are two methods of control. The default is nunchuks analogue stick. The controls DON’T WORK using either method! You try to turn left and it either goes straight on or you turn 180 degrees.
This game is messy and broken. Don’t buy it unless you are a huge Namco fan. Even then, be a little cautious and really think about whether you want to waste £40 (However much it is in US).

This review may be used on GBAtemp.net also.

Gameplay: 62%

Graphics: 70%

Controls: 35%

Overall: 52%

Jackreyes