It's the final stretch of the semester, aaand that means I'm whipping out the video games! So I went to my local Family Video and rented some Wii games ^_^ Here are my thoughts:

Big Brain Academy: Wii Degree - I absolutely loved Big Brain for the DS, so I had high expectations for the Wii version. You have to solve puzzles as accurately and quickly as possible to get a better score, and ultimately get a bigger brain. And it was a lot of fun, but I think the fact that you had to point the Wiimote at the screen kind of threw things off... It was tiring to keep holding it up. But other than that, I thought the puzzles were a lot of fun, and they worked really well on a TV screen. And the best part was that my friend who isn't very video game inclined played the solo games for a few hours straight while I took a nap!

Rating: 8 out of 10

Kororinpa: Marble Mania - In this game, you treat the Wiimote like a balance board, and you turn it this way and that to navigate a ball throughout a maze. There was just something about this game that kind of... made me not want to keep playing. It was frustrating, but maybe it's because with the Wiimote, you have a TON of control, and I just don't have that steady of a hand ^_^ I didn't get too far into the game, so I didn't get to any of the crazy stages that I've read about in reviews. Maybe I'll give it another try in the future, but for now, I'll stick with the Super Monkey Ball series ^_^

Rating: 5 out of 10