On the Japanese Wii Music website, Nintendo has begun a series of videos called "Today's Musical Instrument," which depicts an instrument both in its for-real form and as it will appear in Wii Music. The first video features the marimba: after some introductory text, we're treated to footage of a model pretending to use the Wiimote and Nunchuk as mallets playing an invisible instrument. This is followed by Wii Music footage of the same instrument. It's a cute video and a happy little tune.Like a lot of gestural Wii games, this is going to involve some playing-along on the player's part. You could just shake the controllers wildly and achieve pretty much the same results as making instrument-appropriate motions, but that sort of defeats the purpose of having different instruments in there.
[Via Inside-Games]
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8-28-2008 @ 11:04AM
Sisyphus said...
I'm still in complete denial that this is a Nintendo game and not some kind of SNL spoof. Its right up there with Wii-Toothbrush and Wii-Dishwasher. Its just insulting and confusing that someone would make this a "game".
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8-28-2008 @ 12:17PM
TWOO DEE said...
but it's clearly not a game, just something to fuck around with
8-28-2008 @ 11:50AM
Garu said...
Looks like it has balance board integration. I didn't know that.
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8-28-2008 @ 12:15PM
Mr Khan said...
That's been known since the disastrous drum performance at E3
8-28-2008 @ 12:14PM
John B. said...
This is going to annoy the shit out of every real musician in the world. And you thought it was bad with guitar hero.
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