Wii Warm Up: Your style

by JC Fletcher { Nov 24th 2008 at 8:00AM }

Nintendo announced three Art Style games at once for Europe, treating them as a set. Statements made by developer Skip also indicate that there may not be more Art Style for a while. Nintendo may have already proved us wrong this morning -- as of the time of writing, they haven't announced the releases yet.

But we'll discuss these three now anyway, since some of us have had plenty of time to play some or all of them. Which has become more of a staple in your gaming life? The chilled-out Orbient? The brand new, slightly action-oriented Cubello? The intensely frustrating Rotohex?

Tags: art-style, bit-generations, cubello, orbient, puzzle, remake, rotohex

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Mr Khan @ Nov 24th 2008 8:30AM

Skip? The makers of Chibi-Robo and Captain Rainbow?

hmm...

Rob @ Nov 24th 2008 10:44AM

I've only had chance to play Cubello (in PAL territories here). Not sure what to say about it. It's fun but only in like 10 minute phases.
But It's cheap and good for pick up, play and put down.
I'm looking forward to the other releases and would be happy to see more art-style games.

madhat @ Nov 24th 2008 10:45AM

Orbient is a very clever game design. I actually only played halfway through and then it became more frustrating then fun. I'm sure I could have finished it but it didn't seem worth the bother. Once frustration> fun I say the heck with it. But I'm definitely not sorry I bought it, if only to see what kind of game you could make with the simplest controls possible.

Rotohex mostly left me with feelings of "meh". And I 'm not just saying that because I could not get past the blue. I played it a bunch of times and could only just make it to blue every time. Even if I had been awesome at it, I don't think it would have wowed me. It's definitely worth 6 bucks but not worth a penny more than that.

Cubello I just got. I played it for a half hour last night. It didn't wow me but I need to give it more time. I'm sure, like Rotohex, it'll be worth 6 bucks if nothing else

Velvet Kennedy @ Nov 24th 2008 12:16PM

Orbient is extremely well designed, and very chill. Rotohex is simply a console build of Dialhex (with added 2-player). This is a good thing - but I feel the gameplay is best suited for short bouts.

Cubello has utterly consumed me. I can understand why people who have only played a little of Cubello would say "meh". The later levels are challenging, and require such precision to play well that it takes some dedication. I am totally hooked - to the point that I have been referring to the Wii as "the machine that plays Cubello". Skip - PLEASE do a DS build.

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