With the combination of more rain, less walks with the dog, and my wife needing to use the computer for preparing materials for her school, I hadn’t gotten any exercise in the past few days. I was feeling a little lazy just sitting around, so I popped Wii Sports back into the console to see if I could pick up where I left off.
We have been using the Wii since we got our WiFi router, but not as a game only device. While we do have the occasional rounds of Dr. Mario Rx, I also use the Internet Channel while my wife is working to check out Youtube and read the news. I hadn’t played any of Wii Sports since Super Smash Brothers Brawl came out, but Brawl isn’t exercise. Wii Sports can get me moving, and that’s what I was looking for after being trapped in the house all day.
I had been hovering around Pro Rankings when I stopped playing Wii Sports every day. I had crossed the pro threshold for Bowling, but for everything else I am just under the skill level required to beat the pro level challenges. I think the tougher games are more annoying.
Baseball, in particular, is not fun at the pro ranking, since pitching seems random. I never feel like the pitch I choose affects the outcome of the game, yet the computer player’s pitches leave me completely scoreless most games. Why do they hit sliders and sinkers, but I NEVER can. I liked when it was a bunch of fastballs down the middle, and I could hit a few home runs in a game. I might go to a new character just to play low level baseball again. I love baseball modes in training, but I hate pitching.
I appreciate the slightly higher level tennis, and I would play to reach pro status. 90% of the time, the reason why the other team gets an advantage in a game of tennis is because I’ll swing while trying to control the front court player, miss, and have my back court player in the middle of his animation trying to recover his swing from the same motion as the ball goes by. If I don’t control both players, my computer controlled team mate does absolutely nothing, and losing a game because that moron refuses to swing at a ball I am out of position to hit is more infuriating than missing because I was swinging too early and can’t hit with my back court player due to controlling them both with the same action.
Bowling just gets harder and harder to maintain a positive score. I now have to score really high and have multiple strikes or even a turkey to keep from losing points. I can score over my real life average considerably and still lose points. I’m a pro, so I guess strikes are expected, but it’s hard to keep ahead. I’d almost not want to play bowling, because if I mess up I’ll keep dropping for a while before I can regain my scores and skills. I guess I need to go back to training mode for this.
Boxing I still win in the second round. It’s usually just flailing around till I knock out the other player. The only thing that annoys me about Wii Boxing is that I can throw a punch and have it not register, then I can do the same motion again and have it throw a knock out jab. It’s weird. I like the training mode for the best work out.
Golf is still broken and won’t read on my Wii. I got a badly pressed version of Wii Sports and have no way to replace it. Golf looks fun too. (Shrug)
If I keep up my Wii Exercise routine before bed, I might eventually even convince myself that Wii Fit will be a good purchase despite the shipping costs. I really want to give that experience a try, but I’m not able to purchase it from Play-Asia, my normal source for expensive import games delivered to my home.
Once the weather clears up, I’ll probably drop Wii Sports again like I normally do. Walking the dog is usually all the exercise I have time for before work, and the Television is usually tied up during the evening anyway. Seeing as I detest real sports, and I would never go out of my way to do anything but go bowling, me returning to Wii Sports shows that it is a quality game package that is one of the best games on the system.
