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Sad and Rather Twisted

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 21 / 63
Date: December 28, 2006
Author: Amazon User

My son and I tried this game, but we found it a bit pathetic. The protagonist is whiny, due to his parents' interest in these cute creatures, and he puts the Elebits through a lot of pain to watch his television show. Isn't that nice? The Elebits, who supply all electrical power to the world, have for some reason stopped providing it, and the boy has decided to capture them to make them provide power to his TV. When the Elebits are captured, they make sad, kitten-type noises, indicating to us their displeasure at the process. We just wanted to leave the poor things alone! You're also supposed to destroy items that the Elebits might be hiding in, which seems a bit extreme.

We just weren't enjoying the process, so we're selling the game. Others obviously like it, and that's great. Just be careful if you aren't happy performing what seems like a torturous procedure on cute little creatures.

excelent

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: March 09, 2007
Author: Amazon User

excelent game, you need to get used to the controls, but is a lot of fun

Not as fun as I thought it would be.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 10
Date: January 30, 2007
Author: Amazon User

To be honest, I bought Elebits with excitement that it would really become addictive and fun, but I've had it for more than a month and have only wanted to play it for about three hours. It's just not as good as I thought and although I haven't tried multi-player yet, I heard it's just too cluttered to be engaging. There is a lot of replay in the game, but it's just too much of the same thing over and over to actually want to go through any of the levels again. Creating levels is fun, but the friend codes are such a pain and most people don't own the game to begin with. Instead, I suggest you spend your money on some Virtual Console games, such as: Contra 3, Comix Zone, Castlevania 4, Gradius, Mario Kart 64, or Legend of Zelda: Link to the Past. Believe it or not, all six of these games together are cheaper ($47) than a new copy of Elebits ($49) and are twice as fun.

Addictive fun

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: July 16, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I wasn't sure about this game but with all of the good reviews I went ahead and bought it. The concept is very unusual and works so well on the Wii. Someone went to a lot of trouble to come up with an idea just for the Wii. I love the game. It gets you very involved, even if the story and graphics aren't great, by getting you addicted to eleibits. My kids also enjoy watching me play. It's a little too hard for them to play yet. (They are 3 and 6) so it's nice to have something that let's me use the Wii too.

Good clean fun for kids

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: July 29, 2007
Author: Amazon User

When lightening strikes, and the power goes out, Kai has to capture colorful elebits to help restore the area's power. At the beginning, Kai doesn't care for elebits to much. He's jealous of them because he thinks his parents like them more than him. Each mission requires Kai to capture a specified number of watts to get the power back. However, he has to be careful when and how he captures the colored elebits.

This game has been a great hit with our 8 year old. When I asked him what he liked about it, he said everything, but particularly the strategy of trying to figure out when and how to capture the elebits. He has enjoyed the story line and has not had any problems with the game play. As parents, we like that it's a good, clean, fun game. It's pretty much a first person shooter, but without the violence. Like our son, we also like the fact it makes him think. It's not just mindless entertainment. He actually has to think and use reason and logic to get the most watts from each capture. While the game seems to be a little too difficult for him at times (mainly he can't find enough elebits to complete a level), with help from a walk through, he's been able to complete most of the levels. For us it's been a great purchase.

**Our son contributed most of the content for this review, including the game's premise.

Great for Kids, Fun for Adults

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: November 19, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I rented this game thinking that it might catch the interest of my girlfriend. As we are both in our 30's I find it hard to get her involved in any video game that is even remotely complicated (Raving Rabbids = Too Complicated). Wii sports is the only game as of yet that I have been able to get her to play for more than one hour. I knew that the 'cuteness' would spark some interest, but would the controls be too complicated and frustrating? Well this game was a big hit for her, and I found myself enjoying it as well!! This game is along the lines of a FPS with ZERO violence. All you do is capture these little energy creating creatures (Elebits) using a Ghostbuster like power beam. Once you have collected enough creatures you are able to turn on appliances freeing up even more creatures to catch! This game may be geared towards children, who will love this game, but we found ourselves playing for hours on end.

Perfect title for the Wii!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: January 29, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I rented Elebits based on many of the previous reviews here, and after taking the game back, I rushed to purchase it for myself. While hardcore gamers probably won't appreciate Elebits, this is a great family title. I am not a gamer, but I found Elebits to be extremely intuitive and a whole lot of fun -- combining puzzle-solving with zapping, decision-making with simple reacting. My 9yo also loves this game -- we are both working our way through the levels. The detail in each level is amazing!

Elebits also has an interesting edit mode, of which I have only scratched the surface. I highly recommend this game, especially if you are new to gaming and/or the Wii. If you are a long-time gamer and into role plays/shoot-em-ups, this probably isn't the game for you -- but might be the game for your kids! ;) Enjoy!

Perfect acuracy w/wii remote/nunchuck control like a 1st person shooter, w/cute creatures

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: April 25, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Many wrote great reviews already. This is like a first-person shooter, but non-violent. You use a mostly undying ray gun to capture Elebits like another said, Ghostbusters style & use the ray gun as well to move furniture to find them in each room/stage. They can be anywhere, even under books, in drawers, etc.
The physics of this game are very impressive. The furiture all have a real sense of heaviness, it feels real that things can be in the way & you have to move them, etc. It's like tearing your room up w/o worrying about the mess! You really feel like you are walking around, you can crouch, stretch up, look at the celing, floor & all around using mostly the remote for shooting/looking in 360 & the nunchuck for zooming/walking fwd/back & sliding left/right. The use of controls made it VERY easy to get a feel, very intutive. This game comes with a walkthru tutorial of several levels on how to do everythign & how to use the controls correctly, from finding the elebits, to opening a door, to knowing you need more points before moving larger furniture, etc.
The game itself is very easy, you just search for the sweet (they sound like meaowing kittens when nearby) little guys all around the place. You don't get as many wattts/points if you scare them before grabbing them, some move very fast, but most are easy to catch. I rented this quick & played 3 levels. There are extra tools such as "ball" that knocks them unconscious a while, cookies to bring them out for little while, catching 3 very fast pink guys to advanced to the next level, etc. In obviously higher levels, they can attack back & throw thigns at you & some cannot be captured & will attack you back. You also may loose points for being too noisy when throwing things around willy nilly & there is always a time limit of probably 5-10 min each level.
There is also multiplayer to see who can capture more elebits before time runs out up to 4 players, each needing their own remote since it's at the same time for more craziness. It can do online, but only exchangeing screenshots (which you can take at anytime as you play) & other data only.
You can create your own levels, replay any level at anytime instead of just the main story mode.

This is a great game for kids/teens, teach them how to look for something & not give up... noise factor & being too messy teach them to be cleaner, etc. The acuracy will never fustrate anyone. Adults may find it too simple, but if looking to zone out & relax or laugh at cuteness, this would do it.

I REALLY Hope all game developers take a look at this game to find out how this game has such beautiful physics, PERFECT acuracy of using wii & nunchuck remote w/such naturalness. ALL games hsould feel this good, I feel that it's the cheap 3rd party game developer's fault most wii games are bad due to lazy design/production or controls, not the wii remote or system.

Good game gets tedious after a while

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: June 08, 2007
Author: Amazon User

B+ game, multiplayer is awesome, and the enjoyment of throwing furniture around looking for those critters is just as fun.

In solo mode, you have to complete tasks in order to open more doors and lift more heavier furniture (by collecting more and more elebits)

There's a really bad story line behind this but the main point of this game is the click and shoot feature.

It is at it's best in multiplayer when you have to compete with others to find elebits

However in multi; each player takes turn moving around(you are required to move around to find more elebits) which could prove really annoying as it is hard to know when it is your turn(your cursor just changes to you are camera - no audible warning)

Overall a fun point and shoot game, nothing else to it.

Frustrating But I Can See The Appeal

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: August 09, 2007
Author: Amazon User

There are a lot of good reviews for this game, but--for me--this game was just frustrating.

After about 2 days of playing I got to a level where the game just ceased to be fun and challenging and went into the realm of annoying. Sure it is fun that you can open doors, shatter things etc but you have to move stuff and it gets stuck in front of doors and then you can't get out etc etc etc. Then the monotony sets in.

The edit mode is neat but for just me playing this the appeal wore off pretty quickly. Sorry! If you like games such as lemmings and worms you will probably find this immensely entertaining but if you were looking more for katamari this doesn't quite reach that level of fun. Again, this my opinion :)

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