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Awful controls and bug

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 18, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This game is a big disapointment compared to the table game.

The awkward controls makes some challenges frustrating.
I couldnt complete the simulating actions one given the little time.
The painting ones would be fun but normal joes wont make it cause it requires a lot of practice.

Also it has a bug. You must reset the wii remotes so you only have 1 remote active. Otherwise it will map some functions on other remotes in games like painting and the wordsearch.

Great Party Game! Lots of Laughs!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 29, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This is a great party game! If you enjoy Cranium, this is a must for the Wii. You make two teams and each team takes a turn spinning the wheel and try to complete the challenge. There is a variety of activities from drawing a picture like Pictionary, but you may have to draw with shapes or lines that will disappear. There are musical games where you play the song and your team tries to guess the song, word scrambles, geography and challenges whereby you turn your back to the tv and your team will describe a series of activities you must accomplish with the Wii remote within the time allotment (hammer a nail, comb your hair, mix a cake, brush your teeth, etc). The challenges are short and the game is not too lengthy.

A Great Party Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: June 20, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I purchased this game as a fan of the Cranium series of board games and I found this an absolute blast. It's a game that requires at least two "teams" (I've played with just one other player), so you can't really play it alone, but it makes a great game for parties and competitive friends. The Decoder Mask holds fingerprints easily, but it's nothing a little clorox wipe won't take care of.

Not as fun as the board games...

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 12, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Overall, this would be a good game for a party with a bunch of teens and older who have a Wii. The Wii gamplay does not much factor into the success (and failures) of this game. In fact, for the few cool uses of the Wiimote, there are equally frustratingly hard to learn motions that would make it hard to do this in a large party setting.

My real concern is that the questions are much too adult for most kids to play, but there was no indication of that on the box. For example, one word scramble game gave the hint: "Rotten Music" the answer was "The Sex Pistols" neither my wife, nor extremely musically savvy 9-year old know that Johnny Rotten was a member of the Sex Pistols, and of course my six year old daughter started asking what a Sex Pistol was...

The geography questions are similar: in 60 seconds, find on a hard to manipulate map, Honduras, North Korea and Serbia. Really, fun for everyone? I can do that, but most adults can't, and my kids sure can't.

Looking for Wii gameboard fun? Try Mario Party 8 instead, which is a ton of fun, easy to learn, and has endless gameplay choices. Looking for non-Wii gameboard fun? All the Cranium physical board games are great, and really fun for the whole family. This is a good try, but would benefit from another generation of development.

Slow pacing, not that fun.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 22, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Great idea, neat artwork, but the pace is too slow for parties, and the truth is it's just not that fun.

Great Party Game!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: January 14, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This is a great game to play at a party (teens or adults). We had a new years eve party with 6 couples and had two teams of 6 and had a blast! Some of the wii control moves are a little tricky at first for beginners. If you want a wii game that is social, to play at a party this is the one.

great game...except?

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: December 29, 2007
Author: Amazon User

We had a great time playing this game on the Wii with one small exception. Some of us could easily read the "hidden" answer on the screen?? They need to figure out a way to scramble up the answer better. We are big Cranium fans and this game did not disappoint!

Great Game for a Group

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: December 31, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Bought this since we'd been snowed in and were becoming bored with the Wii Sports (although the Sports game remains one of my favorites I do need variety from time to time) and the Dancing With the Stars games--we weren't dissappointed. The two previously mentioned games can easily be played solo but this game is really made for a group. We had lots of laughs and we will play it often when two or more family members get together--four of us played it and after playing it everyone decided they had to go out and buy a Wii--just because this game was so much fun. I would recommend this game for adults but probably not for young children although there were some categories that anyone could enjoy and could do well with. Have to give it a four star based on one really incrediblly fun evening with this game!

Enjoyable family fun

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: January 07, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Cranium Kabookii is, in my experience, about as much fun as the board game from the same folks. The greatest weakness seems to me to be that the balance of questions can be odd (you may get a very easy question followed by one that seems totally obscure) If there is some sort of algorithm operating to give harder questions to folks who get a bunch right in a row (or easy questions to folks who keep missing them) I don't know what it is. Games usually remain competitive though, because of the also seemingly random assignment of points to various questions/activities. Sometimes solving something will get you five points, other times, two. We haven't figured out how the game decides point values.

These gripes aside, the game itself plays very well. I have played the game with people from age 11-65 and there were only minimal difficulties adjusting to the controls. Even the "Star Performer" activities, which have been much maligned in other reviews, have been fairly straightforward. I can't help but feel that the people who have trouble with these gesturing activities may simply not be following the game's instructions properly-- every time I've played, things have gone just fine.

It's almost a prerequisite that Cranium Kabooki be played with a group. I'd say four people is the bare minimum, but the more the better. The load-times are usually just quick enough to avoid being momentum killers, and all-in-all everyone with whom I've played the game has had a good time. We usually only play the game once or twice though; I think it works best as one of a number of games on a game night-- it could get old if it were the sole attraction.

Definitely worth keeping in one's Wii party games library, I think. It's a solid 3 out of 5.

All ages family fun!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: February 23, 2008
Author: Amazon User

We rented this game from Blockbuster and did not want to return it! Although designed for team play (minimum four people), my 9-year-old daughter and I had hours of fun playing.

I could not decode the "secret" words unless looking through the red lens. I was so busy watching the drawing (and laughing hysterically) that I didn't even think to try to "cheat."

Some of the mini-games are a bit tricky to figure out, but after a couple full games we could do the "back-turned" acting out games fine.

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