No waggle, no pointer, no motion controls. You take a Wii-mote, turn it sideways, and just use the D-pad and face buttons. It would be nice if each character had some sort of voice effect or victory noise anything aside from a merry chirp.ĭue to the target age group, Zhu Zhu Pets controls very simplistically. The music is a fairly repetitive but does its job as a tune for while you play. The pets themselves don’t make much noise. Sound doesn’t fair too much better, as it consists mostly of generic jumping and blinging noises when you collect an item. Still, you can tell where you’re going, and the levels have a clear theme that runs through them.Īside from a very, very overly-cheery announcer, there aren’t a lot of voice effects in this game.
There’s a bit of a blur when the characters are moving quickly, and the shiny coins and stars you’ll be collecting don’t have the highest resolution. There’s not much to the animations, because most character models tend toward stumpy, plush bodies. Most of the art features a black border line, which is necessary to differentiate everything but does tend to eat up the graphical real-estate. The color palette is composed of a nice variety of pastels, both on the background and on the characters themselves. I’m a bit outside of the game’s target demographic, but if the kids want bright and colorful, this is the game for them. There’s also a two-player mode if you want to bring a friend along. Each world is divided up into a series of levels, and you must guide your chosen pet until they can tag the Wild Bunch. The game plays out in a manner that should be familiar to anyone who has ever played a Super Mario Brothers game. Rather than re-invent the wheel or create a “where’s the princess” scenario, the animals are just playing tag. That’s the extent of the story, but it works here. These less civilized animals have challenged the neighborhood Pets to a game of tag.
It seems that there is another group of them that lives out in the forest, known as the Wild Bunch. Taking place in a neighborhood “just a little bit away from your own,” Zhu Zhu Pets features a race of clever pet hamsters living and playing out their lives with limited oversight from children. To that end, Activision has presented us with Zhu Zhu Pets Featuring the Wild Bunch. Sometimes a platform game for kids is just that-a platform game designed for kids. Some of that reputation is true, but some of it is merely exaggeration. The Wii is a console that gets blamed for have a lot of horrible licensed tie-in titles and poorly made motion control games. Warning: A non-numeric value encountered in /nfs/c12/h02/mnt/222827/domains//html/wp-includes/functions.php on line 64
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