Eledees / Elebits

Mr E

I'm surprised that this game has been out over a week, but nobody has mentioned it.

Picked it up yesterday (€45 in Smyths with Loyalty card) and played the first few levels last night. This kind of game is what the wii controllers were designed for. You move about a room (or set of rooms) picking stuff up with collection gun (think ghostbusters) and zapping elebits that run out from their hiding places. You move around a room with the nunchuck, and look around with the wiimote. You pick up stuff with the A button. You'll be pushing, pulling, twisting and turning stuff with the wiimote, but its very intuitive.

Green Elebits = Watts -- collect enough to turn on electrical appliances. This makes yellow and red elebits appear, which powers up your gun, which enables you to lift heavier items, which reveals more green elebits. And so on.

The game mechanics remind me a bit of the Katamari games.

First few levels had a time limit of around 7 minutes, and they're alot of fun. Hidden on each level are 3 pink elebits which open secret modes for each stage, so there is lots of scope for replayability. I think there are about 40 levels, so theres alot in this.

Fun game, and probably the best since Excite Truck.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHy9DBGfxtA

Rhyme

i remember following this around launch time and getting really interested (along with Trauma Centre :rolleyes: )... for some reason it dropped off the radar and now it rises again at the worst possible time, exam time.

I'll definitely pick it up at some stage, just not right now.

WellyJ

Been playing this with my girlfriend the last few days,

Lots of fun,

Exactly what nintendo had in mind when they made the wii,

It just seems to work. Really fun,

You get to trash the whole house and not get in trouble,

My second favorite wii title after Zelda

djkeogh

thanks for the review. It's an interesting looking game. May have to pick it up.

purplegeko

I have been umming and ahhing about getting this for a while now. I have been looking for a fun game to share with the rest of my family, maybe i have found it. I'll put on my wishlist.

donkey 2002

Got it a good bit of fun have not tried it multiplayer yet

Fnz

TmB wrote:

The game mechanics remind me a bit of the Katamari games.

Isn't it, though... "AHA! I can now throw around this table... and piano. lol - they once seemed so mighty!"

djkeogh

Yea, i'm liking the look of this one so I've put the order in for it from CDWow. Looking forward to giving it a go. I'll report back once I've played it a bit.

djkeogh

Yea, i'm liking the look of this one so I've put the order in for it from CDWow. Looking forward to giving it a go. I'll report back once I've played it a bit.

CiDeRmAn

Its not bad, I'll grant you, but Super Paper Mario kicks its ass!
And where the hell is Trauma Center, 2nd Opinion, the conversion is taking way too long.

Kurtosis

Ta-da!

djkeogh

I'm looking forward to Paper Mario as well but this looks like good fun. Last game I got was Warioware which is dull when played alone so I'm eager for a new and original game which this seems to be fit the bill of.