Over the Christmas break
we were given a Wii. We got the thing wired in a while ago, but only
got round to finally sparking it up in anger last night. For no
reason that I can fathom, the thing has an internet connection.
Presumably so that the in-built BBC i-Player can work. However that
idea merely raises the question of why a Wii has an i-Player.
With the thing sparked
up, "er indoors TM" had a go at
"Rabbids". I've watched my nephew playing these -
they are a sort of psychotic rabbit. We had a rather frustrating half
an hour watching rabbids getting electrocuted. For no adequately
explored reason the rabbids would not go the way that they were being
directed. I say "directed": left to their own
devices, rabbids seem to go in a westerly direction. Frantic
thrashing of the hand-held controllers seem to make them more
inclined to take up a random trajectory. Try as we might we could not
find the pattern of random thrashing that would send them where we
felt they should go. Personally I was rather convinced that allowing
the rabbid to carry a toilet roll along with it was a bad move, but
what do I know?
In retrospect I can't
help but feel that having a controller each (rather than sharing
one) would have been useful. And that we could have done with
having a five year old to have shown us what to do with the game. I
suppose that having had all else fail, reading the instructions might
have been a good idea.
Instead we made a
video-Facebook-skype call to the Hose-Beast, and he watched us
playing rabbids on our Wii whilst we watched him playing lego Harry
Potter on his Wii. Sometimes I worry that that the amazing technology
that we have at our fingertips is being used in perhaps a slightly
frivolous way....
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