Product Description

Tamagotchi: Party On! is a 3D party game based on the super popular Tamagotchi franchise. Jump in solo or with up to 3 of your friends to join the exciting race to become the most popular Tamagotchi on Tamagotchi Planet! Swing your Wii Remote and turn the whole planet into your playing board! The players can choose their favorite Tamagotchis and engage in a hilarious campaign run to be the next president of Tamagotchi Planet. Be happy! Be popular! Be president!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #6011 in Video Games
• Brand: Namco
• Model: 80003
• Released on: 2007-05-29
• ESRB Rating: Everyone
• Platform: Nintendo Wii
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: .53" h x 5.75" w x 7.75" l, .25 pounds

Features

• Choose your favorite Tamagotchi and swing, shake, point, turn and twist the Wii controller to play the game
• Explore unique towns and other fun locations within the quirky world of Tamagotchi, as you advance through the playing board
• 4-player competition -- play against your friends to become the President of Tamagotchi Planet
• Engage in over 15 exciting mini games that will test your interactive skills -- popularity points and badges help jump start your race to President
• Easy to pick up and play - The 3D board game style of gameplay allows you and your friends to pick up and understand the game with ease

Customer Reviews

static, dull game for insomniacs (to help you sleep)
The game was purchased at the behest of my 6 y.o. daughter because it had a "cute cover." While rated "E" for everyone ~ it isn't. Most of the action (moving around a 3-D game board) is explained via text scrolling across the bottom of the screen ~ yet my kindergartner daughter doesn't read yet. As you cannot play this game without reading along, I helped with the vapid text and soon found a bigger problem ~ an offensive premise.

General game philosophy: "buy friends." Win 'gotchi' dollars thru game-piece movement - then trade this money for friends~ if you buy enough friends, you win the game by winning the Presidental popularity contest.

... Hmm. OK, so winning the presidency by buying-friends-with-money may have some nexus in political science, so I'll raise my estimate of this game to 2 stars (for providing a cynical insight into American politics). But it is still a boring waste of time. Most of the game is spent waiting, and when you do have a game move (ie rolling the dice) the action is random, so your finesse with a Wii stick is irrelevent. Instead, wait for your cute graphic to skip along the game board, then wait for your competitor to skip, then the next two competitors, then roll again to finally get some action - the 'activity' that happens at each game-board spot. Unfortunately these small screen game activities were certainly too fast/complex for a 6 year old, and not much fun for me. (Match the pattern/play a crude tetris, etc. Tiny screen, ~eh graphics, random winning pattern.)

This is a very static game - not much action, not much imagination (for 'fun' in this game it seems you go to the Mamagotchi store and buy oddities - possibly these can be used later in the game, but we never got that far.) And the game itself isn't Wii-like - no cool movement, no moving of the body synced to the movement on the screen... instead you can play this game totally potato-couched across the furniture with a flick of the wrist.

So in conclusion: this is a low-down waste of money. The only excuse I can come up for this mess is that their is a cool (adult) drinking game that goes with it. (everytime your gotchi gets run over by the fun-bus you take a shot. Evertime you lose a gotchi friend your friend takes a shot.... You get the idea.) But even then, I'd rather not. It isn't fun. It is too slow-paced and visually bland ~ and the bigger sin, it doesn't take advantage of what the Wii so wonderfully offers - keyed body movement to screen.

My daughter and I agree this is the worst Wii game we've played.

complete garbage!!!!
This game is a REALLY BAD mario party rip off! It really stinks do not buy it! It is totally NOT worth the money even a reduced price.

This game bites
I will play almost anything and I will not play this game. We even like party games. The games aren't fun. Half of them don't work with the control scheme. The board is just silly.

Not fun. Even if you were drinking.