Elebits review by Cory Faller

To be honest, I wasn't expecting much from Elebits. I was kind of put off by the demo at last year's E3, in particular the long-winded movie of all of the Elebits dancing. It just looked like a bunch of overweight salarymen shuffling around in an embarrassing stupor. Not the best criteria to form an opinion of a game on, I know, but still. The game looked pretty simple in general, though, and I foresaw a quick and shallow excursion that suffered from the typical low quality of most titles that float, belly-up, in the quagmire that surrounds a hardware launch.

After I got my Wii, I found myself spending an inordinate amount of time in the photo channel's puzzle game. Not because I'm particularly enamored by that fashion of puzzlery, but because I found myself almost hypnotized by the novelty of "pointing at junk". Zelda was great and all, but it wasn't really a Wii game. I needed something that would let me revel in my primal need to point at junk. Elebits, as it turned out, was that something. My former disdain for the title was overridden by a marvelous new appetite for destruction, and the game entered my collection without delay.

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