You know, I don't think anyone in the world likes Blackjack this much.
Do you love Blackjack enough to pay seven dollars to play it? Given the choice, I'd decline before I even knew any further details. While Blackjack can be fun in small doses or as part of a larger collection of casino games, it's still a fairly simplistic card game that won't hold your interest for long. There's some element of strategy involved -- carefully weighing your hand against the dealer's opening card is key to winning -- but after a few hands, you'll be ready to head off to the craps table.
Man, I've never been more wrong about anything in my life. In the short amount of time I'd played WiiWare's Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: My Life as a King to gather early impressions, I'd passed some pretty silly judgments on it. I'd decided that it was well-made for what it was, but felt that it was lacking in depth and presentation quality, especially considering that it arrived as WiiWare's most expensive launch title.
At the insistence of others (including a roommate who is so hooked on the game that she's sitting here playing it right now, in my room, as I type this), I was urged to play some more and reconsider my initial reaction. I did, and I was impressed by what the game eventually became. My Life as a King contains a deceptive amount of depth, and its limited gameplay scope features enough content to make the experience more than worth your 1,500 Wii Points.
We're moving up in the world, baby. Impressions? Oh, hell no. We do reviews now.
The OMG Nintendo editorial staff (consisting of myself and Sardius, because Kou is all DS) are going to be the main WiiWare review team for GamePro in the future. You can catch the reviews on the GamePro main site... or see them hours ahead of time by just tuning your RSS readers right here.
This is the first of the review wave, covering a simple but elegant game called Defend Your Castle that just begs to be played by drunken frat boys with poor hand-eye coordination. Seriously, this game has it all: death, stickmen, death, explosives, death, epic combat, death, and also more death. Just check behind the cut for the full review.
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