Oct 10 2008
Furu Furu Park: FunFun or SnoozeSnooze?
I have mostly read reviews that this game stinks. Of course, I am not the kind of person to knock a game off my interest list just because of the reviews, so I just had to try it for myself. I have had it sitting around as a rental for a few weeks now and finally got around to trying it yesterday.
First off I must say the games do not seem like classic mini games, as it says they are, but a few do remind me of other mini games I have seen before, so maybe I just am not in the know about classic mini games to recognize the others. The thing that gets me, though, is that for a mini game style game you would think it would be an up to four players game, but it is only solo or dual (2) play.
I only tried solo mode, so not sure if it is any good (or bad) as dual, but I got to imagine that really depends on the two playing. In solo mode there are 30 mini games to try and they all start out unlocked. There is a variety of game types, such as technique, balance, power, and brain. For solo mode you can play the games in Free Mode or
In Free Mode you pick any game and try to just beat the mission for the game you choose. This can be kind of boring as at least to me the mini games were mostly too easy or way too frustrating because the controls did not seem to react right (big example is the slowness of the bat to react in the baseball mini game and the cruddy angle pitcher’s view angle they give you the supposed batter), but I found the Rank Mode to be fun.
In the Rank Mode you select any five games. You then try to beat the missions and get ranked as different animals by the pig depending on how you do. The best I got was cow, but I assume you are trying to eventually be ranked a pig.
Overall I agree that this is kind of a Snooze Snooze game in that it does not offer that much to do and the mini games are all extremely short. However, I think to some extent it can be a Fun Fun game. I just do not recommend it as a game to buy, but for an evening of fun as solo or dual it may be worth renting and trying once. I doubt it would be worth more than one sit through for anyone, though.
