Nintendo Wii

Octomania is an unique puzzle style game for the Nintendo Wii.  I like the whole puzzle concept of the game, but as a Wii game it ends up being somewhat frustrating because of the pointing controls being too sensitive.  Basically you just get the number of octopuses of the same color noted in the middle of a grid and that starts a chain.  You can then continue the chain by connecting more of the same color.  The way you move then is by pressing a and pointing.  It moves them in a four square area and this is the part that gets hard and often frustrating.  The screen just does not have the area to move them around without constantly being redirected to the wrong area by accident.  Also, it can get frustrating to try to get the number of the same color to where there is a grid, which end up randomly appearing.

Overall I kind of liked this game, but after a while it just got more frustrating.  At first I did not know what I was doing and I still won in easy by randomly moving around the octopuses (or is it octopi?).  Once I knew what I had to do and not being able to get it to do it how I wanted the game just became too frustrating and I could not even get through the second difficulty level.  If you can get it to work well for you, then it might be fun, especially since this is a WiFi battle game, but personally I just got frustrated with it, as even with an hour of playing I could not get any better at managing the pointing, and mailed it back.