news 28 Posted September 14, 2008 Hi all, We have just published a review of *Opoona* for the Wii - if you could post a link on your site that would be very much appreciated. *Link:* http://www.bit-tech.net/gaming/2008/09/13/opoona/1 *Picture:* http://images.bit-tech.net/content_images/2008/09/opoona/fp_img.jpg *Quote: */Opoona isn’t a revolutionary game at all and everything it does, from the basic layout and plotline right through to the job-based levelling system and so on has been done before in more complex and exciting ways. Instead, Opoona’s strength lies in the fact that Opoona Opoona - Conclusionsit makes all of it very accessible and easy to pick up. This is essentially an RPG by numbers after all. Unfortunately there are a few places where the lack of imagination shines through as being somewhat obvious and even though Opoona isn’t trying to be anything hugely original, it might have been nice had it not been so blatant in sourcing its inspirations. The game also makes some rather fundamental errors in more than a few places – you’d have thought that in this day and age we wouldn’t still have to wait for the text of each line of dialogue, all of which is unvoiced, to spill out and be skipped through individually. It really is a shame that Opoona has reproduced many of the flaws of the JRPG format, as well as many of the strengths. Still, provided that you can get past these issues OK, Opoona does actually achieve what it tries to do; be a decent and very playable RPG suitable for any and all in the Wii’s massively varied audience. It may not be the most creative game we’ve ever seen, but Opoona is pleasant and playable at least and that’s more than we can say for some games. /* *Cheers guys! Tim Smalley www.bit-tech.net Share this post Link to post
