It’s quite hard to know what to make of Cranium Kabookii because, while to my mind it is clearly the best third-party party game available for the Wii, it’s not strikingly awesome on its own.

The mini games themselves range from inventive and fun to derived and damningly difficult – though they do mostly edge towards the former, thankfully. Games like Cloodle prove themselves to be fairly fun and repeatable and Cranium Kabookii is a game with a certain amount of replayability because of that. However, at the same time, the game is full of wasted potential and gameplay that’s too simple, often seemingly rewarding players arbitrarily. Despite the colourful, vibrant presentation the game also fails to provide anything that is suitably engaging visually. The developers would have done a lot better to simply recreate the board from the board game rather than to feature coloured tokens.



Link: Bit Tech