I Play Dancing with the Stars for the Wii and My Life Was Worse For It (Please help me!!!!) - FGR

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Published on May 7, 2021 11:00:33 AM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zo_Qhh0gO4E

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Dancing with the Stars (2007)

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I Play Dancing with the Stars for the Wii and My Life Was Worse For It (Please help me!!!!) - FGR

The fourth game in shovelware month does not disappoint with what I consider one of the worst video games that I've played.

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I was told many things in my life. I was told that swallowing gum stays in your stomach for seven years. I was told you can't go swimming until an hour after you eat. And I was told Smurfs dance party was a terrible game. But no viewers, the depths of awful was found in a little game called Dancing with the Stars. It is not only the worst fitness game for this budget month. I guarantee Yoga fitness will at least be halfway decent, but the worst video game that I have ever played. Let's see why in this review. What's going on, everybody! My name is Jack Jenkins, and welcome to my YouTube channel. Today I am going to be talking about Dancing with the Stars. A game that I deeply regret picking. Let's get started.

My favorite part of the game is that you can just have the game criticize itself. Watch

See, I don't even have to work. Just play clips of this game is enough. Nah, I got a job to do. First off, I always want to give a little context to my reviews. I have never seen dancing with the stars, nor will I ever. I am not a washed-up forty-something that hates their life. I'm a washed-up twenty-something that hates their life. We watch anime instead, damn it! So I have no idea who these contestants are, who the judges are, or the show's format. I could watch an episode to get a background, but I think I'm torching myself enough here. The game's real draw assumes you know who these people are and uses that as a draw. And that is pretty much their only draw. So if the name Brian Fortuna gets you excited, well, then you'll love the game. Otherwise, it's misery.

Let's get to the gameplay. You are supposed to swing the Wii remotes in different directions matching the beat of the song. Suppose you have ever played Rayman Raving Rabbids. In that case, it's like the music mini-games, except it's an entire game built around it. I know. It sounds like a ton of fun. Every once in a while, you will get a marker to make a special dance move. Markers such as wave your hands or do the twist. That's it for the game. It's a three-minute mini-game stretched out for as long as possible.

If you were looking at the gameplay, you would see that I am constantly missing everyone. The whole first day, I thought the game was just absolutely broken. I was swinging the remote as hard as I could, and it didn't register. It wasn't until twenty minutes later when one of those how-to-play loading screens popped up that says you have to hit the B button on the remote or the Z button on the nunchuck and then swing. Why wasn't that stated in the first loading screen? I just assumed the game recognized motion controls without button-pushing cause that's how pretty much every Wii game is programmed. Once I understood how it works, it still wasn't any better. The Nunchuk is bad at precise movements, so it couldn't register the swings well. Why not allow the option to use two Wii motes. Why not remove the fact that you have to hold the b-button the entire game? Why even publish this trash in the beginning.

Remember the special moves I told you about. Well, they control like ass. I'm doing the movements, but it just can't register. Why can more advanced movements in Just Dance or even Smurfs Dance party calculate correctly, but this game can't handle up and down movements? It's just such a frustrating play when you try to do the hard version of the campaign. There are so many fast movements that expect expert execution exactly at the right moment. Still, the garbage controls don't let you. The worst part about this game is that the PS2 version supports the Dance Dance Revolution Matt. The Wii also has the matt, but there is no support. Why can't I just use the matt? It would be a much better-controlled game this way. You don't even have to do that much programming. The layout is already there in the PS2 game. It just… man, I hate this game.

So let's just say you get over the crappy controls. What's next for you. Well, there are a number of options that you can play in this game. The main one is the campaign mode, where you pick your team, choose your dancer, and then dance with the broken system. After that, you get a long loading screen. And then you get to listen to the judges' results. They say two lines of constantly repeated dialog, and then you get hit with another loading screen. Then you get your scores from the judges. Another loading screen awaits your future. Then you get the details from your dance that should have just been on the bottom of the previous page. Guess what, everyone? Another loading screen....

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