Furu Furu Park
Taito, 505 Games
Majesco
Party
01-17-2008
WII

Play in over 30 mini-games ranging from Taito classics to just straight up weird

• Some arcade classics remain fun, like Bubble Bobble

• Fun to laugh at whoever is playing it

 

• Difficulty on some mini-games is ridiculous

• Some mini-games are too weird for their own good

• The Wiimote should not be used for half this stuff

 

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Written by: Phillip Radke
Posted 02/04/08

I don’t know what it is with the Japanese and afros, but this game has got them flying all over the place. Take on the love challenge with Afro Love, flick away the afro-dragonfly, and throw the three afro-men in an Olympic event. Yeah, it’s all in there. At Furu Furu Park almost anything seems possible, except of course, fun.

 

This game is designed to give you that joyful mini-game experience, as you take your scowling orange dude and pit him against challenges that range from the simple to the bizarre. While one game has you inputting codes into a bank vault, the other will have you trying to make dragonflies dizzy by swirling a finger around their heads. Of course, there is no explanation or purpose behind any of this, and every mini-game can be breezed through in about 40 minutes. That’s not per game, that’s through all 30 of them. Every mini-game is unlocked from the start here, giving you no incentive to play any of them, except to see what strange stuff they’ll throw on the screen. None of the games have any levels within them, nor do they get any harder as you progress through them, they are all just the same each time you come back to them, which may give some gamers the sense of security they’ve always wanted, but for most of you it will just be an exercise in boredom.

 

But it can’t all be the same can it? Aren’t there different modes or something? Well, yes and no. For the players out there engaging in the single player offering, there are only two modes. You can either go into free play where you can play each game at your discretion, or you can enter into ranked mode where a green pig in a Matrix-like room will give you a ranking based on your performance in 5 mini-games which you choose yourself. But if you’re expecting ranks like S, A, and D to pop up then you are sorely mistaken. This pig doesn’t give you a letter grade, no, no, but will instead assign you the touted rank of frog, cat, cow, or some other random animal of his choosing according to your performance.


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