![]() You can go for a full refill to get as much spray as possible, go for small repeated refills to avoid losing too much time, or you can try and gauge how much water the balloon needs before bursting and only refill the amount needed. Spraying a target with a water gun to fill up a balloon in real life is usually just a matter of holding it in place and waiting, but Carnival Games’s version involves you having to manually refill your gun periodically by shaking your Wii Remote, and the aiming process of the gun is not as simple as just pointing and waiting because of it. Perhaps Carnival Games’s biggest triumph is turning one of the worst real life carnival games, Clown Splash, into a surprisingly exciting contest. While multiplayer isn’t going to earn you any rewards for playing, it’s definitely where Carnival Games finds its footing, the competitive angle really bringing out the best in the minigames. These do sometimes have special prizes to be earned by achieving special goals like the other carnival games, but these single player only ticket games are some of the worst on offer because they are so empty and underwhelming. You can pay tickets to play games where more tickets are the prize, but many like the coin pusher are built to pay out poorly, the crane game doesn’t even provide you the plush you pick up, and things like the fortune telling machine and love tester are awfully bland considering you need to pay tickets to play. This does give a motivation to spend some time alone with the game rather than it being a multiplayer only experience, but the odd thing about the tickets is they are used to play some rather bland carnival games. Tickets are also earned by playing, these given out much more liberally and almost always guaranteeing you get something out of playing the game, but these tickets and the prize exchange only apply to single player mode. Getting the biggest prize in a game will unlock new carnival games or outfit pieces. Your performance in a game will determine if you win no prize, a small one, a medium one, or a large one, but a certain amount of the smaller prizes can be exchanged for one in the next tier. ![]() Most prizes are essentially functionless though, but these little trinkets and stuffed animals can be traded up over the course of the game. Players are able to create their own character to play as, some of the prizes found around the fairground or won from the games even providing more ridiculous outfits like shoes styled after elephant feet or a scuba diving tank. The old man host seems a little out of it, but the mustachioed one with gold teeth is definitely the standout, chiding the player lightly even if they’re doing well with jeers and taunts that spice up the sometimes oddly silent moments of play. While this is definitely a squeaky clean and friendly version of a carnival though, there is at least still some moments of personality to be found, mainly if you get lucky with who is hosting the carnival game of choice. There is definitely a whimsical look to the place despite the low graphical fidelity, little touches like a roaming monkey you can click for prizes adding to the menus that already style themselves like different regions of this little carnival. Instead, a limbless carnival barker beckons you to his fairgrounds where a collection of 25 minigames can be played for prizes. Sometimes, a concept is just that appealing.Ĭarnival Games takes many of the classic staples of fairground games and recreates them for Wii remote motion controls, and thankfully, the scams and scummy nature of some real life carnivals has not been integrated into this lighthearted family game. ![]() Despite being developed by relative unknowns Cat Daddy Games, Carnival Games would ride its premise to selling millions, becoming a staple of casual Wii game collections and one of the top recommended multiplayer games for the system. The Wii’s secret to success was translating real life activities into easily understood games with motion sensing controllers, and since Wii Sports had primed its audience to expect this kind of simple remote swinging gameplay, the idea of recreating familiar carnival games in the same way wasn’t much of a stretch for the Wii’s enormous casual player base. ![]()
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