RT-Kenpo says...

I recently played through this last week, and it's quite a fun and unique little action puzzler. It has an easy learning curve and gets challenging without ever feeling insurmountable.

The controls are surprisingly intuitive from the start, though feel just a little slow at times, and occasionally through some accidental finger twisting I'd find myself ::ahem:: sucking when my intention was to blow. Practice helps, but there were still some frustrating moments later in the game when I felt like I was fighting the controls just a bit much.

The story mode is fun, but mastering it by collecting all the gems is a little too easy, and it ends on a very anticlimatic note with a final stage that's the same general structure as all those that appeared before it. At least a background shift would've been nice. Fortunately, the gameplay is enough of a blast to replay the story mode to try for a high score, and Wik comes with an incredibly fun challenge mode which adds even more longevity. With a couple of negligible minigames thrown in for good measure, Wik is altogether a fully loaded XBox Live Arcade game definitely worth a look.

RATING: 7.5
Published: August 16, 2006

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