Ok, so this weekend was my first “wiikend”, and yep my conclusion is that everyone should buy one.

Hey, everyone I know seems to be really excited and I think that everyone that has played it so far has vowed to buy one. Friday night saw my first encounter with Zelda: The Twilight Princess, and I have to say it was brilliant. The world is truly beautiful, the music is really nice, and with the Wii-mote and Nunchuck, the game is really quite immersive. I’ve not really gotten that far yet, but after 2 and a half hours of playing, I was really getting in to it. And the Wii’s control system was a pleasure too.

Unlike usual consoles where you get the old finger and wrist cramp from holding the controller and frantically hitting buttons, you just don’t get that problem. And yep, that brings me back to Wii Sports. I was aching most of the wiikend thanks to that. Have to say that Tennis is the most fun of the lot (all the games are good mind you!), and that multiplayer tennis is great. But beware! You need plenty of space. God knows how you are supposed to play tennis with 4 players and not knock someone out!

I also picked up Wii play (worth it for the extra controller), and that too is, well bonkers. One of my favourite minigames has to be the one where you are racing your woollen cow along a track and have to knock down scarecrows and jump fences by “jumping” and leaning the Wii-mote.

Anyway, I didn’t spend the whole weekend wii-ing. I was up in Swindonia again, mainly due to a recall for my ickle Yaris T-Sport. So in it went on the monday for a new crankshaft sensor (purely as a precautionary measure), and when I went to pick it up, I was presented with a bottle of champagne by Toyota to say sorry! Nice gesture, me thinks.

Anyway, I’m off to eat my dinner now, and then to go and herd more goats in Zelda…