Your typical sports are there, such as tennis, racing, and baseball, but there are also a few slightly out-there options like water gun fights, pie throwing, and a glass harp game where you make music by rubbing drinking glasses. As I had said several times before, for this is why I never consider ratings/scores in reviews, even if they are experts, professionals or whatever they are in the topic. International products have separate terms, are sold from abroad and may differ from local products, including fit, age ratings, and language of product, labeling or instructions. After playing 20 minigames, players gains access to their own virtual villas, [16] which can be decorated with furniture or photographs taken during the game.

The City Resort, which centers around extreme and leisure sports, is the second and smallest resort.The majority, however, are of a satisfyingly high quality: this was especially refreshing back in the Wii days when so many other mini-game collections were about as responsive as a sloth trying to catch a bullet in its teeth. While this is a nice idea on paper, it simply results in a set of games that get rather dull all too quickly, lacking the control and excitement you’d expect and hope for.

Go Vacation received a mixed reception from critics; both versions of the game received "mixed or average" reviews according to review aggregator Metacritic. It transforms any home into the idyllic holiday island of Kawaii, which attracts with more than 50 original leisure activities - for example with parachuting, beach volleyball, tennis and even snowball battles. Even though its mini-games can be played by up to four players, as a solo game it’s still entertaining: it’ll take you ages to play through every event, clear them on every difficulty and get all the unlockables. If ever there was a game released at the wrong time on the Wii that deserved a second chance… it’s Silent Hill: Shattered Memories. The world itself feels quite ambitious, and definitely provides much more in the way of extra content than the majority of sport-based minigame titles, but the main activities don’t do enough to support this.

Developed by (what was then) Namco Bandai and published by Nintendo itself, it seemed that there was a lot of confidence around this one.