Tochi's Hut

My initial impressions after a few days with Tochii:

Wii

The Good:

• Wii Sports - Tennis rocks. Boxing is tiring, but a KO is awesome.
  
• Fast startup time - 2 seconds to boot up, 5 seconds into channel menu.
• Channel Menu is simple and intuitive
• Controllers
  

The Bad:

• Internet channel is cumbersome. If you have trouble connecting to their "site", your Wii takes forever to time out. You cannot "cancel" midway (Wii Menu button is disabled!).
  
• Long updates - 40 minutes to update my Wii "software".
• Download times are very slow. Took 5 minutes to download the Wii Opera browser. It maybe be some sub-optimal router or wii settings, but as customer, it's annoying.

Wii Play

The Good:

• Air Hockey and shooting ducks is pretty cool.

The Ugly:

• All the other games are crap.

Zelda - Twilight Princess

The Good:

• Hyrule Field isn't as big as in OoT!
  
• Aim with the Wii-mote is so cool. You get the boomerang so early in the game. :)
  
• It's Zelda, non-cartoon version.

The Bad:

• Perhaps it's FF influence, but the lack of voice-overs really stands out. The "AHH"s and "Hey"'s just don't cut it.
• The fighting controls could have been tuned a bit better. I'm just waving both controllers, and I'm still winning.

Super Monkey Balls: Banana Blitz

I've only been limited to the single player missions. Will give the party games a try very soon.


The Good:

• Very intuitive gameplay.
• The ability to "jump" makes going off the edge so much easier :-)
  

The Bad:

• That banana collecting mini-game during game credits is way too long.. 400 bananas!?!! My arm was sore afterwards.