2/24/2023 0 Comments Marble madness music![]() ![]() ![]() Tilt the controller forward, and your marble (which is always front and center) rolls forward. Here, menace is festooned with cherry licorice and plays happy xylophone music. They have been replaced by teddy bears, Lincoln Logs, and birthday cakes. Gone are postmodern tubes, cubes and inky black backgrounds. In softening the title from “madness” to the friendlier-sounding “mania,” Marble Mania reclaims the heritage of the old, wooden maze-and-marble puzzles that entertained generations of kids before the advent of the joystick. In that game, a deranged, out-of-tune pipe organ provided the soundtrack as players raced against the clock to guide their marble through a desolate maze riddled with acid puddles and creepy, faceless tube monsters that leapfrogged around like evil Slinkies. Kororinpa: Marble Mania is a clearly descended from the 1984 Atari arcade classic, Marble Madness. But you still have to start over, and in this game, that’s often bad enough. At one point in Kororinpa, that’s exactly what you must do, and any unintended twitch of the wrist can send you hurtling to your doom. I’m talking about vertigo, the kind of vertigo you might get if you were navigating a three-inch strip of pavement suspended high over a city street. I’m not talking about the rash of injuries and bizarre accidents which have been previously reported by especially zealous users of the Wii’s wireless “Wiimote” controllers. Loss of dignity or even personal injury could result. Journalistic ethics compel me to open this review with a safety tip: If you are playing Hudson and Konami’s Kororinpa: Marble Mania for the first time, do not connect your Wii to a widescreen projection television. ![]()
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