10 minutes with Wii (Oh, and 30 days to go!!)

Today I got my hands on the Wii remote for the first time, now just 30 days from launch, and I have to say I liked it! I got the chance to play through the temple demo in The Legend Of Zelda: Twilight Princess (available on launch), and a level of ExciteTruck (out next February).

The Twilight Princess demo, of which I got to spend 5 minutes with, was a good preview as to what can be done with the Wii Remote / Nunchuck combination. Movement is controlled by the analogue stick on the nunchuck. Lock-on (like every Zelda game since Ocarina of Time) with the Z-button on the nunchuck. Your sword can be drawn with a simple flick of the controller, and you can even slash the sword while running, which is a nice feature!

The Bow is also pretty intuitive once you get the hang of it.. You just hold down the B-trigger (on the remote), then pull back and release the B-trigger... It almost feels like the real thing (I assume!). The Boomerang is operated in similar fashion... Press B to ready the boomerang.. then select up to 5 targets with the Z-trigger and moving around the Wii remote for aim.. then press B again to hit all of the tragets. The demo had a puzzle which required hitting 5 targets at once to open a door which was a good example of this.

ExciteTruck was completely different control-wise... You simlply tilted the Wii remote to steer (the nunchuck isn't used), and hold 2 to accelerate, and perss the + pad to boost... you can also move the remote around to balance your truck. I wasn't very good, but managed 2nd in the demo :)

Well that's all I have for now.. will hopefully have more to report soon!