Gaming Nexus writes, "There's not much fun to be had here. The games are too short and the cut scenes are too long. Very young children might see things differently, so you might consider it for the little ones."
"Classic Game Room HD reviews HELP WANTED: 50 WACKY JOBS! for Nintendo Wii, published by Hudson. The Earth is about to be destroyed by a meteor and it's up to you to save the planet by working! That's right, you can deflect and/or destroy the monster asteroid heading our way by purchasing items from a cable TV shopping channel."-Classic Game Room
Gamertell has posted a positive review of Hudson Soft's Help Wanted for Wii.
From the review:
"The Wii's known as a haven for mini-game collections. The sort of games which take advantage of the motion control abilities, are appealing to a wide audience, accessible to players of all ages and happen to be affordably priced.
Hudson's Help Wanted is one of these collections. It's pretty versatile too, with a Job Battle multiplayer mode that offers four ways to win and a Career Fair mode which lets you practice playing the 50 mini-games. The most interesting part is the Employment Office story mode, where all of the games are unlocked and players strive to save the world by taking part-time jobs. It may not be the perfect Wii mini-game collection, but it's definite one of the more interesting ones."
Help Wanted is a collection of mini-games tied together by a humorous story about saving the earth from threats from outer space. Players earn in-game money by working various jobs, which are played using various combinations of the Wii Remote and Wii Nunchuk attachment depending on the job. Jobs range from tasks like farming, cooking, and sewing to unusual lines of work like aerial photography, scaring attendants at a haunted house, stunt work, arctic sled running, even working at a video game company. The money the players earns depends on how well they perform their job tasks. Each time a job mini-game is played, it uses up a day of in-game time - during which the object hurtling towards Earth comes ever closer. The player then spends their money buying items from an in-game shopping channel, which open up new jobs the player can undertake and increase money that can be earned from currently available jobs. By buying merchandise, the player earns frequent-shopper points that can be saved to buy the expensive Transformowatch. Time and money management skills also come into play - if the threatening objects are coming close to Earth, the player may need to invest extra money or points into buying a device to hinder or reverse the threat's progress.
