A portion of a WiiWare World interview with Shin'en Multimedia about their upcoming WiiWare game, Fun! Fun! Minigolf...
WW: Fun! Fun! Minigolf looks amazing for a WiiWare game, was it hard to fit within the 40MB download limit?
ML: Our goal was to make the game to look better than most Wii titles. We knew from the DS that experienced people are more important than lots of resources. We just had to plan carefully. So before starting with any content we sat down and calculated precisely how much space each part of the game would need. We broke it down into audio, graphics and code. As we knew very good how much resources we need to make something look and sound good this wasn't too hard in the end.
GR: "Don't let those rampant exclamation marks fool you – this minigolf game isn't that exciting. Maybe one mark, at a push, but two? That's! Insane! This is golf of the uncraziest variety. Its three vanilla courses look pretty enough, but there are no clever Mouse Trap-style contraptions, no wacky pirate ships or fire-breathing golf dragons hidden in any of them. Why would anyone want to play boring, normal minigolf on their Wii?"
Vandal Onlien writes: "The game of golf on Wii have a lot to say, from the original Wii Sports, through the evolution that has been experiencing the Tiger Woods saga of Nintendo in the console, through many different bets well as We Love Golf. Now, thanks to digital distribution service, WiiWare, comes a new challenge revolves around the mini, this variant much more affordable fair, fast and less-technical course, that golf really."
The only drawback to the game is that there is absolutely nothing for solo games, not even league tables for the individual tracks are available. Therefore the motivation for single player no longer really exists. But as far as the multiplayer rounds are concerned it is well worth the 900 Wii Points and is a lot of fun!
