Wii's World writes: "The unusually titled Pallurikio from Italian developers Playstos is a colorful arcade-style game. They were kind enough to gift it to me over WiiWare for this review.
The title screen greets you with a raspy theme tune and two game modes. The main one of these is adventure mode, which opens with a narrative told through a series of comic-book panels. It's the standard tale about a group of friends who break and enter into a strange house, only to get trapped inside a board game. Yea, that old chestnut."
Eurogamer writes: "'It's not only about racing. It's about rallying. That's something different.'
I'm sat in a hotel meeting room in a mildly scruffy corner of Milan, just around the corner from the offices of the motorsport game specialist Milestone. Irvin Zonca, physics game designer, is explaining - with soulful enthusiasm - what this independent developer discovered about the spirit of the World Rally Championship when it started working with the sport's teams and drivers some three years ago."
So Pallurikio isn't going to be the most unique WiiWare game you'll ever play, as its design seems to be a new take on an idea Nintendo fans have seen before. There are even one or two other downloadables already available in the Wii Shop that cover some of this same territory, too, like Equilibrio -- or future releases, like Nicalis' NightSky. A game could do worse than be compared to an excellent Nintendo effort like Kirby Canvas Curse, though, so there may be something here that platformer fans will enjoy.
Presentation - 5.0
Graphics - 7.0
Sound - 7.0
Gameplay - 6.0
Lasting Appeal - 6.5
Overall -
Pallurikio plays like a cell phone game or a Flash game. There is nothing to recommend or build on here. This is a bad game and does little more than cost 1000 points and take up space on my Wii. There are all sorts of fun games to be downloaded on the Wii. This is not one of them.
