Elebits is a surprisingly good yet relatively easy adventure game that has the player tearing up rooms to find Elebits.

User Rating: 8 | Elebits WII
Elebits, as a game is not that great of an idea, but Elebits as a Wii game is freaking genius. You play a little boy who it tasked with restoring the power to his home and later the entire city. You do this by capturing the Elebits (small electric Pikmin-like beings) and slowly powering on all electrical devices in an area.

You use a capture gun to do the catching, and to rearrange furniture and plant and knick-knacks throughout the levels. The Elebits are hidden underneath and inside many if not most of the objects. Each level is timed and you must collect a certain wattage of Elebits within the time frame. Different Elebits give you different wattage, what the Elebits are doing affects the amount of wattage you get from each Elebit. This may sound silly (and it kind of is) but by the time you get to chapter 10 you are hooked and you feel like a sleuth detecting, freeing and zapping Elebits into your gun.

The game play is very easy to get used to. It is done in a First Person perspective, but it's not like other FPS. literally anything in the room can be interacted with, and the more you play the more you realize this. By the end, you find yourself comfortably picking up House with your capture gun. Elebits is long, so you can get your money's worth out of the game, and that is not mentioning the numerous other bonuses, like edit mode. There is very little blatantly wrong with Elebits. The story is interesting, yet poorly executed, and the voice acting is laughable. Neither of these things take away from the experience of Elebits.

At first play, Elebits will probably seem very hard and frustrating, but once you get used to the gameplay, the level will start to get really easy. Each level has many more Elebits than what is needed to clear it, so you will find yourself letting the fast one go.

Overall, Elebits is a very strong Wii title that can only be made for the Wii (I'm sure it could be made for other consoles, but it would be uncomfortable and silly. Now that you can pick up Elebits used and/or cheap, there is no reason for Wii owners not to grab it when they can.