A wierd world of pain

User Rating: 6 | Odama (w/Bonus Microphone) GC
As, it turns out, pinball and real-time strategy aren't two great tastes that taste great together. Surely, the king of publishing gimmicky games wouldn't approve of this messed-up mash-up, which has a dreamy inspiration thats offset by such a painful execution.

It's your job, as commander, to corral expendable Japanese soldiers as they guide your sacred bell from one side of the battlefield to the other, thus into the gate that leads into the next stage.

You control them with simple commands issued into the included microphone. I yelled a lot worse than just the accepted voice commands into the microphone as my pikmin-sized soldiers lost ground again and again.

Top it all off with blah graphics and confusing levels and you get an oddball game that only a cult dedicated to wackiness' sake will probably own this game.

I did enjoy the humor, specifically the bowled over units' comments ("Does this mean no bonus?"), just not enough to recommend this clever, but frustrating mess.