PARTY BABYZ
Imagine: Party Babyz Wii Review
The baby party has come to town. Make sure you attend.
By Joshua Clark
Updated: 11 May 2012 12:12 pm
Posted: 8 Dec 2008 10:48 pm
I'll be honest, I really wanted to hate Party Babyz. We as gamers have, after all, been trained for years to be suspicious of mini-game compilations, to ignore products with babies on the cover and to absolutely abhor games using the letter "z" in their titles as an indication of a plural. I had all these great jokes lined up, a whole list of witty and sarcastic remarks that would have forced the developers into early retirement and ultimately secured my reputation as one the most scathing and hilarious freelancers the IGN readership had ever seen. That list now sits crumpled at the bottom of my trash bin.
Why, you ask? Because, despite one of the worst examples of botched box art marketing I've ever witnessed, Imagine: Party Babyz SEE DEAL is one of the finest mini-game compilations to ever grace Nintendo's home console.
Party Babyz tells the story - yes, you read that right, Party Babyz tells a story - of a young woman named Katie's first year at The Baby Club, a nursery where she herself attended as a young child. Here, under the tutelage of Headmaster Anna Grames, Katie hopes to learn the ins-and-outs of proper child care and earn her babysitting degree - by ruthlessly pitting the young children against each other in a series of 30 child themed mini-games. The story here doesn't make a whole lot of sense but then again it doesn't really have to considering all it's there for is to provide some extra context and justify a single player story mode.
Why, you ask? Because, despite one of the worst examples of botched box art marketing I've ever witnessed, Imagine: Party Babyz SEE DEAL is one of the finest mini-game compilations to ever grace Nintendo's home console.
Party Babyz tells the story - yes, you read that right, Party Babyz tells a story - of a young woman named Katie's first year at The Baby Club, a nursery where she herself attended as a young child. Here, under the tutelage of Headmaster Anna Grames, Katie hopes to learn the ins-and-outs of proper child care and earn her babysitting degree - by ruthlessly pitting the young children against each other in a series of 30 child themed mini-games. The story here doesn't make a whole lot of sense but then again it doesn't really have to considering all it's there for is to provide some extra context and justify a single player story mode.