Faded Boxers

The wife and I are huge fans of the show Avatar: The Last Airbender. I personally think it’s the most badass show we’re following right now, despite it being a kiddie show. It’s even more badass than so called “action/adventure” shows that never show much “action” (Yes, I’m looking at you Heroes.)

So can you imagine our excitement when we learned of the Avatar video game for the Wii? Well you can’t. Because our level of excitement can only be measured in ways humans haven’t discovered yet.

So anyway we popped the game in and was awesomed at being able to play our favorite characters. But that only lasted for a couple of hours. Eventually the wife grew tired of playing the game. And honestly so did it. Only a mechanical desire to see it through prompted me to finish the game even after it went from being entertaining to a tedious chore. I’ll discuss why in the following paragraphs. Because this paragraph’s already done its job. Also, the other paragraphs might get jealous if I used this paragraph to discuss everything. And this paragraph’s gone long enough. Like my penis. HUHLOLZ!

Graphics

So the graphics aren’t that great. I’m not gonna go into polygons and lighting and other technical stuff like that because I don’t know anything about that. All I know is that the graphics in this game didn’t really do it for me. And it’s kinda creepy that I don’t remember anybody having any irises in the game. The cut scenes yes, but in the game, I honestly don’t remember. Which is weird since it’s the eyes that I first notice. And the boobs. And come to think of it, the characters didn’t have enough boobage. Which is fine since the game’s made for kids. But it wouldn’t have killed the game developers to have an “adult mode” built into the game. And this paragraph is done as well.

Voice Acting

The voice acting is pretty good especially since they got the original voice actors to do the voicing. As always, the kid playing Sokka is the shits yo!

Gameplay

Keeping in mind that this game was made mainly for kids, it is only acceptable for this game to be relatively easy. But the more you progress in the game, the more tedious things get. There’s hardly any variation in what you’re supposed to be doing. You beat up the bad guys and you get to the next level. Occasionally you’re called to do some major water bending or earth bending but the controls involving the Wiimote are buggy that more often than not, you’re stuck in a level because you failed to hold the wiimote at a specific angle at a specific time interval that is hardly intuitive.

Still, the puzzles are fun (albeit repetitive), and being able to switch characters in the middle of the game makes for a good way to spend a couple of hours.

Bottomline

You can finish the game in a couple of days, but after you do, there’s hardly any reason to go playing it again. Finishing the game allows you to unlock most (if not all) characters in the 2 player vs. game, but we have yet to be hit with the desire to do that. Also, since the whole plot of the game was lifted exactly from events that happened in Season 2 of the show, people who have seen the pertaining episodes can’t get too excited about what happens next in the game.

I give this game a rating of Penis and Balls: