ezGear is Out to Get Our Imaginations

I don’t know about you, but my favorite feature of the Wii is that it allows me to pretend again without looking like a nut job. Holding a little piece of plastic and going “pew, pew” at my TV wasn’t anywhere near as crazy as it used to be, not to mention all the air guitar-style fantasies I got to relive through the Wii _____ series. As if the lackluster Wii Zapper wasn’t enough to get my imagination pissed, now ezGear is convinced we need extra attachments for everything, including the most recent Wii Music.

ezGear already has packs available for Wii Sports and Wii Play, each sporting a myriad of completely useless snap-on extensions that don’t affect gameplay in any way. If anything, these extra hunks of hollow plastic make the Wii Remote larger and more likely to damage your television in a drunken tennis incident.

The Wii Music Pack sports three plastic additions to the Wii Remote just like their previous addition packs, but this time they’re designed not to simulate baseball bats and tennis rackets, but rather, musical instruments. The pack includes a hollow violin body, saxophone, and drumsticks which also work as a conductor’s baton.

But you know what also works as a conductor’s baton? The Wii-Remote!

Maybe I just don’t get it, but I’m pretty sure all these additions do is kill the imaginative potential that games like Wii Music attempt to tap into. The only way these are even remotely useful is if children are inspired to pick up real instruments after running their faux-bow over their bleach white non-violin one too many times. Sadly, I think that mentality being a widespread phenomenon is about as likely as this article going down in history as a piece of timeless, Dickensian literature.