Link's Crossbow Training

Reviewed by:
Scott Jones

This game (if you can call it that) comes packed in with Nintendo's WiiZapper, the gun-like peripheral (though the Big N is very careful about never using the "g-word") that you snap the Wiimote and nunchuck into and then fire…rainbows? Bunny rabbits? Feathers? Try INVISIBLE BULLETS THAT SOMEHOW FLY ACROSS YOUR LIVING ROOM AND INTO YOUR TV. (Had to be said Nintendo! Sorry!) The Zapper pretty much blows. You have to hold it with two hands, which makes us feel like we're holding a tommy gun in a '30s, old-timey detective movie than a hard ass about to gat somebody. Seriously, file this goddamn thing under WiiShit. Link's Crossbow Training functions as more of a demo for the WiiZapper than a bona fide game, giving you a series of targets to pepper. At first they're stationary, but eventually they'll start moving around on you. For fuck's sake, Nintendo, if you're going to make a light-gun, make it fucking bad-assed. Or don't make it at all.