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Kororinpa: Marble Mania   Kororinpa: Marble Mania
Amazon Price: $19.99
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Release Date: March 20, 2007
ESRB: Everyone
Publisher: Konami
User Rating: (74 Ratings)
Amazon Customer Rating: (18 Ratings)
User Status: 8 currently playing of 109 owning the game
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For $50 this is pretty good
This game is cool but its pretty hard too cause you the remote to control the ball and such, but you get use to it later and get better... fun game.
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1 Miis
This game blew my mind, at least 5 times. I really enjoy this type of game, but most all of my friends hate it with a passion (I guess they would rather be chopping heads off etc). I beat all the normal stages in 1 day, then went back and got Gold, now I still need to do everything on Mirror... oh god!
Fun game. Love the two player competitive play. Very addicting. I need a sequel.
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44 posts
33 Miis
If it was a longer game it would be brilliant, instead its short and sweet. Hire it don't buy it's way too short
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1 Miis
Absolut gelungener Wii-Titel. Grafik gut, die Steuerung vom feinsten. Das macht richtig Laune. Nur der Spielumfang viel zu gering ...
great graphics, but a short game.. finished it in 13 hours.. definately fun in multi-player, though..
Addictive, nice music, too short.
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1 Miis
[.One of the BEST games I've played. The down fall is that if you play it to long, you tend to go insane from watching a ball move across the screen. You blink, your ball just might fall off the side.]
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465 posts
142 Miis
We've been begging for one-to-one gameplay on the Wii, and this is one the first games that really does it. Unlike Monkeyball, you have full 3D control of your environment. It turns out that rolling a virtual marble around a movable platform is almost as hard as rolling a real marble. You should stand up to play this game. You just won't have the range or stability to play the harder levels lying down on the couch. You'll find yourself twisting your arm around awkwardly while straining to hold the wiimote just so, and you'll still end up falling off the edge many times. Restarting the level is near instant so the frequent falls aren't so frustrating. And it's that much more satasfying when you do complete the level. The graphics and presentation are nothing special, and it doesn't take that long to get through all the levels. This was just a rent for me, but the real replay value comes from mastering the new control technique and blazing throught the levels with dangerous off the track shortcuts.
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5 Miis
Nice game, challenging, but the control need a bit of polishing.
1 Miis
It's a lot like Marble Madness, but with a lot of unforgiving edges. If you are afraid of heights, this is not for you as the maze seems to be floating miles and miles above the landscape. But it's a cute and fun game, and can be frustrating, but even when you're frustrated, it's hard to put down the controller because you were soooo close to the end of that maze.
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4 Miis
Kororinpa: Marble Mania is basically what the name suggests; a game where you roll marbles through mazes.
You of course tilt the mazes by actually tilting your Wii Remote, and this works surprisingly well.
Sometimes, you even have to turn your remote sideways so you can progress!

All in all, there are 45 different mazes, some secret courses and a mirror mode. Oh, and there's also a two-player mode.

But there it stops.
And that's the biggest let-down of the game; it's too damn short.
If you're good, you can complete the game in like two hours or something.
But despite that, you have a fun and charming game to look forward to.

3/5
This game is great, it really takes advantage of the Wii remote, but once everything is unlocked and completed, you can't play with out any more challenges unless you use your Wii remote tied to your foot with masking tape (Has no real replay value)
I don't own this game either, but have played it. It is sorta fun, but I'd only buy it if it was $2. Not Even. It isn't worth $50.
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189 posts
66 Miis
an ok game controls work well but i didnt find it all that exciting
FUNNY! accurate steering and challenging marble madness ;)
8 posts
Kororinpa is an excellent puzzle game, keeping me sitting in front of the TV for hours on end, trying to get past the loops and twist of this addicting puzzle/strategy game. There really is no game story, but there are tons of challenging levels of which to conquer with your marbleness skills.
nice!!!
EXPENSIVE!!!
1 Miis
good game but its all over too quickly. I think mercury meltdown is the better game. Due to lots more levels and more intricate puzzles. I beat this game the same day that i brought it. Yes there are various un-lockables (different balls and a few bonus levels) not enough to hold your attention for long. I think this would be allot better at a budget price range game. If you could pick it up cheap, its wqell worth a try.
A bit easy for experienced players but a challenge for anyone
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75 posts
8 Miis
Kororinpa is an interesting game. There are no controls, but you simply rotate the Wiimote, which thus tilts the gameboard on the screen. The goal is to tilt the board and thus roll a marble through a course.

It is a game that is simple in theory yet challenging when you actually play it. Many of the courses have no walls on the track, so if you tilt the marble too much,it will roll off, and you will have to start over from the beginning of the course. As you complete courses, you can unlock other marbles to replace the initial starting marble.

All in all, its an interesting game, and Im sure I will be returning to it every now and then. Definitely worth a rent, though I wouldn't recommend a purchase.
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7 posts
2 Miis
This game is so addicting.
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1214 posts
14 Miis
Though the puzzles could be a bit harder and imaginative, this game is light and fun... if you've got a kid or an elder or someone inbetween that likes the zen of rolling marbles, this is a great game to toy around with...

Gamers, give this one a rent first, as it can be beaten, with little reason to replay, in a very short time frame.
I just couldn't really get into this game.
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THIS GAME WAS THE MOST FUN EVER. A buddy and I stayed up playing this game til 6 in the morning, it was so fun at the time it came out. I hope they make a second one.
4 posts
this game was fun but to easy i beat the same day i got it but fun when u play wit friends
Had a lot of fun with this.
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2 posts
2 Miis
It's ok and funny little game.
the most additive game evr
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3 Miis
I love this game it's simply perfect in my opinion, it's great for playing alone or with a friend.
The only bad thing there is to say about Kororinpa is that the game doesn't make any diference between players, if everyone uses the same marble for instance you won't know who made the high-score.
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2375 posts
138 Miis
Great game, even better if you play with a friend.
another awsome stragity game, I was not expecting it be so well made. interecting with this game is so perfect on how it follows yoy every Wii remote movments
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very fun game if it wasn't so expensive i woulda bought it but awesome party game

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First release bliss!!! Loved every moment of this game. On my favorite level you have to roll around the outside of an apple. Fun!

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80 posts
45 Miis

this is an interesting game. i like the layout, it has awesome use of the wii controller, takes good hand/eye coordination to pull it off. I was upset a few times by the camera angles and some of those puzzles are just downright HARD. I kept this for about a week playing it, but i just can't bring myself to own it. it is what i expected of it, just not a buy game for me