“Monster Lab” for Wii is a port of the PlayStation 2 game of the same name. A quirky game combining mini-games and turn-based battles seems like it would be a perfect match for Nintendo’s casual-friendly console. Yet “Monster Lab” has languished in near complete obscurity. Is “Monster Lab” a bad game deserving of its obscurity? Or is it a hidden gem suffering, like so many other third-party games, from customer perception that only Nintendo’s first-party games are worth buying? I took the plunge on this bargain-priced game with the aim of finding out.
Presentation
Like the Frankenstein-style monsters it’s based around, “Monster Lab” is a mismatched amalgam of ill-fitting parts. This mishmash nature permeates every aspect of the game, including the presenta... |
Rating of
3.5/5 |
