With only twenty mini-games included on the disc, Ninja Captains fails to live-up to the standards set by the likes of Mario Party, but manages to out-do most of the recent competition, including SEGA's Wacky World of Sports, by sheer number alone. The Story Mode can be played through with up to four players, with each of the games played-through in sequence. Once a game has been completed in Story Mode it becomes available in Party Mode, where the player is free to try and beat their own score and achieve Bronze, Silver or Gold standard medals (displayed as a shuriken atop the game on the selection screen), or upgrade their score from a Baby mode entry.
Perhaps the piece de resistance would be the music. There's very little variety and each tune, including the oft-used main theme, is literally a 3 second loop repeated over and over.
The zany antics of the cats may be enough to entertain very young gamers for a short time, but even at a budget price Ninja Captains is not one Wii's World could recommend.
YLG writes: "I have no idea what the developers were on when they made this game, and chances are they don't know either.
The plot of Ninja Captains is an incoherent mess, featuring ninja cats (yes, you read that correctly) who find themselves shunted across the planet just as their city is attacked by a giant robotic mouse (once again, yes, you read that bit correctly).
Needless to say these feline ninja have to get back to their city and stop the giant robot mouse."
Very young kids may find the Ninja cats with their silly faces entertainment enough but if you found yourself blind-folded and standing in front of a pile of mini-game titles if you reached in and pulled one out it would probably be better than Ninja Captains. Team Teabag can't even call this a rushed job as there doesn't appear to have been any point to this other than an attempt to cash in on the recent inexplicable success of similar titles. Avoid.
