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This thing is named after a different game in which you put your hands and feet on a
mat. What else would you expect to do, then, than place your silhouette into holes?
I can think of a few other holes I’d place this game. This is Twister Mania.
And frankly, this is one of those video games based on Hasbro classics but with no actual
resemblance to any Hasbro classics. The strongest similarity between Twister Mania and the original
is that in this game, you sometimes have to stretch your arms and legs and contort yourself
into awkward positions, but even that’s a stretch.
And it’s not nearly as much fun as other awkward positions.
Twister Mania is a series of Kinect-based motion challenges, all of which play like
another Xbox 360 game called Hole in the Wall. The idea is there are shapes on the screen,
and you have to fit your body into them. Across each of the variations, it’s a simple game
of contortion.
Considering that it released at the price of $50, it was also a game of extortion.
So in one of the games, you have to avoid the columns that are moving toward the screen.
In another game, you have to mimic the shapes onscreen by squeezing your body into silhouettes.
In another, you have to erase blocks by fitting inside them. The pattern, of course, is that
in all these challenges, you’re doing the same thing.
Kinect also takes pictures while you’re doing these things, and at the end of each
challenge, it shows you how miserable you looked while you were playing. If that’s
something that sounds fun to you, well...there you go.
I don’t mean to sound harsh on this game, but it’s kind of ridiculous how little there
actually is here in terms of content. You get 90 challenges and a decent two-player
cooperative option, but it’s all so repetitive that it doesn’t matter. By the way, it has
absolutely nothing to do with Twister, either.
Which is really, just, false advertising.
This isn’t a bad game, per se. It’s just kind of boring, and there isn’t nearly enough
gameplay here to justify a purchase. Twister Mania is a one-trick pony that repeats itself,
like, 90 times. Even ponies have more material than that.