I have been waiting patiently for the release of Spore Hero for quite some time now. I, like thousands of others quickly grew an addiction to Spore on PC, and when news hit that Spore Hero was going to be released on the Nintendo Wii, I was pretty excited. I reserved a copy of the game, and waited for a phone call to come pick it up the moment it hit the store.
I primarily give most of my attention to my other consoles and my computer when it comes to gaming. Spore Hero though is only made for the Wii. I was happy about the title, but at the same time skeptical on how well it would work with the Wii controllers. Spore on my PC is complex when it comes to customization and I wondered if the Wii's controls would react properly for when I went about constructing and customizing my little Spore creature.
When I got my hands on the game, I immediately flipped it over and got a little upset when I saw the mini game shot photos they added to it. Immediately I thought that Spore Hero was a fighting game like Super Smash Brothers. If that were the case, I knew that the game would be a flop. Fans of the PC game were expecting an all out colorful adventure. Yet by the looks of the case photo shots, it appeared to be an RPG type fighting game.
I was dead wrong though. Spore Hero was a little of this, a little of that, and a little of everything an adventure gamer could ask for. Spore Hero was like playing a Mario adventure game, mixed with a Banjo Kazooie color scheme, with a dash of Viva Piñata graphics. Since owning the Nintendo Wii, Spore Hero, hands down has been one of the best video games for the console I have played to date.
Spore Hero starts of like most video games. A long movie like cut scene with stunning graphics, and an introduction on what your main goal is.
You are looking in at a planet where a bunch of red lava rock type meteors begin falling from the sky. They erupt and out pop your enemies. From the sky a blue glowing rock lands at the same time, and this is where you meet your main character.
You're a pathetic little character with eyes and legs. The character is definitely pre-evolved. If you had played the computer game you will recall being nothing more than a squiggly little organism, aka 'Spore', when the game first begins.
Anyhow, you are greeted by a blue alien creature who tells you to go to your nest to give yourself a mouth in order to eat. The nest is where you must go in order to customize your spore. As the game continues you will collect new body parts which will allow your spore to be a better fighter, and a better spore in general.
Along the way, your job is to complete small tasks which are fun little mini missions. The more missions you complete the more body parts you will gain. Body parts can also be found scattered around the planet.
Your main job however is quite obvious from the get go. You are to rid the lovely planet of the bad guys. The evil little red spore creatures that landed on the planet at the same time you did.