
Weally. In posting his impressions of
Wario Ware: Smooth Moves, Chris Kohler at
Game|Life adds yet another title to his
4:3 Hall of Shame. Joining
Rayman: Raving Rabbids and
Trauma Center: Second Opinion, Wario's waggle-fest only supports a 4:3 display ratio, generally known as
fool fullscreen. While it's easy to agree that the lack of proper widescreen support doesn't impact on the game's fun, it still remains an annoying oversight, especially for HDTV owners.
The Wii's shunning of HDTV support is an understandable topic (and already debated to death), but inconsistent EDTV and widescreen support just seems lazy in the year 2007. Several Gamecube and PS2 games provided different display modes -- heck, a widescreen mode is one of the selling points for the Wii version of
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess. Come on Nintendo, put things in perspective here.