Find some friends and work together to stop the evil Rudebelly and get your treasure back!

                This little known Wii game is definitely a blast from the past, calling to mind classic titles such as Battletoads and The Simpsons along with the more recent Castle Crashers.  All of these games are classified as brawlers, where players must team up to fight their way through levels of evil bad guys to achieve the ultimate goal, whether it be saving the princess or saving the world.  This title is a little different from the others that I have written about before in a couple of different ways, but the biggest reason I chose to take a closer look at Pirates Plundarrr is the nostalgia it evokes.

                 Brawlers were some of the first co-operative multiplayer games available to console players back during the first few console generations.  Players are required to pick a character, usually having 3-4 options and then work together to advance through levels by disposing of enemy after enemy in often ridiculous fashion.  Pirates Plundarr does little to stray from this concept, which is not a bad thing.  The gameplay is deepened slightly with a few add ons, the leveling up system and the extensive list of weapons to be found and used by your characters.  Each time a character earns enough experience points to level up, a player may add a skill point to one of around 10 skills.  Adding to health increases your characters health, adding to treasure find increases the amount of gold enemies drop when defeated and so forth. This adds a bit of an incentive to playing further, and helps players make their characters unique from one another.  The weapon system is also a fun addition to this style of game.  Weapons range from pirate swords to legs of ham and can be found scattered across each of the levels of play.  Collecting the best, or the goofiest, weapons is a fun side quest in this game that keeps it from growing stale.

                This is a perfect game for kids to have some fun with.  From the beginning it drops players right into the action and keeps going until the end. While I wouldn’t recommend this game to someone playing by themselves, this is perfect for a group of kids to be able to pick up and play together at any time.  And because of the gameplays old school roots, it is also a great one to play with older siblings or parents who have fond memories of gaming in their earlier years.  While this game doesn’t have the educational upside that a lot of the other games I have written about do, that doesn’t mean it should be overlooked.  Games of this type help create a lot of good bonding moments and memories, not of the game but with the people the game is played with.  Playing multiplayer video games with friends and family doesn’t get much better than this.