Fans of Wii-compatible games, rejoice!  Extra-Toxic has partnered with Nintendo to deliver an amazingly addictive and original experience.

Chick Chick Boom pits you against the maniacal Poster Bunny who is hording a collection of official Nintendo desktop wallpapers.

In typical Nintendo fashion, you will be pitting cute little critters (in this case, orb-shaped chicks) against each other in an arena setting.

The art is really stylized and cutesy, but not overly impressive but it does have a kind of ‘Loco Roco‘ thing going on.
The sounds in the game are great and match the look of the game, as does the music, which does get annoying after a while, but doesn’t quite make you want to shove a bic pen in your ear until your eyes turn blue (or red if you are auditing taxes at the moment).

What makes this game such a pleasant experience is the interface.  In order to win you have to select an attack, and then you need to trace a symbol to execute it.  Based on how well you trace, your attacks have more impact.  This sounds simple, but you also have to trace symbols to get your chicks to avoid oncoming attacks, so the amount of time you have to trace a symbol can be quite brief when reacting to things.

Even with my Wacom tablet, this game was pretty challenging in later levels.  I can only imagine how hectic it would be with a WiiMote.

Each level you beat unlocks an official Nintendo desktop image you can download, which is a very cool reward system for this game, but once you have unlocked them all, the single player gameplay doesn’t leave much replay value.  Still, for a free game… it’s pretty damn good.
This game would be awesome as either an online multiplayer game, or a 2 player Wii game, so let’s hope there is a follow up title in the near future!

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