Review: Disney Sing It – Party Hits (Wii)
Disney Sing It Party Hits for the Nintendo Wii features such chart-topping artists as the Jonas Brothers, Demi Lovato, Justin Bieber, and more. Obviously, this means the target audience for this game is quite a bit younger than myself. Once you get over the selection of music, however, you realize it is actually a solid karaoke game.
There are two play modes: Sing It! and Party Play. Sing It! mode is a solo player mode, where you choose a song from the default list and you, well, sing it. Party Play can be both solo and multiplayer and has a variety of different modes to choose from. You can sing cooperatively or against each other, depending on which settings you choose. You can even use a single microphone and pass it between each other for co-op play.
There’s also a Vocal Coach if you’re looking to improve your singing abilities. It’s not bad as far as vocal coaches go, but it’s basic and you can’t really get any more feedback than through singing songs regularly (i.e., scoring well on a song means you’re doing well, scoring poorly means you’re not).
After you’ve sung a song, you can play it as an Encore, where you’ll hear your performance over. There are also various effects you can apply to your voice to make it sound different. The “squeaky” effect is easily the funniest one to hear and it’s the one my daughter insisted on using each and every time.
My big gripe is that, while other games will give you a bonus for singing vibrato, Sing It will actually detract points for it, since it shows that you’re dropping out of pitch. This happens in every difficulty level, even if it’s just a minor shift in pitch. Of course, the scoring is such that it’d be difficult to truly fail a song. Even on songs that I didn’t know, I managed to at least get 3 stars by just goofing around.
Overall, Disney Sing It Party Hits is a good game for the tween and younger demographic, but older teens and adults will probably want to pass on this.
This game sounds fun, because I really like singing, which improves singing ability, is really cool.