Elebits - Frustrating Fun

I never thought I'd be playing Elebits again. I got the game for the holidays and played it once. Lets face it, it can't win a fight against Zelda or Rayman. But, I had only played through the 3rd stage. Yeah, it was that boring. But then again, I played the game at 3:00 in the morning... That may have affected my gaming skills a little. The game starts out pretty repetitive and it seems like your in for a horrible game. But, after the 5th stage, the game starts adding new challenges such as noise, breakable items, and new types of elebits.
The premise is simple but pretty creative. Its like a giant game of hide and seek with some twists thrown in. The character's world doesn't make their own electricity. They rely on theses small creatures called Elebits (wasn't Expecting that, were ya!) to power all their electric products. But a thunderstorm hits and makes the creatures run away, act weird, and hide. Your parents, being the crazy scientists that they are (elebits as their specialty, of course) run out of the house to their lab to figure out whats wrong. You are like a red-headed step-child, meaning that they leave you home alone and dont really care. I mean, you must be like 8 and they leave you alone with no electricity and crazy creatures running around the town. Good parenting...
Anyway, you grab your dad's capture gun. The gun is like a mixture of a vacuum for elebits and Gordon Freeman's Gravity Gun. With it you can capture the little electric critters to power your stuff, which just leads you to find more nasty guys! You can pick up everything depending on how high your capture gun level is (the higher the heavier).I'm actually quite impressed with the game but the only thing that frustrates me a little is the fact that at the beginning of each stage you have to start with a level 1 capture gun. That means that your gun can pick up some daisies, but not anything you want to pick up...
So its a constant collect, power up, search, collect, power up, search... Which wasnt so cool with em for the first couple levels. But it persuaded me the second the 1st BOSS BATTLE began. Yeah thats right, there are hugely mutated Elebits that require a butt-whooping. They never really explained it, but your gun can now hurt things too. I wonder if it can blend smoothies... Well the game started getting good and I was totally pulled in. If it weren't for me having to do some work and post this blog here, I'd still be slaying the cute elebit scum! Even though I haven't completed the game, this Wii hidden treasure will most likely keep me interested. I can't wait for the next boss fight!
So if you have some patience and love to smash the crud out of everything in your house, This is your game. And remember, PLAY PAST THE FIRST 4 STAGES!