Fantasy Aquarium

My husband purchased this for me when my doctor told me that I needed to find ways to relieve stress because my health was being impacted by both my high-stress job and recent family illness. I am not a video-game player; I purchased the Wii for the exercise and activity games. When Aquarium World arrived, I immediately tried it out. Not being 3-years old, I was quickly frustrated by the challenges and limitations on what you can do with the aquarium. This game is a cross between a screen-saver and a game. There are not enough activities/features to make it a game, but you also cannot use it as a screen-saving (without "playing" the game) unless you want the fish to lose their health (which makes them turn gray and float around as if they are dead.)

Here are what I consider the pros and cons of this game:
Pros:
It is easy to use. You can add fish and decorations to the tank quickly. It takes some effort to get your fish to eat their food, but this is still a relatively easy process.

Cons:
1. Personally, I think the graphics are weak. As the fish move "back", they lose their shape and resemble smudges. The graphics do not make me want to sit back and watch my fish swim around.
2. As mentioned earlier, the challenges are rather lame. But, you have to go through the challenges in order to add new fish and features. Here is an example of one of the challenges: Keep one fish alive and healthy for three days. This translates into feeding your fish once or twice a day (and yes, time continues to run down when the game is turned off - so you really have to check in at least once every day). Once I completed this challenge, the next challenge is to "keep three fish alive and healthy for three days."
3. Limitations on what you can do. You have only a few fish that you can add to your aquarium without completing the challenges. There are also only a few decorations, backgrounds, etc. You cannot interact with the fish, except to feed them.

I like Aquariums and thought this would be great.So slow and boring you want to throw it away.You cant get past the first tank till 4 days are up. Then 4 more for the 2nd tank and so far 8 more days for the 3rd tank and you have to check them every day or start the challenge over again.
this last challange that I am on now the Captain told me to put 3 more fish in my tank and keep them healthy for 5 days. You can't go farther till you do it. It took 3 weeks to wait and get this far.You cant decorate the way you want eather .
If you want an Aquarium buy the one on your [..]. It is better than this one.

Quiet, relaxing and pleasant. The graphics are so, so. Playability is short lived. Typical Wii non-athletic game. This really isn't the sort of game you buy a wii for.

This is not worth buying. It really should not have been released yet. I get the impression that it spent less than a day in testing.

The challenges to unlock new aquariums and fish are mostly time wasters. It takes days of doing nothing for each one. Also this software is so full of bugs. If you do get this game; follow every task to the letter, don't do ANYTHING additional in the challenge aquarium or you risk being unable to do anything more than erase all your data and start over. Also I have had aquariums that I had worked on, reset to empty with no explination or reason.

The aquariums are kind of relaxing to watch but the fish movement is kind of unrealistic.