I loved playing Odama, Nintendo's new RTS pinball game. The only issues I had were that the game was way too short and the difficulty a bit to hard.

Here's the weekly game review round-up on the big ball of death.

Rocky Mountain News
I'd wager that Odama is the only game that will ever fall into the "pinball military strategy" genre.

That's what game developer Vivarium created when it blended the ancient art of war with the '70s art of pinball and unfurled it on the battlefields of feudal Japan.

There's an amusingly convoluted back story to explain this meeting of Tommy and Sun Tzu in a video game, but all you really need to know is that the Odama in Odama is a giant stone ball used to crush friend and foe with equal alacrity.
Score: B-

1Up
There's a fine line between cleverly developed, quirky games that end up on the side of "wacky" and their blighted, maligned, and confused counterparts riding the slippery slope to "whack." Combining pinball, real-time strategy elements, and voice-recognition commands into a ball (pun unintended), Odama straddles the line between 'whack' and 'wacky.'
Score: 6/10

GamePro
Odama is imaginative and is proof that you don't need to be more annoying than Jessica Simpson, like Katamari, to be a successful whacky videogame.
Score: 4/5

Eurogamer
One way or another, you'll probably feel that Odama doesn't quite work. But there's such love in it, so much needless, thankless extra toil and detail, like using the Ninten bell as an excuse to remind us of the etymology of a very familiar name, that at the very least a few more radars deserve to be tuned to Saito's movements in future.
Anyway, I'm usually loath to advise rentals, but in this case I'll make an exception - not because I'm copping out, but because I want you to fail. Failure's rarely been as interesting as it is during your first hour here, and if you care about games rather than simply caring about which games are good, you'll want to play it for at least that long.
Score 6/10