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=====Recommended Wii U Games===== | =====Recommended Wii U Games===== | ||
+ | ***//Bayonetta//** (also on: 360, PS3) | ||
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+ | ***//Bayonetta 2//** | ||
***//Deus Ex: Human Revolution Director's Cut//** (also on: 360, PC, PS3) | ***//Deus Ex: Human Revolution Director's Cut//** (also on: 360, PC, PS3) | ||
- | * Ni Go Zero Ichi: Out of all the seventh-gen games haphazardly ported to the system by third parties, this is the only one that's generally accepted as actually being superior on the Wii U. | + | * Ni Go Zero Ichi: Out of all the seventh-gen games haphazardly ported to the system by third parties, this is the only one apart from //Bayonetta// that's generally accepted as actually being superior on the Wii U - mostly due to smart integration of the Gamepad for complex map and menu navigation, plus a few other imaginative interface quirks. No amount of rebalancing and UI improvements will fix that godawful swindle of an ending, though. |
* Felix: Others that are at least acceptable, by the way (on top of being great games to begin with, which cost almost no money on Wii U because no one bought them), include FIFA 2013 and Mass Effect 3. | * Felix: Others that are at least acceptable, by the way (on top of being great games to begin with, which cost almost no money on Wii U because no one bought them), include FIFA 2013 and Mass Effect 3. | ||
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* Ni Go Zero Ichi: Allegedly smoothes over some of //The Wind Waker//'s problems with pacing, fetch-questing and lax difficulty, at the bizarre cost of actually looking aesthetically //worse//, by a significant margin, than the original version of the game released over a decade prior. Considering that the visuals are nigh-universally agreed to be //Wind Waker//'s strongest point, your mileage may vary on whether this constitutes a dealbreaker. | * Ni Go Zero Ichi: Allegedly smoothes over some of //The Wind Waker//'s problems with pacing, fetch-questing and lax difficulty, at the bizarre cost of actually looking aesthetically //worse//, by a significant margin, than the original version of the game released over a decade prior. Considering that the visuals are nigh-universally agreed to be //Wind Waker//'s strongest point, your mileage may vary on whether this constitutes a dealbreaker. | ||
- | ***//Mario Kart 8//** | + | ***//The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild//** (also on: Switch) |
- | * Ni Go Zero Ichi: I'm no //MK// maven, but this is definitely head and shoulders above the Wii version. Cheap items are nerfed and/or marginalized, and the prominence of items and luck-based shit in general is diminished; the visuals, music and SFX are far less obnoxious; and customization options are even deeper. A lot of the new courses are a little... funky for my tastes, but there are an equal number of "classic" courses so whatever. Haven't tried out online play yet. | + | |
+ | ***//Mario Kart 8//** (also on: Switch) | ||
+ | * Ni Go Zero Ichi: I'm no //MK// maven, but this is definitely head and shoulders above the Wii version. Cheap items are nerfed and/or marginalized, and the prominence of items and luck-based shit in general is diminished; the visuals, music and SFX are far less obnoxious; and customization options are even deeper. A lot of the new courses are a little... funky for my tastes, but there are an equal number of "classic" courses so whatever. Online play is really... functional. | ||
***//Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate//** (also on: 3DS) | ***//Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate//** (also on: 3DS) | ||
***//Ninja Gaiden III: Razor's Edge//** (also on: 360, PS3) | ***//Ninja Gaiden III: Razor's Edge//** (also on: 360, PS3) | ||
- | * Ni Go Zero Ichi: //Razor's Edge// restores the disastrous //Ninja Gaiden 3// to canonical franchise status - mainly by getting the combat to play like //Ninja Gaiden 2// - but doesn't fix the game-ruiningly broken health system, which makes boss fights unreasonably infuriating on top of their already-poor design. | + | * Ni Go Zero Ichi: Really hard to recommend, especially if you haven't played the previous two vastly superior games. Team Ninja's apology for the trainwreck that was //Ninja Gaiden III// vanilla basically makes the standard combat play more like //Ninja Gaiden II//, and even makes a few positive tweaks to the engine, but ultimately it just isn't nearly enough to compensate for the game's fundamentally broken health system, lobotomized level design and disgraceful boss fights. |
***//Pikmin 3//** | ***//Pikmin 3//** | ||
* Felix: My wife played this up until the first or second boss when it actually got tense and immediately lost interest and I couldn't really blame her. It's good at being facile and is visually interesting, but it had no excuse for actually being challenging. | * Felix: My wife played this up until the first or second boss when it actually got tense and immediately lost interest and I couldn't really blame her. It's good at being facile and is visually interesting, but it had no excuse for actually being challenging. | ||
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+ | ***//Splatoon//** | ||
***//Super Mario 3D World//** | ***//Super Mario 3D World//** | ||
* Felix: Actually as fantastic as everyone says. My biggest complaint is that it feels like a shame to "waste" the easy early levels on single-player if you don't have three friends around right when you start the game, since it starts out very accessible and gets very challenging toward the end. | * Felix: Actually as fantastic as everyone says. My biggest complaint is that it feels like a shame to "waste" the easy early levels on single-player if you don't have three friends around right when you start the game, since it starts out very accessible and gets very challenging toward the end. | ||
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+ | ***//Super Mario Maker//** | ||
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+ | ***//Super Smash Bros. for Wii U//** (also on: 3DS) | ||
+ | * Ni Go Zero Ichi: Unimaginative title aside, this is a huge step up over //Brawl// in pretty much every respect, while remaining different enough from //Melee// to be its own thing. The 3DS version is a glorified demo. | ||
***//The Wonderful 101//** | ***//The Wonderful 101//** | ||
* Felix: I really don't think this is very good -- there are a lot of dual-screen gimmicks, more stuff to do in the menus than I wanted to look at, and most of the combat seems to take an artificially long time. Only played the demo, though. It's definitely aesthetically well-realized, but to be honest, so are all of Platinum's games. | * Felix: I really don't think this is very good -- there are a lot of dual-screen gimmicks, more stuff to do in the menus than I wanted to look at, and most of the combat seems to take an artificially long time. Only played the demo, though. It's definitely aesthetically well-realized, but to be honest, so are all of Platinum's games. | ||
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+ | ***//Xenoblade X//** | ||
+ | * Ni Go Zero Ichi: This game is a fucking mess but I played over 150 hours of it and don't immediately wince at the thought of playing it some more so it must be doing something right. | ||
***//ZombiU//** | ***//ZombiU//** | ||
+ | * Ni Go Zero Ichi: A survival-horror roguelike, which is about as interesting as it sounds. The difficulty is refreshingly unforgiving and the design is mercifully light on latter-day Ubisoft bullshit. | ||
=====See also===== | =====See also===== | ||
* [[wii]] - Playable via backwards compatibility. | * [[wii]] - Playable via backwards compatibility. | ||
- | * [[nes]] - Some titles playable as Virtual Console downloads. | + | * [[virtual_console]] - Certain NES, SNES and GBA games are available on the eShop, with N64 and DS games to come (supposedly). The rest can still be purchased and played in Wii Mode. |
- | * [[snes]] - Some titles playable as Virtual Console downloads. | + | |
- | * [[gameboy_advance]] - Some titles playable as Virtual Console downloads. | + | |
- | * [[ds]] - Some titles playable as Virtual Console downloads. | + | |
* [[http://forums.selectbutton.net/viewtopic.php?t=39382&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0|Forum thread]] | * [[http://forums.selectbutton.net/viewtopic.php?t=39382&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0|Forum thread]] |