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I will forever love the Wii for giving me so much unforgettable memories. It was so crazy for me to have my whole family sit down and just play video games together. Good times.
My only issues with motion control was having to move the cursor to the edge of the screen to get the character to look.. Like in Twilight princess felt it worked perfectly. Destroy of humans not so much. An for that reason it made you have to sit directly in front of the tv. An a long playthrough is gonna involve more effort to play then just using your thumb to aim. Also developers I think had a hard time developing motion controls since it was a new concept.
Was so excited for Mario Kart Wii (28 year old). Crazy how excited I was. Supposed to be released Friday but for some reason it was delivered a day early. Explosion of joy
A hidden gem for me is Rodea The Sky Soldier. Unfortunately it was only released in the West as part of a combo pack with the abysmal Wii U port which is why most won't have played it, but the Wii version, which is how Yuji Naka intended it to be played, is tons of fun and had a far superior control scheme and powerup system. Definitely worth picking it up on Wii U, and then just ignoring the Wii U disc and sticking to the Wii version instead.
I'll always remember doing all-nighters playing Wii Sports. Mariokart Wii was another banger from the time, many an all-nighter playing that 1!! Some fantastic games like those you've already mentioned (Metroid Prime 3, Super Paper Mario, Wario Shake Dimension) got them all at launch. Still don't buy that many launch games today, But the Wii was proper magic. How do you guys feel about HotD Overkill? That was like the arcades were actually in your house!!
I wanted one for Christmas. In the UK there was a huge rush over Christmas just after launch to get Wii. Retailer GAME was back-ordered and still fulfilling pre-orders. My parent's preorder was pretty far off and it was getting close to Christmas so my Dad walked into Game and said he came to pick up his preorder. My Dad is renowned for his bamboozling and he somehow got the guy to bring out a binder with all the names of preorders so my dad just said read the one off the top of the list and said it was him. Sorry to whoever was denied their Wii from GAME in Christmas of 2006. I still have it and no you still can't have it!
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I remember that I borrowed a Wii from a friend of mine in order to play twilight princess (he borrowed my 360 for GTA iv), and I loved it. I finished the game and gave the system back, and after that I basically didn't play any Wii untill 2011 when I got a Wii I order to play skyward sword, and it was fine in the beginning, but a combination of all the imprisoned battles and the motion controls turn me off it. after a while I decided Wii was a great system if you are trying to quit videogames without going cold turkey :p hehe it was fun for a while, but I've had my fill of motion controls for a lifetime
You just gave me serious anxiety thinking about Brawl's notorious disc read error. Apparently the dual layer disc (first used on Brawl and later for the Prime Trilogy) needed your disc drive's laser to be *pristine* . If you had a dusty entertainment system you were basically destined to get this error. I followed the Dojo *every* day and picked up Brawl day one, and couldn't play it. The worst part, eventually the repaired disc drive actually SCRATCHED the disc in a perfect ring. If anyone remembers turning a 360 sideways while operating with a disc you would know what it looked like. I think the repair person screwed the new drive back in too tight. I had to send it in for repair again and Nintendo replaced the entire console outright, AND they transferred my Wii Shop purchases and Smash data to the new console.
While many people think the Wii took Nintendo in the wrong direction until the Switch, it still had its fair share of true greats, Mario Galaxy, Twilight Princess, World of Goo, Xenoblade, look me in my face and tell me those are bad games, go on I dare you, not to mention the Virtual Console started the retro boom, still to this day one of Nintendos finer consoles. Some could argue a casual audience led to a flood of shovelware, but the PS2 had that problem too (lots of people bought it for the DVD player first and foremost), so I don't think that's fair.
":While many people think the Wii took Nintendo in the wrong direction until the Switch" Many people think the opposite of this, the Wii generally gets more love for what it did than the switch. Tbh these days people like to think Nintendo became bad right around switch online.
The comparison with the PS2 is flat out wrong. The PS2 had a lot of shovelware, but unlike the Wii, it didn't become the main bulk of its catalogue. Not even close. If you compare launch dates during their respective primes, the Wii had around 5 genuinely good games a year, while the PS2 had like 15-20. There's just no comparison.
The Wii was my _life._ Never before, or since, had a game console captured my heart and imagination. My 12-year-old self was obsessively anticipating the Wii's launch every day. So much so in fact, that me and my parents and friends even camped out in front of Kmart on the night before the console's grand American launch on the 19th of November, 2006! This was the first and only time I ever did that for a game system. And that was a memory I will never forget. My first three games on it were fantastic: Wii Sports, Excite Truck and Zelda: Twilight Princess. I played them every single day as part of my daily routine, and my library of games steadily grew from there, culminating in the release of my personal most hyped game of all time: Super Smash Bros. Brawl. The Wii represents a huge turning point in my life. Sentimental memories aside, it was fun, it was unique, innovative and whimsical, it was peak Nintendo. And it was beautiful. I feel like it's very underappreciated these days in hindsight. I understand motion controls are a huge pet peeve with a lot of people...but my experiences were, for the most part, flawless and enjoyable. Many games such as the aforementioned three launch titles, Mario Galaxy 2, Mario Kart Wii, World of Goo, Kirby's Return to Dream Land, Xenoblade and Zelda: Skyward Sword remain some of my favorite games of all time. Thank you, Wii, for some of the happiest memories of my adolescence!
Only was a playstation guy my whole life, only played Nintendo on the Handhelds, GBASP and DS found out my GF had an old Wii sitting around and now im going through the Wii and GameCube library wishing I played these games sooner
21:00 It's No More Heroes that has the speaker use the phone functionality. Sylvia would always speak through it to encourage you to head for the Garden of Madness.
I remember that I was so confused about that part where he pulled out his phone and walked super slowly. I always turned off the speakers on Wiimotes to save battery lol
I was just watching your video about your 3DS memories! Man, it's really hard to believe it's been 15 years since the Wii came out. The nostalgia is real! It came out when I was in elementary school; I'm now close to graduating from college 🥺 In any event, thanks so much for sharing your memories, and allowing us to join you on your nostalgic journey 🥰💖😄
Aside from Metroid Prime 3, I have to give Conduit 2 massive praise. High Voltage Software took all of the criticism from the first game, and made one of the top 10 best Wii games with 2. I need a Conduit 3.
Little King's Story is one I feel needs a mention. It was essentially Pikmin with a larger, free-roaming world, life sim and city building elements. It was such a fun, albeit very weird game, lol.
My wii still gets alot of play time. Taught my eldest daughter how to play monster hunter on it with Tri's co op arena abd we're still having a blast with it (only playable with the wii remotes - the controller was usable with the game, but the mechanics were 100% suited for the remotes as underwater combat was way less clunky). I have alot of games that won't ever get ports either like Mad world, Crystal Bearers and the Conduit so It gets alot of use just because of that. I'm old enough that I've lived with and mostly owned all the Nintendo consoles, my dad even owning two old game an watches.... I feel ancient and I'm not 36 yet 😅 Also the game your thinking of Alex is No more heroes 1& 2. Both games had Silvia call you on the phone via the wii remote speaker and hilariously with Rabbids go home they had an extra app where it reflected the inside of the remote on the tv screen, so as you shake it the rabbid gets violently thrown around and the remote speaker played the noises of the Rabbid so it was more believable that it was inside it! My youngest of my two kids absolutely loves it 🤣
I remember when the Nintendo Wii came out, (It don't seem that long ago) Anyway, I remember there was tons of great games for this system such as Mario Kart Wii, Super Mario Galaxy 1 & 2, & The Legend Of Zelda:: Skyward Sword, just to name a few.. The Nintendo Wii will remain as one of my favorite Nintendo game console of all time! :)
So many fond memories of the Wii. My favorite hidden gem title has to be Endless Ocean and its sequel. Those were such relaxing games. I know Arika might be better known to some people for Street Fighter EX or Tetris 99, but man I don't see enough love for Endless Ocean. Seeing a new one on Switch (in glorious HD!) would be glorious.
Monster Hunter Tri is my favourite in the series, also WarioWare Smooth Moves deserves more love. Endless Ocean, there were so many hits that didn't get as much attention
So many fond memories of playing the Galaxy games, Mario Kart, Epic Yarn, a boy and his blob and Link to the Past with the Virtual Console. The Wii is so cool. Also Exitebots is the bomb
the wii was my first video game system with Mario kart wii and my first track was Sherbert Land. I love the wii and don't mind motion controls, too bad I sold my wii, mario galaxy 2, and new super mario bros wii(at the final boss). Im also disappointed in myself for not buying super smash bros brawl because I expected the game to have every video game character(sounds like a licencing nightmare) and for everyone to be friends and not fight
I was 38 when the Wii launched, and gaming on 360, PS2, Gamecube and GBA (SP). While I was interested in getting a Wii (to play Twilight Princess), I didnt get swept away by all the early hype and excitement around it, and decided to wait for the game library to deepen, and for a game that truly offered me a 'new-gen' experience, with lots of features. That game was Medal of Honor Heroes 2 ... a superb campaign, an on-rails light-gun arcade mode, 32-player online matches and fabulous integration of the Wii Remote and Nunchuk's features. I bought my Wii in 2008 with MoHH2, Twilight Princess, Rayman Raving Rabbids and of course Wii Sports bundled in ... it was a superb weekend of gaming on my new console, and the start of a great connection with a gaming platform that I still enjoy now. I have over 100 physical games and around 80 digital, and still pick-up the occasional pre-owned disk if I see a game for the right price.
The Wii was the first console I remember playing. It introduced me to the Wii series of games (which should totally get ported already). It also introduced me to god-damn Kirby. I gotta give props for that. I probably wouldn't be the same person without playing Adventure Wii, Epic Yarn and Air Ride with my brother all those years ago so that's gotta count for something!
This Is my favourite Nintendo console, so many AMAZING games I played on this console. Rayman origins, Super Mario Galaxy 2, Harvest Moon: Tree of Tranquillity FRICKING BIG BRAIN ACADEMY FOR WII! And so many memories, playing Wii sports with my Family, DKC Returns with my Dad, I played Mario Party 9 with my friends at my 11th Birthday Party, I spent so much of my time playing Rayman Raving Rabbids by myself. This will always be, The Best Console. EVER.
Please, make a part 2 🙏🏻 - Monster Hunter Tri (I'm sad that you forgot it, actually 😭😭) - Zelda Skyward Sword - Muramasa, - Okami (at the time the controls were cool), - No More Heroes - Tatsunoko vs Capcom - Metroid Other M (yes, I like this game, not perfect but I like the action that it introduced to the series), - Madworld (Platinum ❤️) - Little inferno - Donkey Kong Jungle Beats - Let's Tap - The Conduit 1 and 2 - Disaster Day of Crisis - Red Steel 2 - Endless Ocean - World of Goo - Dead Space Extraction
Here’s an unknown fact about Skyward Sword for Wii: It doesn’t use the IR sensor. Like, at all. I replayed the Wii version this summer while the hype for the HD remake was going. Then I started playing it while laying in my sofa, sideways away from the TV. I found it weird that it worked. So I started experimenting. When you boot up the game, you have to use the sensor for the calibration screen, but that’s the ONLY time you need it. After that was done, I tried putting the sensor in a drawer, completely hidden from view, turning sideways from the TV… and it still worked fine. Just press down on the d-pad to calibrate the pointer, and that’s the centre. So the game only uses gyro aiming. The only instances it uses the sensor bar is on the first calibration screen, which is weird why it would need to do that in the first place, when it completely ditches it afterwards.
Looking at the Gamecube, I suspect that the Wii being made with the mindset of power over unique gameplay would have possibly ended Nintendo in the console wars. Their sales were going down and down from N64 to Gamecube.
5:55: What is this guy talking about? The Wii U could not play GC games simply because its drive could not read the smaller discs. Now that it's been modded, it plays them with perfect compatibility so long as you have the ISO on an SD card or USB drive. The Switch doesn't need a DVD drive to play old games anymore than the Wii U does. The difference (obviously) is that the Wii U was using a compatible descendant of the CPU/GPU combo that both the GC and Wii used, so it could those games natively. The Switch doesn't use a PPC processor and could only run those in emulation, like N64 games on Wii or Wii U. It has nothing to do with a physical drive.
15:30: Pointing was not the big part of the Wii. It was flailing the Wiimote around. It wasn't gamers that made the system what it was, it was adults who were buying their first ever (and only) console for motion controls. They did not care about nor buy Resident Evil 4 or GoldenEye or Red Steel 2. And it's a shame that the guy who bought a used Wii had trouble with it, because the pointer ALWAYS worked. Motion controls may not have always worked, but the pointer always worked. If the infrared bulbs were out or if you had direct sunlight (contains infrared light!), that could interfere. Also using non-OEM Wiimotes causes that. But a proper Wii setup just simply works for pointing.
6:25: And the X360 was compatible with a fraction of the OG Xbox games. They did not share the same CPU architecture and that made it difficult for the 360 to run those games. It is a shame that you work for Nintendo Life and you don't have an even basic understanding of the underlying technology used in video game consoles.
My most fond memory of the Wii is when the demo was first made available at Nintendo World in NYC, and I got to play it for the first time. I literally waited online for three hours just to play Wii sports for five minutes. They let you choose one sport to try, and I chose the golf. Was it worth the three hour wait? Absolutely yes!
I know it got a bad rep among 'hardcore' gamers but I never understood why. Tons of great games with lesser known ones like The Last Story, Klonoa, Sin & Punishment Star Successor, Zak & Wiki filling out the lineup with the mainstream stuff like the Zelda, Marios, Metroid, Punch-Out, etc. The Virtual Console and retro-style WiiWare games like Contra ReBirth were brilliant. Wii was in my top 5 favorite Nintendo systems behind SNES, Game Boy Advance, DS, Game Boy/Color. It's dropped out of the top 5 now as Switch is just behind SNES, imo, but still tons of great memories from the Wii era. I remember the day I got home from college for Thanksgiving vacation and heading over to Gamestop to get the system. The rest of that day was spent playing Twilight Princess. The hype was real and through 2010, the console had a very nice run. If 2011 and 2012 hadn't been so quiet, the Wii might be more fondly remembered.
It's just a personal opinion, but I think that the Wii was the best videogame ever. There was a game for everyone, it was the first (and in my opinion the only) time when everybody in the family, or ppl who just didn't liked videogames, would play and really have a good time. At the time I had a ps3, and I remember going to a friend's house to play his Wii, where we would always call a bunch of friends (lots of them even weren't into games and stuff) and play a ton of games, sometimes with 4+ players playing simultaneously. And then I couldn't justify why I hadn't chosen the Wii for my home console. I mean, Ps3 had better graphics, but Wii was a lot funnier and interesting in every other way (even the graphics were not bad, as games were designed around it). It was only some years later, lots of years later, that I bought a used Wii console to fill that void of not having played a Wii properly. Today I have a Switch, which resembles again that thing of a "not so potent/graphics console caught between the crazy machines of ps4/ps5 and xboxes", and I am extremely happy with it. I think Nintendo consoles are the only ones that go beyond of being just a "CPU for gaming", they are a whole different thing.
Love this system. It’s still sitting in my entertainment center alongside my PS5 and it still gets playtime as recently as earlier today for Thanksgiving pregame. Got Wii Sport Resort loaded along with the Balance Board under my sofa ready to play.
I forgot about Deadly Creatures, wouldn't mind this getting a remake or a sequel on modern systems. Another memorable Wii game (besides MH3 because I won't shut up about it, lol) was Elebits, I enjoyed that game.
The X360 and PS3 offered the same exact thing -- the latest graphics and power. The Wii appealed to non-gamers. The Wii sold 50 million just to exergamers because of Wii Sports and fitness titles alone (not casual gamers - you gamers always get that wrong!). Wii also bought 30 million Balance Boards for Wii Fit, not because wii were casual gamers, but because wii were exergamers. Wii bought a game console for the first time. And wii never bought another one because the big three stopped making titles for us. Just Dance kept selling to exergamers like me all the way until 2020, when the PS3, X360 and even Wii U had been discontinued. You think that was because casual gamers? No.
And by the way, not one of us exergamers that bought 50 million Wii's gave a damn about the WiiShop or virtual console or all those gamer games like Zelda, and we especially didn't give a fck about GameCube compatibility because why on Earth would wii ever play a non-motion-controlled game??? In fact the Wii could have shipped without GC compatibility and would have sold precisely the same number of consoles over the first four years. Not that many people had GC games, those who did already had a console to play them on, and there was NO resurgence in the sales of GC games. It was an irrelevant feature to those of us who made the Wii the winner of the 7th Generation.
I have had the Wii in a little less than half of my life, because I'm apparently a year or so older than Alex. My brother and I finally convinced our family that we needed the Wii, but missed out on pre-order opportunities. I would call K-Mart, Wal-Mart, Toys-R-Us, and game shops a few days a week until April when we finally were able to pick up our own Nintendo Wii! I used most of my residual cash reserves to scrap by and get Twilight Princess at Sam's Club, which was the first LoZ I played fully. So many great memories
I played trauma center too and it was amazing, I had a lot of fun with the game and also have a lot of great memories playing it with my sister! I think it was one of the more immersive wii games that used pointing as the main way for interaction.
I had Trauma Center 1 & 2 on the DS, and considered getting it on Wii. But it seemed like touchscreen was what the game was designed around, I wasn't sure how it would translate to the Wiimotes. I think it's a shame they didn't make a Trauma Center for the Wii U. That game would have been the perfect use of the game pad.
As a longtime fan myself, agreed entirely. I gave the Wii a lot more love than I would have due to the backward GC support - to me, that saved the system (which I know, sounds silly).
The lack of a sensor bar on the Switch is a huge let down. This ruins all games that have a pointer with the need of a recalibration button that is an absolute imersion killer. Every time I need to press the recalibration button I remember that I'm pressing a button to fix a thing in a game because I'm in a plataform that do not have a feature, the sensor bar. And it kills the imersion of the games because you frequently have to press the button to recalibrate and move the cursor to the center of the screen. This basically condemns every Wii game that is ported to the Switch to have a version that the gameplay works in a worse way on the Switch. No matter how many improvements they do to graphics, the pointer on the Switch will be worse. But hey! At least we have a useless infrared sensor on a joycon! Nice trade! ¬¬
I'm so happy Zion talked about Trauma Team! I played the game with my cousin and I miss both him and the game very much. I hope an HD Trauma collection comes to Switch somehow.
Hate to be negative but the Wii is probably my least favorite Nintendo console. Galaxy was the only Wii game I truly loved, which isn't much by Nintendo standards, though there were others I liked (DKC Returns) and the motion control just never won me over. I didn't own a Wii U so can't judge that one, but that aside, all Nintendo's other consoles rank above the Wii for me. My ranking would be 1) Switch 2) SNES 3) Gamecube 4) NES 5) N64 6) Wii.
Fuck, I hate nostalgia. You attach how easy happy your life was with the games/console and then, when you go back to play and that doesn't return, you feel infinitely sad.
Most people I knew who had a Wii played very little except Wii Sports. The impression I have is that the software-to-hardware sales ratio is probably much worse than other consoles. Yes, the Wii sold like crazy, but how many of those people bought 10 or even 5 games after picking up the console? If you know of these numbers or know where I can get reliable information, I’d be curious. In contrast, I would think the software-to-hardware ratio for the Switch is much higher.
my Wii hidden gem would have to be Kororinpa! I think it falls under the Marble Madness (Saga?) title in the US, it's simple, easy to learn, hard to master and all around just good fun, I 100%'d it multiple times as a kid and again recently as a 25 year old.
I *didn’t* like the Wii for four reasons. 1) the menu music didn’t sound invigorating or pleasant in my opinion 2) the Wii remote felt like a stick of butter 3) the sensor bar was not very well tuned and had to be constantly adjusted 4) most games didn’t allow the Wii classic controller to be used.
It would be great if you put the name of the games being shown in the video. I also had a edgy mentality at the time and completely ignored the Wii in favor of the PS3. Only got one in 2017.
There was an arcade shooter I remember adoring called Eledees (or I think Elebits in America) where you were searching for these little creatures who inhabited electrical appliances inside your home. So much chaotic fun
This was my first home console I got it around 2008 and I absolutely loved it was my childhood and I had so many memories of games like super Mario galaxy 2 Wii sports resort and Donkey kong country returns made so much of my family come tougher
Another Code R was a good game and a good follow up to the DS game. I cry myself to sleep every night knowing we'll never get another sequel seeing how Cing went bankrupt. So I wrote I own sequel, which is very unlike me because I prefer to write my own original stuff rather than fanfiction.
I remember when my brother and I got our Wii a couple of months after launch. My bro went to our local video rental store (Roger's Video) and they got two or three consoles in stock, my brother didn't have enough for it, so he called me up and told me what was going on, I ran over and threw down the remaining $$$ and secured a Wii for our family + a couple of game's.
I got the Wii for my 15th birthday along with Red Steel, Wii Sports (bundled), and Twilight Princess. Loved that little thing and its impressive library of virtual console games.
I agree with Zion; the Trauma games are super underrated. It's silly to have arcade-style controls and weird, international-conspiracy storylines for a surgery sim, but they were good, good fun.
At one point in grade school I was mocked for looking forward to the Wii, but then I met in school one monday where my best friend (who was the one who had "mocked" me) stood up and said he had been at an event that weekend and had to admit to me that the Wii actually was super cool.
Love the Wii, love hearing everyone’s thoughts about it. Such a big part of childhood and growing up for me, and whilst in school having a Wii was seen as uncool and you couldn’t play the same games as your friends were, I’m incredibly fond of the console, and there’s still a ton of games I need to go back and find!
I dont think I was ever more hyped for a game in my life than Metroid Prime 3. I literally kept searching for news every single day for YEARS. It came out earlier in america than in europe, so by the time it was out in the states, I watched basically everything from the entire game on RU-vid. Needless to say it completely ruined the experience I was eagerly waiting years for 😂
I miss Cartwright. He was much better with Nintendo Life and fit in better. GVG has some nice people but they just are so sloppy, unprofessional, and milk toast boring. Aside from Jon's videos over there the rest of their content is very low effort and low quality. It feels like GVG just bought out Jon like Xbox trying to buy Call of Duty. I don't know the story but I'm glad we have the older videos to remember the good times. Like I said, no bad blood, I just think Nintendo Life is far better than GVG.
So glad that Fragile Dreams got a special mention. I think my personal pick for my favourite hidden gem I owned though was probably The Sky Crawlers: Innocent Aces. Being from the Ace Combat dev team, it's not exactly looked at terribly fondly compared to their other games, but it was a very bold experimental title that committed hard to its unique controls, the plot honestly was a perfect complement to the (highly underrated) Sky Crawlers film and it still had all the Ace Combat magic to its stages and worldbuilding. Also still love The Last Story. Don't have much else that really qualifies as particularly overlooked/hidden in my library since i was looking more at growing my DS and (oddly, I know) PS2 collections at that time. Well okay I also have Pandora's Tower but... well, that's seen ports and it's also not a favourite of mine. Speaking of I really wish Wii U had seen more Wii ports in retrospect... I also got a lot out of the (tragically even more limited) range of titles available in the Wii Shop Channel over here in New Zealand. People throw shade on their ports of the DS Ace Attorney trilogy but honestly I consider the format it took, making the first game's bonus case a separate DLC item kind of made it the perfect way to play the games as a fan interested in experiencing them in release order. I never got any of the ReBirth games which I deeply regret, knowing what they brought to the table at the time, but I *did* try out a lot of other things like Cave Story, the select few Family series party games from Arc System Works (which weren't great but some were acceptable options for when i had friends over), Muscle March (one hell of a game there), chick chick BOOM (a very good enhanced port of a surprisingly good competitive 1v1 flash game), MotoHeroz (the now forgotten but then surprisingly great multiplayer-oriented Trials-like game), Bomberman Blast, FFCC: My Life as a King and others. And demos of plenty of others like the bit.Trip games. Plus the exceptional Virtual Console lineup (even though reduced to only a bit over half that of the japanese one). The inclusions of titles even unreleased in PAL regions prior was huge and I got a lot out of it too. The various SNES JRPGs (putting aside the presense of Square, Ogre Battle is brilliant) and the all guaranteed excellent (albeit definitely overpriced in retrospect, Nintendo Points Cards weren't exactly cheap...) N64 lineup (I didn't get some until Wii U but still had a blast with the likes of Mario Party, Smash and Ogre Battle 64 back then) were already more than enough to complement absolutely everything else the console offered both in and out of its own games, but then going into overdrive with its Turbografx, Master System, Mega Drive, Commodore 64 and Neo Geo offerings (even if i tended to skew away from many of those systems' titles, generally just trying oddities like Gain Ground, RPGs like Ys Book I & 2 and Phantasy Star, Bomberman titles... and some SNK fighters too (though not many since I already had prior exposure to most series outside of wiiware anyway)). Sadly didn't dive into GameCube backwards compat since controllers and games simply weren't around in stores here by then and eventually just jumped to Wii U for housing my regular Wii fix. Either way though, Wii's VC was pretty OP. Still disappointed at the wealth of titles that skipped Australasian markets or even exclusively New Zealand on the service such as FAST Racing League, Snowpack Park or Overturn, not to mention the Japan-exclusives like that Pokemon Mystery Dungeon trio or that one escape game from INTENSE in the Simple series... It wasn't as bad about that as their more handheld eShops at least. Anyway yeah Wii had a lot going on all around it and I'm glad people remember.
Twilight Princess, Revenge of King Piccolo, PokePark 1 & 2, Metroid Prime Trilogy, SSB: Brawl and Sin & Punishment are the games that make the Wii so nostalgic for me. I could go back and play these games over and over just because of the nostalgic feels. The games themselves are really good too .. in my opinion.
I regret not buying Rhythm Heaven Fever back in the day. Now it's stupid expensive. Fortunately, I was able to play a copy from the library, and it is so much fun. Then again... Megamix, how I wish we had a cart version of Megamix in North America.
Dragon Quest Swords was one of my favorite games to play when I was younger. The scale I felt when I played it really made it feel immersive and the motion controls were done very well. Another one I have memories only from a friends house was Cocoto’s Fishing Master. We would take turns in between fish and just moving through each map was awesome. Another small one is Pokemon Rumble which I really enjoyed as an 8-10 year old. Idk if any of these hold up.
ended up buying a second wii (with out the other accessories to save money) just to play two Pal region locked game that never came to the states: Another Code R and Disaster: Day of Crisis. Ended up ordering two more pal only games: So Blonde: Back to the Island and Captain Morgane. Funny things is most of these game's companies went bankrupt. Except Disaster, that's Monolithsoft, which are still good. Heard Reggie didn't like the game so it was a no go for the states.
