Well it's the last day and the last batch of games I'll be able to show off. I wasn't able to get to my other tote of wii games which has another 100 games, so maybe next year I can go through that. Still I managed to go through 250 games in my collection and that is quite a bit. Anyways, enjoy my last batch of games and a few big box/special edition games.
Trauma Canter Second Opinion/New Blood/Team. This will go on for a bit as each game is a little more different than the other. Second Opinion is a remake/port of the first Trauam Center:Under the Knife for the DS. You play as surgeon and anime hero Dr. Derek Styles and in a alternate pathway Dr. Nozomi Weaver aka Naomi Kimishima. As Dr Styles you are tasked to take on G.U.I.L.T. A biologically created disease unleashed by a terrorist organization. At one point the terrorists decide to bomb an embassy and it's up to Derek to take his anime hero skills and become a bomb disposal expert. The controls are relatively decent. You don't have to be perfect, though there is a scoring system which rates how good you do based on how much time you take, combo chains, etc.
Not all procedures are equal and performing the healing touch can be a bit maddening when under the gun (a star figure by the way) Overall though it's fairly good despite the annoying nurse. New Blood is a sequel and features leaderboards and two different docters, both who have a different healing touch ability. The story is just as crazy as Second Opinion and also features an out of place mission in escaping the organization that kidnaps you and leaves you locked in a room to die. The controls are more fine tuned, but still not perfect by any means. And the difficulty gets spiked high fast (no surprise... it's an Atlus game).
As for Trauma Team the final game I have, You get to control 6 characters! And each has a different play style. You have your traditional Trauma series of surgeries which you shoulkd know about if you played the other two entries. Meanwhile new features consist of orthopedics which is essentially beginners mode as you are tasked to trace, drill, or puzzle piece together bone fragments. There is Paramedics which tasks you with taking care of multiple individuals suffering various conditions suh as heart attacks, broken bones, or severe trauma. Endoscopic procedures are featured and are by far the most difficult. In these segments you thrust the wii remote forward to navigate through peoples bodies to take care of polyps, drain various clusters, and use lasers to take care of tissues. Finally the last 2 are more text based story driven, find a clue type puzzlers. In Diagnostics you are tasked with determining various conditions via people's nervous ticks, words they say, mri scans, and piecing them together. In Forensics you are tasked to discover clues as to various crime scenes by finding puncture holes on bodies, disgarded weapons, footprints, blood patterns, and more. All the games are really fun and I've spent a lot of time talking about them.
Hello hello. I have a game called Vertigo! *ahem* All U2 references aside... this game is not about a fear of extreme heights when looking down at them. No in this game you take control of a Xorb which is a ball like sphere and roll it along various tracks high in the sky and space. Essentially it's a budget Monkey Ball or Kororinpa and it's not bad either. It controls decently and you can improve your Xorbs stats to make it go faster or be heavier.
Wario Land Shake It! is the return to Wario's 2D platform roots and the first to be released on a Nintendo home console (Unless you count Wario's Woods on the Virtual Console). Most of Wario's 2D adventures were usually placed on handhelds and Wario World was a 3D adventure. The hand drawn animation is terrific. The music is great. The levels are fun and I had an absolute blast playing it. As for the shake it mechanic you usually shake things like money bags or thrust the remote down to do a super ground punch.
WarioWare Smooth Moves is a mini game party compilation that brings the WarioWare experience to motion controls. Each motion control is explained in a hilarious way with the narrator talking about the forms as if they are fine wine. The ways you use the controller are fairly silly, but most are more hit than miss. A fun game to play with friends and family
We Love Golf! was developed by Camelot who brought the super fun Mario Golf and Tennis games to various Nintendo consoles. We Love Golf was published by Capcom however, but the fanservice is still present. The golfers have unque personalities (kind of like Hot Shots in a way) and even dress up as various Capcom characters on the course such as Chun Li from Street Fighter or Zack from Zack & Wiki. The game is a bit easy though, but I enjoyed it. Many games on Wii couldn't quite figure out the golf swing or putting mechanic with the wii remote, but this game never feels intrusive or difficult. Definitely worth it.
Wii Play and Wii Play Motion are mini game compilations that essentially serve as tech demos much like Wii Sports. Wii Play has 9 mini games and not all of them are winners. I really enjoyed pool and ping pong. The sequel adds up the total games to 14 and not all of those are winners either. Still at the time you could do worse. Wii Play came bundled with a wii remote so it was only like $10 and wii play motion cost just as much, but came bundled with the wii motion plus.
Wii Music was a swing and a miss for Nintendo considering. Wii Music was teased at launch back when it was known as Wii Opera and ultimately that did end up getting in a a mni game of sorts as you could conduct a the Zelda main theme. The game was not very good as creating your own music wasn't as detailed as it could be and the song choices were iffy at best.
We Ski was released by Namco-Bandai and is a unique skiing simulator. You'll create a skier and use your skiing skills to show off your moves or race other skiers down the mountaintop. It's an okay game, at least much better than SSX Blur for sure and I enjoyed the colorful cast of characters
Wii Sports Resort was the followup to the Wii Sports, a Wii pack in game that came out for the Wii, Including the Wii Motion plus. The events were expanded from 5 sports to I think about 14 or so. You had basketball, bowling, archery, frisbee, wave riding, golf, etc. It was pretty fun and I enjoyed the bicycling events and Wahoo Island.
Xenoblade Chronicles was a game so clamored for that due to fan demand we are now getting multiple Xenoblade series stateside. It's an odd thing how Operation Rainfall worked out. Had it not been for the dedicated Nintendo fans we may have never seen the series or Shulk in Smash Bros. Xenoblade is a massive jrpg and I mean massive. Taking place on a literal God the environments are huge. If there is a place on the map you can go to it. If there's something that I enjoy in jrpgs it's the ability to go out into the world... go exploring. That doesn't mean you shouldn't be careful. Exploring too far out into the unkown can net you into an encounter with a devastating high level monster. The battle system is inspired by an mmo style mechanic of an active time battle setup and it works really well depending on strategies you employ. Monado powers are essential to a victory as mechons are weak to it's abilities as well as many others. A fantastic game that I'm glad was brought over.
Zack & Wiki: Quest For Barbaros' Treasure is a point and click puzzle adventure developed by capcom specifically for the Wii. It's fantastic too. The controls and way you use the remote are genius. You hold a remote up and press the 2 button to open an umbrella, shake the remote to ring a bell, etc. The cel shaded graphics are wonderful, the story is fun and the characters are wacky. My favorite is Johnny Styles, the Sea Rabbits ace pilot who constantly bails on you or runs into danger. Some stages Johnny appears in and although you lose points, it's fun to watch Johnny get swept into the sky screaming Yee-Haw!
Dragon Quest 25th Anniversary Collection of Dragon Quest I, II, & III for the NES and SNES was released exclusive in Japan. I haven't played it as I bought it strictly for a collector's item. It's still in the plastic, but it comes with an art booklet and specialty dragon quest coin.
Pandora's Tower is one of the operation rainfall titles that was released stateside, albeit a year later from it's release in other areas. However, the limited edition I bought was released only in Europe. The special edition comes with a steelbook case and art book and the game itself, while not as good as Xenoblade Chronicles or The Last Story.. it's still pretty fun. The characters are three dimensional, there is tremendous replay value in getting 6 different endings, and the bosses are incredible.
Super Mario All-Stars Limited Edition cost me $20 on ebay which is odd considering what I've seen copies go for... despite how bad it was received. While the games are fun, fetauring the all star SNES versions of Super Mario Bros., Super Mario Bros. 2, Super Mario Bros. The Lost Levels, and Super Mario Bros. 3. The limited edition fetures an art booklet with some quick blurbs from Miyamoto, Tezuka, and Kondo respectively. There also was a music cd with 20 tracks, though only 10 of them are actual songs, with 10 being sound effect tunes.
The Last Story saw Hironobu Sakaguchi return to Nintendo with a brand new rpg game experience exclusive to the Wii. Returning to compose the music was longtime collaborator Nobuo Uematsu. The Last Story is small, centralized, and completely different from many of the efforts put out by Sakaguchi before. And while the Lazulis Island may not be the grand area or scope of Final Fantasy or even Xenoblade I enjoyed the characters and the battle system was fairly enjoyable. The special edition I bought came with an art book and soundtrack sampler.
I'll make these last two real quick. Link's Crossbow training came with the Wii Zapper, a plastic peripheral for the remote and nunchuk. The game itself is rather short. It's an arcade shooter, though not fully on rails since there are levels of areas that you can wander around in (albeit small areas). The three modes range from traget shooting, defender segments where you take on a horde of enemies coming at you, and ranger where you go around a small area shooting various bokoblins. It's pretty fun, but short. It costs about 420 if you got it with the zapper, so I'm venturing to say it's about a $10 title and a $10 piece of plastic.
Wii Sports came bundled with every Wii. It's a tech demo with 5 sports in tennis, baseball, bowling, boxing, and golf. As a free tech demo theis is the game that introduced you, your friends, and your grandmother to what would become Nintendo's most successful selling home console since the NES and SNES respectively. And whether you enjoyed it or not...you can't deny it innovated gaming as it brought the idea of motion controls to the forefront of gaming.
Anyways that's it for me. Thank you all for commenting and reading! It's been a fun BaD!
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