The 10th Annual Greatest Games Event - Discussion Thread

[Mnementh]

Landale_Star said:

Mnementh said:

Maybe. There is this feature, to map buttons on the Wiimote to the Gamepad. But I don't know if that is enough for Pandora's Tower. In difference to Xenoblade Chronicles it uses the Wiimote, namely the pointing feature of the Remote. It might be possible to map that to a pointer that can be moved with a stick, but I don't know if that happened. And the chain is a central gameplay element, this should work fine.

I think it's based on the original Classic Controller set up for Pandora's Tower. As far as I know, all Wii games (from the E-shop) that supported the Classic Controller, can now be played entirely with the Gamepad, but like you mention the Wiimote is the way it was primarily designed so I think many prefer that over a stick.

Indeed, I looked at my copy (which to my joy is the limited edition with a steelbook) and indeed there I can see it supports classic controller. I guess this way it is mapped to the gamepad, you seem to be right on this.

S.Peelman said:
@Mnementh @Landale_Star
Thanks for the tip. I in fact have one of those mythical WiiU’s. Could be an option. I’ll have to hook it up somewhere though.

I in fact turned on my mythical WiiU, which is connected to my projector as I still use it to watch Netflix (I can name a Nintendo console which still hasn't gotten a Netflix app). And I tried it. Indeed is Pandora's Tower playable with the gamepad, as I assumed it might be the cursor indicating the chain reticle is mapped to a stick. This works, but for me it doesn't feel so natural (maybe if I played it that way for a while and get used to it). So I used a Wiimote, and man, this way targeting feels so great and fluid, it makes using the chain in combat a joy. I don't mind mapping the Wiimote flick to a button though.