Against the grain: What Nintendo SHOULD have done/should do with the Wii

[homer]

jarrod said:

homer said:

jarrod said:

homer said:

 What puzzle games does nintendo have this gen for the wii btw? Same with rpgs? Shooters? 

 

Well, I was considering all platforms really.  But for just Wii...

 

RPG

 

• Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn
• Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Blazing/Lightning/Stormy Adventure Squad
• Super Paper Mario
• The Last Story
• Xenoblade

 

Shooting

 

• Eco Shooter: Plant 530
• Link's Crossbow Training
• Sin & Punishment: Star Successor

 

 

Puzzle

 

• Art Style: Cubello
• Art Style: Orbient
• Art Style: Rotohex
• Art Style: Rotozoa
• Bonsai Barber
• Dr. Mario Online RX
• Fluidity
• MaBoShi: The Three Shape Arcade
• Magnetica Twist
• thruSpace
• Wii Chess
• You, Me and the Cubes

 

I thought you refering to shooters in general (including fps, tps, etc.) at which I would have listed more but just off the top of my head.

Pixeljunk Shooters

Pixeljunk shooters 2

The shoot (notice how they all have some form of the word shoot in them lol)

I also forgot about downloadable titles such as the art style series.

As for puzzle games, sony has made great ones such as Echocrome and several other titles(that I have no idea what they're appropriate genre would be) such as Comet crash, fat princess, and flower.

Let me stop you right there, the PixelJunk are amazingly awesome, but they're also 100% 3rd party. Sony doesn't develop the games (Q-Games does) or own the IP (again, Q-Games does), they just publish the games outside Japan and have an exclusivity arrangement.  If by that standard PixelJunk is 1st party, then Dragon Quest IX is a 1st party Nintendo game. ;)

As for "shooters", I tend to make a distinction between fps/tps (which are really derived from action games) and more classic shmups (from which rail shooters and gun games are derived)... which is why I already gave the edge to Sony on fps/tps earlier.

As for other games, I'd say Flower is legitimately hard to classify (probably an action game), Fat Princess is a straight up RTS (so strategy) and Comet Crash is tower defense (also strategy).  None of them are really puzzle games.

I was not aware that the pixeljunk series was  3rd party. I waqs under the inpression it was developed by titan studios for some reason. As for puzzle, I can only think of echochrome.