| bigtakilla said: The Wii U will be remembered as a mixed bag by me. It finally had Nintendo tear its walls down to third party developers, and their takes on the franchises could be some of the best ones to date (with Hyrule Warriors, Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE, and Star Fox Zero). I'll also remember it for being the first console to fully embrace a mature genre with how many hack and slash games their were. Bayo/2, Wonderful 101, Devil's Third, Ninja Gaiden Razor's Edge, Darksiders II, and if you count them Warriors Orochi 3 and Hyrule Warriors. I'll remember it fondly for having one of the most amazing open world games I ever had the pleasure of playing with Xenoblade X, and though the story seemed smaller in scale, it could just as easily be a series that has one of the biggest and greatest stories to date. I'll remember it for having some of the greatest entries in their first party ever. Sm4sh is simply unbelievable, and will be the benchmark for every Smash that follows. Mario 3D World is a visual feast in some of its levels, and is all around a master class of game design. Donkey Kong is the best in its series period, Fatal Frame FINALLY got a new game released worldwide post being Nintendo 2nd party, and its actually a scary atmospheric survival horror with tons of content. Then Splatoon... Oh God, it had the world asking themselves if they were a kid or a squid. Love or hate any of the games mentioned, people would be hard pressed to tell me it wasn't a giant leap in the right direction. The bad... The ONLY regret I will have of the Wii U is that they could have done so much more with it. It should have had its own Fire Emblem, and exclusive Zelda, and Animal Crossing, and Metroid. They should have pushed for Crystal Chronicles: Crystal Bearers 2 or Bravely U, or a Mega Man after the freak out of his introduction to Sm4sh. That said what they gave us though was generally a blast. |
My opinion closely aligns with yours. Although I haven't played all the games you've mentioned, the games I'm playing on Wii U are pretty darn good, even Star Fox Zero. This is coming from someone who just got a Wii U last winter so I've already got my money's worth.
i could also mention the great indie games that released on Wii U along with Virtual Console games such as Earthbound, Earthbound Beginnings, Zelda the Minish Cap, Fire Emblem, etc.
Though what stands out to me is the craziness that is Smash 4. The speculations before and after release have made me almost insane at times because I tend to wonder who would be added next. This game is probably the epitome of AAA crossover events. It'll be hard for any other crossover game to match this.
i personally wish more was done with the gamepad. I like experimental Nintendo and I wished they would've experimented more with the pad to show the unique ways to play and that can't be done with traditional controllers like the Wiimote did.
