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S.Peelman on 10 January 2017
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Then there was the Wii, the final push back into console gaming. Soon after I got my DSlite, I got a Wii when I was finally able to. The things were always sold out. Aside from the included, and great, Wii Sports, I got the Wii version of Twilight Princess (even though I already had the Gamecube version) and Mario Party 8. The system would be played for a long time, and only about a year-and-a-half ago did it finally get unhooked for the last time. My favorite games were;

Super Mario Galaxy
The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword
Mario Kart Wii
Mario Party 8

First a special nod to Wii Sports, because it's genius design and motion control was a big part of my renewed faith in Nintendo. Mario Party 8 would become one of my most played games, together with Mario Kart Wii which I got soon after. One of my cousins got a renewed interest in Nintendo for a brief period of time and we'd usually play either of those games. We played them plenty, and it was almost like the old N64 days once more.

One of the other early games I got was Super Mario Galaxy. Finally the real Nintendo was back, the game was brilliant. The best I played since Super Mario 64, gameplay elements were so original, and it worked. Level design, the hub-world and even it's graphics, it couldn't have been better. A little past halfway through the system's lifetime interest started to wane a bit and quality games were fewer and further between. I rode it out until the final high-point in the form of The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword. A great game like almost all Zelda's are. I talked about Twilight Princess for the Gamecube already, and what I said there applies here as well, but Skyward Sword was finally the Wii's very own original Zelda game. And the final game came with the best motion control I'd ever seen. Though it goes overboard by also using it for things like swim-controls, the sword-play was totally immersive. The feature added new layers of depth in combat and puzzles and I thought this was the right way to take the series. For a long time I hoped this depth would carry over to subsequent Zelda games.