Top 10 Wii Games

It's time to bid the Wii farewell and enter the eight generation of console video gaming tommorrow. Before it's successor will arrive, let me put up the top 10 Wii games according to myself. Some runner-ups just missing out are Muramasa: The Demon Blade, Kirby: Return to Dreamland, Disaster: Day of Crisis, Super Paper Mario and Donkey Kong Country Returns.

10.Fatal Frame II

The most haunting experience available for the Wii. Alas, it's a remake, but it remains an impressive horror title with enhanced Wii controls, graphics and new content such as the entertaining multiplayer mode where you are able to scare others manually. Fatal Frame II is not only the most fulfilling scary packed game with varied creepiness, it's also different in how it approaches gameplay.

9.Ōkami

Aesthetical tale from Capcom for all the pessimists out there that do not believe that there is art in video games. An epic nippon journey, Ōkami has very familiar gameplay to the 3D Zelda games, but can easily stand for itself because of its unique attributes to visual detail, great Wii controls and well constructed music. Rejuvenate your surroundings, banish evil demons and bring happiness and peace back as the god of the sun. This long game is packed with originality and satisfying gameplay. The dialogue could had been lessened or sped up though.

8.Punch Out!!

Fantastic re-imagination of the original NES version where Little Mac must once again start at the bottom and eventually reach the top to become the world champion. Only this time, He must also defend that dear title. Featuring pretty much all of the favorite boxing opponents from the original except for the licensed character, Punch-Out!! plays similar, yet feels fresh on the Wii. The opponents get a little bit more personality because they can talk now, and some of the graphic animations are funny. 

Doc, Mac’s trainer offers subtle hints and encouragement during your career and even is able to let you practice upcoming matches with holographic imagery in exhibition mode. The music is although few, pleasant and the gameplay is straightfully true to the original. As for the difficulty, it certainly is challenging, perhaps the hardest one yet because of the title defend matches.

 

7.Metroid Prime 3: Corruption

Finale towards a splendid strong trilogy, however it remains my least liked one out of the three. Having said that though, I enjoyed traveling to the several new locations, especially Elysia, and the Command Visor was a nice touch. The involvement of the GF also let that isolement feeling finally disappear, but I can live with that. It's like it's brethren, a first person adventure worth playing. And Metroid's concept just works out great in 3D, even for the third time.

6.Super Mario Galaxy 2

A rare Nintendo sequel towards a Mario game, Galaxy 2 is no doubt more of the same, but with the addition of Yoshi, more new suits, a great soundtrack once again and even more clever level design, this is even better than the first Galaxy. Not to mention a total of 242 different stars await you here, making it one of the largest Mario games out there.

5.Sin & Punishment: Star Successor

This sequel is everything the original was, but so much more, and the Star Fox developers should take note on how to get successful once again by looking at Treasure's Wii treasure. THIS is how you do an arcade style hybrid on rails shooter with excellent bosses, satisfying longevity and brutal difficulty.

4.Super Smash Bros. Brawl

The massive success of the Super Smash Bros. franchise continues with Brawl, which has the biggest content and features yet. Third party characters, online mode, build your own stage, an optimized single player mode, ridiculous amounts of trophies and stickers and a hype train around the world before it's release and after. It's technically the best entry yet, but 64 and Melee have other reasons for remaining must plays for multiplayer matches as well.

3.The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword

Although Wind Waker and Twilight Princess were pretty good in their own ways, Nintendo really rebounced my thoughts about the future of Zelda with Skyward Sword, which is the first consistent game able to prove that motion control works just fine when speaking of swordplay. It's the longest Zelda game yet, the difficulty had a much needed boost seen in here and it's visually and auditory outstanding. I applaud the dungeon design, some of them were very well crafted.

2.Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn

Roughly the tenth entry, Radiant Dawn at first feels like just your average Fire Emblem game. However, the game grasped me with it's story the further you proceeded down the chapters, as level design, music, difficulty and emotional conflicts deepened. And here I was thinking that Radiant Dawn would just be another entry...the story really turned interesting in this sequel towards Path of Radiance!

1.Xenoblade

Monolith Soft's greatest achievement yet, and a very strong new IP to take inspiration from. Xenoblade(Chronicles) delivers the faith towards JRPG's so much back, that it is really hard to nitpick about anything during this genuine epic momentum. With it's flowing gameplay, several effective system features, memorable soundtrack and the most beautiful environments on the Wii, it is for me the best game available. It's so good that it can easily compare towards any classic PSX or SNES RPG.