Where are the Wii 3rd Party titles that don't suck? There's a ton of shovelware and lots of movie tie-ins and gimmicky titles, and you just sort of expect those to suck, but consider the list of good Wii titles:
- Super Mario Galaxy
- The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
- Metroid Prime 3: Corruption
- Super Smash Bros Brawl
- MarioKart Wii
What do they have in common? They're all made by Nintendo. But what about the hotly-anticipated 3rd party titles? Well, consider this list of would-be must-haves:
- Mad World
- The Conduit
- TMNT: Smash-Up
- Marvel: Ultimate Alliance (the original and the recent sequel)
- Red Steel
- Star Wars: The Force Unleashed
- No More Heroes
Almost all of them were disappointments. Most of them aren't bad (except Red Steel, Red Steel was awful, and Marvel: Ultimate Alliance 2 is pretty damned shoddy from what I've heard), but none of them are great, with the possible exception of No More Heroes, which was quite good, but also quite flawed. There are a few under-the-radar titles 3rd-party titles that are supposed to be pretty good, like Okami and Trauma Center: Second Opinion, both of which I've played, but neither of which I've bothered to finish. There are some outliers, like World of Goo, which is a PC game that got a Wii port. I haven't played da Blob or Boom Blox, so I can't really speak to them, but in general, if it's on the Wii and really enjoyable, it's almost certainly been made by Nintendo. Even the exclusives have felt under-developed.
I've just accepted that the forthcoming Red Steel 2 and No More Heroes 2 are going to suck.
On the plus side, knowing all this in advance has saved and will continue to save me money.
Just ranting,
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1 comments:
I said when Red Steel came out on launch day that as weak as it was, Red Steel would be epic. I continue to stand behind that statement.
see also:
Trauma Center
Tales of Symphonia: New Dawn (for Tales fans *only*)
Resident Evil 4 (the wii remote really does make it more than just a port)
No More Heroes
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