For games where you really want to be up moving and using the motion capabilities of the remote a lot, I think WarioWare and Mario and Sonic at the Olympics are the best ones we have. WarioWare is a bit frustrating though in that you have to share a single remote when playing multiplayer.
My personal favorite game has been Super Paper Mario, but it could have been done on the Gamecube and not lost a whole lot. Super Mario Galaxy is excellent. Zack and Wiki is a very good puzzle solving game. I have the 2007 version of Tiger Woods and would not recommend it. I think some of the major problems with it were corrected for the 2008 version though.
I just got my Wii a couple of weeks ago, so I haven’t been able to play a ton yet. I am relatively underwhelmed by Super Mario Galaxy so far - it’s fun, but it’s no better than my fourth-favorite Mario at this point (I’m something like half done).
The game I REALLY wanted, Fire Emblem, is exactly what I wanted it to be… but that is unlikely to be a big selling point for most Wii buyers, since what I wanted was punishing difficulty and thoughtful strategy with minimal to no use of the Wii Remote. Which I got.
I am still trying to figure out whether I want to get the Wii (widescreen!) or GameCube (Link correct-handed, don’t have to point at the screen) version of Zelda. Smash is the other game that I’m really looking forward to, and basically why I bought the system.
I have played Raving Rabbids (wholly unimpressed), WarioWare (good party game but I’d never buy it), and Mario Party (bad party game and I’d never buy it).
Overall, I’m still very unimpressed by the selection of games that’s out there for the Wii, and still not particularly enthused with the motion control scheme. On the other hand, Mario / Fire Emblem / Zelda / Smash is clearly enough to inspire me to buy the system, which is a threshold that the GC never reached. So there’s that.
(Question: If I can get my hands on a copy of the GC Fire Emblem, which I played once but would love to play again… can I save the games without a GC memory card, i.e. on the Wii HD? This is a general GC-on-Wii question, really. I understand I’d need the GC controller and that’s no problem - Smash, you know - but I’d REALLY rather not have to get a GC memory card for just the one game.)
It has been a while since I have played it, but I don’t really remember the first world being that much better or worse than any of the others. I doubt that you would really like the game any better just from playing farther.
Pointing at the screen is the reason to get the Wii version. Aiming is much better that way. But then, I never even noticed that Link was a lefty, so the who left/right controversy seems like much ado about nothing to me.
Anyone have Carnival Games? My son wanted it for Christmas, we got it…it’s OK, but he really likes it. The problem I have is that I can’t seem to get the damn thing to play with more than one remote. There’s that screen at the beginning with that “flippable” sign that directs you to play multiplayer on one or more than one remote, but it doesn’t do anything…anyone know how to get a second or more remotes to work for the thing?
There are some minigames you just cannot play without having multiple remotes operating.
