I'm back for part 5 of my Wii U Adventure and here it is.... the dark times! Without spoiling this blog too much i can safely say that this was the worst year i have had so far as a Wii U Owner. It was incredably clear by the middle of the year that the, now named, Nintendo Switch would be coming in 2017 and as such Zelda was delayed for the launch as well as a few other games being somewhat rushed out to move over to Switch development. There was a few awesome games though that have already begun gaining Cult Hit status amongst Wii U fans!
Without further a do....
Neglect
So this is going to be a short article... i actually only purchased TWO games this year on the Wii U! Although i did pick up stuff that came to Wii U as well, i was opting to play else where this year. What i did play was a lot more Mario Kart 8, Super Smash Bros., Splatoon and Call of Duty Black Ops 2! These games in particular were constants for me throughout the Wii U Era and with most of them having Switch counterparts by the end of 2018 i suspect they will hold up my Switch too!
The Games I Did Buy!
On a more positive note i did buy two games after all! The first was, of course, The Legend Of Zelda: Twilight Princess HD in March. It has always been a frustration of mine that the Gamecube version of Twilight Princess has always been so expensive and hard to get hold of for an older game that i just wanted to give a go, so i was very excited when this remaster got announced and i was not disappointed!
Although i still need to get around to finishing it, i suck i know, what i played of this game puts it very high on my best Zelda list. It just perfects the formula laid down by Ocarina of Time with its overall structure and just feels so epic in a sort of Lord of the Rings kind of way. Sure the early hours are abit hand holdy but its really not as extreme as people go on about. We also picked up the Midna Wolf Link amiibo that came in the special edition of the game too which is really cool and very detailed!
The other game that i picked up was... Lego City: Undercover! By this point Nintendo had started putting out its "Nintendo Selects" line of £20 re-releases of its better games so i finally picked this up. Lego City is often compared to GTA but it is really more than that. This game is one of the best written to have come from the already well respected Lego games with lots of nods and jokes for both the young and the older. I LOVED all the nintendo and celebrity references and it was jam packed with content. Like everything else you can now pick this up on the Switch and i really to recommend it, there isn't alot like this on Nintendo platforms and that is a shame.
What Did I Miss?
There was a few cool things that came out in 2016 that i didn't get at the time....but also some less so.
Star Fox: Zero and Guard were hailed as the last big hopes for Wii U by 2016, a game that was delayed a few times to the point some of us really weren't sure that it was going to come out! And then it did... and MEH. I'm not a diehard Star Fox guy to be honest but it seemed like Zero was positioned as a return to the series roots following the side steps of Assault and Adventures and i think people had there hopes and expectations super high but sadly Zero just fell flat.
Most peoples issues with the game are its rehashing of the Lylat Wars on the N64 and the incredibly non-intuitive control system that required the player to concentrate on two separate screens at the same time. I have recently picked up the double pack that includes the downloadable Star Fox: Guard so i will play it and let you know!
Paper Mario Colour Splash, Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE, Mario/Sonic at the Rio Olympics and Pokken Tournament also came out this year and i was super excited for all three but.... i don't know, i just couldn't drop the big bucks on these games at the time due to the Wii U's dying state. It seems silly now because, as i will talk about in the next few posts, i have played the Wii U sooooooooooo much since 2016 but at the time i just wasn't playing it! I have reviewed Paper Mario on my blog before so please check that out for a more detailed look at my thoughts!
So coming out of 2016 hope was at an all time low. at the start of 2017 Nintendo ceased Wii U production and the Switch was fully shown off and we were all ready to move on. We preordered ours as soon as possible and presumed we would be putting our Wii U away for the foreseeable future...turns out we were very very wrong.....
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