The BIG Wii Voting Thread, Voting Wii-kly: Thanks For Voting!

Deadly Creatures

Points: 5
First places: 1



You say:
"This game was epic, It took an old nostalgic genre and injected new ideas it told a story from a bizarre external perspective. strong cinematic cut scenes with dual perspective, dialogue is well voiced by Dennis Hopper and Billy Bobby Toddy Robby Tod Thornton. The environments were great with a real sense of scale. a small world within a big world. It has some of the most effective level design on the wii. I think the penultimate chapter in the landfill was my favourite. It took me awhile to get through this game playing small bits hear and there. I think that helped it to sink in more as in hindsight it could have been finished in a day. exclusives like this are what made the Wii great"

I say: Wow, remember this? All I recall of it is a rather optimistic preview in NGamer, followed by a high sixties review score and everyone forgetting about it. And now it's here! Truth be told, I did wonder whether I should have included this in beat-em-ups (might have been adventure, like NMH?), but I doubted that anyone else would vote for it in adventure, and this way a forgotten potential great gets a chance to shine. (And if I exclude this, there are four games on three points.)

No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle

Points: 13
First places: 0



You say:
"For me the fights were nowhere near as good as the original's but I found the minigames far better! Go figure."
"In comparison to the original the bosses were forgettable and I felt a bit cheated on how many, but it was fun, the minigames were much better and thank goodness they dropped the awful empty sandbox and paying to fight."

I say: I only voted for two games, but I didn't feel that I could rank this above third place due to having spent about an hour on it. What I played was much as expected, only without the bike: colourful fights (which I enjoyed), 8-bit-esque minigames (which I didn't enjoy), and Sylvia sashaying around (which Travis enjoyed). Probably worthy of its placing, unless it cocks up majorly later on. (Insert Destroyman joke here.)

Punch-Out!!

Points: 17
First places: 1



You say:
"Very challenging to both the mind and reactions, a bit of a looker and full of character."
"Suits the Wii perfectly; good arcadey fun."
"The perfect resurrection of a franchise. The game that made Next Level Games a developer to keep an eye on, Punch-Out!! bravely - and successfully - updated two games that arguably needed no such thing. That it kept the spirit of the two games before it alive whilst being a worthwhile game in its own right, is testament to the strength of the concept and the development team. Criminally underlooked and underexposed, this is one of Wii's hidden gems, perfect for quoting to anyone who says that Wii had no decent core games."

I say: Well now I feel guilty. Having never been the biggest fan of beat-em-ups (as my two votes suggest), I gave this one a miss, seeing a throwaway distraction rebooted for fans of the racism-heavy originals. More fool me: apparently it's more puzzler-like in execution, and even I can see that it looks beautiful. Something for me to pick up during a 3DS and Wii U games drought.

Tatsunoko vs. Capcom: Ultimate All-Stars

Points: 17
First places: 1



You say:
"As one of the ten people to actually play this I can say it's a very solid fighter with a lot of fan service."
"Only hampered by the fact that I knew none of the Tatsunoko characters (and not all of the Capcom ones, either!). I'd never seen a tag mechanic before, so that was cool, and the core game was great."
"because KAPOW!"

I say: I feel less guilty about this one. Like our second commentator, I know very few of the characters involved, so what I saw was a "proper fighter" version of Smash Bros. for fans of heroes and heroines I'd never heard of. But again, it looks very pretty, and the core gameplay sounds nice for those who like this sort of thing.

Super Smash Brothers Brawl

Points: 51
First places: 8



You say:

• "Obvious choice but much like Melee it was a huge game with so much to see and do. The additions were exactly what the series needed and almost definitely worth more than 94% "
  
• "Nintendo's finest piece of fan service, even if it's a game I'm not crazy about and one I think is hugely overrated. It's the perfect handheld game that isn't a handheld game: short bouts, brief tournaments, and always some reward for attempting a new challenge. Collecting those trophies is damned addictive, and Subspace Emissary could've been the best addition ever if the platforming wasn't so utterly, utterly gash. A mixed bag, but one I don't regret sinking some time into."
  
• "Without a shadow of a doubt. It had some major faults - like the shoddy online mode, unimaginative bonus stages and fairly mince single player campaign-thing – but at the time I overlooked those because the core gameplay was so damn good. I still can, but I hope the sequel sorts these flaws out."
  
• "More to do than can ever be done, as the song says. Hugely and simply fun."
  
• "An interesting campaign and the great fighting we've come to know and love. No fighters match it."
  
• "just drenched in nostalgia!"
  
• "Melee was rooted in my Gamecube for months at a time, and when this was announced, I lost it. I checked the Dojo website every day for nuggets of information... this was my first video game obsession. When it finally came out, I loved it. I loved the new characters, I loved the story mode regardless of its criticisms... it introduced me to new games, new videogame music, and it played better. Final Smashes changed the game, pardon the cliché. Online mode was brilliant, not that I touched it much as I was too busy enjoying splitscreen carnage with friends. It may not be a fighting game in the same vein as Street Fighter or Mortal Kombat, but it's probably one of my most played games of all time."
  
• "Now guys... Im assuming while you are reading this, Balladeer has slapped the #1 fighting game right on this title, right where is deserves to be. We are voting on games for a Nintendo console. Super smash bros encapsulates all that is Nintendo adds great balanced fighting game-play and characters from every corner of the Nintendo universe.
  
  If this title does not make number 1 it is a severe injustice. Brought on by those of you that went online and got destroyed by a Jigglypuff player then in-between rage and tears you boot up No More Heroes, a nice safe, single-player game for all you cowards who couldn't hack it. Are you not entertained!?"
  
• "because derp"

I say: Because derp indeed.

Back in "The Old Place", when we were asked to give the best games of the noughties, I ranked Mêlée above this, and I think I still would. The graphics are somehow more drab, the tripping an idiot design decision, the Target Test simplified, and why in free-for-alls did the CPUs all gun for you? Then there were the new additions that didn't quite hang together, like the epic sweeping one-player mode with the rubbish level design, the online mode that got so laggy as to be unplayable, and the "Blue Shell in a fighting game" Final Smash, especially for Sonic. Oh, also, this one has Sonic in.

But then there's everything else. Smash Bros. has never gone for revolution, instead choosing just to expand. Brawl gave us Meta Knight, Wario, Pit, Olimar, and made all the clones less clone-like. It gave us the Halberd, Spear Pillar, Pictochat. It provided 20 co-operative event matches, in addition to the existing ones. It dumped more amazing music on us than we could possibly cram into last week's Music Week. And those additions, dubious though some of them were, were nice to have. Remember the rather scary Floows? The boss battle against Meta Ridley? Putting "Goat in!" as one of your online phrases? Green Missile-ing into the back of a Final Smash-enabled Meta Knight online, killing him? (That last one may have just been me.)

I wrote two books' worth of fanfiction on this. I think it goes without saying that I voted it first place, and had it placed any lower, it would have been a crime against Nintendo. And yah boo sucks to Stu.

Guilty Gear XX Λ Core Plus, The King of Fighters Collection: The Orochi Saga, Madworld, Marvel: Ultimate Alliance (again, its inclusion in fighters is dubious, but 'Pedia calls it "an action role-playing game" and nobody voted for it in week 2, so meh), Mortal Kombat Armageddon, Pokémon Rumble, Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, WWE SmackDown Vs. Raw 2009

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