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

Animal Crossing: Let's Go to the City: I can see the development meeting now.
"Hey, that Animal Crossing DS game did really well. We should make a Wii version!"
"Good idea! But what do we change about it so that it's not exactly the same, only less portable?"
"Argh, it's lunch break in two minutes. Hmm. Hang about: let's bolt a city onto it! Which is essentially just a massive shopping centre!"
"Brilliant! That'll help with the female demographic as well, girls all being one demographic who like shopping. Have a massive pay rise."
"Right, let's go to lunch. The sandwiches are on me! And by 'on me' I mean 'on expenses'."
(both laugh)

Another Code: R – A Journey into Lost Memories: "I love Cing, I love the games they made and the stories in the them, however this was awful. The puzzles weren't great, the lack of any real ending was bad but the story took the biscuit. Ashley is the most hateful character in existance and I found myself constantly wanting to punch her in the face. After Hotel Dusk and the previous Another Code game this was epicly dissapointing."

Big Beach Sports: "It had potential, but I found it to be unpolished, shoddy and in no way passably fun - not even the cricket "

Boom Blox: "for disguising RSI as a game."

Chicken Shoot: "When Duck Hunt, a game more than 20 years older, is better, then something is very very wrong."

Endless Ocean: If we were voting for cures for insomnia, it'd be in my top five. But we're not, and it's as dull as an actuary watching paint dry.

Family Ski and Snowboard: "What are you meant to do, the gameplay is mediocre and there's no purpose to it."

F1 2009 (and by extension the series): "The "sport" isn't very exciting, the game is less so. Follow the line for a bit and then make it round the track without overtaking as that's probably against the rules."

Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles The Crystal Bearers: "It was a pretty game, unfortunately the combat was horrible and the story wasn't up to much."

Game Party: "A combination of the worst games, the worst controls and the worst birthday present make this the most hateful game in existance."

Ghost Squad: "...undoubtedly crap value for money."

Grand Slam Tennis: "There were worse tennis games with worse control calibration, but this gets a dishonourable mention from me as it was similarly humourless and cost me £50. I had no fun with this featureless, underdeveloped chore of a game, and it really made me doubt the worth of MotionPlus until that Tiger Woods came along."

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part II: "It's described as a "fantasy shooter". More like a "fantasy shitter" amiright guys? (Although that does make it seem like I'm talking about a toilet)" (And a really good toilet at that.)

The Last Story: "Now, I wouldn't be so adamant in my hatred for this game if it didn't get such rave reviews. Reuses bosses, short campaign length of 12 hours (Xenoblade took about 80), horrible characters/story/sidequests/combat/graphics. Where is the redeeming point? NGamer gave this game over 80 and folded a few months later. Not coincidence!"

Lost in Blue: Shipwrecked!: "Is this anybody’s idea of good fun? Incredibly demanding, totally unrewarding, irritating controls, bollocks presentation, and could bore a can of Red Bull to sleep."

Mario Strikers Charged Football: "the most enraging game I've ever played."

Max & the Magic Marker: "I completely disagreed with the reviews for this. I thought it was mince. Ugly, basic, boring, pish. It’s a great advert for playing the demo before paying for the full game, but that the demo was released after I had already done so makes me hate it all the more."

Mega Man 9: "I understand what they were trying to do but that kind of game design died out for a reason."

Metroid: Other M: "simply because it was so disappointing. Trying to be the bridge between the two styles for which Metroid has become famous over the years, it fell between the two stools perfectly."

Okami: "Why oh why did they take the winning Zelda formula and plant those crappy locked-arena battles in there? *sobs*"

Pacman Party: "Mario Party with worse characters, 1 bad map and awful minigames."

Pop: "Virtually no depth, physically uncomfortable to play (pointing, twisting, stabling…my wrists hurt just thinking about it) and it’s not addictive in the slightest. For me, the concept and whole game wore thin within seconds. Dreadful value for points, and an even worse introduction to WiiWare for me."

Rabbids Go Home: "possibly harsh, as I played it after Super Mario Galaxy 2 and Lego Harry Potter: Years 1-4, which were amazing to me, but the thing seemed aimless."

Resident Evil 4: "The game that almost made me miss out on several brilliant games (including this one) due to the awful controls. Do yourself a favour and play one of the other hundreds versions!"

Sam And Max Beyond Time And Space: "fundamentally a broken game. After the first episode I got hold of a guide and beat it as quickly as possible so it could be traded in."

Scene It? Twilight: "I played at a friend's house once. The joy at hearing "wanna play Scene It?" dissipated when a) it wasn't the board game but a video game version and b) when it was Twilight. She won, unsurprisingly."

Sin and Punishment: Successor of the Skies: "Awful gameplay and a worse story, just hold down a button and everything will be ok."

Soul Calibur Legends: "Just an awful awful attempt at a hack and slash game - why bother releasing a Soul Calibur game if it's not a fighting game?"

Super Monkey Ball Step and Roll: "How do you make the ultimate version of a game that needs precise movements to roll a bal around a tough course? Add balance board control obviously! The game also looked uglier than its predecessor and the levels were poor."

Wii Sports: "My top ten didn't include Wii Sports. Take that, Phillips!"

Worms Battle Islands: "for making the simple joy of Worms mega-incongruous."

Worms: a Space Oddity: "How can you get Worms wrong? You put worms on the opposite side of the battlefield and they shoot at each other by holdng down a button for power."

All of these games got one vote. But by a massive majority, the Wii's worst game is...

Spoiler:

The Sho Minamimoto Award for Mathematically Determined Most-Played Genre: Platformers. Everyone who voted for platformers had five votes to put! One of you hadn't played his fifth-place game, though. Don't think I didn't see that.
Runner-up: Sports and Minigames, with only one fifth place vote missing.
Wooden spoon: Racing. The average voter only allocated a measly 8.88 points out of 15 in week 1. That's less than a first and second per person!

The 9-Volt Award for Playing Too Many Videogames: Phillips. Voted every week with a full set... apart from RPGs. That's not counting some good sets of honourable and dishonourable mentions too! And posted some pictures of his collection, which is frankly ridiculous.
Runner-up: 2becomecarrion. Didn't vote in too many weeks, but he's the only one to have submitted five votes for every week he was around for. And some of them were really obscure as a bonus.
Wooden spoon: Athrun888. Couldn't even give ten games this week! Still, that's what the thread is here for. Hopefully you'll be inspired to chase down some forgotten gems.

The Luigi's Face Award for Funniest Votes: Jimbob, by a country mile. Off the top of my head, his LKS, BtB:RP, and beat-em-up week votes made me and others chuckle.
Runner-up: ZeroJones. One of his voting MPs was tastefully titled "Urine Week". His Okami vote also raised a smile to my weary face.

The Martin Kitts Award for Best Dishonourable Mentions: Phillips. Always on hand with a good set of rubbish games from his frankly ridiculous collection, complete with copious use of the word "mince".
Runner-up: andyman949. Somehow found time in the last ten minutes of almost every week to give a list of rubbish votes too. That includes a full set of ten for this week. There's one in particular that might get him lynched if I revealed it...

The Luigi's Mansion 2 Award for Most Delayed Votes: andyman949, who managed to get his votes in during the last hour for all of the later weeks. Apart from this week! When it was almost a week after the initial last hour.

The Fawful Award for Best Insult: "Willy-head". Although I am one and proud of it!
Runner-up: "Mince". Natch.

The Princess Peach "Award" for Least Participatory Girlfriend: ZeroSuitSamus2. Her boyfriend voted every week. Where's she been, then?
Runner-up: nupkin. Her boyfriend's running the damn project, and she only voted once! I'm not sure whether her limited Wii experience makes this more or less excusable.

The Piece of Heart Special Thanks Awards: andyman949, JayMoyles, Jimbob, Phillips. Apart from me (and I had an abstain), the only people to vote every week. Thank you very much for supporting the thread!
Runners-up: Stu_the_great, The_Jaster, treesmurf11, ZeroJones. Also voted in every week... but one. Thank you very much for mostly supporting the thread!
Slaps around the face with a wooden spoon: The two people who I personally asked to vote, by MP, who never did. You know who you are! You're probably not reading this, but you know anyway.