I don't know how well it would work since it hasn't been tried, but in a similar vein I would like to see what old RPG's like Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest, and Lufia would look if you played them in a style similar to Xenoblade. Might not work, might require too much nostalgia to work, I don't know.
Oh man, i love Caesar III so much. So much.
Emperor: Rise of the Middle Kingdom from the same developer was just as good. It gives player more control over distribution of goods by adding signposts, but at the same time it also lost some of that geometrical simplicity and beauty that Caesar III had. In CIII, you had zero control how your agents will move and so you had to design your entire future city layout with their roots in mind.
I'd pay high dollar for any kind of city building simulation game on Wii U. I think Tilted Mill is still around...
The first thing I thought when seeing the gamepad was "get SimCity on this system, unhindered view on TV and doing the work on the gamepad. I'd buy a Wii U for that alone". We won't get it since EA and given what EA has done to SimCity I'm not sure I want it on Wii U anyways.
There's no reason Faxanadu couldn't see a successful implementation in 3D.
I would f***ing love to see Faxanadu resurrected. That game was great. As you say though, it would change the game quite drastically. I think I would prefer to simply have a downloadable 2D Faxanadu with really high res art. That would be so awesome.
I would love love love to see a Faxanadu 2D remake. That doesn't really count for a Kid Icarus treatment though. I'm sure it could make the transition to 3D ala Metroid regardless, but I'm not holding my breath.