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« on: July 20, 2012, 06:59:28 PM »
Just got back from playing the WiiU here in Chicago.
Nintendoland:
-AC Sweet day was fun 5-player. It's pretty hard for the animals collecting candy to win. Maybe in a quieter space it will be easier to communicate.
-Luigi's Ghost Mansion was fun, but the controls felt a little slow... My wife liked this one.
-DK Crash Course was more engaging than I thought, and harder than it looks. It's a real finesse game.
-Throwing Star game, whatever it's called, was fun, but pretty simple. I'm sure I'll get more into it later. Liked the origami graphics.
-Zelda game was fun. I didn't try the Gamepad for this one, but my cousin did, and he liked it. I just slashed with swords. Again, this seemed a little slow going. Hopefully it gets faster as you progress.
Mario U: Awesome. I love the new suit. The level designs seem more carefully crafted than typical NSMB games. Balloon Yoshi is a blast to use. with 5 players it gets pretty chaotic, but 2 is great. MY wife and I won a speed run contest and got a Mario plush and a Yoshi plush. She was on the Gamepad and I was on the Wii remote. Lots of fun.
Rayman Legends: Great! Totally beautiful and an amazing sense of speed. Gamepad plus Wii remote play was even better than Mario- super engaging. This will be my first Rayman game.
Pikmin 3: Like the NPC Pikmin releases, but crazy pretty.
Game and Wario: IGN is right- "Fruit" is a blast. Perfect thing to play with older family members and little kids. Fun all around.
Just Dance 4- What an embarrassing load of crap.
I didn't play anything else, but Batman looks beautiful. Zombie U looks interesting. I mostly watched people struggle with these- trying to move a Batarang around of go through their inventory. I don't think I'll have trouble, but these dopes did. Ninja Gaiden 3 looked pretty too. Avoided Sing.
The Gamepad feels great in my hands, and the screen quality and resolution are hogher than I thought they'd be. The new Classic Controller is fantastic (I played Rayman with it). The system itself looks very pretty and more high end than the Will.