The Nintendo Wii had so many good titles—Mario Kart Wii, an excellent port of Okami, Monster Hunter Tri—nevertheless it additionally had a deluge of terrible video games that weren’t well worth the materials they had been printed on. We’re not speaking about video games which are so unhealthy they’re good. No, we’re speaking in regards to the worst Nintendo Wii video games everybody loves to hate.
10. Anubis II
It’s a miracle Anubis II was launched, not to mention ported to the Nintendo Wii. If you’ll be able to spare 15 to half-hour, that’s all you want to beat the sport, supplied you handle to keep away from sufficient bugs and glitches. None of the degrees provide any actual problem aside from timing and the occasional enemy. Heck, you’ll spend extra time preventing the digicam than you do enemies!
Then there’s the story—or reasonably, the lack of a narrative. All you’ve got to go off of is you being Anubis making an attempt to raise the Curse of the Pharaohs, which doesn’t make any sense when you’ve got even a primary understanding of Egyptian mythology. And you gained’t discover any story within the first Anubis as a result of there isn’t one.
9. Balls of Fury
Balls of Fury violently followers the flames of awful film video games. To be truthful, the film wasn’t precisely good, with the one vivid spots being James Hong and Christopher Walken, so it didn’t have a superb basis to begin with.
The hit detection is whacky. When you’ll be able to handle to hit the ping pong ball, there’s this odd delay. And all of the whereas, the identical rock-n-roll soundtrack loops time and again.
I do know the Wii wasn’t identified for graphical constancy, however the fashions are horrific. Their mouths don’t even transfer after they speak smack, which is simply audio ripped straight from the film, would possibly I add. Like the soundtrack, these are on repeat, too!
8. Castlevania: Judgment
Castlevania: Judgment ought to have been one thing worthy of its title as a result of, on paper, it sounds fairly candy: a preventing recreation that includes characters like Alucard, Dracula, Trevor, and Simon Belmont. Takeshi Obata, the artist for Death Note, did the artwork. Awesome!
However, we obtained a preventing recreation with an abysmal management scheme, albeit one with an excellent artwork model. The root trigger was the usage of movement controls to fulfill lots of the combos and particular strikes whereas not solely preventing your opponent however the digicam, too. The Wii Remote simply wasn’t up to the duty of performing such particular motions.
Maybe the Nintendo Switch would fare higher, however till then, it’ll preserve its place as one of many worst Nintendo Wii video games.
7. Ninjabread Man
Ninjabread Man appears like enjoyable, a minimum of at first, however then you definately zone in on the UI and begin feeling a little bit of deja vu. In reality, the controls really feel all too acquainted. Did Ninjabread Man copy Anubis II? Nope! Ninjabread Man is one other half-baked title developed by Data Design Interactive, the builders of Anubis II, and it’s in some way worse.
Level design was thrown fully out the window, not to point out being smaller than Anubis II. The digicam was a ache to cope with in Anubis II, so with the degrees being extra compact in Ninjabread Man, it’ll usually get you killed. Oh, and once you die, you’ll have to restart the whole degree and goals over once more, making it needlessly arduous for what is actually a child’s recreation.
I do know the Wii Remote had its justifiable share of haters, however Ninjabread Man makes it appear much more unresponsive. It’s a horrible state of affairs, contemplating fight is barely extra related right here, and also you want to shake the Wii Remote to use your katana. That’s on high of coping with the identical bugs, glitches, crashes, and poor framerate.
6. Chicken Shoot
On paper, Chicken Shoot appears like a straightforward promote: it’s basically a Duck Hunt clone, however for the Wii. Take benefit of the Wii’s movement controls, and you’ve got your self a chill time waster, at greatest. Instead, you get an especially boring point-and-click shooter with the depth of a puddle. Everything Chicken Shoot has to provide is skilled in simply the primary 5 minutes.
All you do is pan backwards and forwards, capturing chickens, with nary a resistance in sight aside from the occasional tossed egg. The solely factor Chicken Shoot has going for it’s its hand-drawn graphics, giving me a way of nostalgia for the outdated instructional video games I keep in mind taking part in in class.
5. Cruis’n
The Wii Remote ushered in a novel method to play racing video games, given its movement controls, and it normally labored out effectively. There had been some stand-out titles, like Need for Speed Carbon and Mario Kart Wii. However, there have been some stinkers, Cruis’n being certainly one of them.
For starters, the sport is simply too arduous to take a look at. Compare Cruis’n facet by facet with Cruis’n Exotica—a Nintendo 64 title—and you may barely inform the distinction. And don’t inform me the Wii is holding it again, not whereas Driver San Francisco will get away wanting pretty much as good because it does on the Wii.
Lastly, taking part in Cruis’n is a combined expertise. While the movement controls are okay, as a rule, you’ll end up transferring too far a technique, forcing you to frantically course right solely to slide too far the opposite method. This is as well as to random stutters and poor framerate. Cruis’n would possibly carry the identical title, nevertheless it’s nothing like its arcade cousins.
4. Billy the Wizard: Rocket Broomstick Racing
Billy the Wizard: Rocket Broomstick Racing (that’s a mouthful) is one other chapter in Data Design Interactive’s previous. As if making copy-paste platformers wasn’t sufficient, they went forward and made a racing recreation. Good for them to attempt one thing new, however now we have now to undergo for it.
The essential gameplay mechanic is essentially flawed. You management flight with the Wii Nunchuck. Okay, that’s awkward sufficient, nevertheless it’s nothing in contrast to the character of turning. One second, you’re turning like a tank, and the following, you’re doing an entire 180. All the whereas, your character is jerking round in myriad instructions.
What’s the Wii Remote used for then? Casting magic bolts and utilizing gadgets, and that too is a painful expertise. There’s an automated lock-on system that not often works, and there’s just one merchandise within the recreation—a velocity increase. So, have enjoyable with that balancing act!
3. Game Party
I perceive the necessity for occasion video games, particularly once you’ve obtained a number of buddies over, however in contrast to Wii Party, Game Party is nowhere close to as entertaining. Of course, there’s extra to it than that, or else we wouldn’t take into account it one of many worst Nintendo Wii video games!
With simply seven mini-games to play, Game Party didn’t have a lot going for it. Only two are arguably any enjoyable: air hockey and perhaps shuffleboarding. It wasn’t simply the standard of the mini-games however the irritating controls that didn’t fairly do what you wished them to. But once you lastly assume you’ve got the grasp of it, the sport breaks on you.
Poor controls, mini-games, and bugs—that’s three for 3. Despite Wii Sports having simply 5 mini-games, they’re all enjoyable. It was additionally bundled with the Wii without cost.
2. Ju-On: The Grudge
Let me preface this entry by saying I really like Ju-On (the film); I even just like the American remake from 2004. Ju-On: The Grudge ought to have been a slam dunk for me, nevertheless it abuses a pet peeve of mine: soar scares. Rarely, if ever, are soar scares justified or earned, and the sport arms them out prefer it’s going out of fashion.
Some may need labored when you had some semblance of management over your character. The gameplay quantities to looking a number of rooms right here and there on the velocity of a snail. You can’t run, combat, or use weapons; you simply have a flashlight. When The Grudge does seem and assaults, the sport throws QTEs at you.
For me, the nail within the coffin is the sound design, a significant side of horror. Ju-On: The Grudge is at all times uncomfortably quiet when it ought to fill that silence with significant results to construct up rigidity. Only then will a soar scare repay, regardless of how low cost. The recreation did one factor proper: it made me admire the movies much more.
1. Rock ‘n’ Roll Adventures
With Rock ‘n’ Roll Adventures, we’ve come full circle! This time, you aren’t lifting a curse in Egypt, being a wizard or a ninja, however an Elvis look alike as a result of, you recognize, Elvis was culturally related in 2007. The ranges now tackle a musical aesthetic like audio system and clouds, together with the identical primary platformer seen in Data Design Interactive’s different video games.
You higher get used to it as a result of Rock ‘n’ Roll Adventures not often has enemies. On the uncommon event, you come throughout any, you’ll membership them to loss of life with a guitar in a cloud of digital parts. That’s unusual in and of itself, however even weirder realizing the enemies are principally drums and cymbals. But when have these video games made any sense?
How becoming that we finish our listing of the worst Nintendo Wii video games with one other Data Design Interactive bomb. Speaking of Nintendo, how a couple of shift in tone? If you need good video games, you’ll be able to try the most effective on-line Wii U and 3DS video games!
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