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15.01.2024 - 12:37 / radiotimes.com / Best / Best Nintendo / Nintendo
The best Nintendo Wii games of all time will have you waving the Wiimote and Nunchuck around with a massive stupid grin plastered over your face.
Despite becoming known as the casual gamer’s console of choice and being bought almost primarily for many as a party machine/get fit quick console (thanks, Wii Fit and Wii Sports), the Wii’s library is chock full of classic after classic after classic.
There are so many quality games to choose from that we had a really hard time making this list. We’ve tried to stick to Wii-exclusive games and those known for being on the platform.
This is why you won’t see any of the fantastic LEGO, Rock Band (or Guitar Hero), Call of Duty, Rayman Origins, Okami or Resident Evil titles on this list.
Other more-than-honourable mentions include the likes of Zack and Wiki, No More Heroes (1 and 2), Sonic Colours, WiiWare exclusives such as Cave Story and World of Goo, and sports titles such as the brilliant Pro Evolution Soccer and PGA Tour games.
Also, shout-out to Punch-Out, Boom Blox and many more games we’d be here all year talking about otherwise.
Without further ado, this is our list of the best Nintendo Wii games of all time – 13 Nintendo classics to play right now (yes, all other lists are incorrect, ours is definitive).
Super Mario Galaxy could be the best game ever made. It is that good. The 3D Mario games are among the best you can play on any platform, and Super Mario Galaxy might be the best one of the lot.
It’s inventive, gorgeous and has one of the best soundtracks out there to boot. It’s so good that Nintendo even released a direct sequel – Super Mario Galaxy 2 – which is just as good, if not better.
Arguments persist to this day over what is best of the two, but we’re going with the first game for its originality and how it made us feel when we first turned it on way back in 2007.
Available on both the GameCube and the Nintendo Wii, The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess is perhaps best known as being a Wii launch game (in the US, a month after launch here in the UK).
This dark and atmospheric Zelda adventure is an outright classic, as any other Legend of Zelda game is. It’s more linear than what we know and love now, with Tears of the Kingdom and Breath of the Wild, but it is still considered one of the very best Wii games — with good cause. Fingers crossed for a Switch re-release.
The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword was released at the tail-end of the Wii’s lifespan in 2011, and was a truly beautiful adventure that made the most of the Wii MotionPlus controller (which added improved motion control capabilities). Its only downside is that you need a MotionPlus-enabled Wiimote or accessory to play the game on Wii.
Skyward Sword’s painterly visuals, strong story
Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth is the best-reviewed Yakuza game to date.
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