If you don’t know what a Wii is, or why I have been so excited by it, please spend more time on the Internets. It’s a lovely place.
Fortunately Nintendo had the good sense to actually try and meet demand, unlike Sony, so with only minimal camping I managed to acquire one. It was worth it.
I don’t want to go into too much detail, simply because every other site on the internet has already done so, but Nintendo did right by this console.
It should go without saying that I procured Zelda on launch day along with my Wii. Spending the last two weeks playing through it the new controls just felt natural. It took me around 40 hours to beat the game and never did I find myself cursing the new controller, never did I find my wrist tiering of waiving the controller back and forth to attack. In fact I found myself enjoying the new interface; now when I became frustrated I could wave the controller harder when I needed to attack, as opposed to just button-mashing harder, which felt much more rewarding. Lets also not forget the ability to shoot things on screen by aiming at them. I’m really looking forward to Metriod after the small bits of FPS within Zelda.
Shortly after I buying it had a bunch of friends over to try out the multilayer games in Wii Sports. I’ve never seen people have so much fun flailing their arms around looking like morons. The time it took them to learn the controls was almost non-existent since the controls were always similar to how you would do said task in real life (bowling? swing your arm back. tennis? swing it like you’re holding a racket).
The games are fun, simple, and often innovative. The hype surrounding the Wii was justified.
