I'm Sorry Wii, but I Don't Like You
April 02, 2008

I know, I'm going back one what I said over a year ago - but I'm convinced now that the Wii really wasn't a great purchase. It's OK, really. A mediocre system with 0.02% mediocre games and 99.98% Disney Cartoons. The clearly dazed middle aged man in GameStop said it best to his little son the other day when he said; "Gosh Timmy, look at all these littlekid games. Wouldn't you love to have one of these?". The Wii, and to a large extent the DS, is nothing more than a system to play Disney Cartoons on. Oh sure, you can trot out Mario Galaxy and Super Smash Brothers Brawl (*yawn*, I played that on the GC ten light years ago) - or you can bring up No More Heroes or Zach and Wiki. In almost three years, there have only been enough decent games released to be counted on my fingers. That's pretty sad.

At this point I've bought most of the big releases (Metroid Prime 3, Mario Galaxy and Smash Bros) and been fairly disappointed. Nay, I've been disappointed. Smash Bros really was a *yawn*rific game because it really is the GC version. The Wiimote isn't even used, you can play the whole thing with a GC controller no less. Metroid Prime 3 was annoying with all it's "I want to be Shadow of the Collosus and make the entire game into boss battles". Mario Galaxy actually got some time out of me, but the lack of story really bored me. Zelda:TP is about the only "good" game that I've seen released on the Wii and even it has its problems; what with the linearity of it all. Even with all this supposed gaming goodness, my Wii and many others' is simply gathering dust.

Down the pike, Fire Emblem sounds interesting (already released, I know) and I would like to pick it up and try it - but there's just too many bad games for the Wii that I'm leary at this point. Even Mario Kart is not very interesting to me; given what they've done with Smash Bros I forsee Mario Kart also not using the Wiimote and being Mario Kart: DD with improved graphics. *woohoo*. Halo 3 demonstrated more innovation over Halo 2 than Smash Bros Wii did over Smash Bro GC. That's right, I went there.

Anyway. This is a long winded post to basically say, Nintendo - I think you fucked up bad. The GameCube was a failure with about 3 games released for it and I hoped the Wii would be different. Alas, it wasn't. It really is the GameCube Turbo and Smash Bro's Brawl has proven that. The system had a lot of potential, but it failed to live up to it and I think that I'm generally done with it now. This may shock you, but I think I may actually put my system up on eBay. Frankly, I'm 24 and don't want to play Hannah Montana Returns to Middle School. Goodnight Wii, I think I may finally be done with you.