Wii U: Eulogy

Of course I got the black one

So the Switch have come so it's time to remember the former main Nintendo home console. Released in 2012 I didn't get mine until early spring 2014. The 32 GB Black version. It was a console that rekindled my gaming interest into the home console since I actually could play most games whenever I wanted without even bothering with a TV or who would use it. A bit late maybe, but since I was short on cash before that, but maybe it was a great thing since I noticed everyone else bothered by the small amount of new games during long stretch of draughts. Me on the other hand had a back-log from the start with games like Pikmin 3, Resident Evil: Revelation, New Super Mario Bros U + Luigi U, Nintendoland and Donkey Kong Freeze (which I still haven't finished). And of course the Virtual Console with games like Earthbound, Golden Sun and so on (can't exactly remember which other games I got). 

And during these 3 years I've had it still got a great amount of games. Bayonetta 1 and 2, Paper Mario, Super Mario 3d World, Twilight Princess, Hyrule Warriors, Smash Bros, Rodea the Sky Soldier, Wind Waker, Star Fox, Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE, Xenoblade Chronicles X, The Wonderful 101, Captain Toad, Mario Kart 8 and Splatoon... I think that is all the physical releases I got. That would be 20 games and then we have all the digital ones. I'm not gonna list all of those since it's... I don't know and I can't really check at the moment.

It was overlooked by many, it was underpowered and it didn't have the necessary 3rd party support it needed and sadly things I wished would have come to this console for old time sakes like Tales of Symphonia remaster and so on, games that had a former Nintendo history, but left out or had sequels that should have appeared on the Wii U like Resident Evil 5-6 and Revelations 2. Or games that didn't make it over like Dragon Quest X (which I wonder if I would have got anyway due to its online focus). It didn't get to monopolise a brand new Zelda (since Breath of the Wild had a simultaneous release on Switch), no new Metroid, but the games we got for it was good and out of those 21 physical I would say my worst was Nintendoland... since I had no one to play with and even so not the right amount of controller of the right kind when I would have liked. And it was a wide variety of games as well. The only thing I missed was an actually fantasy JRPG (there was download games to solve that, but none was a full blown physical release since it either was Virtual Console, western developed or a port of a mobile game, should have had a Golden Sun game).

The Virtual Console was an improvement with the save state (even if it only was 1 available) enabling me to actually force myself to finish games... by save scumming. Yes, I'm not that good at games and doesn't have the patience to learn or relearn every single detail of a game to win it. The bad things was that there weren't any Neo Geo, Sega Mega Drive, Sega Master System or TG-16 (well, at least not until the end) games. Most could have been helped with a Sega collection (like the one I got for my PS3) or why not the ones for the 3DS? Still, I could get most of these from the Wii mode, but it was a bit of a hassle. Also, the wait for many games to be accessible was really tedious, but there was some new games out there like Donkey Kong 64.

So how many unnecessary accessories did I get for this console? Well, one. The gamecube controller adapter which wasn't bought for playing smash, but rather a small fools hope to get gamecube game to play on it. If it's one console I would mod to get everything this would be it. Got the pro controller that worked really good and at some games like Tokyo Mirage Sessions was the preferred controller so I could put the tablet on the table for map and "SMS"-device. Other than that it was the external hard-drive I got for 1 or 2 Terrabite... which looking at the amount of data at the moment around 185 GB was definitly overkill which explain why 126 GB will suffice long enough until the microSD-cards are cheap enough to go for 200 GB and up.

Overall, to me it was a wonderful system. Best game was Wonderful 101 just for its awesomeness. Wished I gotten it earlier, but what you gonna do. Hope the Switch will be a worthy successor