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“Bowser on Ice” – Super Mario Galaxy 2

Super Mario Sunshine showed the problems that can come up when making a Mario game about something. Delfino Isle proved an awkward halfway house between cohesion and freedom….

“How many will play?” – New Super Mario Bros. Wii

This January, I ended up going to three different child-oriented stage shows involving puppets in the space of four weeks. Fortuitously, we saw them in ascending order of…

Shame on Mii – Wii Fit Plus

For this guest post I am happy to welcome my friend Daisy Letourneur, who you can find on twitter at @DaisyLetourneur. Searching for Wii Fit Plus reviews, Google…

“The bridge” – Wii Sports Resort

[For this guest post, I’m once again very happy to hand over to Matt Gardner, editor of the excellent site GameTripper (which I hope to be on again…

“Takes all kinds, Snake” – Super Smash Bros. Brawl

In games, as with many other media with any kind of sequel or follow-up, a sequel’s initial commercial performance is generally a reflection of its predecessor as much…

“Your brain is tired” – More Brain Training from Dr. Kawashima

More Brain Training from Dr. Kawashima was released in the UK in June 2007, a year after its predecessor, and followed it to the top of the individual…

“Many uses for the Wii Remote” – Wii Play

The current UK #1 game is Horizon Forbidden West. It has now returned to the top of the chart in May and June 2022 three times. This is…

“Saving a lot of data” – Pokémon Diamond

It’s not just the DS’s touchscreen which changed the game; its clamshell form brings an additional bit of tactile magic. Open it up and a world inside comes…

“That loopy thing” – Pokémon Ranger

Nintendo’s casual revolution didn’t just start with Wii Sports. Over in the slightly less fraught handheld gaming arena, the Nintendo DS had launched the best part of two…

Uncharted #8: Wii Sports

The biggest game of 2006 and the industry tunnel vision which made space for it