Gamertell

The Legend of Zelda series is the reason we own Nintendo systems. That’s right, I’ve said it. You can keep your Mario. It’s the Zelda games that keep us enthralled for weeks—even months at a time as we work our way through amazing adventures in Hyrule. Without fail, the games in the Zelda franchise have been epic in scope (well, CD-i games not withstanding), which is why we wait with baited breath at every Nintendo press conference for the announcement of a new Zelda game.

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From the operating table to the depths of space we go as we continue our quest for Wii franchises that’ll launch new gamers into the realm of hard core. Metroid is one of those rare games that has grown comfortably with the times. Since switching to 3D, the games have always been hampered by somewhat cumbersome controls. Freed from this limitation by the Wiimote/Nunchuck combo, Metroid Prime 3: Corruption suddenly performed the way its protagonist—bounty hunter Samus Aran—is portrayed: quick, fluid, and natural.

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If you’re ready to dig deep into some Wii games that offer some depth, some hard core gameplay and somewhere to go after getting one done, you’re in the right place. Yesterday, we looked at the Fire Emblem series. Today, we’re rushing to the Trauma Center…

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I picked up my first Fire Emblem game—Radiant Dawn—during one of the WiiGaps soon after the system’s release (WiiGaps being those periods where nothing new of note has been released or will be in the immediate future). I didn’t like it at first, but after going back to it a bit later, I was hooked. Completely enthralled…

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Maybe you’re young, and when looking for your first gaming console, the Wii was the cheapest. Maybe you saw grandma and grandpa bowling at the retirement home, and thought, “Hey, this is for me!” Maybe your mom prefers you play fewer games with about killing zombies, nazis, or zombie nazis. No matter what the reason, you’ve got a Wii, you’ve played all the Marios, and you want to graduate to hardcore. So, where do you turn?

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Wii Sports Resort may at times come off like a tech demo for the new Wii MotionPlus accessory, but is there anything wrong with that? By offering nearly 1:1 motion capturing, reflecting motions in a 3D space, the Wii MotionPlus brings a level of control to your WiiMote that simply wasn’t possible before. And that brings games to your Wii that weren’t this fun before. And yet, it’s not the Wii MotionPlus that makes Wii Sports Resort so great.

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Here we are with Resident Evil Archives: Resident Evil. The game is 13 years old, although only 7 years older than the Game Cube remake it more closely resembles. Sadly, Resident Evil is showing its age. Not in appearance, mind you—the game actually looks quite good—but in how it feels. How it moves around. And yet, it remains a “must-play” for fans of survivor/horror games.

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Remember Collective Soul? They had those massive hits in the early-to-mid-90s and they still put out pretty good albums even if radio largely ignores them. I don’t play my Collective Soul CDs often but, when I do, I think, “You know, this is a very good band. As solid as you want a rock band to be. I should listen to them more often.” Then, I promptly forget about them again.

That’s exactly how I feel about Sega’s The Conduit for Wii.

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Henry Hatsworth in the Puzzling Adventure is one of the most unique games I’ve played in quite some time. Much as Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords successfully merged the puzzle game and the RPG, Henry Hatsworth combines the puzzle action of games such as Tetris Attack, Bejeweled, or any derivation thereof with the platform gaming of Mario Brothers, Mega Man and such. The marriage of the two genres is seamless, although difficult to manage at first.

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Konami’s Suikoden Tierkreis is classified as a role-playing game but I think you have to throw the word “epic” in there to do it justice.

It’s epic in size, epic in scope, and epic in design. If you take advantage of the WiFi features, the game gets even bigger. It’s just huge and yet it constantly remains centered around one hyperactive boy and more than 100 of his dearest friends.

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