WiiWare: A Recap (if you will)

[magus113]

When I first heard that WiiWare was going to be the new addition to the Wii Shop channel, I was excited! After seeing how many interesting and exclusive titles that the PlaystationNetwork store and Xbox Live Arcade had to offer, I'm sure there would be plenty of more titles to enhance my Wii experience; the big 40-50 dollar titles that were catching my attention were few and far inbetween.

I actually believed the first few weeks to show a lot of promise for WiiWare.

Lost Winds, although short, is a great game, and definitely better than most of the throwaway 50 dollar titles out for Wii.

I never actually purchased Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: My Life as a King, but I heard it was also very well done, and decently priced at 1500 Wii points ($15 USD).

Dr. Mario Online is actually a lot of fun, and nostalgic, as I haven't played Dr. Mario since I owned a cart for the original Game Boy, and I highly enjoyed that.

But recently, most titles have been throwaways now too. With games like SPOGS Racing and the interesting looking, but mediocre Gyrostar, we need to hope that there are a lot more spot on titles like the aforementioned soon!

Animales de la Muerte looks interesting, Mega Man 9 of course deserves a mention among this thread, and World of Goo looks amazing, if not only for the great physics engine that was created for the title.

After that, what else can we wait for?

Post some ideas on new games that you think should be made for WiiWare, your opinions on any titles that are coming soon, and opinions on WiiWare titles that you presently own.

I'll start with thinking that the Wii should be more than capable of handing a version of Rez for the Wii. I also think that Geometry Wars Galaxies could have been a WiiWare title as well if it had come out after WiiWare was introduced.