Gamernode reports:
''WiiWare has been launched boasting 6 games -- some made by major developers, and some pretty low key. Enter Frontier Developments, the company responsible for quirky titles such as Dogs Life and Thrillville: Off the Rails. Their best-known success was Roller Coaster Tycoon 3, and they have done little else of worth since, but with just one quick glimpse of the game on WiiWare I was sold.
The game has a pretty simple storyline. An evil old school Japanese spirit monger tried to take over the world and the four stereotypical elements came and defeated him. Of course, not everything goes to plan and the spirits are trapped in stones and spread throughout the land. A long time later, a small boy named Toku goes out wandering and falls through a hole, where he finds Enril, the wind spirit.
This is when the game gets really good, because this is also the most fun part. Enril allows Toku to do some pretty cool things, all while utilizing the Wii remote very effectively. Simple actions like jumping are executed by pressing the A button, which slows time, and then swiping the aiming reticule through Toku. Other actions can be performed such as making an object hover by drawing a circle around the object, or slowing your descent by swiveling the reticule back and forth. The gameplay becomes so fluent that you don't even need to think about it; I found myself often doing the action before I even thought I needed to. It's that fluent. In addition to the A button controls, you use the B button to guide elements and such from point A to point B, while the nunchuck is used for basic movement left and right.''
Alex S. from Link-Cable writes: "The official end of the WiiWare service may not be until early 2019 but we wanted to give everybody as much of a chance as possible to remember all of the great games that Nintendo’s first every download service brought us. Last week we counted down the first 10 games in our look at the Top 20 WiiWare games ever made, and if you haven’t had the chance yet you can check out those picks right here but now we switch our focus over to the very best that WiiWare has to offer so if you still have a Wii (or a Wii U) kicking around make sure to download these games before they are lost forever."
Alex S. from Link-Cable writes: "As I continue my quest to complete my backlog (last week I was in the trenches of World War II) I find myself returning to a console that is near and dear to my heart, the Wii, and it’s virtual games service WiiWare. And by back I mean way back as I decided to finally give a go at the WiiWare launch title LostWinds a go. "
Triverse writes, "Not very many returning games on the list this week which means there is nearly a full new set of games to peruse. iOS gamers enjoy the perks of getting games, that once cost money, for free while Android users are limited to still having to pay something for sales (we will have a fresh list tomorrow for both iOS and Android). For now, enjoy these great titles on your iOS device as we head into the Christmas season."
