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The Wonderful 101 Is Genuinely Pretty Wonderful

The Wonderful 101 Is Genuinely Pretty Wonderful

By September 17, 2012 Video Games 0 Comment


All right, people certain that I’m busy planning some kind of long-term smear campaign against Nintendo which possibly ends in the assassination of Shigeru Miyamoto. Dig on this — I mentioned that The Wonderful 101 looked pretty good in the WiiU Games Montage video from last week, and now that I’ve seen the game’s individual preview, I would like to amend my assessment to “great.” This game looks like a ton of fun, and wacky, and interesting. I’ll even go out on a ledge and maybe say the WiiU controller could be potentially very useful for it — it appears you can and have to configure the team in a bunch of different ways, which is probably easier to manage on a tablet-sized touchscreen. I don’t know if that will be the case, at all, but I do see the potential there. 

So there. I’m not absolutely shutting my mind to the possibilities of the WiiU, it’s just I was waiting for a game that seemed like it might use the WiiU controller in a genuinely useful way, not just because it was there. Using the controller to form my legion of heroes into a variety of shapes and weapons and tools? That sounds fun. Using the WiiU controller to manage inventory when I could do the same thing more efficiently on screen with a regular controller? That does not sound fun. Just sayin’.

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Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.