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Lego City Undercover (Wii U)

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100% Complete! Just 61 hours! Phew! I’m not really sure why there’s a big lock symbol in the middle of the bottom row, though. It’s supposed to show I’ve completed all of the Free Run challenges (which I have done), but sometimes it comes up with a lock and sometimes it doesn’t. I suspect it’s a bug.

Anyway. What an utterly fantastic game. So much so I’ve plugged another five hours in since completing it!

Wii U – Family Time

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I have never completed a game on the Wii, the only time I would play any games would be with the kids. So either Wii Sports or one of the Mario Party games.

Time to test out the Wii U in the same capacity, firstly you will need wii remote controllers. Ideally the motionplus variant because Metroid Blast & Zelda do not work without them, so I could not test those two games.

Mario Chase has the tablet player running around the map with the other players chasing him down. A simple game which after a few plays loses interest.

Luigi's Ghost Mansion is great fun, the tablet player is the ghost & the others Luigi playing ghostbusters trying to capture the ghost. It's easily the most fun game on Ninendoland.

Animal Crossing Sweet Day has the tablet player whacking the other players who are trying to gobble sweets. You can have two players on the tablet each controlling one stick, it has a nice team-play element, this might grow on us the more we play it.

Pikmin Adventure is very enjoyable team based quest adventure, quite a surprise really & could easily be a full game release with more content, one that I look forward to playing when we have more time.

The first few days of the console were disappointing mainly due to NSMBU but I am now starting to enjoy it more, I love that you can turn the tablet on without needing the television to access certain features of the OS. It feels like a XXL DS console but not too heavy to hold, just wished the battery life would last a bit longer. 

Lego City Undercover – New Game

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I have not played a Lego game since the first Lego Star Wars on the PS2 because to me they have all just seemed the same with a different movie license attached to them.

Lego City Undercover however takes the GTA open-world style, adds a mission structure & give it a lick of Lego paint.

I have only completed the first mission which has you capturing bank robbers, driving around, building, smashing & collecting. The game has full voice acting with a Lego sense of humour that will make you smile & laugh whilst playing Chase McCain.
I like the way the game interacts with the gamepad using it for a sat nav when driving, mobile for communication & many more features.

Best of all you get 4 saves per user (You listening Nintendo, PER USER !!) which means I can sit down & enjoy playing. From the games I have purchased with the console Lego City Undercover is a reason to own the Wii U.

Forza may have to take a backseat for a while, I have a mission to complete !!
Chase McCain to the rescue !!

Wii U – 3 into 5?

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My son transferred his mii from the 3DS to the Wii U this morning to play Super Mario U, when he loaded up the game it came up with my save file?!
The Wii U does not lock down save files to profiles?!
Upon further searching on google, my worst fears confirmed. New Super Mario Bros U only has THREE save files are per console & not per user profile.
What a f@@&ing joke !!
How do Nintendo expect my family to play NSMBU with only 3 game saves per console when we have five players that want to play ?!

I had over 100+ on Fallout New Vegas & 200+ on Skyrim on the 360 !!
Thankfully the same issue does not apply to Zombi U or Nintendoland but so far I have been disappointed with the Wii U with the three games purchased. Mario U does look lovely in HD but dues the save file issue I have lost any interest for this game. I really rally hate the Nintendoland presentation, annoying floating TV presenter. Zombi U is interesting to play but I'm still getting used to playing with the supersized DS gamepad & not enjoying it.
Hopefully Lego City Undercover will be here soon to change my mind on the console but so far very disappointed. I will also try some of the multi-player games on Nintendoland if I can get pass the annoying Mario Partyesque graphics & presentation.

Wii U – Initial thoughts

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The OS seems really sluggish, the game pad too big & do I look at the TV or the game pad to play?!

After fighting with the wifi settings, running the system update & creating my mii. Two hours later I finally got to play with the console. Whatever happen to the open the box, plug & play experience of the cartridge generation?

I browsed the mii verse, added some friends, signed up to some notifications & visited the eshop to download Street U which was fun for two minutes.

Only got a brief chance to try Mario U before the Sugar commanded the TV. It looks lovely in HD but really the game pad is TOO big.

Will spend more time tomorrow because I've got the kids mii accounts to create.

Hopefully also get a chance to try Zombi U & Nintendoland.