Wii games for Christmas

[bjscheel]

Post your recommendations for Wii games to buy for Christmas this year! We enjoy playing but it seems we reach for the same games all the time. We are always playing:

Go Vacation
Wii Sports
Wii Party
Mario Kart

Sometimes, we play Toy Story Mania or the Mario Olympics or Wheel of Fortune. We have Disney Universe but I think it is hard and not my style.

We have but don't get into Sonic, Kirby, Puss in Boots, Barbie, etc. As you can see we enjoy the ones you can just pick up and play casually together rather than a licensed story-type game- those never have long term playability.

I'm looking into Chicken Riot and Mario Party 9. Any other recommendations?

As far as my recommendation to others, I think Go Vacation is incredible. I mentioned it last Christmas season but at that time, the prices were $70-80+. This season it is on Amazon in the $20 range so definitely worth it. It can be good to just play casually, yet it also has a lot of depth to explore if you want to take the time. It has 4 resorts and a Villa area (reminds me of WDW!) and tons of sport-like activities, but we also really like to just freely explore the resorts. There are treasure chests to find, missions to do, villas to remodel, and lots of hidden/non-advertised achievements (you may need to check internet forums to find out about them). My kids could spend hours exploring for the first several months we had it- they've now found all the chests and done many of the achievements but it is still fun.

 

[jimandami]

We are trying to decide whether to buy Disney Infinity or not this year.

 

[smitch425]

Our favorite Wii games are Super Mario Galaxy (both 1 and 2). I plan to get a WiiU on Thanksgiving night, regardless of a good deal, but hoping I can find a deal on one. Hoping for a deal on Disney Infinity, too.

 

[wiigirl]

Our favorite Wii games are Super Mario Galaxy (both 1 and 2). I plan to get a WiiU on Thanksgiving night, regardless of a good deal, but hoping I can find a deal on one. Hoping for a deal on Disney Infinity, too.

 

[jimandami]

Our favorite Wii games are Super Mario Galaxy (both 1 and 2). I plan to get a WiiU on Thanksgiving night, regardless of a good deal, but hoping I can find a deal on one. Hoping for a deal on Disney Infinity, too.

We love SM Galaxy as well. Wait til you play Super Mario Bros for WiiU...so much fun!!

 

[smitch425]

We love SM Galaxy as well. Wait til you play Super Mario Bros for WiiU...so much fun!!

My nephew has it. Still not a huge fan of the WiiU controller set up, but DS must have it, and I want to play all of the new Mario games. We are major gamers.

 

[richard39]

Animal crossing....is a great game, you moce to a new town which you name, you are given a job as an errand boy to pay off your first house, and then you save bells ( money) to upgrade your house bigger, you pick fruit, collect shells, and fish and you can sell all of these to the little store...you catch bugs and fossiles and donate them to the musuem to be displayed hours upon hours of fun and I'm 40 just image how the kids like it lol

 

[jlm196]

We love the Lego games. We are planning to buy the new Lego marvel game.

 

[queenofthehive]

Our family favorites:

Wii Party
All Mario Games
Wii fit
All Just Dance games
Animal Crossing
All Lego games
Epic Mickey games

 

[bellasmommy0]

Animal crossing....is a great game, you moce to a new town which you name, you are given a job as an errand boy to pay off your first house, and then you save bells ( money) to upgrade your house bigger, you pick fruit, collect shells, and fish and you can sell all of these to the little store...you catch bugs and fossiles and donate them to the musuem to be displayed hours upon hours of fun and I'm 40 just image how the kids like it lol

My daughter has animal crossing new leaf on her 3ds and we sometimes can't seem to get her off of it.
She wants WiiU for Xmas. I ordered it after finding a bundle with super Mario and super luigi in it. Seemed like a fair deal, and I work Black Friday so won't be out battling the crowds to save a few dollars on it.