With Nintendo recently announcing that the fan-favorite will be making its way over to the Switch in March next year, other under-appreciated Wii U titles have the chance of finding a larger audience and wider acclaim. This exact thing has happened time and again over the Switch's lifecycle – Nintendo will re-release one of its Wii U-era games with minimal to no changes, and the games end up seeing bigger critical and commercial success than they ever found on their original console.
With how regularly Nintendo has been porting Wii U games, it can often be tempting to assume that pretty much every major title from the beleaguered Switch predecessor has made its way over by now. There remain, however, a surprising number of titles still stranded on Wii U that Nintendo and its third-party partners could bring over to the Switch. Such games below don't include any games that, while they may not have been ported to the Switch, have direct follow-ups, such as and .
's reputation was already on the up in the years following its launch, but on the Wii U was the release that allowed the game to bloom into the masterpiece it always hinted at being. Other than the very comprehensive visual update, which makes the already beautiful game even more graphically timeless, the Wii U release also addressed a lot of long-standing complaints about the original game, while also adding some great quality-of-life improvements.
A re-release of on Switch has been widely requested for pretty much the entire lifespan of Nintendo's hybrid console, but is yet to manifest. With the Switch entering its twilight years now, hopefully it showing up is a matter of when, not if.
was not the only GameCube era title that saw a facelift on the Wii U. was a makeover for the at-the-time bestselling game in the series, and while it is nowhere near as comprehensive of an upgrade as got, it still remains the definitive way to play the game.
I’m still, perhaps foolishly, holding out hope that Twilight
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