Archery and Table Tennis are surprising highlights 3-Point Contest is a personal, unpopular favorite. Who hasn’t wanted to stand atop a platform and smack your grandmother with a giant foam sword down into the water below? These are no mere “tech demos” - all have hidden depth and nuanced control. In Resort, the lizard-brain pleasures of Tennis and Baseball have been refined and replaced with a more exotic variety of duels. The fact that they’ve prospered beyond their opening athletic salvo is a testament to their simple brilliance and enduring appeal. This and the original Wii Sports feel like the games Miis were created for. Probably the closest approximation to wearing a mask of human skin that you’ll ever see in a Nintendo game. In the already-cartoon world of Animal Crossing, where your villager lives amongst animals, the act feels appropriate but profane, like a lion draping an elephant hide over his body while lying in wait during a hunt. You can wear a mask that looks like your Mii. And zap in one of a dozen amiibo to unlock themed racing suits that are stunning in detail, from Pac-Man’s moving chompers to Fox McCloud’s flight helmet complete with extendable mic. In triumph or defeat, at least you haven’t hidden behind some anthropomorphic mascot. But nothing beats taking the race online while showing your true face. Sure, you can race as Iggy from Super Mario Bros. And with your Mii strapped in, you feel even closer to the clouds. The sense of height and depth while soaring over Wuhu Island would be impossible without the hardware’s eponymous feature.
This 3DS launch title has been mostly forgotten, but at the time it was a revelation. Say what you will about Nintendo’s debut phone app, but clothing your cartoon self in a Hot Dog suit and hearing him read aloud your friend’s most privately-held feelings about fruit is more compelling than 99% of the free-to-play dreck out there. Here are the ten best titles featuring Miis, those adorable, armless, cartoon doppelgangers. And with the Switch console dropping any and all reminders of the Wii era, while pushing new characters like the Inklings from Splatoon 2 along with Twintelle and the rest of her Arms cohorts, we soon might be waving goodbye to the little scamps. But we’ve been starring in Nintendo games for over a decade now.
Nintendo’s grand avatar experiment comes to a head this week with Miitopia, a role-playing game for the Nintendo 3DS starring you and your friends (and the occasional celebrity).
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