Topic: Favourite obscure Wii game?

still more obscure than Okami

Baroque is definitely my favorite obscure game ON the Wii, but it's not exclusively a Wii game. But if you like oddball games and roguelike dungeon crawlers, look no further.

I know. But it's 2009 Wii, what do you expect? Intelligence? Knowing how to read recommendations?

But seriously, Klonoa had no chance, I think everyone knew that ahead of time. So it's more acceptable than that 3rd game in a series being cancelled by petty jerks.

Any thoughts on how Baroque compares with Shiren the Wanderer? I never really realized that Baroque was a rogue-like, I had a mental picture of it as more of a point-clicky Mist style game, but I have no idea how that became ingrained.

I never played Shiren. Baroque revolves around a tower full of randomly generated levels/floors. You fight through the tower until death at which point you lose all your items and experience (there is a system for keeping a few items) and the game kind of resets, but the story itself progresses. It's a very weird and hard to explain game. I'd recommend it to fans of RPGs, Silent Hill, and Suda51 games.

It sounds a lot like Shiren with the random levels, loss of items, etc....in other words, Roguelike.

I can understand why that wouldn't appeal to a lot of players, but to me there has to be a real "sting" when you die to really make it meaningful. If it makes me curse like a sailor, slam my controller down on the couch, leave the room muttering something like, "That's it! I am never playing that game again!"....and bring me slinking back in an hour or so for another go, then that's a great gaming experience. Even if it makes me sound deranged.

I feel you on that one. I'm a video game masochist. I think that's why I haven't been particularly impressed with most contemporary games, because they constantly hold your hand.

Spyborgs. I love this game so much. Best $6.00 I ever spent.

@WaltzElf I just ordered a new copy of "Valhalla Knights: Eldar Saga" at Amazon.com for only $12.73 + shipping & handling. What a steal this was. Hey @SKTTR, I might be picking up a copy of Sakura Wars soon as well. If I don't purchase Arc Rise Fantasia first. (<:

Fragile. It has the most annoying battle system ever, but the presentation is just gorgeous and the story is really engrossing.

I live on obscure games. The weirder the better!

As for some good but neglected games, here are a few:

Klonoa
Mushroom Men
Lost in Shadow
Shaun White Skateboarding
We Love Golf!

I don't know if it counts:

Silent Hill: Shattered Memories, one of my favorite games on the system.

Elebits and Zack and Wiki are also really good.

How is Mushroom Men? I was always intrigued by that game, especially its presentation. How much would you pay for it?

While I haven't actually owned it, Pirates Plund-arr is good 4-player fun, basically Castle Crashers in retail form.

Valhalla Knights: Eldar Saga definitely for me. Other than WoW, I've never so loved a game.

Not sure if this is obscure enough, but Ark Rise Fantasia is one of my favourite games on the Wii, mainly because I'm a JRPG fan.

DEFINITELY A boy and his blob. My favorite game on the Wii.

^ I remember when that game was renamed to Eledees in some territories. Konami treated the name change like they were unveiling a whole new game, even though we had heard about Elebits months eariler.

Ivy the kiwi? was a great platfomer with a great art style that didn't sell well.

I'd think Rune Factory Frontier would fit in your description. It's clearly the most obscure Harvest Moon game (which, in fact, it's no quite difficult). I agree with Sakura Wars. It's a game it has been in my wish list for a long time, but Xenoblade is my anticipated game so...