Special Editions of Wii U Games

why so i just kind of wanted to talk about wii u special edition games uh pretty much like the games that released as collector's editions um i don't have everything uh there's a lot of them that are just obscenely expensive i'm mainly talking about the nintendo store exclusive nintendo world store now known as nintendo 1y those are obscenely expensive uh now uh those were also released in like other regions like europe uh that and they weren't nearly as expensive there uh but you know i i'm just kind of picky and if i can get a game that was released in my region i want that you know i want my region uh you know if it was only released in europe or like if it was only released in europe in japan i'll probably try to get the european version um you know and if it was only released in japan i'll get the japanese version uh i'm just i'm kind of picky uh sometimes actually you know sometimes you know compared to european and japanese sometimes i get the japanese i don't know either way uh the mario kart 8 and hyrule warriors uh wii u special editions uh those released in north america only a nintendo world store and they were very limited and now they are very expensive maybe someday but not today uh but yeah i have a couple of special edition games here and uh i just just want to get this out of the way also that some special edition games don't really count as some some games you may consider special edition don't really count so i'm mainly talking about uh stuff like uh this stuff uh or uh or even uh twilight princess hd and i'll explain what's what's going on with this uh these are like ah they're big cool box sets but uh they were only released in this method uh here in north america at the very least um so it's just like even if super mario maker has like a cool uh cardboard box this is the only method it was released in north america so that's not really special edition it's just this is just how it's released um but i can explain this these are the the box formats for how nintendo would release uh amiibo based games uh games that come bundled with amiibo twilight prince's hd only came uh in this bundle at least here in north america physically and uh one of what i did uh back back when amiibo you know like back in like 2014 15 16 back when people were taking amiibo very very seriously uh i saw various methods to uh preserve the packaging for amiibo and the one that i decided to go about in terms of like you know opening up your amiibo in a way that doesn't completely ruin you know the cool uh boxes was uh cutting around the plastic container and uh so that way you preserve the cool box uh or at least the the cool cardboard backing so i would save all my cardboard backings uh in these amiibo special edition boxes so uh you know i have jigglypuff ike uh lucas the only ones that really matter uh so as you can see i would cut around and i would just get rid of the uh i would just get rid of the the plastic uh container uh i saved them for a little bit but they just took up too much room and eventually you just stopped carrying now i i usually just rip open amiibo like i i just don't care that much um but you know i do still have these pretty much most of them from uh the 2015 era that you know that i was buying back then but i did i also oh man i was naughty and i bought some some imports uh but yeah these don't really count uh as special editions because uh these were the only editions but might as well start off with uh one of the first really really cool ones this is uh the wind waker hd collectors edition uh this was only available at gamestop and uh wind waker hd was a very interesting case uh this was released digitally first kind of as at us by surprise um you know it was always kind of uh slotted for that october time frame um and then it just randomly came out and this was when they announced the september uh price drop for the wii u in september 2013 they announced well they announced it like a couple weeks ahead of time but they announced it a couple weeks ahead of time and uh they said on like september it was like mid-september uh you're you're gonna get a win waker hd special edition console and uh it'll come pre uh pre-installed or a download code i i forget uh one or the other a digital copy of wind waker hd digitally was the only way to play wind waker hd for a couple weeks it didn't exclusively come with that wii u bundle uh but you know because that wii u bundle released in september uh they decided to release the game early digitally alongside it so the game launched in like mid-september digitally and then it launched physically in early october and uh this was the uh this was the special edition that came alongside the physical release uh exclusive at gamestop and uh yeah it comes with a ganondorf figurine he's of course in the wind waker style using the swords that he had in the uh final wind waker fight and uh yeah it's literally just a figurine it's kind of it's a bit of a like a it's a it's a bit of an amiibo before amiibo uh but it's pretty it's a pretty neat collector's edition uh it literally only comes with the figurine so uh that's yeah but so i mean like at the very least like you don't really feel like you're missing out on much by not getting this but it's a really cool one and like i said it does feel kind of like amiibo before amiibo especially with how they have the cutout uh right here they did something similar with majora's mask 3d for the 3ds when that released there was a skull kid figurine which was interesting interesting because that released after amiibo came out but that wasn't an amiibo it was just a figurine uh but very cool figurine very high quality uh very cool collector's edition and it was very cheap too i think this was like just like 10 bucks more than um the standard set so you know that was really neat this was one that uh i didn't have for the longest time and i finally put the bull and i got it on ebay uh in reality uh i remember uh the nintendo online store for a little bit had copies of these brand new for like msrp but i didn't get it through that i got it through some dirty ebay seller and it's still brand new it's the super smash brothers wii u controller bundle uh this comes with the gamecube controller and adapter there's literally like no difference between this and just buying all of them separately but uh you get this really really nice package which is everything all right here um but you know the back of the box is the exact same as the regular back of the box for the uh for super smash brothers for wii u it's just literally uh you get pretty much everything included in this set uh that's about it the super smash bros ultimate uh special edition is a bit similar in terms of like how the package is styled however that one uh contained like exclusive things like a steel book so there's definitely a bit more merit to that special edition though this one's a bit more functional as it gives you literally everything that you needed which was the gamecube adapter and the gamecube controller uh i remember these were insanely hard to find for a little bit there i was very lucky and i pre-ordered um the adapter and the controller actually the controller wasn't that hard to find it was mainly the adapter because the adapter was what you actually needed the controller was just it was nice to have like a brand new gamecube controller re-released uh but the adapter was like 100 necessary to play super smash brothers for wii u with a gamecube controller uh so uh i really wanted this bundle but i ended up just pre-ordering everything separately um but yeah i'm very happy to finally have uh the smash wii hue uh special edition even i i don't really think it's necessarily called special edition it's more so you know the controller bundle this was one of my greatest purchases uh back then it was the nintendo land controller bundle this released around like 2013 2014 uh after uh at least after the original luigi wii remote plus release which that was around the time super mario 3d world came out uh so i think this was like later 2013 uh early 2014 around then uh but yeah it's basically just nintendo land with uh wii remote plus included i don't know if they just they picked the luigi one uh mainly because it was like the year of luigi around that time so they were like here's another excuse but i got this for incredibly cheap i think i got this for like 20 30 bucks it was on sale or clearance at like best buy and uh yeah it was just she it was just like i got this remote for cheaper than it was going for uh without nintendo land i already had nintendo line because it came uh included with my wii u but uh i got this bundle for like 30 bucks when a wii remote plus by itself was like 40. so i got i got this wii remote and a free copy and nintendo line alongside that and uh this remote is still kind of my go-to weird mode because it was like one of my most uh new wii remotes at the time i still use it for pretty much like everything i do on wii u and it's it's starting to show its age a little bit you know like with a lot of controllers from this era i think a lot of people are starting to you know get like 360 and ps3 controllers that are like kind of starting to go a little bad um and we remotes are kind of the same but uh yeah i mean it's still it's still doing its duty uh it's still kind of my go-to wii remote and uh i'm a very i'm a very proud luigi wii remote plus owner so this one's a little harder to explain uh i was at a game store and this game store was like really cool they kind of specialized in uh more import uh type stuff um you know not entirely but they had like whole sections of like oh man the japanese section for this console that was really cool and uh this is where i first got a lot of my japanese wii u games and uh one of the first ones that i got was uh the bayonetta ii uh special edition in japan now um this one was interesting considering uh this came with both copies of uh vayner one and two but you get a special case for bayonetta one where here in north america they had a much more sensible option which was uh just have it included in the same case uh you know it's obviously cool to give bain at a one in its own case but obviously it made more sense to do uh to do it how we did it here but uh yeah in japan they had a bundle that uh these two games came in in this uh cardboard box which uh it's a very very nice cardboard box and it's also really really cool to get both games uh in their own uh special case uh way better than how they did uh the switch version here which was bainetta one came on a download uh with a download code uh in japan they got like the full shebang on wii u and they still got the full shebang uh on nintendo switch in japan like that you got you got the whole setup you got vayner one on a cartridge in a case that was amazing uh so uh this was really really cool in japan and uh i'm really happy that i have uh this set even though it's kind of pointless considering i already have the game in north america and you know it's the same game but uh yeah i like this technically speaking this counts uh this is one of the amiibo bundles that you know weren't necessary this wasn't the only way to get yoshi's willy world uh and uh yeah i guess i can use this as an opportunity to talk about the other amiibo bundles for wii u which included like mario party 10 uh you also had captain toad treasure tracker um you had a lot of amiibo bundles that were options you know getting the game with the amiibo and uh yoshi's willow world was one of them and i there was no way i was passing up the yarn yoshi amiibo that was that was incredible like that that made my jaw drop and considering you know like just just take that in consideration i didn't have much going on in 2015 but yeah this was a great option to just get the amiibo with the game it was cheaper than just buying uh the game and the amiibo separately because the game uh yoshi's woolly world by itself was just 50 bucks and uh with the game uh with the game in amiibo bundle it was only 60. and uh amiibo costs like 13 bucks at the very least so that was a you know hey why not they they eventually re-released this bundle but with the other colors so they had like a bundle with yoshi's woolly world and the blue yarn yoshi and yoshi's woolly world in the pink yarn yoshi and then mario party 10 launched with an amiibo bundle with the mario amiibo included uh and that was the only way to get the mario amiibo for a limited time and then captain toad treasure tracker got an amiibo bundle later down the line like in 2015 or so uh and uh it included the tote amiibo so uh there was there's so many options this was a purchase i still don't understand why i made to this very day the xenoblade chronicles x special edition this is when i was getting very serious about wii u and just buying all the nintendo published games uh even though like i passed up on mario tennis ultra smash whatever but i kind of made it a a duty to pick up most of like the the big nintendo published games for wii u and 3ds at the time like i picked up happy home designer even though i didn't really have much of an interest in it at the time i picked up triforce heroes i picked up amiibo festival and then i passed on martin's ultra smash after amiibo festival pissed me off xenoblade chronicles x i kind of wanted to support just good big quality wii u games even if this wasn't necessarily my thing but i'll give it another chance eventually uh it's just these games are so long but yeah they had the special edition available at best buy on xenoblade chronicle chronicles x's release date and uh this is just a case of just like seeing a special edition for a niche game on a niche console on release date i decided to pick it up uh and considering i just did not have a lot of disposable income at the time that was stupid of me but hey yeah what it's whatever i have no idea how much these go for these days so maybe that was a wise investment maybe it wasn't but yeah uh this is a legitimate special edition this comes with various things uh such as a 100 page art book the game a matted art card and the digital soundtrack on a usb card which uh wasn't the greatest uh that soundtrack it it was very limited you know and it's just like when you when you're putting it on a usb drive it's something where it's just like why limit yourself uh that uh usb drive was so tiny i don't know if it'll tell me uh how much is on it but always put it right here how much was on it and it only worked on windows at least it says right here uh only compatible with windows 8 7 vista 2003 and xp so you know i wasn't touching this thing the matted art card and our book were really nice uh this was a fine special edition overall it's just like they always mess up like one little thing and this digital soundtrack was just kind of pointless like you know like at least with a cd that where everybody can use a cd and you know that's at least more of a tangible thing to hold even though this is a tangible thing to hold but a usb drive just isn't as cool because everybody can put something on a usb drive and uh considering everybody can put something on a cd but not on a press disk i get i don't know i'm just rambling uh because there's a difference between burning a disc and pressing a disc because pressing a disc is something generally only like major like companies can do burning a disc is something anybody can do uh i'm just rambling at this point i'm just trying to make excuses as to why why some things in this set weren't amazing but hey it's still like look at that you have a kind of an embossed uh raised just artwork here it's a very nice set i i can't complain about it that much uh i just think the uh the usb drive uh wasn't ideal taking similar notes from the xenoblade special edition uh this is one i was always kind of interested in uh i don't know why i think because i bought the xenoblade one i was like oh well i'm the wii u special edition guy now i gotta get this uh i eventually got it on ebay uh these are not that expensive uh you know considering this is a even nicher game on a niche platform during like this you know the year of its demise pretty much in 2016. uh this was still like fairly reasonably priced it's like under 100 bucks so that's pretty interesting and i always thought this was going to be much bigger uh this always looked very similar to how they did uh the xenoblade special edition like it looked very similar to me in terms of like how it was styled and all that i saw this rectangular black box with the wii u logo and and all that and i just thought like oh this will be the same size as the xenoblade special edition but no it's it's much much smaller which is very very interesting uh but yeah this released in june of 2016 and i decided i had to decide between this and mario and sonic at the rio 2016 olympic games if you know me you probably know i'd probably enjoy mario and sonic a little bit more even though that game wasn't good uh and uh i decided on this one because i thought this was gonna be harder to find and i don't like that mentality i don't like that mentality i know like i buy a bunch of garbage but i hate the mentality of like well i'm gonna avoid this because you'll be worth more even though i don't care about it that much like i i don't like that mentality i like to play my games i swear um but i decided on that back in 2016 i made my choices and uh yeah it turned out this one never really raised in price that much even though i don't sell these things i i think it was mainly because i didn't want to regret it later down the line i didn't want to you know get to like 2018 2019 and i'm like man you know i wish i bought tokyo mirage sessions but you know it's it's incredibly hard to find it's out of print and it's just like you know it's like worth 400 um you know i didn't want to get to that point but it never got to that point it was always fairly reasonably priced including the special edition mario and sonic was the tricky one this special edition i haven't actually looked at it that much it includes an art book and soundtrack cd so they at least uh they at least did that instead which is definitely why this is a uh much much smaller package it's just they could definitely just fit everything in uh in a cardboard box that was shaped very similarly to the uh the regular wii u case but uh yeah at the very least they included a soundtrack cd so they have that going for them uh instead of the uh weird usb drive um not a bad one speaking of mario and sonic i bought this one uh recently this is a japanese version of mario and sonic at the rio 2016 olympic games and it comes with two wii remotes uh i found it interesting they did red and white uh does that have anything to do with like this year in particular like to those colors because red can represent mario i guess since sonic has a lot of white involved but there was a blue wii remote so i think that's interesting but the blue wii remote was in the mario and sonic sochi 2014 olympic wii uh winter games bundle and i can't find that one anywhere i went on ebay because i kind of felt i was in the mood to buy a mario and sonic wii u bundle and this was the only one that they really had available um and it's a better bundle because you get two wii remotes in there um but uh the mario sonic sochi 2014 uh wii remote bundle that was hard to find i couldn't find that um but um yeah this this one includes two rear modes which that's a pretty good deal uh we didn't get this in the states i'm not sure about europe but uh yeah this game isn't very good we're about to wrap things up uh this is the second to last i have and uh this is a european exclusive now uh this i'm kind of fudging with my rules a little bit considering um this was pretty much the only way uh this was released in europe was via this limited edition which was uh interesting considering it was the only edition but project zero you might know this better as fatal frame here in the states uh we never got this game physically in the states uh even when it came over to the nintendo switch ps4 xbox one xbox series x ps5 whatever um yeah it didn't it still didn't get a physical release here in the states which i think was ridiculous i think if you if you were going to go to all the trouble of re-releasing this game at the very least make it a physical release i think because it was digital only to some extent i think a lot of people just didn't even realize the game came out when it came out like it's out uh and uh i i never saw anybody really talk about it i think people didn't even realize it that it that it came out and uh i still haven't bought it on switch and i want to because i kind of want to support uh nicher projects like this um but they just didn't really have a lot of faith in this game even in europe where they did give it a physical release though it was the limited edition only but it comes with it comes with quite a bit of stuff you get a steel book art book spirit photographs which is pretty cool considering you know it's fatal frame it's about taking pictures of spirits then a double-sided poster uh and uh yeah you got it physically this way at least in japan uh it was more widespread like you could just buy the game physically without having to invest in a big bulky collector set um but hey it's still pretty cool that it happened in europe i really wish it happened in north america but the way they released it here in north america was as one of those free to try things where uh you the only way you could download the game was via via a free demo pretty much you download the entire game for free but then you can only play a certain amount of it and then after that it's just like oh buy the game um that was more of an experiment if anything for nintendo i think a lot of investors were getting on nintendo for not doing mobile games not doing free to play free to start games whatever so they they experimented a lot with pricing structures during the wii u 3ds days and fatal frame was a very interesting thing to do that with i guess that was a way for them to try to get more people interested in the series but man downloading a demo that's like tens of possibly 20 gigabytes i'm just like nobody wants to do that and this is the last wii u special edition that i really have uh this is one of the final wii u releases if not the final wii u physical release i had to get this is shakedown hawaii by v blank uh and uh they're they're more well known for retro city rampage that never uh released on wii u it was interesting because uh that was uh notoriously a we wear game and it got delayed delay delay delayed until it finally finally released in like 2013 for we wear and uh that was like you know a couple months after the wii u released uh so uh you know like when they would ask v blank like hey are you gonna do a wii u version basically like the wiiware version is right there just play that one uh but uh yeah uh the sequel or the spiritual sequel uh shakedown hawaii uh came out on wii u and uh they uh they had the chance to do a uh physical release and uh they did which was very cool uh now uh this isn't technically a special edition it's just kind of a limited release but they did release this special edition version uh alongside it and i was able to nab uh both this and that which i'm happy about uh the special edition is just kind of in a uh in a special edition case that's kind of it i still have it i still have it sealed uh it's it's the same thing the same thing as before but what do we have here we have the soundtrack included which uh yeah that's cool you know it would have been cooler if it's on like a physical thing but hey you know like i don't blame them i don't play limits you know like uh i didn't buy this for a soundtrack but uh yeah for a special edition this is a little weak it's just pretty much like you get it in a kind of a collector's case with a unique art and that's pretty much all that's uh that's unique about it um but hey either way it was cool that the final wii u release got something special and those are all my wii u special editions i'm obviously missing a couple which you know includes the mario kart 81 with the blue shell and uh hyrule warriors with the scarf uh yeah those were uh nintendo world store exclusives and are worth about a thousand dollars each and i'm willing to spend a lot of money on dumb stuff but uh when it when it's something like that that i just don't really have an inherent like reason to own uh because it's just you know it's just mario kart 8 but with a figurine and it's just hyrule worries with a scarf and i'm not necessarily somebody to really put stuff on display um other than the games themselves so something like that mario kart 8 special edition like i wouldn't i wouldn't use the spiny shell i wouldn't use the the scarf with hyrule warriors like i wouldn't put them on display i keep them in the box and at that point i'm kind of like hey you know if i if i find it for a good price then i'll get it but uh you know i'm not i'm not gonna be scouring ebay for it personally and i'll probably have to get them eventually and i know i just said why i won't get the mario kart 8 or hyrule warriors one but if i really want to go down in history being known as the wii u i'm gonna have to take out a mortgage

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Published: Thu Jun 16 2022