Platformer Games are one of the things the Nintendo Wii is genuinely for. The ones worth playing start with Kirby's Epic Yarn, Super Mario Galaxy, Donkey Kong Country Returns.
A console that got into more houses than any other by not competing on power. Half its library is aimed at people who had never held a controller; the other half is some of Nintendo's best work.
This is one of its strengths. Family and party games without equal, plus a strong first-party run — Galaxy, Twilight Princess, Xenoblade — and a small set of stylish third-party action games that could only exist here.
Filtering to platformer means you want the movement itself to be the pleasure. It is the right filter when the thing you liked was getting from one place to another.
Follow the link for hand-written recommendations if you want more like it.
Follow the link for hand-written recommendations if you want more like it.
Follow the link for hand-written recommendations if you want more like it.
Follow the link for hand-written recommendations if you want more like it.
Follow the link for hand-written recommendations if you want more like it.
Follow the link for hand-written recommendations if you want more like it.
Follow the link for hand-written recommendations if you want more like it.
Follow the link for hand-written recommendations if you want more like it.
A game you can judge in ten seconds. Platformers live or die on the jump, and a good one feels right before anything else happens.
Weight. Platformers rarely carry a story you will think about afterwards, and the collectible-led ones can become checklists if you let them.
Kirby's Epic Yarn is the usual first answer, and there are 8 in the library we cover.
Yes — it is one of the things the machine is known for, and there are 8 in the library we cover.
Whether the move set is complete early. The great ones give you everything in the first level and spend the rest asking better questions of it; the weak ones drip-feed abilities to disguise thin level design.
Different games. 2D platformers are about precision on a single screen; 3D ones are about reading space and camera. Each pick below says which it is.
From the games this site covers on the Nintendo Wii, matched against hand-mapped gameplay categories rather than a storefront's genre tag. A page only exists where there are at least four, which is why some console and genre combinations have no page at all.
Or browse the whole Nintendo Wii library.