Wii Party U
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Developer(s) | Nintendo SPD NDcube |
Publisher(s) | Nintendo |
Release date(s) | October 31, 2013 October 25, 2013 October 26, 2013 October 25, 2013 |
Platform(s) | Wii U |
Rating(s) | ESRB: - Everyone PEGI: - Ages 3+ CERO: - All ages |
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Previous game ← Wii Party |
Next game Latest game in series |
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Wii Party U is a party game released for the Wii U in 2013. It is a collection of minigames, with multiple modes where there is an overarching goal with minigames used to further those goals. Each minigame and game mode can also be rated by the player on a five-star scale. The game is hosted by non-Mii characters Party Phil and Party Penny.
List of game modes
TV Party
The primary party game mode, this contains five game modes:
- Highway Rollers: Miis must run down a long highway by rolling dice, with minigames being used to decide turn order.
- GamePad Island: Miis must explore island ruins across a board moved across using dice, with several obstacles that require using the GamePad to progress.
- Mii Fashion Plaza: Miis must travel a board collecting clothing items to model, with clothing being obtainable from spaces or minigames.
- The Balldozer: Miis take turns (order decided by minigame) dropping balls of their player color into a coin pusher-like machine, trying to drop balls off the front.
- Team Building: Miis take turns (order decided by minigame) selecting Miis in sports jerseys with various colors and numbers to form patterns to earn points.
House Party
These are various minigames that involve multiple players using the GamePad and Wii Remotes. It contains 8 game modes:
- Name That Face:
- Sketchy Situation:
- Button Smashers:
- Lost-and-Found Square:
- Do U Know Mii?: A minigame in which the GamePad player rates their opinion on a topic and the Wii Remote players try to collectively guess it.
- Water Runners:
- Dance With Mii:
- Feed Mii!: A minigame in which the GamePad player must fulfill food orders made by the Wii Remote players.
GamePad Party
These are various games in which both players use the GamePad, one at each short end. Has 7 modes:
- Tabletop Foosball: A modified version of Foosball.
- Tabletop Baseball: A modified version of Baseball.
- Tabletop Gauntlet: A minigame where players must get a ball through an obstacle course by moving course elements.
- Mii-in-a-Row: A game where players must line up Mii body parts on a checkered board, occasionally playing minigames to convert opponent's tokens.
- Tabletop Minigames: A free play mode of the minigames where both players use the GamePad.
- Puzzle Blockade:
- Animal Match-up:
Minigames
These are various ways of playing the game's various minigames. Has 7 modes:
- Minigame Collection: A free play mode, where any minigame can be played.
- Freeplay Challenge: Players complete in harder versions of minigames
- Bridge Burners: Human players must cooperate at minigames to reach the end. Lose three times and they fail. The AI doesn’t participate.
- Dojo Domination: A single player gets ten hearts and fights thirty opponents, three at a time. The player loses a heart for each opponent they fail to beat and attempts to beat all foes.
- Battle of the Minigames: Players compete to see who can win a certain number of minigames first
- Tabletop Tournament: Players play GamePad minigames against each other in round robin or single elimination tournaments
- Spot the Sneak: In each round, one player is secretly given the ability to cheat at a minigame, and the other human players must identify who. The sneak also participates in guessing for the purposes of blending with others and therefore doesn’t gain or lose points from being correct or incorrect. Players who correctly guess who the sneak is steals points from them, but the sneak steals points from anyone who guesses incorrectly.
Suggestions
One of the hosts suggests a random game mode to play based on the number of players.
Archives
Lets the player check their rating of games, records set in games, and view the staff credits. [needs verification] It also lets the player disable in-game Miiverse posts.