E3 2013: The Wonderful 101

Hideki Kamiya continues to make it extremely difficult to outright discount the allure of a Wii U with The Wonderful 101, a kind of Viewtiful Joe sequel with added Pikmin DNA. The Wonderful 101 is exactly the sort of game I associate with Nintendo - bright, colourful, and possessed of a vague utilitarian agenda. Why be an individual when you can be an atom in a massive, alien punching fist? The multiplayer element demoed during the Nintendo Direct stream looked equally fantastic too, the screen heaving with disparate characters each pursuing their own isometric objective. It looked very much like the Power Stone 2 escalation we never got.