Wii Party U

Not to be confused with the Wii version game Wii Party.

Wii Party U
The European Nintendo Selects release of Wii Party U

Wii Party U is a party game co-developed by NDcube and Nintendo, while also being published by Nintendo for the Wii U. It was announced on January the 23rd, 2013 and appeared at E3 2013 before being released on October the 25th, 2013. It's a sequel to the 2010 Wii game Wii Party. It sold 1,780,000 as of December 2018, making it one of the worst selling games in the Wii series. However, it sold the best out of all the party games (including games that were not Wii series related) on the Wii U.

Gameplay

There are two board games in Wii Party U that are like Board Game Island in Wii Party: Highway Rollers and GamePad Island. Over 80 different new Minigames are available. Some modes allow players to play on the Wii U GamePad, which is solely used in GamePad Party.

• TV Party
  • Highway Rollers (1-4 players, 45 min)
  • GamePad Island (2-4 players, 45 min)
  • Mii Fashion Plaza (1-4 players, 60 min)
  • The Balldozer (1-4 players, 30 min)
  • Team Building/Teammate Madness (1-4 players, 20-30 min)
• House Party
  • Button Smashers/Button Battle (2-4 players, 5-15 min)
  • Name That Face (3-4 players, 15 min)
  • Lost-and-Found Square (3-4 players, 5-20 min)
  • Sketchy Situation (3-4 players, 20 min)
  • Do U Know Mii? (3-4 players, 30 min)
  • Water Runners (2-4 players, 10 min)
  • Feed Mii! (3-4 players, 15 min)
  • Dance with Mii/Folk Dance Fever (2-4 players, 10 min)
• GamePad Party
  • Tabletop Foosball/Tabletop Football (1-2 players, 5 min)
  • Tabletop Baseball (1-2 players, 5-10 min)
  • Mii-in-a-Row (1-2 players, 20 min)
  • Tabletop Gauntlet (1-2 players, 5 min)
  • Tabletop Minigames (1-2 players, 5 min)
  • Animal Matchup (2 players, 5-15 min)
  • Puzzle Blockade (2 players, 5-15 min)
  • Tabletop Tournament

• Minigames
  • Minigame Collection (1-4 players, 5 min)
  • Freeplay Challenge (1-4 players, 5-30 min)
  • Bridge Burners (2-4 players co-op, 15 min)
  • Dojo Domination (1 player, 20 min)
  • Battle of the Minigames (1-4 players, 15-25 min)
  • Tabletop Tournament (1-4 players, 10-15 min)
  • Spot the Sneak (2-4 players, 10-20 min)
• Suggestions
• Archives

CPUs

Wii Party U introduces 111 new CPU Miis. 23 of these Miis are in Beginner Difficulty, while there are 22 for every other difficulty.

Reception

The Main Menu of Wii Party U

Wii Party U received mixed or average reviews according to Metacritic with a score of 65, three points lower than Wii Party. The highest critic score was from Multiplayer.it who gave it an 83/100 with the lowest coming from Shacknews who gave it a 30/100. The user reviews where a bit more positive, but were still mixed with a score of 7.0.

Forum

• Wii Party and Wii Party U Forum

Trivia

• In this game, when the Miis make their happy faces, their eyes don't follow with how much they're tilted down or up. This doesn't happen in Wii Party for the Wii. Their eyes actually follow how much they have been tilted down or up.
• This games features 111 Miis while Wii Party has 100 Miis.
• Their are more males in this game than females, While Wii Party has 50 males and 50 females.

  

• When a female Mii strikes a pose at the end of a minigame, her knees and feet will face each other. However, the male Miis have their knees and feet facing forward. The only exception is in Run to the Sun, where everyone regardless of gender, has their feet facing forward at the end of the game.
• Certain Mii Maker characters (such as macrons) will appear as "?" when playing this game.
• In Minigame Collection, there is a glitch that causes two of the same Mii to appear at once.
  • The glitch is not present in any other modes.
  • This is done by going into 2 or 3 player modes, choosing a minigame, backing out at the instructions screen and returning to the Mii confirmation screen, then selecting a number of players higher than the number of players selected when choosing the minigame. If you are lucky, 2 (or in extremely rare cases 3) of the same Mii will appear.

• On the Japanese cover for Wii Party U, the GamePad appears white instead of black like the EU and NA Covers.
• Wii Party U was made before Wii Sports Club. This is the polar opposite of Wii Sports Resort.
• It Does Not Feature Any 1v1 And Pair Minigames.
• There are unfinished pointers for seemingly a fifth player are present in the folder where the other pointer icons are contained. Since the Wii U only supports up to four Wii Remotes to be connected at a time, it can be assumed either the GamePad would have had even more use or support for other controllers were considered at a point.