Metacritic: the best-rated Nintendo-platform titles of 2012

Posted on December 31, 2012 by Brian(@NE_Brian) in News, Podcast Stories, Wii, Wii U

2013 is upon us, so it’s time to look back on the year that was 2012. How about we start with an overview of the highest-rated games?

Here’s how the results panned out for each of Nintendo’s systems – Wii U, Wii, 3DS, and DS:

Wii U

1. Mass Effect 3: Special Edition
2. Assassin’s Creed III
3. Mighty Switch Force! Hyper Drive Edition
4. NBA 2K13
5. Darksiders II
6. Batman: Arkham City Armored Edition
7. Trine 2: Director’s Cut
8. New Super Mario Bros. U
9. Tekken Tag Tournament 2: Wii U Edition
10. Call of Duty: Black Ops II
11. Nintendo Land
12. Little Inferno
13. Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed
14. ZombiU
15. Madden NFL 13

Wii

1. Xenoblade Chronicles
2. La-Mulana
3. Rhythm Heaven Fever
4. The Last Story
5. Skylanders Giants
6. Project Zero 2: Wii Edition
7. Pandora’s Tower
8. Just Dance 4
9. Mario Party 9
10. PokePark 2: Wonders Beyond
11. Inazuma Eleven Strikers

3DS

1. Colors! 3D
2. Zero Escape: Virtue’s Last Reward
3. Crashmo
4. Kid Icarus: Uprising
5. Professor Layton and the Miracle Mask
6. Resident Evil: Revelations
7. Art of Balance Touch!
8. Art Academy: Lessons for Everyone
9. Mutant Mudds
10. The Denpa Men: They Came by Wave

1. Pokemon Black Version 2
2. Pokemon White Version 2
3. Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor 2
4. Pokemon Conquest
5. Inazuma Eleven 2: Firestorm
6. Inazuma Eleven 2: Blizzard
7. Thundercats

Scores and rankings for all systems can be found here.

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