we got our hands on it, played a bunch of tech-demos, and realised that it is a work of borderline genius which adds a new spin to gameplay.
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it might just be Nintendo's best console since the Super NES
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This proved fresh and addictive to play
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playing with the Wii U Gamepad left you feeling satisfyingly God-like.
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what we played confirmed our conviction that the Wii U will be a gameplay tour de force, constructed with sufficient ingenuity to bring what gamers crave above all else: new and distinctive gameplay experiences.
All three NintendoLand mini-games we played were brilliant, and highlighted the console's unprecedented ability to shape-shift and support almost dizzyingly diverse types of games which, at the same time, don't feel like anything you've played before