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It's fast, it's fun and it's unique to WiiWare. Striking into the Top 10 now, praise and recognition must be given to the wonderful revival that the point-and-click adventure genre has seen over the last few years.

Both are incredible, but the originality of Strong Bad wins the position here on the countdown. Playing as the wacky Internet-famous cartoon character is a joy as he explores the world made famous by HomestarRunner.

Fluidity is a puzzler about a puddle. You control a flowing, fluid body of water by manipulating the environment to get the liquid to pour, pool and collect together just the way you want it to -- even changing its state of matter in order to make forward progress. This is one of the most recent WiiWare releases featured on our countdown, having just shipped into the Wii Shop late last year. Cave Story.

A freeware indie PC classic famously created by just one guy, Cave Story was Daisuke "Pixel" Amaya's free gift to the Internet for over half a decade before somebody finally started giving him some cash for his incredible accomplishment. Those paychecks started flowing thanks to this first for-profit port of the game, which excellently converted the PC original into an upgraded WiiWare form. All these ports and attention should clue you in to the fact that it's a heck of a game and one absolutely worth your time, attention and Wii Points.

Though you could still always seek out the freebie PC edition if you're short on funds. Square Enix resolutely never offered storyline sequels to its main Final Fantasy series installments for several years, but that trend has been breaking through the past half-decade or so, allowing us to finally know just what happened after the final curtain closed on Final Fantasy IV.

The After Years brings us back to the world of Cecil, Kain, Rydia and all the rest, letting us follow their further adventures a generation after the conclusion of the original story. It's a wonderful way to expand the experience you first had back in the '90s with the original game, but if you never did play FFIV you can correct that oversight through the Wii Shop too since it's on sale in Virtual Console form under its old Final Fantasy II numbering.

Tetris Party. The Wii's library of games is overflowing with Party This and Party That, as countless publishers have tried to claim a piece of the casual market that Nintendo so capably captured with the console's introduction. Few party games have been as enjoyable as this new take on an old classic, though, as Tetris Party expertly fuses together the most famous puzzle game design of all time with a wealth of new modes and options that make it perfectly appropriate to fire up the next time you've got a bunch of friends over.

Tetris Party did so well as a WiiWare download that it even got an expanded retail release later on -- but this digital original and its permanent spot on your Wii channel still gets the more enthusiastic thumbs-up from me. You can consider this position an even tie between Mega Man 9 and Mega Man 10 , as both titles are fully deserving of recognition on our Top WiiWare countdown.

They're old-school Mega Man. Old-school, 8-bit Mega Man made to look and play exactly like the first six installments in Capcom's classic series did way back in the NES era. When Mega Man 9 was first revealed and long-time fans found out they'd be getting an all-new, classic Mega Man game after such a long time, many of them fainted with joy myself included. When Inti Creates came back a second time and brought us yet another sequel in Mega Man 10, I thought I'd died and gone to old-school gamer heaven.

Could we dare to hope that Mega Man 11 might now happen someday? Maybe, maybe not, but I'm not counting out anything after the incredible shock of 9's reveal. We're cramming as many incredible WiiWare games as we can into this countdown, and that means Rank 4 is going to be shared as well -- by all of the games comprising Nintendo's incredible Art Style series.

Some have been better than others, but all have been bold and unique game designs that have captured our attention and imagination as each has been released. Orbient sends us sailing through space. Rotohex had us spinning and sorting a hexagon of colors. Rotozoa brought us into the miniature world of microscopic organisms, Cubello made us blast apart matching colored cubes, and Light Trax reminded us a lot of Tron's light cycles seen from a long distance away.

Each of the installments is inventive and well worth your while, and the success of these games inspired even more to show up for Nintendo's portable DSiWare service. One of the very best WiiWare games to ever go on sale did so on the service's very first day. LostWinds was a launch title for WiiWare way back in May of , and its magical adventure swept us away and had us begging for more.

And then we got it! Separately the games are incredible, and together they form one of the most fun journeys you can undertake on Wii -- using the Wii Remote to command the wind and guide young Toku on his quest to save his homeland.

Is it cheating for me to rank six games all together in the 2 spot? If it is, I don't care -- because the whole BIT. TRIP experience is just that good. Gaijin Games is a studio that has invested more time and effort into the WiiWare service than any other third-party developer, and the final product of their efforts is an enormous success. Acegabby77 said: xxxx Wii Sports. Jimbus said: These games were always better than you expected them to be.

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