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Minecraft: Story Mode Hits Wii U This Week
Telltale Games' highly lauded The Walking Dead series appeared on most systems, but never made its way to Wii U. In fact, none of Telltale's games have been on Nintendo's console. That changes on January 21, when the first episode of Minecraft: Story Mode hits the Nintendo eShop.
Retailing for $4.99, Minecraft's first episode, The Order of the Stone, follows a male or female lead named Jesse, and the quest to retrieve a prized artifact to save the world. A season pass for all five episodes is available for $19.99, although Telltale has not outlined when the next four episodes will launch on Wii U.
This version takes advantage of the Wii U hardware, and offers off-TV play on the gamepad, as well as touchscreen control. In Game Informer's review, Brian Shea says that the first episode of Minecraft: Story mode "grabs your attention at a number of points and sets you down the path of actually caring about what’s going on in a story set in the player-driven Minecraft universe."
Our Take
Here's hoping the arrival of Minecraft: Story mode opens up the floodgates for other Telltale Games appearing on Wii U.
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