One of the lessons I hope to remember from this pandemic is to make the time to interact with others. I fancy myself a loner and have become accustomed to doing most everything without a friend or partner at my side. I go to the movies alone, go hiking alone (which is admittedly dangerous), ride my bike alone, and, for the most part, game alone. Oh, I’ll play online with others, but outside of certain review necessities, I don’t do couch co-op that much anymore.
But the ghost of gaming past has been making frequent visits to my dreams as of late, reminding me of how social a person I used to be. Back in the days of the Wii, I couldn’t wait to have friends and family over for a night of gaming. It started with Wii Sports, but over the years, we’d come together to enjoy Wii Play, Super Mario Sluggers, Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games, Fortune Street, and so many other titles that had us waggling our Wii remotes. While all of these games were different, they had one thing in common: Miis.
I amassed quite the collection of Miis featuring the faces of my friends and families on my Wii, as well as the many special characters I created over the years using guides online. Darth Vader, Zoidberg, Reggie Fils-Amié, Daria Morgendorffer, you name it, I created it. Nothing brought a smile to my face faster than beating the crap out of Conan O’Brien in a few rounds of boxing. After so many years of playing casual games with poor character models or unsightly create-a-characters, it was great to have this system of simple but appealing created characters that could be used across a variety of games.
Source: Destructoid I miss Miis