The Wii library is full of underrated and overlooked hidden gems. Here are eleven of the best Wii games you might have missed.

A Boy and His Blob

Loading

Sin & Punishment: Star Successor

Loading

No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle

Loading

Trauma Team

Loading

Red Steel 2

Loading

Shiren the Wanderer

Loading

Klonoa: Door to Phantomile

Loading

LostWinds

Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn

Dead Space: Extraction

Loading

Deadly Creatures

Loading

This complete reimagining of David Crane’s memorable NES odyssey is one of the sweetest, most beautiful video games of its generation. Laying aside the original’s brutal difficulty, A Boy and His Blob on Wii focuses on using the Blob’s myriad, adorable transformation abilities to avoid deadly obstacles. And whenever you feel like he needs encouragement, there’s a hug button. A hug button!The sequel to a legendary Japanese action game, Star Successor is a wonderful rail shooter featuring hoverboards, tense gunfights, projectile deflection, and Treasure’s trademark over-the-top arcade action. It’s a very worthy successor indeed to its hardcore run -and-gun namesake.Travis Touchdown’s first Wii outing was ultimately an unbalanced disappointment, but No More Heroes 2 was a vast improvement, eliminating many of its predecessor's mundane elements in favor of the excellent brawling combat and stylized ultra-violence. The battles are accented with a creative series of retro-inspired minigames and a weird, flavorful, and completely over-the-top take on adolescent power fantasies.Part soap-opera, part surgery sim, Trauma Team allowed players to take on the roles of several medical staff members trying to stymie the surge of an impending epidemic. The Wii controls are well-suited to the simple sim-surgery minigames, and the anime-inspired melodrama theme offers plenty of zany twists and turns to keep you invested in the story.The first Red Steel was a mediocre proof-of-concept on what a first-person motion controlled game could be. Red Steel 2 improved on the original in every way, with a much more precise, and fluid implementation that integrated first-person swordplay with shooter mechanics. It’s a superb, frenetic experience that evokes the best of first-person arcade game. It just arrived too late to get the attention it deserved.Shiren is an accessible take on the dense roguelike genre. Players gather a tremendous arsenal of weapons and items as they try, and die, and try again on the elusive quest to achieve a single perfect run through an enormous dungeon that changes every time you play it.Klonoa originally released on the PlayStation 1 to little fanfare, and got a second lease on life in the definitive Wii edition. It’s a top-tier platformer built around using enemies as springboards for increasingly-complex sequences of rebounding leaps. Despite the cutesy appearance, both the difficulty and the surprisingly-poignant story gradually ramp up into some truly painful territory. If you can get through Klonoa without shedding any tears, you’re made of sterner stuff than most.Lostwinds is proof that less can indeed be more. A WiiWare launch title built around Wii’s notoriously-small internal storage capacity, LostWinds is a short, beautiful puzzle platformer that uses the Wii Remote’s capabilities in creative and intuitive ways. By drawing and controlling gusts of wind, players navigate lovingly-crafted areas in a serene, slow-paced, and unique adventure.I think even some Fire Emblem fans forget this excellent Wii title happened. Radiant Dawn predates some of the relationship mechanics that have characterized the series’ most recent editions, but the tactical game play is just as spot-on as you’ve come to expect from Nintendo’s flagship tactical RPG. Eschewing motion controls, Radiant Dawn is a no-frills, meaty, long, and viciously challenging game and a superb entry in the Wii library.This quick-playing horror-themed rail shooter might have aged better than any core game in the series that inspired it. Despite the simple graphics, Extraction’s wonderfully-atmospheric sound engineering and very thoughtful level design create enough jumps and challenges to keep you playing (and shouting in surprise) all the way through the short campaign. It’s a delightful arcade light-gun experience, especially with two players.Deadly Creatures is weird and wonderful. You can play as a scorpion or a spider in an exciting exploratory action-adventure. You fight insects and savage desert critters while Dennis Hopper and Billy Bob Thornton talk in the background.. The visuals are stylish and striking, with a lovely diffused color palette distinct among most of Wii’s library. Play this game.Those are just eleven of Wii’s underrated overlooked hidden gems. What’s your list? Let us know and for all things video games stay with your friends here at IGN.

Jared Petty is a Senior Editor at IGN. He likes Wii a lot. Chat with him on Twitter @pettycommajared.