History VideoGame / NintendoLand

* MeaningfulName: Monita's name comes from モニター (monitā),the Japanese pronounciation of the English word, "monitor". This technically makes his/her/its name "Monitor".

* SpiritualSuccessor: ''Mario Chase'' and ''Animal Crossing: Sweet Day'' are one to ''VideoGame/PacMan Vs.'', as they use that game's setup of allowing one player to see the entire playfield on a separate screen, while others are limited to corners of the TV screen and limited views.

* NoFairCheating: The hardest stamps to get in the single-player games will not be given out if you use Assisted Play (letting someone use a Wiimote to to help out). With ''Yoshi's Fruit Cart'', you're also not allowed to use checkmarks or warp gates for the Gatemaster stamp.

* InvisibleToNormals: The ghost in ''Luigi's Ghost Mansion''. Although lightning can reveal where it is temporarily.

* OneHitPolykill: Fully charged arrows in ''The Legend of Zelda: Battle Quest'' are capable of piercing multiple enemies unless they hit something like armor or a shield.

* '''''Pikmin Adventure''''' (''VideoGame/{{Pikmin}}'') - This game tasks players to work together as a team to escape from the wilderness. With the [=GamePad=], the player is dressed in Olimar's spacesuit, who controls smaller Pikmin. With Wii Remotes, the other players are dressed as Pikmin. They provide backup by fighting enemies directly. There's also a versus mode where the [=GamePad=] player and the other players duke it out.
* '''''Metroid Blast''''' (''Franchise/{{Metroid}}'') - A combat-heavy third-person shooter game that has many different ways to play. The person with the [=GamePad=] mans a gunship and fights from the air. Other players can aid, or battle against, this person on foot using the Wii Remote and Nunchuk. Ground vs. ground, ground vs. air, or a team survival mode are the modes playable.

!! Tropes related to the game
* AbandonedLaboratory: The Lab in ''Luigi's Ghost Mansion''.

* AmusementPark: The titular Nintendo Land, of course! It is a small amusement park with attractions themed after twelve Nintendo [=IP=].
* AndYourRewardIsEdible: Averted. Most of the prizes for ''Yoshi's Fruit Cart'' are pieces of fruit from the game.

** Dying in ''The Legend of Zelda: Battle Quest'' will spawn a skull that can be broken for a recovery heart in the location you failed at in your previous run. It doesn't nullify master rank, but that always involves doing a NoDamageRun, so it's useless for master rank.

* AssistCharacter: When playing with two players in ''Mario Chase'', two Yoshi Carts assist the Toad- calling out Mario's location and stunning Mario with close-range tongue punches, leaving them wide open to attack.

* AutoScrollingLevel: The entirety of ''Balloon Trip Breeze''.
* BigBoosHaunt: The entirety of ''Luigi's Ghost Mansion''

** The Yoshi Cart in ''Yoshi's Fruit Cart''.

* BleakLevel: ''Luigi's Ghost Mansion''
* BonusLevel: "Break The Pots" in ''Takamaru's Ninja Castle''.

* BossSubtitles: Used in ''Pikmin Adventure'', and ''Metroid Blast''. Despite them being an iconic part of the actual game series, ''The Legend of Zelda: Battle Quest'' lacks them, probably because the bosses are usually regular enemies.

* ButtonMashing: ''Legend of Zelda: Battle Quest'' has an anti-waggle feature for the sword players. If you waggle your Wii Remote for more than a second or so, the game will stop registering the motions as sword slashes until you stop waggling.
* TheCameo: Some minor characters are alluded to, such as villagers from ''Animal Crossing'' and the Hocotate Ship.

-->Olimar got an item.
-->Blue Pikmin is out.
-->Olimar leveled up.
-->The door will only open if you collect all the fruit.

* CasualVideoGame: Most of the games tend to have simple controls and easy to learn gameplay.

** ''Metroid Blast'' allows shots to be charged for special effects. The Gunship can shoot explosive missiles, while on-foot players can shoot rolling bombs.
** Pikmin players in ''Pikmin Adventure'' can charge up an attack unique to the seed they have. No seed is a simple forward slam, Hammer Seed is a chain of forward-moving slams, Whip Seed is a spin attack, and Knuckle Seed is a KamehameHadoken.

** Ghosts in ''Luigi's Ghost Mansion'' can charge up an attack that disables everyone's flashlights. It leaves them visible and a sitting duck to the other players, though.
* ChokepointGeography: Levels in ''Yoshi's Fruit Cart'' with numbered flags.

* ColorCodedForYourConvenience:
** The ninjas in ''Ninja Castle''; Blue ninjas do nothing, green and pink throw stars, yellow throws bombs, black are EliteMooks, and red may do anything the others do.
** [[spoiler:The extra missions in ''Pikmin Adventure'' introduce elemental enemies; red is fire, blue is water, and yellow is electric.]]
* ColorCodedMultiplayer: Multiplayer games have players dressed in different colors, such as red, blue, green, and yellow versions of Link's tunic.
* ColossusClimb: If you're playing on foot, this is how you fight Kraid in ''Metroid Blast''.

** In ''Metroid Blast'', if you dodge too many times in succession, your Mii will strike a pose when they land that leaves them wide open.

** In ''Animal Crossing Sweet Day'' if there's only one villager, they get to drop off the candy at safepoints so they don't get too slow from carrying all of them around. 3 or more players and the villagers have to carry the target capacity at once to win, with more candy required for more people.

* CosmeticAward: Stamps. However, you ''do'' get coins for getting one.
** Even if the game is offering Double Coins.
* DamselInDistress: Monita in ''Takamaru's Ninja Castle''

* DualBoss: In one of Metroid Blast's {{Brutal Bonus Level}}s, you have to fight [[spoiler:Kraid and Ridley simultaneously. In another, you fight Ridley alongside an ice-based PaletteSwap.]]

* {{Fainting}}: If the ghost catches anyone in ''Luigi's Ghost Mansion'', this is what happens to them. They can be revived if someone else shines their flashlight on them.
* FantasticNatureReserve: The entirety of ''Pikmin Adventure''.
* FeedItABomb: Kraid in ''Metroid Blast'' can be hurt by pumping explosives down his throat, hitting the weak spot inside his stomach.
* FloatingContinent: The end points of ''Balloon Trip Breeze'' seem to be this.
* GameBreakingBug: During the first few days after the release, the game would sometimes have a ridiculously long LoadingScreen at the title screen and would even sometimes freeze. This bug has thankfully been patched.
%% * GettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to overwhelming and persistent misuse, GCPTR is on-page examples only until 01 June 2021. If you are reading this in the future, please check the trope page to make sure your example fits the current definition.
* GottaCatchEmAll:
** Collecting all the prizes from the central tower.
** Collecting all the stars from all the games.
* GreenHillZone: The "How To Play" levels of the Co-op attractions.
* GustyGlade: Some levels of ''Balloon Trip Breeze''.

* HostageSpiritLink: [[spoiler: In stage 3 of ''Takamaru's Ninja Castle''. During the second time through to rescue the real Princess Monita, she will appear along with the ninjas throughout the stage. If you hit her, you lose health.]]

* AnIcePerson: Ice Ridley, an ice-based PaletteSwap of Ridley.
* InsistentTerminology: They're not mini-games, they're "attractions". This is probably to try to avoid it from seeming like a casual minigame collection, which was a main detraction from the Wii for core gamers. Whether or not it works is up to debate.

* InterfaceScrew: Many, in order to highlight the dual-screen gameplay. For example, in ''Octopus Dance'', a squid can blot out one of the screens with ink, and in ''Twister Race'' tunnels can block out the touch game pad.

* JungleJapes: The entirety of ''Pikmin Adventure'', with a few exceptions.

* LevelsTakeFlight: The entirety of ''Balloon Trip Breeze''.

* MinigameZone: The Central Tower

* NoDamageRun: All of the Master Challenges in ''The Legend of Zelda: Battle Quest'' and ''Pikmin Adventure'' require this. Also needed for some in ''Metroid Blast''.

* NostalgiaLevel: ''Donkey Kong Crash Course''
* OneHitPolykill: Fully charged arrows in ''The Legend of Zelda: Battle Quest'' are capable of piercing multiple enemies unless it hits something like armor or a shield.

* PinballZone: The Central Tower has a game similar to this.
* PressXToNotDie: In the Zelda attraction, when an archer or GiantMook launches an attack at you while playing as the archer, you will receive one of a few prompts[[note]]"Press ZL + ZR!" "Tilt Left!" or "Tilt Right!"[[/note]] that enable you to dodge the attack.

** ''The Legend of Zelda: Battle Quest'' uses the title screen music from ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaALinkToThePast''
** ''Pikmin Adventure'' uses the title screen music from ''VideoGame/{{Pikmin}}''

** ''Animal Crossing: Sweet Day'' uses the title music from the Gamecube game.

** ''Octopus Dance'' is the exception as it uses original music since the UsefulNotes/GameAndWatch didn't have music apart from beeps.

* RailShooter: ''Battle Quest'', with one person doing the shooting part with the other player(s) using swords and shields. Also, ''Takamaru's Ninja Castle''.

* ScareChord: When the ghost player takes out a human player in ''Luigi's Ghost Mansion''.
* ShoutOut:

** Stage 14 of the Pikmin Adventure starts with a structure that looks like a castle at the end of a Franchise/SuperMarioBros level, then leads straight underground, a la World 1-2.
* SocializationBonus: All of the Solo Attractions are actually ''NOT'' single-player only which means that they can become easier with the help of some friends. [[NoFairCheating Note that the game doesn't allow you to get some stamps if they help]].
* SpotTheImposter: When you beat ''Takamaru's Ninja Castle'' the first time, [[spoiler: it's revealed that Princess Monita was actually Murasame. You have to to throw stars at him to reveal the disguise.]]

* SoundTest: The music box item, which has songs that can replace the main plaza theme of the player's choice. Songs sold seperately.
** One of the songs isn't even a song, but a shuffle button (a la iPod) can be unlocked as well.

* TechDemoGame: Quite literally. A number of the included minigames were used as tech demos when the Wii U was originally revealed, before it turned out that they were all bundled together in one place.

* TennisBoss: If you fight a Wizzrobe in ''The Legend of Zelda: Battle Quest'' without an archer, this is how you fight it.

* ToiletHumor: Enough to warrant an E10+ rating: If a player gets eaten in ''Pikmin Adventure'' by a Bulborb, they'll get ejected out with a giant clay turd that encompasses their whole body.

* ThisIsGoingToSuck: Monita makes this reaction when hearing herself say "Dark Monita".
-->'''Monita''': Oh... This should be fun...
* UnderTheSea: The enitrety of ''Octopus Dance''

* WindUpKey: The Blue Falcon in ''Captain Falcon's Twister Race'' has this.
* {{Wutai}}: The entirety of ''Takamaru's Ninja Castle''.

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** ''Yoshi's Fruit Cart'' uses the piece "Touch Fuzzy, Get Dizzy," from ''VideoGame/SuperMarioWorld2YoshisIsland''.

* '''''Metroid Blast''''' (''VideoGame/{{Metroid}}'') - A combat-heavy third-person shooter game that has many different ways to play. The person with the [=GamePad=] mans a gunship and fights from the air. Other players can aid, or battle against, this person on foot using the Wii Remote and Nunchuk. Ground vs. ground, ground vs. air, or a team survival mode are the modes playable.

* '''''Luigi's Ghost Mansion''''' (''[[VideoGame/LuigisMansion Luigi's Mansion]]'') - In this game, up to four players must clean out a mansion haunted by a ghost, who is the person with the [=GamePad=]. The [=GamePad=] player has to sneak up behind the ghost hunters to catch them, and the ghost is also invisible to the others until exposed by a flashlight or lightning. The ghost also causes nearby players' Wii Remotes to rumble, alerting them of the ghost's presence. The goal is for either side to eliminate the other. Another two-players-or-more-only game.

* '''''Yoshi's Fruit Cart''''' (''[[VideoGame/YoshisIsland Yoshi's Island]]'') - A single player game where the player guides a robotic Yoshi along a path to find fruit and to the goal door. However, the fruit and obstacles are only shown on the TV screen, and only the path you draw is shown on the [=GamePad=].

** ''Pikmin Adventure'' uses the title screen music from ''{{VideoGame/Pikmin}}''
** ''Metroid Blast'' uses the title screen music from the NES (Or Famciom, in this case) ''{{VideoGame/Metroid}}''.

** ''Yoshi's Fruit Cart'' uses the piece "Touch Fuzzy, Get Dizzy," from ''VideoGame/YoshisIsland''.

** ''Captain Falcon's Twister Race'' uses the title screen theme from the first ''{{VideoGame/FZero}}'' game.

* BubblyClouds: The entirety of ''Balloon Trip Breeze''.

* GottaCatchEmAll: Collecting all the prizes from the central tower.

* '''''Octopus Dance''''' (''UsefulNotes/GameAndWatch''[[note]]Specifically, it's based on ''Octopus'', which is a G&W game[[/note]]) - The player must mimic a diver's dancing moves with the [=GamePad=]'s control sticks and the gyroscope (somewhat similar to the gameplay of another ''Game & Watch'' game, ''Flagman''). The TV provides a front view, and the [=GamePad=] provides a rear view. The diver may turn the player's Mii around at certain times and an octopus will sometimes ink one screen, so both must be used together.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: [[PervertedSniffing "Bulborb Baths"]] in ''Pikmin Adventure''.

''Nintendo Land'' is practically what ''VideoGame/WiiSports'' was for the original Wii, a fun and lighthearted game made to show off what the system was capable of doing, while introducing new players to Nintendo's famed franchises. This game is bundled with the deluxe Wii U set. Otherwise, it has to be bought separately.

** Stage 14 of the Pikmin Adventure starts with a structure that looks like a castle at the end of a SuperMarioBros level, then leads straight underground, a la World 1-2.

** ''Metroid Blast'' uses the title screen music from the NES (Or Famciom, in this case) ''{{VideoGame/Metroid}}''
** ''Mario Chase'' uses the famous ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'' theme
** ''Luigi's Ghost Mansion'' uses the title screen music from ''VideoGame/LuigisMansion''

** ''Donkey Kong's Crash Course'' uses the title music from the original arcade/NES ''VideoGame/DonkeyKong''
** ''Takamaru's Ninja Castle'' uses the overworld music from ''VideoGame/NazoNoMurasameJo''
** ''Balloon Trip Breeze'' uses the Balloon Trip music from ''VideoGame/BalloonFight''
** ''Yoshi's Fruit Cart'' uses the piece "Touch Fuzzy, Get Dizzy," from ''VideoGame/YoshisIsland''

** ''Captain Falcon's Twister Race'' uses the title screen theme from the first ''{{VideoGame/FZero}}'' game

* '''''Takamaru's Ninja Castle''''' (''[[VideoGame/NazoNoMurasamejo The Mysterious Murasame Castle]]''[[note]]a 1986 {{UsefulNotes/Famicom}} exclusive until it was released for the 3DS Virtual Console in 2014.[[/note]]) - Another single player game, this game is essentially a light-gun-style game where the [=GamePad=] is used to throw ninja stars and rescue [[TheHost Monita]] from invading ninjas.

* NoDamageRun: All of the Master Challenges in ''The Legend of Zelda: Battle Quest'' and ''Pikmin Advnture'' require this. Also needed for some in ''Metroid Blast''.

* TheThemeParkVersion: The team-based attractions are mission-based, and each is vaguely based on the adventures of their respective protagonists. ''Pikmin Adventure'' is even said to be based on Olimar's first visit to the mysterious planet..

* AreTheseWiresImportant: Closer inspection of the gunship from ''Metroid Blast'' reveals that it also has A/V and Passive Speaker inputs, which doesn't seem to serve any purpose.

* '''''Octopus Dance''''' (''VideoGame/GameAndWatch''[[note]]Specifically, it's based on ''Octopus'', which is a G&W game[[/note]]) - The player must mimic a diver's dancing moves with the [=GamePad=]'s control sticks and the gyroscope (somewhat similar to the gameplay of another ''Game & Watch'' game, ''Flagman''). The TV provides a front view, and the [=GamePad=] provides a rear view. The diver may turn the player's Mii around at certain times and an octopus will sometimes ink one screen, so both must be used together.

** ''Octopus Dance'' is the exception as it uses original music since the VideoGame/GameAndWatch didn't have music apart from beeps.

%%* AmusementPark

* ButtonMashing: ''Legend of Zelda: Battle Quest'' has an anti-waggle feature for the sword players. If you waggle your Wii Remote for more than a second or so, the game will stop registering the motions as sword slashes until you stop waggling.

* '''''Takamaru's Ninja Castle''''' (''VideoGame/TheMysteriousMurasameCastle''[[note]]a 1986 {{UsefulNotes/Famicom}} exclusive until it was released for the 3DS Virtual Console in 2014.[[/note]]) - Another single player game, this game is essentially a light-gun-style game where the [=GamePad=] is used to throw ninja stars and rescue [[TheHost Monita]] from invading ninjas.

* '''''Octopus Dance''''' (''[[GameAndWatch Game & Watch]]''[[note]]Specifically, it's based on ''Octopus'', which is a G&W game[[/note]]) - The player must mimic a diver's dancing moves with the [=GamePad=]'s control sticks and the gyroscope (somewhat similar to the gameplay of another ''Game & Watch'' game, ''Flagman''). The TV provides a front view, and the [=GamePad=] provides a rear view. The diver may turn the player's Mii around at certain times and an octopus will sometimes ink one screen, so both must be used together.

** ''Octopus Dance'' is the exception as it uses original music since the GameAndWatch didn't have music apart from beeps.

* '''''Captain Falcon's Twister Race''''' (''VideoGame/{{F-Zero}}'') - In the single player game, the player pilots a wind-up Blue Falcon on a race track. They must use the [=GamePad=] as a steering wheel and get to the finish line in time. The TV screen shows the view from behind the car, while the [=GamePad=] shows an overhead view.

** ''Captain Falcon's Twister Race'' uses the title screen theme from the first ''{{VideoGame/F-Zero}}'' game

* '''''Takamaru's Ninja Castle''''' (''VideoGame/TheMysteriousMurasameCastle''[[note]]a 1986 FamicomDiskSystem exclusive until it was released for the 3DS Virtual Console in 2014.[[/note]]) - Another single player game, this game is essentially a light-gun-style game where the [=GamePad=] is used to throw ninja stars and rescue [[TheHost Monita]] from invading ninjas.

''Nintendo Land'' is Creator/{{Nintendo}}'s second MassiveMultiplayerCrossover and a launch title for the Nintendo WiiU. But instead of having players beat flagship characters to a pulp like in ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros'', this game takes elements from several of Nintendo's franchises and turns them into theme park attractions. Assuming the role of their Mii characters, players are invited to play along inside this virtual theme park by a robotic screen that looks like the [=GamePad=], named Monita.

''Nintendo Land'' is practically what ''WiiSports'' was for the original Wii, a fun and lighthearted game made to show off what the system was capable of doing, while introducing new players to Nintendo's famed franchises. This game is bundled with the deluxe Wii U set. Otherwise, it has to be bought separately.