More often than not, these took the form of mini-game collections, in an attempt to appeal to all the families who bought their Wii primarily for Wii Sports. Go Vacation enriches its service range with customized and luxury tours, groups and incentives programs, and representative and airport service.

Replaying mini-games on harder difficulties can also earn you keys, which can be used to unlock new furniture at your villa. It isn't actual online gameplay, but it's still online features, so it has the boilerplate about requiring Nintendo Online account and everything else that a true online multiplayer game would have.Developed by (what was then) Namco Bandai and published by Nintendo itself, it seemed that there was a lot of confidence around this one. Some reviewers, however, praised the customizable villas; Craddock, in his review of the Switch version, compared them to the house customization mechanics of the Animal Crossing series. After realizing the word "vacation" is frequently associated with relaxation, Kenya Kobayashi named the game Go Vacation to clarify that it is a game in which you must be active. Everyone sitting around waiting on the big review, the one that says if the biggest indie trilogy to date is worth it after all, 2pm the embargo lifts everyone puts up a review saying it’s amazing and NintendoLife. In addition, you can decorate your own holiday villa on the island, enjoy delicious food at snack stands or take a photo safari.

There’s good reason for that, too, as the game is an HD port of the original Go Vacation from that very system, bringing both the good and bad points from that release to a brand new audience in 2018.Alessandra Borgonovo of IGN Italia praised the controls for the roller skates, saying that they were fun to use.