I purchased this game in 2010 and did not actually have a Wii until January 2011. I had that game months before I purchased a Wii. I am thinking 5 months, not sure. It was really at that point that I committed myself to purchase something in this generation of gaming. It was my first Wii game and had to lay on the shelf until I had enough money saved up for a used Wii.
My biggest problem with the game was the Wii remote controls. I could never get it and had a terrible time trying to use it. I became frustrated with it. I finally had to hook up my Game Cube controller and it was at that point I started really enjoying the game. (Okay go ahead and say it out loud, I am a lousy gamer) ;D
I like the game a lot. It did not have the same impact as the original game, due to, at the time, we had never played anything like it before. But I felt it was the NiGHTS 2 that I had been waiting for, even though it was almost too late.(after a while you stop waiting and lose all hope) I am glad that they pretty much stuck to the original gameplay mechanics. It still had that NiGHTS feel to it. Without that I don't think it would have been NiGHTS. It would have been something else. The big difference in the controls is that the first NiGHTS had a controller made for it, where as, this one had someone else's controller. That is the best that I can put it into words. The original NiGHTS feels tighter in that aspect. I am not sure how it was actually received by the gaming community at the time. But I consider it one of my top Wii games.