Giotto used his architectural knowledge to introduce perspective to his painting, while Leonardo da Vinci brushed up on his anatomical drawing skills by sketching cadavers. In Pokémon Art Academy you’ll begin your monster drawing career with a painting by numbers-style rendering of Pikachu’s head, graduating to full-body portraits and lessons in use of paintbrushes, pens, pencils and drawing layers. Learning alongside you is AI-student, Lily, whose efforts are so terrifying that the most inept human artist will be reassured at the comparative beauty of their own attempts. There are also tips to help you capture the essence of each Pokémon, which you will find inhabit a zone somewhere between pointless and actually insane.

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Wii Sports Club, Wii U

Wii Sports was the game that accidentally defined the Nintendo Wii. Its small set of sport-themed mini-games didn’t even feature Mario, but became the instant staple of families, shared houses and late-night drinkers. It’s not easy to update a classic, but Wii Sports Club’s HD revisions do a decent job (with added online playability for when family rivalries boil over). Tennis initially seems a bit finicky, but actually just demands movements that are more precise and “tennis-y” than the original; after-pub mainstay bowling benefits from similar refinement, a flick of the wrist predictably curving balls into skittles; baseball uses the Wii remote to bat and the gamepad to field, a system that works beautifully; and to play golf you put the gamepad on the floor, letting you see the head of your club as you line-up a swing. That leaves boxing, which feels as broken and futile as ever.

Nintendo, £28.75-£34.99