Just so you know, “whelmed” means the same thing as “overwhelmed”. The word you’re looking for here is “underwhelmed”.

GameCube, sensible controller

No shade on the GameCube controller, but “sensible” is not the first adjective that comes to mind for that thing. It looks like a fever dream.

Great games, shitty company. Unfortunately, because of the first thing, a lot of people ignore (and even defend) the second thing.