I'm playing this game on the wiiU also! I'm about 15 hours in and it works fine for me. I usually shake the nunchuck from left to right, or towards myself, it works. Best thing about the wii U for me, I never owned a wii so now I can go back and play all the nintendo exclusive games I missed! Especially since it looks like we'll be waiting a while for some better new games to come out.