Yes, Magician Lord is an excellent game. The Memory Card save helps you to save the level where you die, so there isn´t any problem to try hard each level.

Is The Last Blade the best fighter available on the WiiShop? Or would I be better off just putting those $9 towards the cost of the Samurai Showdown Anthology?

I'm not a fan of fighting games. But according to NintendoLife reviews the best downloadable fighting games are:

Samurai Shodown II (NeoGeo)
Rage of the Gladiator (WiiWare)
The Last Blade (NeoGeo)
Streets of Rage 2 (MD/Genesis)

which have all a 9/10.
For the anthology: Sorry, I Don't know.

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Last Blade is better than 6 SamSho games put together, trust me on that. For one thing, Last Blade is actually accessible to some degree, and has a much better pacing to the battles. I also found the general systems to be better overall. I like SamSho, but The Last Blade really is better in nearly every way.

Well, it appears as if The Last Blade will be the first fighter I'll be downloading from the Wii VC. Well, except for Final Fight, but I consider that more of a beat'm up/brawler than a traditional fighting game. There's no sense in owning a bunch of fighting games, when I can receive just as much enjoyment from one single game.

Certainly not better characters though. Last Blade features that same bland B level anime look that nearly every second rate SNK fighting game suffers from. Samurai Showdown was the only SNK fighter that ever looked as good as a Capcom Fighter.

Now that we have too World Heroes Perfect. Can you recommend it? I like fighters, i have SSFII, Last Blade and Fighter´s History Dinamite. I like a lot this 3 games.

Would anyone recommend the NES Mega Man games to me? I'm somewhat interested but not wanting to get games that I can't finish. Basically are these games really difficult? Like hard enough that an experienced Mario player couldn't get through them?

I disagree, but then again, I find character design to be a total non-issue. It's about how they play, not how they look.

The second game had an easy mode (the "Normal" difficulty) added for the western release (makes the player do twice as much damage to the bosses). I don't think it's that difficult. Sure, a few tricky spots (such as Quick Man's famous pits of instant death lasers), but I don't think it requires TOO much practice to overcome.
(the original Japanese difficulty was called "Advanced")

SMB: Lost Levels anyone?
The only 2D Mario i've never really played, aside from maybe 10 minutes back during the SNES All-Stars release.
And man am i GLAD we got the doki doki panic version of SMB2, because the original Japan sequal looks like a complete re-hashed all too familar romp through the 8-bit Mushroom kingdom. Still, i'm sure it's fun and i'm sure it's extremely challenging. Is it considered one of the NES greats as far as difficulty goes?

I have never beat it. I played it a few times on the SMA cartridge on SNES and again on the Wii disc but the insane difficulty and the rehash feeling just doesn't do it for me. I too agree with you in the fact that I am glad that we got the version that we did for SMB2. What I am really wanting Nintendo to do is make a NSMB games based in the dreamy world of Subcon. If they did that trying to keep me from playing that game would be like trying to keep a ninja turtle from a piece of peanut butter and anchovies pizza.

I know Johnny from the SGB beat it. It gave us a hilarious LP's so the game was good for something. I have never even played it let alone personally know anyone who has.

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Ya, i'm having second thoughts on even wanting to play it...it's just too blippin' simular to the first. It's almost like the equivelent of releasing a sequal in the NSMB series in 8-bit form. I guess I'm just somewhat interested because it's the only 2D Mario sidescroller i've never really played or beaten, and to just say that i've beaten this little uninspired devilishly toughy trinket would take me even further to the top of VideoGame TekkiDome.

Besides, i love a good challenge. The only 2 NES games that have managed to beat the WaveMyster have been Blaster Master and the first TMNT. If i can beat Adventure Island, Gaiden I-III, Castlevania III and startropics than there's a good chance i'll beable to team up with my bud Alf and take on this
little bogus adventure and take a trip into eveything LOST and Levels haha.

Anyways! ReDUCKulous anchovi awesomeness aside. Taskui the toobular, what's your 3Ds friends code?
You should post it in your siggy.

@Retro_On_theGo
Who is this Johnny 'the master' you speak of and what' a an SGB?

I have never touched the Lost Level's nor do I really have a strong desire too. After Mario Wii U for one more Mario launch go-round I am going to tell Mario Mania "later dudes" like Chevy Chase and leave that series in the past on my supersonic sled. Videoland is much bigger than Mario, heck Mario has never been to Videoland.

@Waveboy The Super Gaming Brothers. They lets Play games and they played SMB The Lost Levels. Johnny is the older brother. They're hilarious give'em a shot.
As for the actual game. Do not bother with it. It's really just a glorified rom hack. It's too similar to the first game for me too. It's pretty much the same thing just incredibly harder. Some jumps literally depend on luck! It basically is like NSMB2 in how uninspired it is.

@Retro on the Gnarly

A rom hack is EXACTLY what it looks like. and i remember that was the very reason why i kept passing on it after all the years. I'll defintily
take a looky' at The Super Gaming Brothers video just to see how crazy-challenging and unfair, not to mention luck based the experience is just for a laugh, but overall i'm not going to bother with the actual game. I'll pass on it, and download STRIDER on the Genesis VC instead.

@Rytari

If i see another NSMB sequal after NSMBWii U i'm officially done with that particular series. It's getting way too ridiculous and familar and this is NINTENDO
for crying out loud, where imagination and creativity used to be off the charts regarding the SMB titles where every single one of them had their own distinct flavor and seperated themselves in every single way imaginable from the pack. Now it's just recycled unappealing far too easy soccer mom inspired Cash in generic crapOla. I wan't to see Toon mario from the SMB 2,3, SML 1 & 2 manuals and box art to be in the next sequal. just 'something' different for once.

But ya, for me, the Golden era of mario ended with World(SMB1-World are all 10's in my eyes) and just hasn't been quite the same ever since. Even Galaxy didn't quite do it for me in the fun factor department... Mario controls were too slow and the experience half the time felt like a chore, not to mention that HUB world really started to get on my nerves. It's great that they opted for a map for Galaxy 2 and it looks more in tune with the older games. What did you think of the original Galaxy btw?

3D Land however looks pretty great, i have a feeling it along with Galaxy 2 will be my top 2 favorite 3D mario's period. meanwhile 64(As ground breaking as it may of been during the time)and Galaxy didn't quite tickle my Fabulous fancy. Good but not 'great' Now if you'll excuse me, i've gotta get back to watching ALF reruns down at the Technodrome with Beebop And rocksteady. And like i said, if another NSMB sequal rears it's head i'll be taking off in style just like this >

I'm going to buy Startropics on the Wii's Virtual Console. Seeing as you probably can't add just the funds you need like the 3DS, I'd have 500 points leftover. I'd prefer to use it for a NES game. What would you recommend or what game would you get if you had 500 points to spend? Thanks.

Any Mega Man game, although 2 and 3 are the best. Definitely my favorite series on the NES. Mario Bros. 3 is a masterpiece, but you probably already have that. I know it's not NES, but Sonic 2 and the Master System is pretty solid, and it's very different then Sonic 2 on the Genesis. Kirby's Adventure is one of the few NES games to have aged really well, as in a passerby probably wouldn't guess it's an NES game.