I can't see how those subtitles could annoy anyone. Come on, people! That's only the INTRO TEXT. I bet most people don't read even the English text and as soon as the actual game starts you don't have to see those subtitles ever again (except perhaps the end congratulations text might have subtitles).

This really is a nonissue.

Yeah, this is absolutely disappointing.

That's basically 4 games:
Donkey Kong Jr.
Excitebike
Ice Climber
Super Mario World

I will upgrade my Super Mario World for 1,50e, that's for sure, but those other three games are something I would only buy if they were 1-2 euros.

The only way this would be worse, is that Super Mario World would be replaced by Urban Champion.

Not only are the four other games available already on the Wii U eShop, but you can actually buy ALL of them already on your Wii U via Wii Mode's Shopping Channel. I guess most of those who have the Wii U had Wiis too so most of us have been able to buy these games already. Why would I excited for Excitebike being on launch when there is way more interesting 3D version already available on 3DS?

I am really easy going with Nintendo and understand even their more foolish actions, but this one seems to be a lost opportunity. I've been thinking that the drought of games doesn't matter much because the VC for the Wii U will arrive soon and it should alone sell the system, but with a VC launch like this Nintendo is just making people even more uninterested.

You can see a video of each minigame on the Nintendo Japan site:
http://www.nintendo.co.jp/wiiu/asaj/index.html

Each of those smaller pictures on both sides of the big Wario brings you to a page of each game. By clicking on the round black&blue thing in the bottom right corner you can see a video of that game.
There are 16 different games and you can see videos of all of them. Some of them look pretty "meh" but some of them look surprisingly interesting.

For those who are thinking that 16 minigames in a "warioware" game is not enough, there is one minigame that actually has lots of those microgames in style of the previous Warioware game. The Western release has this game named as Gamer, and there you play as a child who tries to play games in secret. Those games are all new microgames and you get to play them all by yourself.

Cool stuff! Very detailed!

My girlfriend once made a cross-stitch picture of C64 Platoon's loading screen. It's not as detailed as those but I thought it was cool and made a video on Youtube of it. The video shows the picture "loading" quite like the loading screens on the actual C64 used to load: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fdjw7lBtP0

LOL, I'm actually really excited about everything the review criticized it about
The best game I have ever played is the infamous La Mulana, and I have a feeling that this one will give me an experience that's a bit like that.

Pretty disappointed to see the price being 15 euros (that 1,5e discount doesn't help much). I was anticipating it being 10e max.

Oh well... I've been waiting for this game ever since I finished the first on WiiWare. There was a time when I lost my interest when I they talked about the sequel for the first time (it seemed to be completely different from the first and needlessly complex), but I got my interest back later and after it was told that it would be structured in a "metroidvania" style and seeing new videos I was again waiting for this game like nothing else. Seriously, for me it has been THE game to wait for Wii U for a long time now.

I am definitely going to buy it day 1. I've been saving a bit of money in my eShop account just for this. My savings there are only about 7 euros though, but that's enough to soften the 13,5e price a bit.

Can't wait!

EDIT:
I feel like an heel complaining about the price

This is something I thought Nintendo Land would've been when we first saw those stands on the stage at E3 before the actual announcement.

Don't forget Darksiders II.
It's been a good seller at zavvi.com which is a UK based store. Its price has been under 20 euros for quite a while now and I've seen it getting out of stock too. There's been quite a demand for it as it has been taken back in stock and it's been their bestseller a long time now.

I guess I more often look at the score first and then read the review, but if it's a game I've been waiting for a long time and hugely interested in it, I usually read the review and try to do my best to keep the score a secret until I've read the whole review.

@sonic-doom
They CAN'T be on par with each other. The amount of memory alone makes all the difference. Sure, the machines can have graphics that are on par, but the memory allows a lot more stuff happen on screen and I'm sure PS4 versions run more smoothly. Like, for example, with Watch_Dogs I'm sure there will be much more people and cars driving around in the PS4 version, and of course it could allow more "hacking interaction" in wider areas. If the Wii U wants to handle that, its graphics have to be gimped. Or if they want to use the same quality graphics, they have to reduce the amount of stuff happening.

That's not exactly a huge thing though. It doesn't make the games overly different comparing to Wii U, but the machine is quite a lot more powerful which will be shown in games that need a huge amount of stuff happening in the game world all the time. But on games that don't need that kind of stuff, I think at least graphicswise the machines could be more on par.

@hamispink
Yes, a developer of the game told that PS4 version will have everything "more" than the PS3 version. More people walking around and stuff like that. The city with its people will be more immersive. I wonder how much "more" of everything there will be compared to Wii U version. I'm quite interested in seeing how the Gamepad will be used. It's definitely a good selling point on Wii U if it's implemented well enough.

I think this is great.

I've had no intention to buy this game even though I've had a little bit of interest in trying it. It's quite clever to make this "F2P" and put one DLC into a bigger discount. That way they quaranteed to get at least 1.99e from me instead of zero. Bought the Kong Mode just because of the sale. That mode actually was the one that interested me the most (which isn't much, but at least it got a tiny bit of my attention). It may well be that even if I don't end up liking this that much, I will buy the rest of the DCLs in future. It's definitely more affordable to me to pay 2-10 euros a month rather than the full price immediately.

Sometimes I feel a bit sad for the developers that the games are so expensive that even if I would like to try the games and support those who make these games, I can't because I can't afford paying the full price. Well, now I can support them in a smaller scale and eventually they might get the full price from me too if I decide to buy the rest in following months.

@SMW Yeah, I've been very interested in Street View U too. I can't understand people who've been hating on it.

I hope it would be a free app, but I think I could pay up to 5.99 euros for it.

This whole 50hz thing doesn't matter to me at all. I can't understand people who are yelling Nintendo is treating them badly. I mean really... A video game that was originally released in Europe in 50hz is again released in 50hz. OHMYGOD the world collapses and Nintendo is inhumane and treating the fans like poo!!!111 Go live in Africa for a while and see if this problem really matters.

In my opinion, this doesn't affect the gameplay of Ballon Fight at all. It just doesn't matter.

Oh well, I've never been into graphics or speed, so I might not be the best person to comment on this. I still watch VHS tapes and play my games on my 16 years old CRT television. I don't care if it's HD or SD. I don't care if it's 60hz or 50hz. I just play the games, solving the puzzles and clearing the obstacles. Well, I have to admit though that after hearing Mega Man tunes in their original speed, the music in European versions sound reeeeaaalllly slow.

@cornishlee
I haven't actually tried if paying a game without putting money into the account is possible. I'd love to be able to do that.

Can you really do that in the UK? If you can, I think other countries can too.

The only reason I haven't bought it is the price. I'm sad that I missed it on sale. I was actually once going to buy it but saw that the price had got up to 11.99 euros. Didn't buy it.

I put 20 euros on my account and bought Nano Assault Neo for 9.99 (which, by the way, is an excellent game!). At the moment I would've bought Chasing Aurora for 9.99 as I had just about that amount left in my account. Right now I'd probably buy Mighty Switch Force instead of Chasing Aurora, but if it would be 4.99, I would buy it instantly. There's no doubt about it. If it would be 6.99 or 7.99, I might consider buying it but even for 9.99 I might not buy it.

So, just drop the price and you might see wonders in the sales numbers!

I've got Mario U, ZombiU and Nintendo Land. I had Mass Effect 3 for a moment, but didn't like it at all so I took it to Gamestop and traded it to NintendoLand.

I think the prices are way too high. Most of the Wii U games in Finland seem to cost 70 or 60 euros (about $93/£58 and $80/£50). That's insane!

I'd like to buy some of the downloadable games, but those are a bit too expensive too. I sadly missed the sale for Chasing Aurora. There's no way I will pay 12-13 euros for it as I would need to put at least another 10 euros to the account. I've bought Nano Assault Neo which is a great game and its price is the highest possible to be tolerable (just under 10 euros). Give me more games with 2-10 euro prices in the eShop and I'll gladly pay for them.

And they really should lower the price of downloadable retail games too.

Oh well, even if the retail game swould be cheaper I don't think I would buy much as there are only two games that are even remotely interesting me; Scribblenauts and Tekken, and even those should be somewhat cheaper for me to want to buy them.

But then again, it could be so that no matter how cheap the games are, we will continue to want them to be cheaper. We might be spoiled like that.

And people complain about the New Super Mario Bros. games

@NintendoMike
Actually XMoto was already a "copy-cat" of an old PC game, Elasto Mania, which was a sequel to Across (Action SuperCross).

The cement factory is also in the C64 version.

I don't mean to be rude or anything like that and I understand that I might be wrong (and most certainly I am wrong) but to me this review felt like the reviewer wants to defend new and anticipated mature titles for the Wii because people have lately been very critical about the mature titles on the Wii. Especially all the talk about the game's "punk attitude" feels like that. Unnecessary thing that's meant to cover the faults.

Anyways, that's just how I felt. I'm not saying that's how it really was with the reviewer.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_Draw_Showdown

Yes, this is a port of a game released in 1994 and re-released for PC in 2004.

@mjc0961
No there isn't. I know it's nitpicking but as I said, there really isn't anything exactly like this title. Yes, there are strip poker games. There might be some strip blackjack games too. Maybe there even is a game that has both the poker and the blackjack in it (and if there isn't then that's already one difference to other games).

My point is that although there are games of this genre available for free, this exact game isn't. The graphics are different, the women are different, the gameplay is slightly different. So, I someone wants to play a game of strip poker against those certain women and with using a Wii remote, you really can't get that for free from anywhere.

Yeah, I'm stretching the need for this game a bit (or even quite a lot ) but what I said still remains a solid fact that no argument can't prove wrong (until this exact game becomes available for free, that is).

@Betagam7
I've enjoyed playing those old Strip Poker games on the Commodore 64 so I don't think those games are totally pointless (after all, a strip poker game is always a bit more interesting than a regular poker with some imaginary money in it). And it's not like this Sexy Poker would be totally rubbish. The simple poker and blackjack games seem to play ok. It's just that they seem to be very "lite" versions of the real games. But even then it seems to be more complex than those old C64 and even Spectrum pokers.

And what comes to the galleries in this game... Of course there should be a gallery where you can view the images you've "won." Not doing so would be just like if a game like Super Smash Bros. Brawl gave you those trophies as rewards but you could only look at those them after you've won them but when you'd reset the game they would be gone and you would have to try to win the trophy again.

And yes, people do buy this kind of games for the game also. Or at least to me it's way more interesting to play a game and win to reveal more pictures. Now, if it really was just an image slideshow without any kind of a game with it, that would be pointless. But now there really is a poker game AND a blackjack game, albeit somewhat simple versions.

@Betagam7
I can't see why couldn't there be something that is already available on the internet. Yes, there are free poker games for us to play and there are a pictures of women on the internet. But then again there isn't anything exactly like this Sexy Poker. So it's still something that you really can't get for free.

To say that if you can get something from the internet there isn't point to have it on the Wii is basically the same if you said that you can play a chess game on the internet so you don't need any chess games for the Wii. Or if the game has violent pictures, there isn't a need for that kind of game because you can get violent images for free from the internet.

But, yeah, that's still not an excuse to make a game as dull as Sexy Poker seems to be. They really should've put more thought on this game. So yeah, you are right about that.

Well, at least the idea of the game is still way more entertaining than in Beer Pong, Karate Phants or Hockey All Star Shootout for example

Let's face the facts. Seeing women naked or in their underwear is a nice thing. It is aesthetically satisfactory even if those women are drawn cartoon characters. And it doesn't have anything to do with sexism or making women as objects. It's just beautiful. And I appreciate those women who have enough self-confidence to show that beauty. And I appreciate those who can draw beautiful images of women. Yes, it might arouse people but what's wrong with that? That's biology and as long as people still appreciate themselves and other people things are fine.

So, it's not an awful thing that a game which is as bad as this has sexy images of women. The awful thing is that they really haven't done enough thinking to make the game itself a good one. Bare-bones poker and blackjack just isn't fun enough. It's not fun enough even if playing the game lets us to see those women. They really should've made the game something that makes the player really feel rewarded from winning the opponent.

At first I thought that the game would've contained pictures of real women. I also thought that they would be completely naked at the end. Then they revealed that they wouldn't get naked. It was fine. It might still be fun. Then I found out that the pictures would be cartoon pictures. It was a disappointment but I still thought that it would be okay for the 500 points it will cost. But now it's revealed that the game itself isn't good and that finally made me thinking that I don't want to buy it.

But then again, I still might find myself buying it the day it's released in Europe. I'm that easy

PS. Game makers really could do really good and entertaining adult games if they wanted. For example True Love for PC is a really good and addicting game even without all the hentai stuff (but of course the hentai makes it better) and it really has depth in it and great replay value.

I'd buy this instantly if I didn't know about GeneRally for PC which is free, has customisable vehicles AND has very very very good track editor. GeneRally is the best Super Sprint "clone" out there and that just makes it hard for me to want to play any other games of this genre.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeneRally_(computer_game)

But then again I'm really interested in trying that Meteor mode. It sounds fun!

@Omega
"But there is one thing that I can still not understand. Why should anyone be interested in seeing girls in a video game when there is the internet? Because they care for a round of poker?

Because earning the sights is much more pleasing than just easily clicking a link on internet. And it's always more interesting to see someone undressing. You know, slowly revealing more and more. And when every single part of the undressing is earned by playing well the satisfaction of completing the level and seeing the result will be much greater.

In my opinion the game should be boring AND the game controls should be broken for it to deserve 1/10. The only thing this review seems to complain is that it's just boring and there's no reason for it to be released since there are more Ping Pong games available.

I think that if one takes the game for what it is it should have at least one star higher score. I have a C64 version of this game and while it's not the most exciting thing I've played it played fairly well. It managed to be fun as a reaction based small game when played with a friend. I can't think that the FDS version would've been any worse.

I know that the game might be boring to some but it doesn't take away the fact that the controls work quite the way they should work and the scoring system is faultless. I think these things should be addressed when writing a review. Well, it's not up to me what kind of reviews you guys do here so feel free to write any kind of reviews you want. I'm glad that we have the possibility to comment so that people can see other opinions right under the review.

@Ferret75
But playing poker to see breasts is a different experience to writing "tits" to google to see them It's all about earning to see great visuals and giving some credit for it (by buying the product with the pictures)

@Adamant
Or a lesbian/bi-sexual female

@Ferret75
But then again, any excuse for that is a good excuse.

I don't get some of people's reactions. Those are just tits. And tits are a beautiful thing.

Give me some boobs in Beer Pong and Hockey Allstar Shootout and I'll buy them If one likes breasts in games and in real life it doesn't mean he/she is sad or lonely. It just means that he or she has higher standards fo aestethics

New Play Control: Super Mario Bros.

"You can now play the classic Mario Brothers game with a completely new way to move Mario in his quest to save the princess! Shake your remote to make Mario run. The more you shake the faster he'll run! Time your jumps right with your Balance Board while swinging the Nunchuck to throw fire balls! All this is presented in awesome old-school 8-bit graphics you used to love!"

Jokes aside, I'd really like to hear some info about new Mario and Zelda games.

@quakster

There's no egg. First there is that hourglass with a heart inside. That was easy to break. The mirror was on level 85 I recall. Anyways, I managed to break it already and got to the real ending. Although I don't know what that talk about fairies and stuff is at the ending but I guess that's just some typically weird japanese nonsense

@KDR_11k

You don't have to wait to be killed in those narrow places. I know it's very frustrating to notice that you seem to be unable to blow any bubbles as they all seem to pop immediately (It's because you can't change direction without moving a bit and the bubbles pop much more easily in this version). But if you jump around a bit and keep on blowing bubbles, eventually one or two bubbles won't pop. It takes some time but I've always been able to do so (be warned that if you're not careful you'll sometimes pop a helpoing bubble by accident in that situation and that's not funny at all). I do agree that it's a programming fault in the game and should not be like that though.

Anyways, the game is definitely one of the best titles WiiWare has at the moment. The Arrange mode levels are amazingly fun to play. I feel that they are even better than the original levels.

I'm still having one proble though.... I can't find the way to the REAL boss on the Arrange mode... I've been able to get the first item needed but I don't have a clue of what to do with that big mirror in one of the levels (well, I did have one thing in my mind but wasn't able to try it yet. I doubt it'll work though).

@Betagam7
Winter Games is mostly based on timing and rhythm. There's no need to waggle the joystick like in Decathlon. In fact, if you try to get higher speed on skating and skiing by waggling as fast as you can, the speed will be as low as possible.

That Street Racer looks great! I don't understand people who are critisizing the graphics. To me it looks great!

I like these top-down racing games. I prefer 2D to 3D. It's just like with some shooting games. I just can't enjoy FPS games but I love 2D shooting games.

GeneRally is my favourite top-down racing game ever. It has a great track editor (it would be great to have something like that in Street Racer too )

1. ...and this was the day he lived through without failing.

2. The only person in the world who can say out loud, without having to fear for his life, that the Chuck Norris facts are highly exaggerated.

3. That Zelda box is actually covering his private parts.

4. "Therefore put on the full armor of God, so that you can take your stand against the devil’s schemes"
(Ephesians 6:10-11)

I'm surprisingly interested in this one.

It looks quite fun as it reminds me of some fun and simple C64 games Even that controlling system reminds me of playing games with a good old C64 joystick.

And with only 500 points being the price, I think I'm going to buy it if it's going to have even remotely good review.

Finnish list:

1. Tetris Party
2. Mega Man 9
3. Brain Challenge
4. My Aquarium
5. CueSports - Snooker vs. Billiards
6. Art Style: CUBELLO
7. LostWinds
8. Bomberman Blast
9. Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: MLaaK
10. Space Invaders Get Even
11. Strong Bad Ep.3
12. TV Show King
13. Helix
14. Defend Your Castle
15. Alien Crush Returns
16. Midnight Pool
17. The Incredible Maze
18. Cocoto Fishing Master
19. Midnight Bowling
20. Wild West Guns

@Riverman Jacob

Although I'm not able to play the game and participate to the contest, I'm very glad about the fact that you've put this kind of a "press certain button certain amount of times" secret to the game. It reminds me of some great NES and PlayStation games. It's always great to have hidden secrets and codes in a game.

This certainly makes me appreciate your team more!

@Betagam7
While it's true that cartidges weren't as common as cassettes and diskettes, there have been carts available almost the whole life of C64 and they weren't that uncommon. Of course, the more "advanced" games such as Batman The Movie and Robocop 3 were made as carts in 1990 or so, but most of the game carts were made in 1983 or so.
Well, I guess you already knew that but I just had to write something

And yes, Head Over Heels would be great! Although more than that I would like to see Gogo the Ghost released as a VC game. That's one of my favourite games ever (and not just as a C64 game).

@Betagam7

I think Jumpman has one too.
I have Impossible Mission, Jumpman and now Mayhem in Monsterland. As I haven't used the keyboard when playing Impossible Mission, I've always thought the keyboard has always been transparent. Now as I think about it, I recall Impossible Mission had the keyboard at the bottom of the screen (and possibly not transparent) while both Jumpman and MiM have transparent keyboard on top of the screen.

Not only this game take a lot of inspiration from Mario and Sonic but the title tune sounds almost exactly like the Tiny Toons theme
And it's not just the beginning of the tune but the whole track resembles a lot of Tiny Toons. Go ahead and listen!

Finnish list:

1. Mega Man 9
2. Bomberman Blast
3. My Aquarium
4. Helix
5. Midnight Pool
6. LostWinds
7. Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles
8. Defend Your Castle
9. Strong Bad Ep.2
10. Wild West Guns
11. Midnight Bowling
12. Strong Bad Ep.1
13. Toki Tori
14. Dr. Mario
15. SPOGS Racing
16. My Pokemon Ranch
17. Potpourrii
18. Block Breaker Deluxe
19. TV Show King
20. Actionloop Twist

It seems like Toki Tori is more popular here in Finland than it is anywhere else

@Jazzem

I agree with you what comes to the annoying scrolling. While I so much wanted to play this game and found it's world fascinating, the unbelievably annoying scrolling was simply too much. I can't understand why on earth they chose to use scrolling like that. It shouldn't be a problem to make the scrolling happen a bit earlier.

At first I thought it was the C64 version of Enduro Racer and wondered that why would they release that as, although I played it quite a lot, it got AWFUL reviews.
I've played the SMS version a couple of times and I thought back then that it was very good.

I see the announcement happening like this:

Shigeru and Reggie walk up the stage. They are standing in the center of the spotlight. Shigeru opens his mouth and says: "Here's our solution......................... Get a life!"

The audience is silent while both Reggie and Shigeru are laughing their asses off on the stage. Then they leave.

Finnish list:

1. [1] My Aquarium
2. [3] LostWinds
3. [4] Defend Your Castle
4. [5] Wild West Guns
5. [2] Strong Bad
6. [7] FFCC
7. [6] My Pokemon Ranch
8. [8] SPOGS
9. [11] Dr. Mario
10. [-] MaBoShi
11. [13] Block Breaker Deluxe
12. [9] Cocoto Fishing Master
13. [10] Toki Tori
14. [12] TV Show King
15. [14] Star Soldier R
16. [16] Pirates
17. [-] Critter Round-Up
18. [15] Pop
19. [17] Actionloop Twist