Shock Troopers is pretty great!

I agree with the others, the original source material was incredible and likely won't be topped by this. As such I'm glad to see that they have added a ton of stuff and changed this up. Because if it being nearly the same just worse there's little reason for it to exist, whereas this looks pretty sweet!

Without permanent death FE loses a lot of its soul, and becomes closer to any old strategy game.
Permanent death ends up making players be more strategic because there are consequences for poor decisions. Due to the added pressure to play smart, it became quite easy to develop better tactics, with characters reviving after every chapter all semblance of difficulty would be gone.

Yay! I don't think I've downloaded anything since the end of 2010, and now I can pick up the best Mario Party for free, yahoo!

Dragon Quest Party! <3

Easily the best single player kart game around, with two people it was still pretty incontestable with twinventure and all the other awesome cheats.
Four-player multiplayer stacked up pretty well, but when everyone knows MK64 and not so many know DKR it's harder to get a solid group.
The lack of rubber-banding and lack of cheap weaponry for the unskilled was a sweet competition booster, doesn't help accessibility, but to be honest in MK64 you're still going to lose the vast majority just you get to piss everyone else in the process

Personally, I think that the App Store is a perfect replacement for a significant portion of the DS library. Yes there are lots of phenomenal games across various genres that an iDevice would not be able to do, however there are a lot that it easily does better and at a fraction of the cost.

If the game isn't a phenomenal must-have on the DS (or soon to be 3DS), the App Store will almost always have a suitable replacement. I personally don't use my DS too much since I don't want to carry it around to just play games, whereas with my iPad I nearly always have it with me!

I've been getting an awesome Pokemon fix with my DS in the past few days, and intent to for a while longer though <3

I like the blue shell enough in 64, it didn't do much more than a regular shell, and it could hit everyone in front of you. The infrequency was nice.

Whereas in DS and Wii, it has just become just stupidly overpowered and frequent. In Wii with the 12 racers, all the weapons nearly ruin the game.

I'd give it an easy 8 personally, probably wouldn't quite push it up to a 9.
I found the vehicle stages a nice change of pace, snowboarding was always my favourite! I can agree that the submarine stages were a bit too slow to continue to be fun after multiple plays, but I wouldn't personally call them a bother.

My favourite Bomberman game, having a great single-player mode is something most of the other games is a trait most of the other games are no where near possessing.

There's a ton to like, but there are a few annoying bits too, definitely a worthwhile purchase for 3D platformer fans though!

In more exciting news, yesterday I happened across both Dragon Warrior I&II AND Dragon Warrior Monsters 2: Tara's Adventure!
After years of hoping! <3
So much Dragon Quest, so little time!

I dunno this will probably be highly superior to IX

DS game of the year right here!

Good old Reggie, and his wisdom...

I think Nintendo has still contributed the most shovelware to DSiWare, I don't follow it because it's not that good.

_The vid you showed wasn't demonstrating anything broken at all. It's simply showing ledge grab distance. I wouldn't be surprised if they made it slightly larger for characters in Brawl, but there's nothing broken about it.
The worst thing about Melee was the endless Fox on Fox battles that bore the living hell out of me._

Sure it's not broken, but it doesn't make any sense and looks embarrassing.
Evidently you know little about Melee as despite Fox being the best (by not much, and he does have unfavourable matchups), he's never been the most used character, nor is he a character that wins tournaments.
Whereas in Brawl it's Metaknight the vast majority of the time.
Then add to the fact that in tournament Melee battles are quick and aggressive, whereas Brawl is all about stall.
I responded with respect to the metagame seeing as how that's likely what you're talking about, seeing as how whining about a character being spammed in person is silly because you'd be complaining about something you'd be taking part in, not that complaining about stuff of no relevance to you is of any benefit either, but it's more common to see.

I've played it a little bit, wasn't bad from what I played. $8 is far too much though.

I prefer having room to think about my game over a full-on spam fest, and I'm no casual. Melee was broken in some ways, and obviously not balanced, which led to people taking the hardcore approach way too far and taking all the fun out of the game.

Please provide supporting points to your erroneous claims. To be fair, I called your claims erroneous so I'll support why they are.

1) Spam-fest. Brawl is more haphazard than Melee, in Melee if you spam you're getting killed most of the time pretty easily if your opponent has much skill. In Brawl lots of moves are much more spamable, than anything in Melee, Pikachu & Wolf projectiles, Pit's side-B, and Ike's huge power provide much more mindless carnage than anything in Melee.

2) Melee broken? How so? I can show you a way Brawl is broken: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEz1Q7DpOU0
Brawl has plenty of glitches and exploits, but most of Brawl's are character specific, whereas Melee's benefited the full cast, and actually more often than not the worse characters more than the better one's decreasing the gap in character ability, for example wavedashing was most helpful on Luigi, who without it is terrible since he's super floaty.

3) Melee has significantly better balance than Brawl, hence why it has lasted so long competitively, whereas Brawl has not since Metaknight is so much better than every other character. Neither game is incredibly well balanced although Melee has 11 tourney viable characters, whereas Brawl has Metaknight, and then like 12 characters who are decent competition for each other but not Metaknight

It baffles me that Sakurai had any part of SSB or SSBM.

Was Melee a really hard game? To get everything it was pretty tough, to play in general, not at all. It's a fair amount faster, and the game didn't do anything for you, but general gameplay wasn't significantly harder.

Sakurai tried to narrow the skill gap with Brawl, and failed. The better players will still win easily just as often as in Melee, the only difference is that it takes twice as long, but that added time is wasted as the game plays slower. In Melee you spent just as long fighting, you spent less time floating around.

Sakurai's vision is one I despise with a passion, "I'm going to make a competitive game, but try to keep it as uncompetitive as I can!"

Those names are terrible!

Like Wotter, was pretty bad albeit amusing, but then they just drop into the incomprehensible.

Looks really lame

I <3 Phoenix!

Meh, for $8 I'd give it a 6. I'd give the iPhone version that I spent $3 on a 7.0.

It mostly consists of running around, bashing the action button, while looking at occasional interesting scenery.

Edit: Also it's reasonable to assume that most people would be it within 15 hours.

Tooie is undeniably the best game Rare has made.

NSMB has poor art direction, and is ugly in comparison to the 2D games, not sure why anyone would want the games uglified...

Yeah, but the reason Ninty can't get Yoshi's Island on the VC is due to the fact that they can't get the Super FX chip emulation sorted

Sorry Nintendo isn't that technically inept.

Looks like dozens of similar free flash games remove the value of this

they'll turn it into a third-person shooter with god-awful character models and no difficulty whatsoever.

This was a dumb assumption, and one third of it is already applicable, if anything it would likely gain some difficulty.
Which would change it from two reasons against it, to one reason for and one against.

Now they should let us have more Pokemons that we can carry to battle. I call for at least nine.

What? Personally, a drop to five would be reasonable if they decided to remove the need for HM slaves. Yes, people would complain and moan much, but in the grand scheme of things it could be balanced just fine (and realistically it is already more balanced towards groups of five already).

Well I guess it can't get uglier.

funny you used pokemon and strategy in the same sentence

Funny you tried to appear bright, but have proved the opposite in the same sentence.

Looks interesting, might have to try it out.

Nice job Soul Calibur!

I wonder how much more substance this has in comparison to the first, I'm guessing not enough.

I'm not sure why this is posted here.

[EDIT: Definitely don't need personal insults thrown around, Digiki. Certainly not three in the same comment. Let's cool it down a little, eh? Thanks in advance. - le mods]

Well so far Marth's track record on the DS is 100% crappy games. If this is only book 2 from FE3, then I can almost assure you this will also be crap.

Perhaps is this is a remake of FE3, in full, then it could have potential.

He pretty much just skipped all the parts where he would've had to stand around waiting, I'm not sure how people could be against it.

Looks like right was held the whole time, while jump was pressed about 10 times perhaps. It's a true return to form! :0

Atleast it's good looking.

The lustre on the foreground platforms is quite unattractive, the backgrounds look nice though.

The new Castlevania will feature new versions of old songs?

Wow, I never would've guessed they've only been recycling the music forever. (Which is great since the recycled songs are always the phenomenal ones)

Suck on this!

I get it, it's because the game kind of sucks a lot of the time.

Woot!

I'd rather have news on Dragon Quest VI's release to be completely honest
Me too, but I'm still super psyched, DQ is always awesome :3

Super Star ain't so great, 64 is so much better.

Ugly poster, and a slight boost in value still won't make the game worth the price...

Looks like a foolish man's Soul Calibur

With RSE Treeko was ugly, with DP we got ugly chimchar and ugly Turtwig, now we go ugly all three!

I've never really been attracted to the 2D Metroids, Fusion kind of sucks, and Super plays well but just doesn't have much of a hook...

Slime pad is unreal.

Pretty sweet, Simon was erroneously absent though D:

Come on! You know how editors love to sensationalize. If they didn't, they wouldn't get as many readers.

Personally I value credibility over fanbase, but clearly it's not such a common opinion.

When the original Sin and Punishment was passed over for Western release back in 2000 it marked one of the cruellest injustices video gaming has ever experienced.
What a joke :0

Unfortunately the art direction is much the same as the original's vile one.

Difficulty sounds like a nice addition, here's hoping it's not restrictive like the original.