Can't believe it's been a year already. Still haven't actually bought anything from it. Maybe I should.

Well, that was a bit rubbish. Best thing about it was a half minute clip of Paper Mario...

Finished this the other day, a top class game. Easily my favourite of the Ambassadors. Even if it is a bit cheesy.

I hope this is as good as I'm imagining it to be.

Nice one.

Ace review. I'd better whap this on my christmas list.

I suppose it's similar to when authors deliberately choose to set their book in an ambiguous time period. That way nothing can get out of date or seem clichéd thanks to the ravages of time. In the same way, as you described, Mario isn't really anything, nothing about him can wither with age. If you look at any other mascot; Sonic, for example, when he went through his "cool" phase it soon went out of fashion as people's pre-determined expectation of what was "hip" and "funky" advanced beyond him. In fact, I'd argue it's Mario's irrelevance that has kept him at the top. You can't look at his games through the lens of current society and apply its' values to it, thus he can't be perceived to be out of date. Or something like that.

Huh. This is a unexpected blast from the relatively recent past.

This looks mildly disturbing.

Also, formees? Really?

I don't think I've ever even seen a Makro...

£90 is a terrific deal though, just a casual £110 saving on the launch price, makes me wonder why I paid so much for it when it came out.

Blimey. Link cut that parachute jump a bit fine. He couldn't have been more than two metres above the ground when he opened it.

This is terrifically bad.

The packaging doesn't heighten its' aesthetic beauty much, and the fact that it takes batteries is such a palaver.

I hope it's localised to "Go Holiday". Not that I'll be getting it either way.

I love kippers. Definitely good for breakfast.

I vote option D. What doesn't make sense about making ambassadors feel temporarily more special?

Nice quote box you've got there.

Also, I thought the GB-Micro was great, I love mine.

So, instead of a boat you have a bird, and instead of the sea you have the sky? Cool stuff.

Some top notch farming to be found in Harvest Moon.

Come hither gentlemen.

The adverts were fairly abysmal so this doesn't come as too much of a surprise. You could just smell mediocrity on them.

@42 When it was selling badly.
@50 That's true, but it doesn't mean the original poster's point is any less valid.

I think the 3DS is recovering slightly, and by Christmas everything should be relatively hunky-dory, but I doubt it will ever be as successful as the DS. Also, is Iwata wearing a waistcoat? Cool stuff.

This looks identical to the Gamecube version, right down to the music and Toadsworth's voice. I'll probably still get it, but I was hoping for something a little different.

I love Animal Crossing. Wild World is my probably my favourite portable game and I want this to top it.

I love how the upgrade option for your shield is just classed as "better". That made me laugh for some reason.

Haven't seen any interesting vehicles yet. Hopefully they're saving them up.

@23 It's cockney rhyming slang for "can you believe it?" The irony being cockneys are from London.

Isn't this thing meant to last 100 hours? That doesn't sound like a "mini-game" to me. I'd gladly swap Pandora's Tower for L-Life. Anyway, I still haven't decided whether I should import or not.

No way! Top stuff guys!

@Rocketship I'm pretty sure you can get them in Sainsbury's.

What?! We need a battery? That's a major bugger.

Urgh. What a disagreeable comment section. I'm looking forward to getting married though _{(in friend collection)}.

YES

:') I've missed you Mario Tennis.

Was his head always that big in proportion to his body?

I'm worried you're going to run out of ways to express how consistently average these releases are.

Thank goodness! This arrived just in the nick of time! Now excuse me while I eat a large pile of Ferrero Rocher. Did you know they're owned by the same people who make Nutella? I do now.

As long as it's only used for a few games that I don't want, then I don't mind too much. If it becomes a standard for first-party games too, then that would be a tad annoying. Either way, it doesn't alter the fact that that thing is ugly and gives the impression Nintendo is grasping for any ideas out of thin air and then rushing them, which isn't helping.

@58, 59 Ah yes, well, I've already got that actually...but Dragon Quest X was revealed aeons before Xenoblade so it comes as a bit of a blow to find it's not what was expected. Maybe I'm just greedy but I would still like a proper console DQ.

The two Golden suns, Fire Emblem and Mario Advance would do nicely. Of course, seeing as that only makes four, why not pop in Zero Mission too?

Blast. This is terrible news, and all I wanted was a nice single-player RPG for my Wii. Too bad I hate wholly online games _{especially if it comes with a subscription fee.}

I do love a good round-table. Top stuff everybody.

I loved Star Fox Assault. I completely agree about the sense of "epicness". It was actually one of the first games I ever completed, and I remember being almost overwhelmed by the scale of the final throes of the game. Also loved the Landmaster segments, I thought they were perfectly distributed. Looking forward to 643D.

Omar Sharif wouldn't be happy.

To the eShop!

What do you actually do in this? I mean, other than create stuff and discover "magical things"?

Paris must be full of weirdos unravelling random mysteries.

Looks good though.

Ah. Well, it seems my detective instincts weren't wrong after all. No way am I buying the English version if it's the same price, I'll be importing. Lazy blighters.

I assume Hershel sounds like an American in the NA version?

@NintendoMaster That's still the same ambiguous press statement found in this article though, just interpreted by gonintendo instead. I'd rather not have to import (but I will if necessary) so I'm still going to wait for some confirmation with more clarity.

Am I misreading this...or does it say that London Life is an exclusive to North America? Or is it just the ability to play it from the start that's the exclusive?

Panache and jazz?

This could be the rhythm game for me.