"some here need a serious dose of a sense of humour. sheesh!"

Yeah, the people that actually find this funny are in need of some better humor, I'd say... A couple of the pics were neat, but overall it's just a terrible attempt at satire. Phil would be better off sticking to reviews.

@Akira_1975
Looks like somebody read the review's third sentence. Congratulations.

@Lostog Not bad. ^^

But you can't possibly factor in the price of 30 cents, since the game is merely at a discount now. Eventually it'll be priced the same as all NES games on the VC.

@tsm7 But you already can ever since the beginning of StreetPass. Blue pieces can be bought, pink ones can't.

@majinx07
It means that it's already on the eshop since yesterday, obviously.

Seriously? They're basing this off the worst Mario to date, add a cat suit to attract weeaboos, throw in four characters (how could somebody say that this is based on SMB "? It looks nothing like it, aside from the characters) and call it a day? What a shame, but this certainly isn't the game I'm going to buy a WiiU for.
Now Mega Man in SSB is a whole different story. That has peaked my interest.

@GamecubeLad

You do realize that Banjo-Kazooie came out well before DK 64, don't you?
And in case you were refering to Banjo-Tooie, well, that was a far better game than DK 64, but it was hardly inspired by it. DK 64 and BT took pretty different roads, so calling one of them the "beta test" for the other seems pretty far-fetched to me.

@Williaint Bu the blocks are visible, which makes it A LOT easier, I'd say.

Pretty nice, but if you want to see some SERIOUS Tetris skills, then look no further than this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9Bth7rXJQk

Actually, he's raising a really good point here, that I had never considered before, and I find it kind of sad, that people here just react with the usual "how can he?! Mario belongs on Nintendo platforms!"
Many people might never grow up with a Nintendo console, instead choosing one of the competitors. Thus, they'll never grow a bond to al lthe Nintendo IPs nearly as deep as us people here. And I'd say that reeling in grown up gamers that never had a Nintendo platform as a kid is a difficult feat for Nintendo. More so than for other companies.

Super Mario 3D Land is SO overrated. Actually, it's my least favorite Mario platformer so far, and I've played all of them to date.

Rating this worse than Ages? Really? In my book Seasons is slightly better, and in all honesty, it would only have been fair to rate both the same. I also never felt like one was more puzzle focused with the other putting more emphasis on the action.

I'm going to second all of those "not that funny" comments, sorry.

Way to ruin someone's credibility, TheChosen.
I also know John from the very same forum, and he is a totally cool guy.

Nobody's saying we're not enjoying the article. We're just responding to these lines:
"Some have also suggested that this could be a "joke" account. That's a possibility, but we're not so sure"

I thought this might be authentic, but when he called the Metroids Samus after having called Samus Metroid, I think it has become way too obvious that he was just trying to be funny with all of this.

Still, the new week begins on Monday, so wherever the person who wrote this news is at, it's not "this week".

Loving the picture you chose.
Been a fan of Borussia Dortmund for over 20 years now and I'm getting so excited for Saturday!

@Midnight3DS This Pyramid 3DS eShop game is basically a clone of Solomon's Key.

Being rated very well and especially being sold very well don't necessarily mean that something truly is good. As for the whole "selling well" thing: Lots of great games bomb at retail and vice versa.
As for the "being rated well" thing: Just imagine an artist struggling to survive on his art for his whole life, because people don't appreciate his work. Then, after his passing away, twenty years later people suddenly start to realize how great his work truly had been.

Oh well, this won't lead anywhere, anyway, so I'll leave it at that. Feel free to add something, but I'll remain quite from hereon. ^^

@Damo If people hated LoS for its Western developer, then they'd also hate Dead Rising 2, Metroid Prime (just the game you happened to bring up), Contra 4, Luigi's Mansion 2 and so on.
The reason, people (nearly) universally love Metroid Prime and are so split when it comes to LoS is that Metroid Prime was extremely faithful to the originals (it simply is the most natural way to bring Metroid to 3D), while LoS went its own route and ALSO wasn't nearly as good a game (or rather two of them already).

@Damo Metroid Prime is basically Metroid in 3D. Lords of Shadow isn't Castlevania in 3D, but rather a 3D action game with some allusions to the Castlevania brand. That's the difference.

@WiiURockz Maybe in NA the PS 2 launched at an affordable price. Here in Europe it was extremely overpriced at first.

Hell no, SMB 2 is awesome.

I can't help but feel rather disappointed by the game. Clive moves terribly slow (now that I've read that he's actually even the faster character, I'm not sure I wanna try the lady one), the bosses are either boringly easy or borderline frustrating (the train), weapon powerups are nearly impossible to differentiate before picking them up, and some later stages don't feel well-designed. There are lots of neat little throwbacks to other games, but when asteroids rain down from above without any indication as to where they will actually come down, all while you are required to hop over large gaps in low gravity, cleverness ends right there, and annoyance kicks in.
Don't get me wrong: It's still a neat (and beautiful) game, but nowhere near a masterpiece. I'd give it a 6 or maybe a 7 at most.

There are tons of Hokuto no Ken references in there. In case you are intersted in identifying some more.

@SirQuincealot How would you draw that conclusion? They obviously gave it a low score because the game is not hard, but unfair. The levels are randomized in a way that renders progression impossible at times, and the collision detection is off at well.

@C-Olimar That should make Nintendo release more NES stuff than usual. But instead, they are merely releasing less other stuff than usual.
They are not pushing the NES, but entirely negelcting everything else, while providing the bare minimum of NES support.

Awesome tagline. Kudos for that one.
Too bad the game suffers that badly from the object randomizer. You'd think that games like these would finally have the intricacies of such a system down.

Wow, the 3DS is having a stellar week! The WiiU though...not so much.

What is it with all of those NES VC releases recently? It seems like all the 3DS VC is getting are NES games, and the WiiU VC also consists nearly of NES only so far? Why aren't they at least releasing some more SNES games or even a single N64 or Mega Drive game yet? When the VC on Wi started, we already got heaps of Mega Drive titles during its first weeks, and now there isn't even a sign of anything coming.

@kkslider5552000

The original version's already extremely easy, so it shouldn't be much of a difference.

"Players can upgrade their arsenal through fun in-app purchases"

Are they serious? Are those marketing people even trying anymore? "Fun in-app purchases"...that is honestly the worst term I have ever read in any press release.

@TerraBranflakes
How could you "ignore" 4 and 6?
In #4 you are handed the location of a secret on a silver plate instead of getting any chance to discover it for yourself. How could one "ignore" this?
And in #6 you have to pay for something that used to be free. Not exactly easy to ignore.

The Contra and Mario ones are especially hilarious!...and sad at the same time.

Of course they don't replace stolen or lost games. Why would they?
If they did, anybody could "lose" (i.e. sell) a 3DS with a hefty amount of download games and still get them all back.
The interesting thing to know is whether Nintendo replaces download games when the system they were downloaded to is broken. A guarantee never covers items to get stolen or lost, but only broken, so why would it be any different here?

"It was the final entry in this branch of the series to hit the system, so it was a case of the best being saved for last."

Um, Super SF II came a year after SF II Turbo.

Wait, what? Are you kidding me? A game that was slated for the launch window is coming out in August, now?
There had been demos playable last year, and it doesn't seem like they would need to put much work into it, anyways. Are they just trying to spread out their releases more? Still going to buy it (and I hate me for that), but this is kind of ridiculous.

Wow, this looks terrible. And not just in generic way, but in a terribly designed way. The camera appears way too far zoomed in, which means that enemies pop in too suddenly, and you can already see lots of leaps of faith in that trailer. It doesn't seem like there's any way to actually see what's beneath you, but yet you apparently have to drop or jump down often. That needs to be addressed, and it should be easy to improve, but I guess it won't happen...

"The Wii U game was released in Japan at the end of March, and is the next entry in the popular WarioWare series,"

It's not really part of the WarioWare series. For one thing, the names are different, and what's more, this isn't about micro games, but about minigames. It's an entirely different focus. Just because there's Wario in there, it doesn't mean it's the same series.
Otherwise, you could also argue that this is another Mario Party, since Wario is in both Game & Wario and Mario Party.

I wish they'd just make another true WarioWare. The demo I played of this was just horrible.

Super Star Wars
Super Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
Super Star Wars: The Return of the Jedi
Indiana Jones' Greatest Adventures

All of these have been made by Factor 5, not LucasArts directly.

@x-mas_mii Pit from Kid Icarus is no angel.

I also downloaded it on the day of its release on WiiWare. Hopefully he'll still be able to gain something from this release.

To me it makes perfect sense.

Guys, are you kidding me? 665,000 is rather cheap for the development of a full-fledged game...stop thinking of small-sized DSiWare games and the likes...

Even if it was easy and in the second stage: It was a boss.

@ErnisDy: I thought you've played the demo? I don't know anything about the game outside of the demo (I've played it as well) and even I can tell you that there are bosses, as you already fight one in the demo!

Besides: The demo was a snore-fest, so I already anticipated the final game to be no better than a 6.

I take it then that those two are the only Castlevania games you've played?

Oh please no. Somebody has to finally stop this guy.