@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.

I might consider ist, but I'm not all like "oh yeah, bring it on, I can't wait!"
The first one was a good game, but hardly a masterpiece. I'll wait for more details and eventually some gameplay videos.

@FOURSIDE_BOY: 4 is my favorite actually. So much for a "golden turd".

@ GamerZack: The "o" in "obento" is merely a prefix indicating politeness. The word itself is just "bento", but usually you'd say "obento"

Edit: Damn, beaten to it. ^^

The ridiculous thing is how fanboys keep insulting people like Tomita. He is right, Nintendo is not. Deal with it. He has made an invention, which Nintendo used afterwards without paying for it. Now hoping for Nintendo to win the case (although they've already lost) or calling the guy a troll is nothing but demeaning and narrow-minded.
As for the "sueing over a shape"-thing. Why would that be ridiculous? If somebody copied the form of a Nintendo controller, I'm sure a lot of people here would hope for Nintendo to sue them...
And Nintendo had already sued companies for using a cross-shaped D-pad, for which Nintendo used to hold the rights. But I guess, when Nintendo does something along these lines, it's perfectly fine by some people's double-standards.

It's a good game, but not exactly deserving all the praise it gets. I'd give it a 7/10.

Pretty good game IMO. Definitely deserves the 7 or maybe even 8, but anything below or above that wouldn't cut it.

Wow, this is seriously awesome news.

The good old fart machine. It might have rarely produced music as good as the best of the best on the SNES, but there sure still are a lot of Mega Drive tunes stuck in my head for eternity.

And this perfectly sums up all the problems of certain websites: When you only cover one company's platforms and rely on good relationships with the industry, you get reviews like this, overly praising a terrible, ill-fated game like Mirror of Fate. Stay away from this abomination at all costs.

There's actually not much in this vid, that is in the game as well. On the other hand, there is too much stuff in this vid that can't be found in the game. Not exactly a great video, and most certainly not "what real life Goldeneye" would look like.

What is all this talk about European DS boxes being better than US/Japanese ones? I live in Europe and I can't stand our boxes here, mostly importing my games from NA or Japan just to have thinner boxes that don't take up so much storage shelf for no good reason. North Americans: Consider yourselves lucky.

What? I had always hoped to eventually meet him some day. Maybe do some interviews. He was IMHO one of the last truly interesting game designers around. Not just interesting for his games but his character as well.
RIP Kenji Eno.

@Geonjaha Yeah, whatever one's opinion is about the Castlevania series, the way Damo responded was pretty unprofessional.

There hasn't been ANY GoW for over 2 years now. Gee, there is so much blind fanboying going on here, it's crazy.

Well, Sony's right. Sorry to say that.

So we're supposed to accept everything for the sake of Nintendo making more money?

Then why couldn't AlphaDream make something else than yet another Mario & Luigi, if you're enjoying their style rather than the fact that it's an RPG featuring Mario?
That's my point: Nintendo doesn't have to cram Mario into all of their games, as they have so much more on offer than just the tapestry of the Mario universe.

After just 4 years it is "very much due"? Especially considering we still had a Mario RPG last year in the form of the last Paper Mario.
I'd hardly say that a new Mario & Luigi is "very much due" with the overabundance of Mario games in general and the constant stream of Mario RPGs.
Sure, I was excited to see them announce this, but I'm completely with mookysam on this one. Nintendo should diverse their catalogue a lot more again.

@mudjo: Seriously? That's sad.