Breath of Fire

The complaints in America must have been really strong to force them to... throw in the towel.

I'm a little divided on this. It's nice that Nintendo is allowing LP's to continue happening to begin with (it's a legal grey area, to say the least), although taking the advertising revenue seems a little odd. I initially thought that Nintendo was going to insert ads for their own games onto LP videos, which would have made a lot more sense, but I'm not sure.

There are LP-ers who make fantastic commentary and put a lot of effort into their videos, and it's a shame that their effort won't get rewarded. On the other hand, LP-ing isn't exactly a legitimate occupation...

Plus, by making an LP the player is making an advertisment for Nintendo's games anyway. I don't really see the logic in making a deterrent for LP's, especially for Nintendo, since they focus more on gameplay than spectacle anyway.

Cobalt was one of the better looking colours IMO. The metallic red looks good enough, but lately I've been wanting something a little more discreet so that people on the train might think I'm just playing with a tablet or something.

This video is really heartwarming, to see all these people gathered together doing what they love, and winding up with such incredible results. It almost makes me want to get into game design.

"Do you like your calamari with a side of pain?"

Why did I find this so funny! Oh man I'm still laughing hahaha

Honestly, this is pretty gross. It does remind me of the infected swimming pool from the game though, which made me absolutely terrified because I thought it would come to life at some point.

Oh, that's a shame. Although if this game winds up being as creepy as I hope it will, I might just need a MvDK game to play afterwards so the tension gets diffused

Going to nab Starship Damrey and Bloody Vampire. I'll wait for a review of Minis on the Move though

It's an interesting campaign, I'll admit, although I'd made my decision to purchase this game a very long time ago

This game actually sounds really interesting. I hope the story's good!

Probably Picdun and Super C for me. Publisher Dream sounds interesting, but I'll wait for the review in case it's actually the exact same thing as Bookstore Dream. Even with the same terrible soundtrack.

And I must say, these weekly updates have been pretty sweet lately

"the studio wants The Denpa Men 2: Beyond The Waves to be just as hard as the games in the Dragon Quest series"

This makes me a little worried...

This actually looks like a lot of fun. I really enjoy these mini-stage style challenge platformers.

At the moment, my interest for these titles goes

Monsters Appear on Friday > Starship Damrey > Bugs vs. Tanks. I have a lot of respect for Inafune, but the other two titles just seem much more creative and interesting, which is what I enjoyed so much about Guild01. It's a shame that Monsters might not get localised, but I understand since it seems very tailored to Japanese audiences.

I also hope there's a bit more to ease the player into the fighting game genre, especially the rules and strategy of each particular game. I remember jumping into a Street Fighter game and having no idea how to get the edge over an opponent, and the training mode didn't help too much either. It wasn't until I looked up combos online that I could have a bit of success.

I understand that there are fans who would rather combos remain discovery/experimentation based though. I'm not entirely sure which way is best.

Did someone say Karp?

I rather like this game's visual style

I loved Phantasia to death, except I couldn't find a copy of any of the future games. I'd always wanted to get vested into the Tales series, but I can never seem to find them

Holy cow, that's a sweet discount on VLR! And FE: Awakening... tempting, but I might pass

If Australia decides to implement this as well, I sure hope they put up some worthwhile prizes for us to redeem the stars with

I have no use for a Wii remote stand or a DS stylus set.

The Monsters game looks so incredible right now... I really like the art style! The sci-fi game also looks promising.

I haven't quite been able to get into Saints Row. Even if I did though, I'd probably be more inclined to get it on PC than on a console. I guess there is a market for Dead Island and Saints Row on WiiU, but I wouldn't blame the developer for assuming it's a small one.

It's odd though, now both GTA and Saints Row are skipping WiiU. Maybe this will boost Lego City's sales?

It's amazing how different a person can seem on a 170 character Tweet compared to a well rounded interview. Great piece!

was it a spot of wishful thinking to hope for a HarmoKnight discount? Ah well...

The Elements game actually looks somewhat interesting. I'll wait for a review though

@DeviousSnorlax I always wonder why the people who complain about Garbodor don't complain about Muk.

And the new mewtwo... I don't like it much, but maybe just because it doesn't look as evil/serious as the original design. I always thought it made a good foil to the more cute design of Mew.

Wow. Roger Ebert was a seriously respected and intelligent man, I'm sure a lot of people myself included are saddened by his passing.

and @MarkyVigoroth, I find it rather disrespectful when people celebrate another's death just because they disagreed with one of their points of view. I'm glad to see this site doesn't have any disrespectful people

We're also getting harvest moon this week?!?!?

I'll get Code of Princess, Harvest Moon, Luigi's Mansion and I'll consider the discount Heroes of Ruin.

Good thing my week off is right around the corner

Dohoho. WANT

I'll skip out on LM2 for this, probably. Are people still playing this game online?

I got this on the Wii VC, except I can't get the hang of it. This game's hard

This is an excellent game - especially if you like the colour yellow!

I wonder how the gamepad's going to be integrated though

It's odd that Ubisoft is deciding to hold a multiplatform sale right now, they're also cutting prices on Steam. I hope this means ZombiU sees more of an audience though

Maaaan, if Soul Sacrifice gets dumbed down to a Monster-Hunter-like game, Inafune's going to be mad he especially designed it to be different to anything else on the market iirc, which is why it's a vita release in the first place.

And I say good on the Sony and the Vita. Plus, I figure everyone in Japan who ever wanted a 3DS probably already has one

I'm having a lot of fun with this now! The interface took a while to get used to, but the pacing's excellent for a pick-up-and-play rpg

This reminds me of that mint DSLite that everyone seemed to have back in the day

I've always disliked that colour though. It looked like a bar of soap

Here's what you're missing - "at current sales rate". Even Pachter agrees that innovative games will save the WiiU, and said innovative games are coming. This prediction is comparing the WiiU's reality to Sony and Microsoft's promises, which is naturally going to tip it away from the WiiU's favour.

Predictions work by extending current trends assuming that everything runs the same way in a year, in two years, in five years. Nothing Pachter said is wrong, technically, but it's entirely possible that he'll be proven wrong. From the tone of the slides, I'd even hazard a guess that he's welcome to being proven wrong.

I only have the first, and I can't find the second anywhere (although the others are readily available). I'd much prefer to go in order so that I don't accidentally spoil myself though

... Five Dream games?

Anyway, say what you want about Circle's in-house games but they've proved themselves to be pretty reliable publishers who meet deadlines

@Meaty-cheeky generally with multiplatform games, it's not particularly beneficial to the developer to push each system to the limit - logically speaking, you want each version to play just as well as the others. If one version is clearly the victor in terms of quality, there are going to be a lot of dissatisfied customers who don't own that particular console.

Although I doubt it'd be such a big problem - Watch Dogs is coming out for PS4 and most likely the new xbox, so the WiiU version will be quality too

Imo, Ubi's done an incredible job in hyping up Watch_Dogs. I can't wait until it's released! Although I can't decide what platform I want it for...

@rayword , actually, DsiWare games are run in the 3ds's DS mode. That's why online functions and everything else are switched off when running Dsiware.

Most of these titles are basically the same day Europe gets them thanks to our time difference

I'll get Animal Crossing, maybe Mystery Dungeon. I've never been any good at Fire Emblem though

@GojiGuy Yatagaratsu is a finished game, in Japan. It's just Nicalis's job to port it and publish it in the western regions, as well as put on some extra content if they want. But since they announced it last year (?) I wouldn't expect it soon

Splash or Crash looks pretty fun though~

I thought the Monsters on Friday game was going to be some kind of amazing mystery genre visual novel, but after looking at that video I'm not so sure :/

That dungeon crawler/horror game is first on my watchlist now, and then Monsters Appear. I dunno why, the Insect Tank game looked a little unwieldy from the gameplay video.

This is a very nice gesture from the creators of the game, hopefully it appeases some of the apparent internet rage Ubi's decision has caused :/

I don't have a WiiU, but for everyone who does have one I'm actually a little envious. Download, and enjoy everyone!

New Star Soccer deserves awards. It's daring enough to be a sports game with a different approach from the formulaic engines used by other soccer games, and still remains fun and engrossing.

/me does the "Canned in Australia" dance

I was going to do a CNY painting in Colors3D, but I cbb'd. I imagine the same thing will happen for Valentines' Day.

What an edgy tagline you got there haha

I was hoping for Belmont's Revenge on Gameboy. If Konami just releases the Castlevania Adventure and nothing more, I will be one sad camper.