@Sakura_Moonlight2421 the book has furigana

@Mickeymac true as it is, books and digital subbing have a vast difference in expenses I have a hard time imagining chinese fansubbers laying, printing and exporting a book!

I've got this baby since I lived in Japan.
Fiddling about with the book is a lot of fun, and it would be cool for many games to have a separate book like that. I remember how cool the manuals were as a kid, but nowadays they aren't that elaborate... I'd rather have the internet though, in 80's and 90's the manual might've been the only material you'd ever hope see about the game.
The game itself is well made and riddled with beautiful animations and cutscenes, but in the core it's "just" a JRPG. So I don't think the western world collapses for missing this beauty, it's just a shame because I feel that the book combo gameplay could have more to offer and develop. (Although the trend of going towards digital releases is already making this kind of games a thing of history that never came to fruition).

I read from the Coro coro, that white and black Kyurems' special attacks will be "Cold Flare" and "Freeze Bolt".

You heard it from me first, folks.

First video 12:30 on, the announcer sounds so stoned
nice research!

"The graphical capacity of Wii U is 1,7 gamecubes + an android phone, according to the latest tests. Former understanding of 0,3 Xbox360s + three quarters of macbook pro is still causing some misunderstandings."
-emeritus developer

That incident stool the show. Fate is so fecal.

I hope this is a success and other studios will start making their games too
Production value for making 16-bit games now are very little, so the main expense would be in the design and manpower, which for this kinds of projects can find the peak of it's expertise.

Grhm, I've got so mixed feelings about this. Looks too wacky in a bad way, also it just seems to be following the trends of most liked dlc-game genres and slamming an unimaginative zoroark as the main character (not to mention the super terrifying enemy stones).
But it seems to have a lot borrowed from Zelda (another unimaginative trait that's off putting, but might be a promise of something worthwhile) and the game seems to be made with nice care.
Price isn't bad, so if the promises are kept, the game should be one of the eShop's best. But it really looks cheap, wacky and cardboardy.

I hope this is good... I've already got a so-so fighter in the SF4, but the movie could make a deal
PS. loving the new look NL!

Totally love the oracles <3
I had both on gameboy and I was so happy they were two completely different games instead of the red/blue thing with pokemon.

@30.Picola
Not releasing these on the 3DS vc would be like not releasing OoT and MM on Wii's vc, so don't worry

@6. Joco84
Totally. I'd change those stupid "jewel games" and "that 80's feel" garbage to the Wii shop's categorizing system any day.
It's so obvious that they're trying to attach appealing ideas to shovel games that lack them.

since 2008 we've had a tradition of gaming sessions, taking place a few times a year. 5-10 people playing 3-5 days! These are hilarious events... 3 Wiis, 4 TVs, PS3 and a room full of old consoles and DSs.
I beat the Pokemon Colosseum XD in one 50 hour sitting
we've had notorious Mario Party tournaments. Not to mention the obvious worldly conditions caused by such a marathon. We should get web cams and start a charity fund raiser event of it...

Does this mean that the touch screen uses the same old technology as DS and can only be pressed at one point at once? D:

The label of "home console" indicates that you need a room for playing: to house the console itself, to have a media for video and audio output, provide the electricity and make it comfortable to play it.

Apparently the issue about Wii U not being a home console is the portable screen with it's own power source. I suppose this could be called hybrid or dual media console or something on the same lines...

I remember the golden last year of high school... I had Gameboy micro with Wario ware in it, and it passed hand to hand between classes (and during them) and after every day I found my records beaten
I miss those days.

That'd be super cool if I contacted a GM... But it seems like tons of work

My little bro got this for christmas present. He finished it before new year. I love the art style too, I remember doing a little comic of this back in the day. Sadly, our dog ate the cartridge, so I really welcome this download!

The darn dog also ate Sword of Mana and chewed a gamecube controller chord :/

@3. you weren't Late for it, I see.

Pullblox and Mighty Switchforce.
waiting for Mario3Dland to arrive! Pretty starndard

Woot woot! MID LIFE CRISIS

@13. Awesome James! Now you have to build a cabinet for it.

@5. they're long dots

Welcome back Rayman!
feeling so nineties at the moment <3

There's so little games that the list has seemed almost the same all this year but I hope things get more bumpy from now on, I like these charts!

That's the lamest comic I've seen for quite a while
Reminds me of Conker's pocket tales on gbc... Evil acorns: duh-du-duh-dudduu

Hehehe, I was a teenager when I got the Gamecube. Before the release I rode my bike 20km to another town to try the Luigi's Mansion for a minute or two It was totally worth it, and the way back was fast since I was completely taken by what I had seen. But boy were those times hard for Nintendo-gamers... Kids' games, poor graphics and all that, I even got smirks from adult people who said that xbox is the only way to go!
It's all candy and cotton after Wii and DS I tell ya.

Way to go! wouldn't be ready to pay for something I already bought

I have The Lost Ark. Played until I got to the fabled "Other continent" through very tedious shipping episodes that made my hands hurt because of stupid controls. When I very finally made it to a spot where the screen didn't scroll further, I thought I'd made it through. Instead, I don't know if it was a boss or a random foe, a Poseidon appeared. It used "wrath of the seas" and wiped out my party with one blow. I said OK and ripped the cartridge out from my GBA without turning the power off and never played the game since.

I didn't play these games in warm and fuzzy arcade times, so unfortunately I don't have the mothers eyes while judging this baby.
I felt kind of insulted to play this game and it gave me a good laugh. I respect the people who like it though

I like how most of the talk about this game is how the main controls work and how people can't play it <3

new genre for people not interested in video games... so what would make a non-player pick up the console? Umm... I get terrifying images in my head

Humm. I don't want to sound like a storm crow, but 1 after it's release europe will have... two mario games and a handful of remakes for 3DS's 1st party games? I guess it could be worse, but even Gamecube had SSBM...

Looks like it's going to be just like Wii: play an old Zelda game and move to playing virtual console games for a year or two until the games you're waiting for are out.

It kind of feels like 3DS is launching now, since it hasn't had any (as in not actually even one) real effort on first party games.
Let's see how this rolls out when people have a game to play with the console!

That's too much Today I was at a game store and saw a very old cartridge for possibly Sega saturn titled "Burger time" and thought what the heck kind of a game that must be. Now I come here and see that the deluxe version is out.

@6 me, whoops, I completely forgot the Lords of Shadow which is a pretty nice 3D castlevania! Although lacks a lot of original atmosphere with epic themes and loss of groovy synth music

Castlevania hasn't yet done the metroid into 3D. Following Primes would create another type of metroidvania

Judgement is a godawful game, but it gives a good laughter. It's totally ridiculous! Despite being barely playable, I played the whole thing through twice with out friends + vs. matches, which actually make it to about a 100hrs of playtime, and would sound like a loved game.

I hope 3DS gets something as awesome as Dawn of Sorrow was for the DS... My favorites are the unlinear DSvanias.

bring on the ambassador GBA-titles >: E

I think the designers are dumfounded with Kirby's design possibilities and wide range of existing themes. But like the huge role of Kirby characters in Super smash bros brawl storyline, the series should take steps ahead before the audience does, to avoid numbing.

My suppressed sense of zelda timeline theories is tingling so bad xD

@15. daznsaz I'm not 100% sure, but my pokemon didn't start coming until I viewed some AR-markers. And yeah, also only until certain point, so I guess it's got to do with the AR-markers somehow...

@1. MasterGraveheart considering the size of the game, most of it must be the 3D-models of the pokemon and their animations. I guess having over 600 instead of what it is now would take almost three or four times more data ...not that it's a problem for me, but it's not an updatey thing really

I have a very foggy memory of my first N64 experience. I was a little boy maybe 8 years old. We had a Super Nintendo but I wasn't thinking too much about the games other than what we owned. I remember it was a dark room with many people, maybe on a ship! I remember my parents were a somewhere else and there were intriguing and also scary things around, until I saw a screen with Mario's face. Someone was fiddling the controller, and when they saw my face they kindly gave the controller to me. Now remember, I played the first area with the bombs and was frustrated of how difficult it was to maneuver 3D-jumping
Didn't think too much back then, for all I knew that could've been the only machine with that game in the world! I played Mario 64 at our relatives maybe year/years later and had a silent "ohhh this".
Writing that now felt like a brain excavation

Imagine this: Pokemon snap with new pokemon and routes! Wouldn't be too much of a hassle to pull off. If they just take core of what N64 Snap was, throw in some hundred more of critters and about double the courses. As big as the 3DS cartridge is, it's almost be the as OoT with included master quest. The original Snap was quite a breeze that only took a few hours to complete if you knew what you're doing...

But that would be the new content that would make a Snap remake worth buying, OoT was just the first interesting first party game so it was bought a mass. I doubt Starfox 3D will be such a success, specially with old players, because of lack of new content.

That was a frisky gag with pole right there it was!
This game is gonna make my holidays.

I was puzzled about the controller the first time I used it. I remember reaching over from the left side to the stick to play Mario 64, it took me a day or two realize I can place my hand on the middle shaft (yup, I was young and too immersed in the actual game to think about the controller... I wonder if anyone else did this...)

SO nostalgic, I was shocked to realize it's 15 years old
I remember when all I played was Pokemon Silver and Ocarina of Time... So cool times! While reading about all the games in here, I remembered the gaming magazines... And pokemon cards. And Pokemon stadium. And lickitung eating sushi.

SUch nice memories... I remember the day we bought the gba with my brother and dad it was the light blue, slightly see-through one with the Mario game at release. Graphics were so great, and the startup screen is welded in my memory.
I plowed through the Mario on my grandparent's couch and grandad says "you can't see anything of that screen"
I have maybe 30 cartridges now, haven't counted. Most fond memories are of Metroid Fusion, Tony hawks 2, Super star saga, Mario Kart super circuit, pokemon sapphire...

That would be a must have if the circle pad wasn't coming... (as everyone before me already said). I'm looking forward to c-pad with extra battery.

(C-pad, why didn't I think about that before? I'll never say or write circle pad anymore.)

The same thing with Nintendo always, nothing exists until launch.

Come on! Outside Japan release, oh please. Pretty good at the language tho, but if this game has that famous riddling and pantering of Phoenix Wright games it would be a hassle.

I still remember when I first read the news about this game, I immediately called my friend who told the people in the room and I heard a "WOW" through the phone other friend I called just said "yeah, I know, I'm reading about it atm"