@3DSLUIGI

Some rooms have secret exits you have to stand at each wall and press the a button a bunch of times to find them. I actually had to search one room twice to find the exit. The instructions should have been clearer on this.

It is fun and worth the $3.99 price tag.

I wouldn't use the Playstation store as a model for digital distribution. Sony overprices games on the PSN and you can often buy the UMD for a tenth of the price of the digital download. There pathetic discount on Vita games is not much better.

@Baga_Jr

Ummm no. We could finally have 3d Pokemon in 3d arenas with an active battle system. We could have customizable trainers with spot pass content and dlc. We could have real orchestral music and voice acting. We could have an actual Pokemon game that plays like a new adventures as opposed to a rehash of 30 year old rpg design. Greed is the only reason we are not getting that.

Seems to me the only people defending the decision to put this on the DS are people that don't own a 3DS. It's been a year since the release of the 3DS and the system has reached critical mass. The only excuse Gamefreak has is that they are lazy. It's. It like a company that has the money Gamefreak does can't afford the production costs of a true 3D version. The reality is that Gamefreak has been recycling content for years. It isn't as if they ever used the full potential of the DS. Nope the reality is that Gamefreak doesn't want to get on the 3DS because they would finally have to deliver good music, good Pokemon sounds, and good graphics. Everyone says that we shouldn't be upset because we can play it on the 3ds. Well I guarantee that we will not get to play it with 3ds sound and graphics. But then, for that to happen, Gamefreak would have to work and it's so much easier to push out the same tired game with outdated combat system and ancient graphics.

It's an industry standard and Nintendo is woefully late to the party with adopting it. Nintendo doesn't "do" voice acting for any artistic reason, they don't so it because it costs money.

I've been playing Zelda games since the original release so I'm not a noob. I just am sick of all the walls of text I have to read when playing a Nintendo game. If I wanted to read, I would read a book. Videogames are a audio-visual medium and Nintendo is still living in the Dark Ages when it comes to innovation.

I did find this amusing from the aricle, "Aonuma stated that if other characters were voiced and Link remained silent, it would only draw more attention to the mute hero." That's how it is already, isn't it?

Yet they didn't get it just right. The graphics are terrible (remind me of the N64) and are filled with jagged lines, pixilation, and bland textures. Worst is the almost complete lack of voice acting. What year is this again? Oh, right, Nintendo is always given a pass for not meeting industry standards. Well, they learned from the 3DS that they actually have to work in today's market, hopefully they will modernize their approach with the Wii U, if not, they are going to find themselves in a very bad place again.

Seems to me that Miyamoto is part of the problem. He is responsible for so much innovation, but I think he stuck in the past. That is exactly what playing Skyward Sword feels like - a great game that is stuck in the past.

@AbuJaffer
I'm currently on the last boss of the game and I can tell you that it is in no way a better pick than SM3DL. The game is short and uninspired. What content there is is enjoyable, but there are only 14 playable levels. There is no reason that DIMPS could not have put double the levels in. The lack of video (even Sonic Colors DS had video) is a real slap in the face. If you are a hard core Sonic fan, I would suggest it when it comes down in price, but $40 is too much for a package which is too little.

I've had this game since Friday (got it a bit early thanks to a friend) and i can say that it is online play. I haven't been able to try it out because, of course, no one is playing online yet.

That said, I am not sure that this is worth $40. The game is really, really short and the majority of extra content (missions) is only unlockable through street pass and play coins. It costs 5 play coins per missions so, at the most, you can unlock two a day.

There is no full motion video (strange considering that Dimps was able to include video for Sonic Colors DS) and the whole package just seems lazy and rushed. What's here is good, just not the spectacle you would expect for celebrating Sonic's 20th Anniversary.

That said, the graphics are quite good and the physics are excellent. There is a bit of strangeness with Classic Sonic who feels like he is running in mud for the first few seconds.

I've gotten very tired of hearing all the doom and gloom about how iJunk devices are going to destroy hand held gaming, blah, blah, blah. Today I was at the dentist for my daughter and the dentist has a PS3 and XBOX 360 set up in the waiting room. Two kids were playing with their parent's iJunk devices until they discovered the console rigs. The iDevices were forgotten. iGaming is nothing more than a fad which people will tire of. Browster games aren't much better than time wasters to kill some extra time at work. Once again, why exactly should we listen to David Bishop about anything?

And we should listen to anyting David Bishop has to say because?

Anyone trying to decide between Saga and Complete need to know that the Saga version of Runner has lots of slow down. It isn't a deal breaker, but you should really make an informed decision.

@slidecage

Nintendo is currently selluing between 250,000 and 300,00 3DS units a week. It certainly isn't the 4 million in 3 days of the iPhone 4S, but it is far from a flop.

This is right up there with the stupid commercials Nintendo was running last spring where they were advertising the price drop on DSI and the new red case for Mario titles (no price drop on Mario DS titles, just a red case). Seriously, how stupid is Nintendo. They release a new system and continue to aggressively advertise for the old system. If I bought the DSi XL bundle and then discovered that no new titles were being released, I would probably never buy another Nintendo product. I know that Nintendo is a bit backwards in the business sense, but this is just stupid.

What's really sad is that people are rationalizing Nintendo giving you less console for the same price. If Nintendo wants to take something away, they should, at least, drop the price.

$40 for a free computer game or a $10 DSi game? Releasing five days before Super Mario 3D Land? Cave Story is doomed.

You must be playing a different game than I am because I am really enjoying this. I think it is one of the stronger VC titles to date. I would give this an 8 or a 9.

Smartphone gaming is terrible. I can't wait until this stupid fad passes.
No controls and no buttons = no game.

I'll wait for the reviews. The meterosexual look of Link, the androgynous bad guy, and a more masculine than Link, Zelda really rubs me the wrong way.

This could be the best game ever, but I have too much pride to pay the 1000% price increase.

Star Tropics
Adventures of Lolo
Zelda II
Punch-Out!!
Metroid

I'm pretty happy about this deal because Nintendo is actually giving some pretty good games. Nice!

It's sad to see so many people go to such great lengths to defend Namco's nonsensical decision and to also deride people that think it is a "big deal". The fact of the matter is that Namco did this to prevent reselling the game. There is no other explanation. If you choose to give Namaco your money even though they are engaging in this type of behvaior, that is your business, but please don't act as if this isn't a big deal. What's next, games that can only be played once?

I understand being metrosexual is all the rage in Asia, but Eyeliner Link and his Angelina Jolie lips really makes me want to skip this game.

Aren't Rovio's 15 minutes of fame up yet? Angry Birds is one of the most over rated games to ever hit the market. It is seriously the pet rock of the gaming industry.

We'll have robust online. I have no idea what that means, but we'll have it. It will look exactly like what we have now, but we'll call it robust.

I have bought fewer games for the Wii than for any other system I have ever owned. That was an amazing accomplishment for the Wii, just not a good one.

I think of a hardcore gamer as just that a "hardcore gamer". Theses are the folks that love games and gaming. They love all types of games and will play what feels good and is fun. FPS fans aren't hardcore because that is all they play.

The problem with the Wii isn't the shovelware, Izbirdboy correctly pointed out that all systems have shovelware. The problem is that the ration to shovelware on the Wii is very, very off. I went to the Target over the weekend and I looked through the Wii section and it was just bad. Everything is some sort of mini game collection or hunting simulator.

Let's be honest, the Wii did give us the greatest game of this generation (Super Mario Galaxy 2) and a bunch of other good things, but it just wasn't enough. Not even close.

I guess Nintendo decided they wanted to get a piece of the Street Fighter IV and DOA action. Man, Nintendo has really, really lost touch.

By what definition of classic is Urban Champion actually classic?

Wii lost hardcore players the minute the system specs were announced and that is why hardcore games do not sell well on the Wii. The Wii U lost the hadrcore gamer the minute the specs were announced and the fact that the Wii has successfully branded themselves as the shovelware console.

Wow, Nintendo still doesn't get it. They are releasing a style of game that has been done to death and can be had for $.99 on the app store. This was obviously a much better choice than any of the Japanese three that we can't have here in America. It looks like the 3DS will be my last Nintendo system; the company is just a shadow of itself.

Nintendo wants to attract core gamers? Core gamers love games and Nintendo doesn't seem to be very interested in releasing very many for the foreseeable future. And what message did Nintendo send core gamres this week when they refused to release the Japanese three in the U.S.?

Nintendo has just lost a sale for a WiiU. I am sick and tired of Nintendo. I heard it with the N64. Then I heard it with the Gamecube. Finally we heard it with the Wii. Nintendo keeps promising that they will change, but it never happens. They want core gamers, but they never try to get them. They say that they "get" online, but they continue the friend codes, local wireless nonsense vs true online, and the pitiful attempts at the estore.
These three games truly are the last straw.

I was a bit disappointed with Lego Pirates. The game starts interestingly enough but quickly descends into a rather monotonous mish mash of blah dueling and obvious lever puzzles. What really steams my broccoli though is the inexplicable slowdown in some levels (Singapore is a good example) where the frame rate stutters and lurches like the Frankenstein Monster. I certainly hope this is not an indication of how future 3D games will be.