Finally SOME news about Bayonetta 2. I haven't heard anything pretty much since its teaser trailer at E3 last year. I was getting worried it was in development hell. Well, I still am, but at least there's news...

@Bluezealand I still have a N64, so I'd buy it on that if at all. I'd never give Microsoft my money, especially after this new reveal in which they try even harder to screw every one of their consumers.

Grant Kirkhope is one of my favorite composers, and I love his music for Banjo-Kazooie. I've never actually played the game, though....

@HawkeyeWii
He's gotta get tired of running everywhere after a while.

@rastamadeus
Wow, that's some serious hatred. Chill out over there. I'm not a huge fan of Crash Bandicoot, but CTR was a fun game.

I'd much rather see a Nintendo Kart. We have SSB, why not Super Crash Bros.? Except that sounds like Crash Bandicoot...which would also be an awesome crossover...

Have you ever tried making a LP? obviously, you can make an original video that takes much more effort, but I'm talking about a video of similar content. If you just wanted to talk about a game or something like that, it's A LOT easier than taking the effort to do an LP. And yes, people throw around "fair use" all the time, but in this case it's actually true. I know because some of my videos are ad-supported and I read up on this stuff. (no, I'm not just butthurt because I'm a LP-er. I mostly just do unboxings.) I never said you can sell anything without permission. The people who do these LPs are not supposed to be making money off of them but I also agree that it's a bad move for Nintendo to be pursuing legal action against some fans who are essentially giving them free publicity. That's one reason Star Wars is still so amazingly popular; because they fan community is VERY vocal and George Lucas let them have their way. Even when he sold to Disney he made them guarantee it would stay that way.
"Nintendo gives New Super Luigi U DLC for free, they give us 50% off SMB2 if we bought SMW, they gave refunds for people who bought Super Metroid and let them keep the game!"
That's not being nice, that's getting people to come back and buy more. That's like saying McDonald's really cares about the customer because they have a dollar menu.

It's much harder than making your own videos because you have to put in the time to play the game, and that can be difficult enough if it's a long RPG but that's actually the easiest part. It takes twice as long to find the recording equipment and set it up correctly, then you have to render the video and put it in the right format, possibly come up with a script or an outline and record the audio and sync it up correctly, edit the video, and upload it. Unless you're doing some seriously professional stuff, to make your own blogs all you have to do is have a camera and press record. Then upload it. Done.
And no, it's not illegal, it's legal under the laws of fair use same as parody, HOWEVER, making money off of these videos without permission is sort of in a grey area, legally. Just as you said, musical covers are illegal without permission. But sampling is not; depending on how much of the original you use, it's another grey area. There's an awful lot of work that goes into making a Let's Play that makes it the property of the LPer, but the only point that matters is that it's based on already-copyrighted material. In short, Nintendo is not necessarily in the wrong legally, but it's still seriously not good for their image. Although, this is nothing new. Nintendo often likes to stick it to perfectly well-meaning, dedicated fans just out of principle.

Holy crap I am really surprised at the amount of people defending Nintendo here. This is fanboyism at its worst. No, LPers are not stealing content from Nintendo and marketing it as their own, and yes, LPs do sell video games. I often watch LPs rather than reviews just to see how the game plays and what the LPer thinks of it. Do you have any idea how much work goes into creating a Let's Play video? It's ten times more difficult than "coming up with something on your own", and it takes an incredible amount of dedication.
That's just like sampling in music. Are you saying artists shouldn't make money off of their work just because they worked off of another person's song? Or even covers, and that's a lot easier to pull off than making an LP.

UGH, I wish I still had this game. My parents were super-strict and made me sell it because one of the characters said "you suck" over and over when you punched him. I don't remember if I had the manual to it, but even still I wouldn't sell it. Well, maybe for over $1000 I would

The triforce is a fairly common symbol in Shintoism so I wouldn't be surprised if that story was fabricated.

I agree the title is misleading. Should add the subtitle "The Jet Black Mage" since "Wrath of the White Witch" Already made it here. But yes, yes, and yes. I'd love to see this. When I saw Wrath of the White Witch was coming here I was like..."what about the first one

I know it's happened to a lot of people and I think it's just coming to light now because we haven't really had any games worth mentioning released in the past year, and the WiiU has been out for half a year and it hasn't really seen anything worth mentioning yet either. It just feels like Nintendo kind of fell off the radar for a whole year, and I can see where he's coming from

Hm, never heard of it, but that screenshot looks interesting.

Wow. No. Just no. Another generic FPS, except with someone vaguely resembling Mega Man this time. All I can think of when I see this is Shadow the Hedgehog.

I've been looking forward to this game since I heard about it last month. Of course, I'd LOVE a new NMH game, but this looks awesome. A cross between Killer7 and No More Heroes? Count me in! I really hope Nintendo keeps up their connections with Suda Goichi during the next gen as I don't think I'll have money for the PS4 for quite some time, and I would hate to miss out on NMH3 if it came time for them to "jump ship"

I only vaguely remember them. I was born in '88 but I watched a lot of old cartoons and stuff.

Really? He's predicting Sony and Microsoft to sell 85-95 million units when we know next to NOTHING about their consoles, but the WiiU, which has already done well at launch, even with VERY few exclusives, is going to fail. Yeah, okay...

@Peach64 summed it up perfectly. I've barely touched my Wii in the past year (insert innuendo here), and I've been buying games like crazy for my PS3. There just aren't any new games for the Wii. The WiiU is suffering the same fate, since there are about 2 games on the system worth owning (as far as exclusives go) and it's now several months after its release. Even the ports are mostly shoddy from what I hear, so it's no wonder Nintendo isn't selling either system.

NICE console collection. That beats out my own collection, and I thought I had a lot. Also, I can imagine that would be really annoying being a girl and having people assume you know nothing about video games. I usually assume the same, unless I know a bit about you; it's just not really a hobby girls get into that seriously. If I'm ever in a game store, though, I assume the girls working there know what they're talking about, since they were hired for that reason.

Metal Slug 4 is my favorite one of all. I haven't played 7 yet, though. Three was pretty amazing, but I thought 4 took everything from 3 and tweaked it just a little bit better. Though the ending to 3 was pretty epic.

I played the demo and it was fun, but not $60 worth of fun. There will be plenty of [better] games that come out for WiiU between now and September, and people will buy those rather than Rayman. This is a stupid decision on Ubisoft's part. release it now while the pickings are still slim and even mediocre games will look much better in when you have little with which to compare it.

If you just like sniping, this is a good game. It's realistic in the sense that it has realistic bullet physics, but the AI is some of the worst I've seen in a game. No, there aren't really any run-n-gun moments, but there is the sniper equivalent, wherein dozens of enemies storm right in front of your scope and you have to pick them off. You might think it would get old, because that's basically the entire game, but if you like the premise (just sniping with realistic bullet physics) then you'll get plenty of that, and it does it well, so it kept my nterest even if the rest of the game is sub par.

I love that you used the word "verisimilitude". That is all.

Also, @ChickenBrutus, I know you just wanted an excuse to use the word "snogging"

This is the weirdest thing I have ever read on this website.

Provided Nintendo actually said that and stick to their word...chill out. It'll happen eventually. How many WiiUs are you planning on buying for yourself in the meantime?

@Tech101
I've been lurking around, I'm just very rarely on the forums anymore. I'm on backloggery a lot more than NL now.

Misleading title is misleading.

MONSTERHUNTERMONSTERHUNTERMONSTERHUNTER!!!

...gimme.

Hey, if I was broke and didn't already have a Wii, I'd totally pick this up. It looks freaking awesome, and I couldn't really care less about playing online. Of course, no Netflix or WiiWare or anything sounds terrible, but you can't miss what you never had. On the other hand, if I was super-rich, I'd also pick this up, as it looks great and it's another addition to my console collection

What 6-12 year-old kid needs an iPhone? I feel old...and I'm only 24.

@CanisWolfred
Techno and trance ARE electronica. That's like saying, "I don't listen to rock music, I prefer metal"

What exclusives does the 360 have that are actually worth getting? I've played Halo and it's extremely uninteresting to me. Okay, there's Gears of War, I'll give you that one, but other than that what do they have that isn't already on PS3 and/or PC? Plus, you have to pay to play online? Screw that.

@WaveWitch
I've been lurking every now and then. I don't know what happened to all the other oldies, but since most everyone left I haven't been on the forums.

Wow, really? I'm surprised so many people hated this game. I liked it a lot. Actually, one of the first video reviews I did was for Geist.
http://youtu.be/RvfnrOkWs6I

Some of those gamepad features sound pretty cool, but I think I'll wait for the next one, if at all, since the first iteration on a new console usually sucks.

I hope they bring the first one to the WiiU as well. I hate the idea of having a sequel on a separate console, like buying Bioshock on the 360 and Bioshock 2 on PS3

Doom 3? Isn't that game like 10 years old now?

@19Robb92
That's basically already been done in a game called Zombie Panic! Source for Steam.

@KatoStudios
"Developers have said..." all sorts of things throughout the years exaggerating the actual performance and quality of their upcoming games, so that doesn't necessarily mean anything.

All the fresh ideas I see from this game are as a result of the new controller innovations, and not actually as a result of a fresh game. Sure it looks like it could be fun, but it's nothing we haven't seen before. Quite frankly it looks like another Red Steel to me. That game was decent, but nothing special, and certainly a disappointment to most people who bought it on launch day.

I'm surprised so many people are crazy about this game. Looks pretty typical and kind of boring to me. Also, the graphics are pretty sub-par, even if this were a current gen game.

I don't think there would be nearly so much "bashing" of MS2 if not for this game. It's hard not to fault MS2 for all its...faults, when MSX improved on nearly everything MS2 had to offer.

Sweeeeeet. Phantom is one of my obsessions.

I'm confused how this works...that means one person could buy one license and Gamestop just keeps reselling to new people at the same price, as there is no incentive to buy "new" digital copies anymore. How do the developers make ANYTHING?

Super freaking stoked. Especially the soundtrack CD. More games need to come with those.

There's a disappointing lack of pictures of James in pigtails on this page...

Best tagline for an NL article ever.

If more people knew about Fi before the game was released, I'm sure that number would be even less. Fi automatically keeps the game from being anything more than an 8, imo.