"The question is whether the scares, thrills and environments are as brooding, menacing and enticing as on the portable platform."
Guys it's the same game!! it even has more things than the portable version. I've said it before in my comments, your game reviews would be consistent if you came up with a rubric for all your staff to follow and let us see each item of the rubric, and then comment on each.... this is a clear example of inconsistency.

This doesn't make sense, the 3ds version got a 9 out of 10 and this game offers more things!!

This looks promising, the gameplay seems fun.

I love my 3ds, it has great games and there are more to come, I'm sure it'll get even better

The demos show lots of lag.

And here is Tom with the forecast.........

Still waiting for a good 3ds reward.....

This is an excellent 3ds game, I'm sure it'll do great on home consoles too.

@DarkLloyd LOL

Lucky Ricken! (I got Tharja and him married XD)

I don't see why we should be surprised, look at how Zelda LTTP has been in development for 2 years without us knowing, I guess a new Mario 3D is likely to come.

Since I always buy physical copies I got a 16GB for the VC games, and I want to have the freedom to download a couple games that require a lot of memory, you know, just in case.

I agree with all the comments that say the AI is simply awful....

Really good game! even better now that you can control Rachel XD

Two years already? Wow, Nintendo is great at keeping secrets!! XD, we can also trust that after two years of development the game's quality will be amazing.

That Yoshi looks to be really really high XD.... horrible game by the way.

I really really hope they do something to stop cheaters online, that is the most annoying thing in multiplayer mode in MK7....

And of course, the game will have new cool features, nintendo always innovates.

This is totally true, there is no way tablets or smartphones can compete with a gaming handheld device like the 3ds, it's just a unique experience you cannot get from a tablet or phone. I saw a kid in a plane go over 15 different games in his tablet in less than 30 min!, that proves that the quality of the games you find in an App Store is not enough to keep you interested longer than, let's say, 5 min.

I don't think it's the same people either, people that have a 3ds generally do not own more than a couple games in their phone, in my case I only have one, and its a pre-installed game XD.

I suck at singing. I've seen karaoke bars, I guess they could be interested...

I guess we can narrow everything down to two problems: game drought and bad advertising.

The Starship Damrey seems interesting.

Body ready!

You definitely don't want to concentrate on the story of a game, you would basically end up watching a movie, gameplay is the most important part of a game in my opinion, with a story that just makes sense, that's the ideal game for me.

@DESS-M-8, there are lots of people that just want the physical copy and like Thomas mentioned in the article, some people will not spend a lot of money on an external drive just to download a few games.

I'm not liking the idea of forcing people to download games, this stock problem has occurred two times in a row now (I was affected with Fire Emblem Awakening). I think the majority of people still prefer physical copies.

Well good!, I watched reviews for this game and it's just a mess, SEGA made the right move.

I've used game notes plenty of times too! and yes, I got the update.

I think if they come up with an innovative fps they would; not that they should but I think they could.

3ds is doing way way way better than vita, joke's on them!

Europeans, make sure you get this game! It's amazing!

He's right, I partially agree with him, but let's wait for E3, if everything remains the same (which I really doubt it will, specially when we know of some games that are being developed right now) then I will completely agree with him.

Does anyone know when they will start selling consoles with the previous update already applied to the console (the one that takes a lot of time)? I remember reading something about it but can't find it.

I only use the 3ds eshop for VC games, and based on the poll it seems that not many people have gone fully digital, I'm just so used to getting the physical copy.

The game has been heavily and negatively criticized, I don't think there are enough people interested in the game anymore.

They're losing money for no reason, they are too desperate to get them off the shelves, can't they just wait until the major first party games come out?

Nice restoration, it looks like new now!

I got a physical copy, this is the first FE game I've ever played, I'm loving it.

I guess a better approach would be to have multiple reviewers for every game (I think you guys do one game one reviewer) and then have those multiple reviewers discuss based a specific rubric, a standard list of criteria. You mention how the reviewer needs to assess the quality of the game even if it's not his/her type of game, I agree with that, but that I think is really hard, I recall reading your review (which received a low score compared to other websites) on f1 2011 for 3ds where a low score was given just because the reviewer did not like a single component in the game, I would agree that you can give a low score based on a single criterion if that lowers the overall game experience, so, going back to my comment I would say you wouldn't have this variability in people's opinion regarding your scores if you define and abide by a standard rubric.

Looks like it would break with a couple of falls, the reason the wii U gamepad is kind of chunky is because it was designed to withstand multiple falls without breaking, they've already tested the wii U gamepad against falls and it passed the tests (gizmoslip). I agree it's a "shameless copy".

I see that I'm not the only one that dislikes the game. I did not like the demo at all, maybe they should've shown something more interesting to attract more people.

The demo is great, got it pre-ordered weeks ago, this will be great!

I played the demo and didn't like the game, I didn't play that much though, so I may give it another chance

@gavn64, I agree, they were left with all these extra components and just did something with them.

Nice!, great stuff after hearing all those bad news about the lack of third party support for the wii U. These are the third party developers we should really care about.

I don't have my copy yet, this is ridiculous (I have a pre order), Gamestop does not even know when they'll get the next shipment, they said "maybe" on Monday 11th.....

I wasn't thinking of getting this one but it's pretty bad to see how third party developers support is getting weaker.

@Five-seveN Agreed.

It is a little disappointing, because let's face it, microsoft and sony's new consoles will be way more powerful than the wii u, which means we will not get many third party games, but on the other side, we have plenty first party games (the really fun ones with excellent gameplay), that will definitely keep the console alive

I would really love a Majora's Mask remake for the 3ds.