Japan is indeed very far behind the times when it comes to things like equality. Which is sad because there are some very famous and popular people here who are gay, and because it has NOTHING to do with religion here... it's more about how Japanese people are ridiculously slow in changing their way of thinking on any subject. So it's kind of sad that Nintendo decided to remove this "glitch", but it's not surprising, and I'm sure very few people in Japan will notice or will do anything about it (like take to the internet to post comments complaining about it).

Art Style: AQUIA is a fantastic game. Please download it and then convince Nintendo / Skip that they need to make more Art Style games.

In other news....... I always wanted to download Maboshi’s Arcade, so I think that now I will!

gyeeearrrgghh I hate the internet.

The reason karaoke is awesome in Japan is because you go in a comfortable PRIVATE room and have a good time with people you know (probably). So even if you can't sing, you can still have fun because you're probably hanging out with friends. If you're not easily embarrassed (or are good at singing), the way they do it in the States and probably other countries where you sing on a stage in a bar can be fun, but when the person running the karaoke system or someone who spends all their time in that particular establishment takes the mic every other song it can be infuriating. If you're at that kind of bar in Japan, you're probably surrounded by people who live within a walking distance of the place and have known each other since they were children.

...and there's my culture lesson for the day!

Anyway, this machine looks pretty awesome. I'll take four!

cfgk24 -> Dang... you're my hero!

Oh.... crap. I have four (4!) copies of the KORG DS-10, and 4 DSes on which to make music. Now I have no choice but to finally buy the 3DS that I've been putting off forever. YAY!

By the way... if you're actually interested in making music, $30 is NOT a lot of money for something like this, especially considering how the DS-10 rivals some of the physical synthesizers I've owned.

I love pants off dance off dance parties! For some reason the women folk tend to look on in horror and/or mild amusement while my friends and I dance around like maniacs in our underwear (or less), but it has nothing to do with sex, it's just fun. But yeah, like LexKitteh said, that quote kind of seems to have nothing to do with the game. Also, this game sounds kind of fun to me, possibly because I have no shame.

The problem with Dragon Quest X is that Japanese people STILL don't understand the internet, other than people with science phones. I don't think I know anyone with a WiiU yet, but ot a single person I know who owns a Wii in Japan has theirs connected to the internet, and most of those people don't seem to know that you CAN connect it to the internet (or if they do know, they don't know why you would want to). I even saw some thing on TV recently where they were talking to some famous old lady and the topic of her obsession with Dragon Quest came up... she owns and has played every game in the series, but she said she won't play DQX because she hates the internet.

The second they announce a new Advance Wars game, I'll finally get around to buying that 3DS I've been meaning to buy. The SECOND.

YAY! Congratulations Nintendo Life! Ever since I found you a few years ago when I was looking for DSiWare / WiiWare reviews, went on to discover that your staff really know and care about what they're doing, and then discovered that your readers aren't total internet jerks, I don't even bother looking at other video game websites anymore! Also, you've taught me that there are a surprisingly large number of video game-themed cakes being created in the world, and for that I can never repay you.

Man, losing your job at Best Buy would be...... uh......... what's the exact opposite of "terrible"?

I don't really like racing games and I didn't really like the original F-Zero, but man oh jeez, F-Zero GX is easily in my top-5 favorite games of all time. It probably didn't hurt that I got to play AX in arcades in Japan while it was still brand new.

I totally preordered as soon as I could, and I'm excited! However, since I finally got around to starting Xenoblade Chronicles in the last few weeks, and since it took me a year to finish Skyward Sword... I imagine I'll probably start playing this game sometime in 2018 and finish it by the time my grandchildren are in college. Yay!

I kind of feel like this would be even cooler if they had made it out of something like... oh, I don't know, clay? You know, something that won't decompose over time. Still, it's pretty impressive.

Holy crap, "Pixel" finally made a new game!

Holy crap, I wish I had known about this back when I put a million billion hours into this game unlocking absolutely everything... and before my GameCube memory card decided to crap out on me.

I bet it would kind of suck to work under Miyamoto because you'd second-guess every single one of your own decisions and feel like your own ideas are completely inadequate.

@Tabbydasher, I appreciate that you considered the characters to be an exaggeration of similar characters in, well, pretty much every other game ever made, rather than immediately complaining about how sexist their designs are. Plus, you sound like you actually played the game and know what you're talking about. The puzzles got too frustrating in the first game for me to finish it (plus I get carsick playing it on the train), but I really liked the game, and when I finally get around to buying a 3DS I'm going to be downloading this game.

To the people complaining about the character design... before picking apart a game like this, please consider how terrible character design in games is in general. Also, everything that @RR529 said.

I once got to the last boss of 1943 on a single quarter. That game has 19 levels. I probably don't need to own that game unless I've decided to give up on any other plans I may have.

Nice idea... I kinda wish I could do that on Nintendo Life when someone posts a comment like "I have no interest in this game" or "I don't own the relevant system so I don't care about this news" on an otherwise interesting article.

Wow, I'm also a little surprised by the 5/10, especially since the review didn't really talk about anything outstandingly negative. I've only played a few levels so far, and I can tell that it'll probably get annoying later on (because I probably won't have the patience to memorize levels), but for only 200 points it's a nice continuation of the series, and I've really enjoyed what I've played so far.

Man... I love the 90's, and I love Sega's old arcade racers. I need to hurry up and get a Wii U so I can love this game, too.

Oh man, it looks like a spiritual sequel to Mr. Bones!

I've been on the fence about whether or not I really want to buy this book, but seeing some of the insides and hearing what Nintendo Life has to say about it have convinced me it needs to be on my bookshelf.

I can't believe I never heard of this game before, either, especially considering how much money I put over the years into both domestic and import games for my Saturn. I mean Saturns (at one point I had three). Well, living in Japan and all... I might just have to start looking around for the original.

YAYAYAY!!! I love this series and can't wait for the next installment!

YAYAYAYAYAY!!!!!! I've always been WAY more interested in this game than The Last Story, and was disappointed that that one was released with no word about this one. But finally I'll get to play it!

Awesome! Now I can... not watch the videos I bought on Amazon Instant on my Wii because I moved to a country that Amazon doesn't want me to watch them in. If it weren't for that little problem, I'd be downloading this as soon as possible.

I see a ridiculous amount of people with 3DSes on the trains here in Japanaland. I see PSPs occasionally, too, but Vitas... not so much. Then I occasionally see someone holding an iPad and I can't help but giggle at how stupid people look when they're holding an iPad.

For some reason I think it's the coolest thing in the world [of video games] when people release a game for a system that is no longer being supported. It's kind of the opposite of new hardware and sequels being released all the time that seem to send the message "HAY IDIOT THROW OUT YOUR OLD GAMES AND SYSTEMS ALREADY". I hope Virtual Boy fans buy every last copy of this game.

What a deal! I'll take four!

Dang... I want this just for the Skies of Arcadia content. And Richard Jacques.

Pffft, Google Maps Street View is worthless ever since they updated the images in Seattle and you can no longer see me receiving a package from the femailman in my underwear at my front door.

I won't be buying a Wii U (yet), but I might go out on Saturday to see how ridiculous the lines at the big electronics stores get.

I loved my Game Boy Camera. I took great pride in trying to have a set of completely different and unrelated pictures in the 30 or so that the thing could hold. In fact, I think I still have it in a box somewhere at my mom's house... next time I go back to the motherland I'll have to try to dig it up.

What exactly makes an iPad "amazing" technology? The fact that you look like a complete jackass when you use it as a camera? Or maybe the way that when you check your facebook on public transportation, everyone sitting around you gets to check it with you?

I just watched 2001 yesterday! And yeah, I always sort of assumed it was either named after HAL 9000 or it was some boring acronym like "Hamsters And Lungfish", but being one step ahead of IBM is way more interesting.

Gotta love the misuse of the apostrophe in the title!

StarDust -> Hey, just because this system makes no sense doesn't mean you can take it out on Sega Saturn. Now I'm going to go hug my Saturn and reassure it that I still love it.

I'm guessing he's saying consoles are at the end of the line because people can play games on their facebook phones and on the interwebnet and such. It seems a little like saying "home video players are at the end of the line because it's much easier to watch movies on their portable devices." Well, I totally HATE playing games in the comfort of my own home on a large TV with a great sound system, so I can see where he's coming from... or something. What?

I hope to someday finish all the games I've purchased for my Wii.

FINALLY I'll be able to watch worthless videos that someone downloaded and re-uploaded so they can get more views than the original, then scroll down to read the most horribly racist/sexist/just-plain-offensive comments on the internet... all on my Wii! Ahhh, progress.

Achievements are one of the dumbest ideas to come to video games in recent years. Then again... they're kind of the same thing as someone trying to collect "likes" on facebook, or the people who post comments on every single article on video game websites whether they're interested in the game/topic in question or not, simply because they're desperate for attention. So maybe achievements are perfect for the desperate attention-seeking internet generation. Still, I've never unlocked an achievement in a game that I felt added even the slightest bit of value to that game. I'm glad Nintendo chose to not include them in Wii U.

I was already a fan of Shin'en, but reading their comments makes them even more awesome in my eyes. There's something to be said for developers who take the time to really get to know the hardware they're working with and the people they're creating the games for, rather than just throwing their product onto as many platforms as possible in order to make as much money as possible because they see consumers as walking dollar signs.

I really liked rhytmik, but there were a number of problems that made me sort of lose interest in it. One of the main problems was the lack of interesting instruments, but this version seems to have exactly the kinds of sounds I would love to work with, so I just might have to download it.

zezhyrule -> "putting sounds in a sequence" is pretty much exactly what composing music is. But thank you for invalidating pretty much all electronic music ever made.

I've never played a Pokémon game (though I've always been kind of interested in maybe thinking about the possibility of trying one out), but $20 doesn't sound like a bad deal to me... obviously a TON of work went into this thing, and if the actual factual games have over 600 Pokémon types it seems WAY less tedious to browse through them leisurely than to try to collect them all in possibly several games, which I know I would never have the free time or patience to attempt. I suppose that sort of defeats the entire point of the games, though.

F-Zero GX is one of the best game I've ever played, and I kind of hated the original. It seems hard to top that game, but even if they just released a slightly fancier version of GX I would love to experience it all over again.

I have the Ghosts n' Goblins trilogy for Sega Saturn, and even though I played the crap out of this game as a kid, once you have access to the sequels there's no reason to EVER play this game again. Still, that didn't stop me from pumping who knows how many quarters into this game when I found it at an arcade a couple of years ago.

To anyone who downloads this game: just buy a damn game system, jerk. Also, you probably won't read my comment because you if you're downloading something like this then you don't really care about games that much.