Well mateys, I be ABSOLUTELY amazed at this one. I come here for video game news or reviews and I get a feature article about butt cheeks.

Are the majority of you so INSANELY thick that you can't realize the point of the censorship was to keep the game classy enough so as not to show bare butt cheeks? If you think the cloak cover makes it look like something else, that's how you're dirty mind works. Use your brains for ONE time. Just ONCE. Please. If you watch a movie and see someone get shot off screen, can you still imagine the dude getting shot? Ya. But if they actually show the dude get shot and his head explodes in a bloody mess the kid watchin it is gonna get disturbed, desensitized to violence, and go on a shooting spree 8 years later.

It takes a little bit of inner strength, ya know, somethin heroes have, not overweight people that live in their mom's basement and talk on video game forums, to be able to stand for somethin. This game has the stance that we're not gonna show butt cheeks cause it ain't classy. Chrom's shorts don't show cheek so I have no idea why his pic is even in the article.

This is officially the last time I visit this site. It's coming off my bookmarks bar. Keep putting up pointless dirty articles on here. I think you're making a GREAT contribution to the world

I freakin HOPE so. I think the % of people who would prefer a straight up Genesis sequel to a new 3D Sonic game is about 95% to 3.5%. Some people would vote for "other".

The ONLY way a 3D Sonic game will ever be good is if they clone the rotating 3D spherical planes gameplay of Mario Galaxy

I can't wait for this I'll be honest. I have put a ban on ALL digital games because they will not be available to play in ten years, EXCEPT for an xtremely select few reeeally special games. Whether they wanna admit it or not, this game is based off Aladdin for Genesis in gameplay and style. Except in this game instead of Al, you play as a hybrid between Jasmine and the Genie of the Lamp.

So when they said they were making a completely 'new' Zelda, somethin that was gonna make my eyes bleed with its freshness, what they were reeeeally sayin was, "we're makin an 'old' Zelda". Glad Ninty keeps its promises

What's with all the xcitement for a Nintendo Dudect or whatever it's called?? What'd we get last Dudect? Only THREE AAA retail game reveals, like Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D ? Only THREE major 1st party digital downloads, like March of the Minis 3D? And just a couple release dates for hotly anticipated games, like Animal Crossing 3D? Gimme a break

I NEED to point out this fact to everyone. I can't get xcited about a single downloadable game, even one I think looks cool such as this one. The reason?

When you buy a downloadable title, you do not own it. You are renting it. How long you are renting it can vary, but most likely until you need to change your handheld systems internal battery, which will erase all of the memory. Unlike older systems like Game Boy or Game Gear, which used regular disposable batteries which essentially gave the systems infinite power & memory lifetimes, new systems rely on internal batteries that are only gonna last you a few, maybe 10 years at most.

The PROBLEM, is that in 10 years, once you replace the battery and erase all the games on the internal memory of your 3DS, the eShop probably won't exist anymore. Or it may exist, but some or most of the games have been removed from it for licensing reasons.

You can already see this happening with the Nintendo Wii, even though it is only about 6 1/2 years old and still on the market. Several things are being erased from the Virtual Console and online services like several Sonic the Hedgehog titles, the Wii Channels, and DLC for Rock Band. What that means is, if you once owned these things and accidentally deleted em or had your memory erased, you can NEVER get em back again.

What's the moral of this story? We need to start protesting digital games and get back to retail games. Or else gaming's past won't exist in the future. So start petitions or e-mail developers. The power is yours!

We are on a site 150% dedicated to VIDEO GAMES. If someone insults a video game we care about unjustly, we should be able to insult them. Are you trying to tell me AugustusOxy is more important or valuable than Streets of Rage?? Which one do you think has made more people happy over its lifetime? I'm guessin the current tally is in SOR's favor somewhere around millions to 10. Anyway, Streets of Rage & Power Rangers are both IPs dedicated to relentlessly beating on people. I'm glad our world has become so sissified. The only way I'd find deleting my previous post acceptable is if Orla decided upon it. Because pretty girls are the only ones truly powerful enough to create peace amongst men. I probably should mention to Augustus that Luminalace's icon is actually from Street FIGHTER

@AugustusOxy,

You are the only person on Earth who's ever referred to Streets of Rage as lame.
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Whenever I hear "side-scrolling action game" I get a little bit excited. Why? Because I grew up during the 16-bit Genesis/SNES days when the best devs in the world were building amazing side-scrolling action games like Revenge of Shinobi, Vectorman, and Turtles in Time.

BUT, and this is a 'but' the size of Queen Latifah's, I am xtremely hesitant to get excited about ANY side-scroller these day. Why? Because developers have decided to KILL the excitment of these games by making em so easy a baby could handle it. You see this problem over and over, especially with WayForward's retail games, a problem that kills great potential side-scrolling action licenses like Batman Brave & Bold, Thor, and Hotel Transylvania.

There's always the chance this game somehow overcomes a flaw that has plagued the DS family for its entire existence. And MAYBE it could even match the xcellent Mighty Morphin Power Rangers game from the Sega Genesis, which you can read up on here: http://www.sega-16.com/2005/04/genre-spotlight-beat-em-up-bonanza/

FINALLY getting that Batman game for 3DS that was announced at E3 2010. No proof that this is the same game, but I'll take it.

If you asked this Shinobi what licensed games he'd want, if he could pick ANY two in the entire universe, #1 would be Ninja Turtles. And I was seriously pissed about that new Turtles game not coming to 3DS or Vita. But Numero DOS on that list would be Batman. So I am geeked out to an extreme level.

I've been in the handheld game since the very beginning with the original GB. There's just somethin about being able to play Tetris while I'm training my body to be a weapon. But in my estimation, there has NEVER been a great Batman game on a handheld. There's been a couple "not bad-ers", but nothin great. And Armature Studio doesn't make anything but great games. Pretty much all they've ever made is Metroid Prime and Metal Gear HD for Vita, both of which wowed critics across the board

EXTRA good news to come out recently, is that for LEGO Marvel 3DS & Vita, they're not gonna do a clone of their other sucky handheld LEGO games. They'e pumping some fresh ideas into this one they can't wait to show off...at E3 in a couple months I'm guessin

None of my posts have been to contradict what Pachter says in this article about the Wii U. I didn't even read much of what he said in the article. The only point of my two previous posts was to point out how much of a fake, pathetic loser he is.

Anyone with brain cells can see that the Wii U is not a prime candidate to become a mega seller. The truth of the matter is that Nintendo SHOULD'VE been dead in the console business years ago. They were playin with SERIOUS fire when they built the Wii with graphics tech that was a generation behind and almost no online capabilities. But the Wii just happened to have the coolest, most revolutionary gimmick EVER (that's no exaggeration). I knew some seriously hip college age and above cats who weren't really into gaming anymore but they all had a Wii to play at parties.

Ninty took the same gamble with the WIi U, using current gen graphics tech when the next generation of graphics was well known to be less than 2 years away and their online still not the cream of the crop. But they were bankin on that gamepad gimmick being just as cool, and revolutionary as the Wii Motion controller & 'chuck were. But it ain't. Not even close. And worse, PS3 and Xbox 360 can already do pretty much the same gimmick, albeit not quite as well as Wii U.

It's gonna take a miracle for the Wii U to start catchin sales fire like the Wii once did. Like a price drop down all the way down to $200 kinda miracle. The facts, and these facts are plain as day, is that if the other consoles can do everything you can do and more, they can do it with much better graphics, and they can do it with a competitive price, you're in a world of trouble. It's a situation not even a portly Italian plumber, sword wieldin elf, and babealicious bounty hunter together can fix. MAYBE, and this is just a maybe, Captain N: The Game Master has the kinda power Ninty needs...

I don't speak ill of people unless they really deserve it so let me clarify. Pathetic Pachter is a fraud. A charlatan. His whole deception is based around taking things that aren't 150% guaranteed to succeed and poking holes in their weakness (which every system before and in the future will have MANY). So he is taking absolutely NO risk with his predictions. The hilarious thing, if you're smart enough to realize it is, even though he cheats like this, he still is almost always wrong. He might have been relevant sometime in 80s.

Anybody, and I mean ANYbody, could do what he does. Look how simplistic his comment above is: "a small installed base means less third party support, and the installed base can’t grow without third party support". That is his major "find". I've known chimpanzees who've dug deeper into industry trends than that

I'm gonna say this from the bottom of my heart, and I care about all my fellow gaming enthusiasts so I mean this, if you truly care about what this person says you need to plant a tree immediately

The ONLY kind of game that excites me are boxed releases. 1. They are highly collectible. B. Digital releases aren't real. Once they get erased from your system's memory, they're as good as permanently gone unless some future device recreates em, which isn't especially likely for 90% of games.

Tanagrams ain't really my thing. But I really like the art style so I think I'll be getting this game and its cool box art

And if graphics were REALLY your main concern, you'd own a Vita

For those not in the know, which looks like EVERYone on these boards, Renegade Kid is a small studio composed of people whose main experience with video game tech was working on N64 games. Which is why they became Renegade Kid and only specialized in DS games, because DS had the exact same graphics tech as the N64 and they already had an engine built for it.

Renegade doesn't have the time or resources to build a completely new 3D engine. So you can expect all of their 3DS games set in a 3D environent like ATV wild ride and this FPS to look exactly like their DS games enhanced with 3D. But they had, without exaggeration, the single best lookin 3D engine on DS. So it's not like this or any of their other 3D games are ugly by any stretch.

The environment looks amazingy creepy. But I do hope this first person shooter has somethin to shoot with

In terms of presentation in an 8-bit title, on a scale of 1-10, this game scores about a 9...900 that is

@undead_terror: ya, it might be a new IP, but Jools promised that fans of Dementium would dig it so I'm not expectin a game with rainbows and unicorns (though an FPS where you could ride unicorns would be pretty freakin sweet)

Does it make ANY sense that the DS, with its extremely limited graphics tech and memory, had at least 8 major retail FPS's (some of which were Xtremely high quality), and by comparison the 3DS, with it's very high quality graphics tech and decent amount of memory, will only have one stinkin eShop FPS by its 3rd bday??

Only way you can you explain it is that the 3rd parties either, A.) are boycottin makin a game that'll require a lot of dev resources until the 3DS has two sticks, or B.) the 3DS ownership skewing way towards casual/kiddie types scares anyone besides Capcom away from bringin hardcore games to the system. Option B don't really make sense considerin the DS had the exact same type audience and it got multiple CoD entries

Jools is the MAN. Stylus control was pretty obvious considerin the Circle Pad Pro hasn't even been released in the US for the 3DS XL. There just aren't enough CPP's in consumer's hands right now to make a game that only offers dual-stick control. Which is probably why we haven't seen any major first person shooter franchises like Call of Duty coming to 3DS. The big 3rd party companies are only used to dual-stick controls and they're too lazy to program multiple control schemes.

We're pretty much guaranteed two more 3DS redesigns over its lifespan: a 3DS with 2 sticks and a 3DS XL with two sticks. And the perfect way to unveil that 3DS with two sticks is to pair it with a Metroid Prime 3D announcement at E3 this year (hint, hint Ninty)

How bad does Nintendo of America BLOW?? Reggie, where's my XL CPP, Game Gear games, and Luigi's Mansion bonus stuff??

Nintendo of America really freakin SUCKS. Not only are they always slackin off when it comes to 3DS virtual console releases, but Europe gets a glow in the dark game case AND a bonus item with this game and we in the States get jack squat?? Gimme a break

I'm hopin for a retail release. These dudes excel at instruction booklets

Glad to see ole Ninty likes to save their major game reveals to the VERY last second before they release. The good news is that everythin Ninty revealed during that last Ninty Direct is due out by Summer. Which means we have no idea what they're plannin for the Holiday season. Catch my drift? What I'm sayin is Ninty got a whole lot more 3DS surprises comin our way either at E3 or even more likely at a N. Direct takin place shortly before or after it

Is it so much to ask for an all-black model?? I am a ninja, not a little boy who still wears blue or yellow

I'm a grown dude and I consider myself a hardcore gamer and YES I would buy this. There's no one that's been to Disney World that wouldn't agree it's one of the most magic places on Earth. And I'd buy a copy for my niece too

Boba Fett vs. Thanos vs. Jack Skellington...sensory overload

Grown man...seeking infinite joy that life has attempted to rob...Buzz Lightyear...fun...but...hardcore gamer...can't...screw it...DISNEY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I crave great games. Does a game need multiplayer to be great? Negative. It just needs to be great. And Renegade Kid only makes great games. Multiple difficulty levels would do well to extend the games longevity

I'm a humongo fan of side-scrolling brawlers and there have been a scarce few released since the inception of the DS family. So this game xcites me fo sho, even though I've never been into Nuto. But the whole cross dressin thing seriously disturbs me. I hope that gets cut in the translation to US

According to all-knowing Metacritic, the 3DS currently has 21 games with 80% or better average critic score, while the Vita currently has 15. The 3DS has been on the market almost a full year more than the Vita. So technically, the Vita is winning in terms of quality games per month. Still, aside from a few games like Spy Hunter which appear on both systems, they both offer vastly different experiences. A truly wise man would own both

I wanted to talk about something VERY important. Which has a lot to do with online gaming. Read up and feel free to respond!

I am not yet 30, but I am old enough to be alive when the original NES was in its infant stages. As you all probably know, there was no online gaming for the NES. Every single game was a retail cartridge. Thousands of collectible NES games could be purchased and owned.

Due to the fact I grew up in this era, I am not just a gamer, I am a video game collector. I love having a physical copy of a game to plug in and keep on the shelf or in a shoe box.

Fast forward to today, and it sucks to be a video game collector. Especially for the 3DS. Let me count the way: 1. We are losing retail games to digital games (example: original Shantae was a physical GBC game, 3DS Shantae game will be download title), 2. Region Locking (example: check out videos for E.X. Troopers. It looks insanely awesome. But you can't play...it's region locked to Japan), 3. Retail games aren't being made due to competition from mobile games (Example: many games, like Assassin's Creed and Saint's Row, were cancelled from the 3DS launch lineup due to fear it wouldn't be able to compete with iOS and Android handheld devices, though those fears have somewhat subsided)

As you can see, that's a large chunk of potential great retail games I'll never see due to gaming trends in the 2010s. Just look at what Capcom is doing for Mega Man's monumental 25th anniversary. Instead of giving us an amazingly collectible retail game complete with a retrospective manual like the Mega Man Anniversary collection for GBA that never materialized was supposed to do, we get eShop versions of the original games. Which brings me to my final issue. To this day, I can still plug in physical cartridges to my old consoles 20 years after they were originally released. We have no proof that digital games, especially licensed games and 3rd party games, will still be available to play 20 years down the line, or even 5 years for that matter

If you like Mickey Mouse, side-scrolling platformers reminiscent of the old Sega Genesis, or the original Castle of Illusion, and you don't buy this game because of a bad critic review or two, you really need to rethink your priorities

If you haven't noticed, side-scrolling video games have sucked ever since the end of the GBA. There ain't a single quality side-scrolling action platformer or brawler in the entire DS/3DS lifespan. There have been attempts, a lot of them by WayForward, but those always had major flaws to keep them from being great, like too easy (Batman the Brave and the Bold) or too repetitive (Thor). Griptonite had a few games that approached greatness like Shinobi 3D or Spider-Man Web of Shadows. But not quite in the same ballpark as those myriad of old elite Genesis titles. Overall, 99% of side-scrollers in the DS family suck.

What's the cause? Society. Parents whine when a kid can't beat the 1st level, so games become easier, even though for 20+ years every game was tough as nails and kids still loved the heck out of em. And then there's the message board crowd like all you people. You see a nice side-scroller like Epic Mickey 2 and you say, I don't know if I'd pay $40 for this. So the devs have to add cheap gimmicks to make these people feel like it's worth their money.

So don't whine when games don't meet the old standard of Genesis titles. That's just another area where society has been downgraded. It'll never get back to the glory days, except for short experiences like Mutant Mudds via the eShop. If you want a LEGIT retro sidescroller fix, check out "At Games Ultimate Portable Game Player". The screen ain't too big (about the size of the GBA), but it's very well made according to all the reviews. The big selling point here is that it has FORTY Genesis games on it, and I'm talking heavy hitters like Super Street Fighter II: Special Champion Edition, Mega Man: The Wily Wars, and the Streets of Rage trilogy. Imagine gettin that baby in your stocking!

I'm not much for Pikachu, but I hope everyone tunes in to Haunting Hour season 3 premiere Sat at 6pm EST on HUB. And if you want a great Halloween game, check out Goosebumps for DS

I'm interested in a game about running a bookstore, I must be losing my hardcore gamer tag. There's just something about a bookstore that takes me back to when I was a kid. I hope I have the option to stock Goosebumps

This game looks...AWESOME

My bday is next Sunday, so hopefully I'll get the XL then. I don't know how ANYone could pass this up, with literally TWICE as big screens and DOUBLE or maybe even TRIPLE the battery life!

"I'm playing it right now and I'm happy to let you know in advance that the controls are not broken."

Exxxxxxxxcellent

i'll give everyone a hint: this game AIN'T gonna get a good review score. BUT...you should still get it. Why? bc it's a small game in a limited genre. So the best score it can hope for is 7. That's if it's PERFECT. I'm predicitin a 5. But ignore that. If you like how it looks and you like to shoot stuff, get it. Me personally, shootin chickens on a tropical island surrounded by pirates sounds like a blast. The ONLY dealbreaker the review should offer you or me, is if they say the controls are broken. But even then, you should check multiple reviews, bc not everyone always "gets" it. I saw several reviews that said Kid Icarus Uprising's controls made it unplayable

I like the backgrounds and I like shootin stuff, so its got potential

A SIDE-SCROLLING BEAT 'EM UP? ON 3DS?? There have been a lot of great side-scrolling beat 'em ups in the DS family. Like...Tokyo Beat Down...well that was kinda average...Spider-Man Web of Shadows...but the sequels sucked...ya, there haven't been a heck of a lot of beat em ups in the DS family tree. Sign me up for pre-order with this quasi-Guardian Heroes sequel!

Good! I prefer straight up whip-swingin action with less thinking involved, like they taught us in the SNES/Genesis days

They "censored" the princess's outfit so she's wearing a bikini type outfit instead of a stripper outfit. Good job Atlus! I wouldn't have bought it up otherwise. This is a title that anyone should be able to pick up and place. If the slightly altered outfit causes someone not to buy this excellent and rare game then they truly are an idiot. Not like the princess wouldn't still be smokin hot in a turtleneck sweater anyway

eShop NEEDS GBA games and as many retro-styled side-scrollers as possible, like Mutant Mudds, Mighty Switch Force, and Johnny Kung Fu. A version of Nintendo Land needs to be made specifically for 3DS

I prefer the GG version of Columns to the Genesis version. It may not be as feature rich, but it was built for a handheld and just seems to fit perfectly.

Glad Sega is going all-out with these GG releases. But will we ever see the games that will get fanboys REALLY geeked up, like Streets of Rage, Ristar, and Gunstar Heroes??

Gorgeous graphics, Knuckles as playable character, great music...PocketGamer gave this a 7 (which is much closer to what this games should be) and said "Short but sweet, Sonic Blast will be warmly received by the series' hardcore fans and, given half a chance, platformer veterans will find a lot to like too." Side-scrolling Sonic goodness with Vectorman graphics, don't call yourself a Sonic, Sega, or side-scroller fanboy if you don't pick this up.

Considering there hasn't been a 1st person shooter on 3ds, color me excited

YES! More VC! More Game Gear! Monkeys that throw bombs!

NINETY PERCENT bigger screens AND longer battery life??? If you say you don't want this I'm afraid I don't believe you.

WOW. Just...WOW. SCHWING! EXCELLENT! AYE CARUMBA!