no thanks, won't be making this mistake again. :3

I've never really been interested in episodic games because what happens when the devs decide not to continue it, or (god forbid) they're physically unable to continue for whatever reason? I prefer to wait until all the parts of a game have been released before I start playing them through, if for nothing else than being able to experience the entire story in one go. I know this is Nintendo we're talking about, and hopefully they'll be around until long after we're all dead, but that's just how i feel.

@Savino: http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/from+the+horse%27s+mouth

I'm not sure where the saying came from, but it's been a part of English for a very long time. To hear something 'from the horse's mouth' is to hear it straight from the source or from someone directly involved.

@lz: you know i'm still playing Xenoblade, freak
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@3DSFanatic4419: Phil was joking when he said the review would be amended. We do not amend reviews when optional accessories become available later on down the line. That's why everyone is more than welcome to recommend whatever solution(s) or advice you'd like to give to others in the comment threads. :3

@Kinioka: what Marioman64 said. There was a white Yoshi in Yoshi's Story as well, it loved all fruits — including peppers iirc.

takes one to know one, i guess? :3

@zenarium: why all the fuss? if you don't want to buy the special edition, don't buy it. there are other people who don't mind having the option, though :3

@Duney: You may not call it cheating, but everyone else does. You may not care, and that's on you, but those of us who don't want to play Maka all the time thanks to other people just trying to get their VR up with a quickness are definitely glad to see this fix. Thank you for patching it, Nintendo!

w00t, MK7 party tonight~!

@Token_Girl and anyone else asking for source: there we go. As for the lack-of-available-preorders mystery, i'd chalk it up to weirdness — i remember trying multiple times to preorder Bit.Trip SAGA before it hit, and GameStop didn't even have it in their systems. then no one in town had a copy for days after its supposed release date. granted, i know this is a first-party release, and it could just be that it was announced only today so that's why, but i hope there won't be any weird supply issues with Pikmin 2

i will buy the hell out of a Lego Zelda set. make it happen, plz, Nintendo

i hope i'm done with Xenoblade in time D: D: D:

@Retro_Hype: it's been four days since it hit. please chill out and give our reviewers time to properly review it, thanks :3

@Link_Belmont: if he's not, I certainly am.

@BulbasaurusRex: You should play some mid-90's games that were brought over from Japan... Konami's translation work was especially atrocious back then. With some of those under your belt, understanding the interview will be much easier for you, I'm sure :3

That said, that's great news, SKTTR! I do hope a solution can be found

@expa0: oh, excellent choice, sir! Suikoden II is one of my all-time favorite games :3

@mizumaru: considering you just blew $10,000 on the opportunity to have a video game delivered to you by its creators, chances are you're in a position where you either don't have to worry about work or you can set your own hours to accommodate said delivery. :3

@Usagi-san: and what of other fanworks? what about the harp-playing twins who choose to play Legend of Zelda music, should they be hunted down and shot? How about the 60-bazillion thirteen-year-olds tracing crappy images of Sonic the Hedgehog, coloring them in MSPaint, and then uploading them to DeviantART, are we going to chop off their hands? And what of the people we just posted about selling those retro pillows on Etsy? i'm afraid I don't recall you making a stink about it in those threads either, so color me confused on this one.

if you want to get NL-technical, in terms of interpreting our Rules, we're looking to avoid things that are outright illegal. Piracy is illegal. Flashcarts allow the circumvention of proprietary lockout chips/technology, which is illegal depending on where you are in the world (definitely in the UK, though, which is where Nintendo Life is located). ROMs are illegal if you're uploading them to the internet. You can be severely fined and/or serve jail time depending on where you are in the world and whether you choose to or are able to settle your case if caught. We do lump homebrew into the same category in terms of enforcing our Rules, though it is technically not inherently illegal (not on its own, anyway, and it depends on the circumstances involved); it's just on the side of the 'can of worms' part of the 'gray area', and it's easier to knock it out on-sight than have to continually babysit the thread(s) involved.

What this is, however, is a fan game — it's a derivative work at worst. They're not stealing the original games and trying to pass them off as their own, they've taken the original games and made their own new works in the same visual and gameplay style — yes, likely without permission, but again, it's in the same league as fanfiction and fanart. It's up to Capcom to protect their own intellectual property, same as any other company or individual. We're sorry it bothers you personally, but who knows — the publicity they're receiving now could be what nets them their C&D, thus fulfilling your ultimate wish on this one.

With all that said, if you would like to ask any further questions of the staff regarding the general decision to have posted this article, we invite you to get in touch with us directly so that we're not continuing to clutter the comment thread with this particular tangent. Thank you :3

@Usagi-san: true, the 'but i'm not making a profit' excuse doesn't always work against a company attempting to preserve the integrity of its intellectual property, which they have the right to do. However, it's up to the companies to have their lawyers send out the cease and desist orders, and again, that's all that would happen. A quick C&D, the offending material is taken down, and that's the end of it. No fines, no jail-time or anything, just a threatening e-mail from a lawyer and a 'sorry, we thought we were in the clear, our bad' from the people behind the fan-projects in question.

@Usagi-san: it would depend on whether these are games created from scratch or by editing new levels into existing code. it would also depend on whether or not they're making a profit on the project. provided they went through the trouble of coding everything on their own without borrowing from the existing works and they're not trying to cash in on it, this would be in the nature of fanart and fanfiction — it's a gray area, and prominent works would be in danger of receiving a C&D at worst.

@waltz: if the name of the game wasn't so blatantly odd, there's a good chance people wouldn't be loling. it's about up there with that 'if i was sealed in a room with a girl i'd _____' (or whatever it's titled) game, lol. way to get uber-defensive over nothing, though-- sounds like you're still stinging over how Love Plus didn't really catch on here either. :3

and I'm 'just saying' that the word 'trap' is not something to be thrown around casually regarding 12-year-olds. I realize now that the intent was not there, and I have educated Phoenixborn regarding the other ways that particular word can be taken (assuming she did not know before), therefore the misassumption can be avoided in the future.

you asked. i explained. referring to a person as a 'trap' implies that they're got something to hide that will eventually be revealed within a bedroom setting. it also implies that they are indeed attempting to hide their birth gender for either the purpose of surprise upon discovery or to intentionally mislead other people, neither of which are welcoming assumptions to be made about anyone. if you do not want your words to be taken in such a manner next time, please consider them with more care.

because you're referring to them as 'traps', inherently sexualizing them.

^ Considering that kid looks about 12 at most, the fact that they're jailbait would be a bigger issue than the fact that they look female IMO.

Honestly? I don't really see myself buying another Kid Icarus game until i'm that bored with everything else I own (or that is available for me to purchase) and i'm truly desperate for something I haven't played before. i like games that break the fourth wall on occasion, and i like it when games take a break from being serious sometimes, but KI:U takes the freakin' cake. maybe i'll be able to get into it sometime after i'm done with Xenoblade, i hope :/

@retro_player_22: I noticed that myself. it was definitely a welcome change, made getting through battles much, much easier!

@navi: i distinctly remember flying in Diddy Kong Racing...

@sinalefa: yeah, once an item is sold Etsy takes its price down. that shipping cost may include insurance and special handling, given that you wouldn't really want to crush that kind of thing, lol. international shipping will get you :/

@hendie001: They came up with a system for transferring your licenses from a DSi to your 3DS that works pretty well, IMO — i'd imagine they'll do the same for the Wii U. we can hope, anyway :3

@Ouroborous, @sinalefa: note that the line says 'it's priced at $300 excluding shipping costs' — he's referring to the original cost of the 3D papersculpt item itself, and nowhere has he mentioned shipping (which are the prices you've found listed on the page, sinalefa).

Ouroborous may have stumbled upon the prints, which are indeed $30, but as the item is already sold and we can't see the price of the original anymore, it may well have been $300.

Depending on how this pans out, it might be a system seller for me. It will have to be something brand new to the series, though (not another remake), and it'll have to be solid in-air dogfighting from beginning to end (no running around on the ground like the GC titles).

all right, we've all had our fun, now start playing nice, please. :/

god i hated this game. this was the one my siblings and I shuffled around at each other when we had to share SML2 and Tetris on long vacations where we forgot to bring more games. D:

@Trainer_DJ, et. al. — the less seriously you take LordJumpMad, the better off you'll be. think of him as a giant exaggeration for humor's sake. :3

@Goron: it helps to let our readers know what language to expect when they click a link — that, and '.no' is an odd TLD to those of us used to almost every site we visit being either '.com', '.net', '.org', or '.co.uk' :3

@Retro_Hype: Last i checked, no one was forcing you at gunpoint to read this article, and besides, it's a Talking Point — an opinion piece. It clearly has the words 'Black Ops' in the title; surely you knew what you were getting into when you clicked to read more. Please calm down. :/

so it's like FFT but simpler? could be worth a look, then :3

@kkslider: if that happened 5 days ago, sounds like 'too little, too late' to me :/

@rayword45: Actually, i believe in the GoNintendo article they blamed Nigoro (their partners in getting La Mulana to WiiWare iirc) for not stepping up their game and getting it out. since they sat on it and its DLC for so long and the Wii cycle is winding down, they said they weren't willing to continue waiting on Nigoro finally putting out a game that wouldn't sell well because everyone's already looking ahead to Wii U.
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@Z-LemonHead: We're sorry you disagree!

The only way i'd go for it is if the digital release is significantly cheaper than retail. otherwise, i'll be happy to have it in cartridge form.

@waltz: no, because I like lemons. >:3
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@komic: actually, if you want to play Playstation games, buy an Xperia Play. If Nintendo could partner with a smartphone dev and craft a perfect 'Nintendo phone' in a similar manner, i could see it happening, but not as it stands right now.

also, with as yellow as that chocobo is, he'd have to be a banana :3

@Waltz: Nintendo's having enough problems populating its own VC, let alone a VC for an iDevice, tbqh. There's also the fact that its games were created for a device that features buttons — I can't see Miyamoto being okay with their games being released for a device with such an obvious playing-experience handicap.

@Myx: If you're dissatisfied, vote with your wallet and stop purchasing their products. If you keep giving them money for things (i believe i spotted you looking forward to Heroes of Ruin in a different thread), they've 'won'.

@BlackFira: lol, i see what you did there~

@Pengaweeno: Why would Paper Mario be cancelled?