Get those prices down. Start sales, a "Thank you for buying Wii U!" campaign. Say: Games drought? Well, make it a retro Spring / retro Summer with some of gaming's biggest classics for less money. Most of us have bought many of them numerous times. We've paid more than enough for them in the past to justify lower prices today.

If it doesn't work right away, make it work. Don't just whine about it. Making it work is your job.

And: Since Frostbite 3 will be hitting PS3 and X360, hardware can't be the limiting factor on Wii U. The real problems here are ideological stubbornness, bigotry and ugly malevolence. EA has come pretty low when most of use sure believed they couldn't sink any lower.

I bet at least two of them girls border on being underweight. What kind of message is that supposed to deliver to all the girls out there?

Tear down that minimum sales (to get paid) wall, Mr. Iwata!

I don't have the money to spare, so I won't buy it. Even if I had the money to spare, I still wouldn't buy it. 'The Gamepad' has to prove itself after launch. The lukewarm, underwhelming use of it they've shown so far didn't convince me. 'Exciting exclusives', 'third-party catch-up', 'Miiverse'. You're joking, right?! 'It's a new Nintendo system'. Might have been enough somewhere back in the past. You know, when there was less talking and more getting the great games out there, announcing big stuff on Nintendo's side. Nowadays I hear and see and read Reggie, Miyamoto, Iwata and company talking their heads off in that self-satisfied, narcissistic kind of way I despise. They don't have anything substantial to say, but they chew your ear off babbling - and think they're so cool. Shut up and make stuff, I say!

Nothing new to raise my attention level for Wii U to anything above 'meh'. Bayonetta? Seriously, the sequel no other company wanted to make. Who cares?! Monster Hunter? The port of a port of an old Wii game, possibly with additional content. If I had cared for this in the first place, I'd have played this on Wii! To be honest: I switched the thing off when they started blabbering about Nintendo TVii and went for a walk. I went out expecting to miss out on nothing and came back actually having missed out on nothing. Good old lazy Nintendo - at least these days. Just a bunch of talking heads.

Thanks, EnjoyUp Games! Points ready and waiting. Will buy!

Audio: rather mediocre.

Video: garbage.

Looks like complete rubbish to me. Maybe Nintendo should spend some more time making anything b u t minigame collections.

Which title would you prefer to play again?

NONE! Give me new games. Nintendo, I'm already fed up with your thinking about more remakes.

Fans are unimpressed as well.

They had plenty of time. They just spent too much of it telling us about garbage and non-games I never wanted to see or hear of in the first place. Throw in some lukewarm ports of games that were hot yesterday and one must be confused about what they were trying to achieve with this.

I don't like (or use) Facebook and Twitter. Do whatever you like on there, but I refuse to take notice of it.

Calculate the amount of money needed to publish it yourself, then evaluate the chances for this thing via Kickstarter. This way people could buy the game in advance and the Nigoro guys might at least be sure not to end up with a financial loss.

With the minimum sales limit for WiiWare still in place this game isn't exactly cut out to make money for a publisher or even Nigoro themselves.

They've had years to cope with the fact that La-Mulana will never make money (due to the minimum sales limit). So, why cancel it now?! Including the game in your game portfolio (on the website) is obviously okay, but sticking with your business partner to push the software through onto the sales platform seems to be a whole different thing. Dishonorable!

Erm, La-Mulana?!

Could somebody at NLife ask Nigoro about what's going on with La-Mulana?

Where is La-Mulana?!

Bought it, played it, liked it! From what I've seen so far this is a steal at just 500 Points. I'm looking forward to more chapters! The retro vibe is really cool. Reminds me a bit of the BIT.TRIP games, while obviously having an art style and great production values (if I might just borrow the term from the movie business) of its own.

Thanks, guys! I just thought I remembered me downloading some new release in the Wii Shop right after midnight somewhere in the past. Seems that my memory is just wrong.

Still no trace of the game in my German Wii Shop.

I just fired up my Wii Shop and escapeVektor simply isn't there. I guess I'll check back later.

Nnooo shows me some love with such a bargain, so I'm going to give some back by buying escapeVektor right away. I dig the style and I most definitely dig the price. I wish you good sales, guys!

I didn't stick to my initial reaction (said I wouldn't buy for 1500 points) and bought MotoHeroz after the first reviews! This simply is one of the best games you can get on WiiWare and the price is absolutely justified by the addicting gameplay and polish to be found in the game. Buy points, buy the game, compete online! Doing a good run can be tricky, but you'll get better with practice, practice and practice.

YUCK! I hear too much of that crappy MIDI music in the trailer! I'd hoped they'd gotten rid of that, but they seem to use it once again. This is something that really bugs me. Can do without voice acting, but this?!

Thanks, but no thanks. Will buy one N64-VC plus Escape Vector instead. Give my regards to RedLynx, they blew it.

I've had my fair share of fun with both games for Wii, but the second one - while still being a good game - clearly was a sequel for the fans. I guess it was a bit too simplistic, straightforward and colourful for the HD crowd. Both games have soundtracks that are simply ace though! I'll always remember painting the town with those incredibly addicting tunes blasting away.

Recent news!

Ratings complete: CHECK! (USK confirmed theirs)

Now it's off to "lot check" and - hopefully - a release in the near future.

Avoid this rip-off completely! All parties involved should be ashamed for putting such a hefty price tag on this title. And yes, Cave Story and La-Mulana are completely different cases.

Only one show for Europe? What a bunch of *ssholes over there at Big N! Where's your apology for t h i s sh*t, Mr Iwata?!

SEGA needs to dump HVS ASAP! They seem to be incapable of making good games and the major complaints in all the reviews covering their titles are always the same: uninspired, generic, bad art direction (if any), contains stuff copied from other games jumbled together rather badly. They're either unwilling or unable to learn and evolve. Some people just aren't meant to make games at all.

Maybe it's some sort of misunderstanding or mix-up. We'll hopefully be able to solve the problem so that I'll be able to give the folks at Nigoro some money for their work - although they won't see any until the game reaches the minimum downloads limit.
Cave Story for WiiWare is a great buy and I figure La-Mulana will be worth the money as well.

I contacted the USK via e-mail and Christine Schulz (head of their examination department) replied as follows:

"The legally binding [as in: ready for sale] approval process for the game [La-Mulana] under that very USK number was finished by November 24th by approving the game. Therefore it's all done as far as we can say. There's no new situation causing a hold-up from our side."

Press contact: presse--at--usk.de
Christine Schulz: schulz--at--usk.de

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From the USK website:

La-Mulana

System: Nintendo Wii
Genre: Rollenspiel / actionorientiert
[RPG / Action RPG]

Publisher: Nicalis, Inc.

Altersfreigabe: Freigegeben ab 12 Jahren gemäß § 14 JuSchG
[12 years and up]

Prüfdatum [date of approval]: 24.11.2010

USK Nr.: 29469/10

Sprache: englisch

(Stuff in [] added by me.)

Where is La Mulana?! They seem to be sitting on this one!

EDIT: MDK 2 sales in the U.S. "don't justify" a EU release (according to my e-mail correspondence with Interplay). Liight for WiiWare outside the U.S. was abandoned some time ago (again: poor sales in the U.S.) and I wouldn't wait for The Magic Obelisk either (no plans for EU release).

Man, don't keep releasing the old stuff over and over! This is the kind of nostalgia that's bordering on plain laziness a little too much for my taste.

These are the features that should be most important to gamers in the US and EU: release dates and price in Nintendo Points. I will - most likely - buy this one right after release, so all I need to know is when to expect the game and how much it'll cost me.

Well, it seems that the Euro release (at least on WiiWare) isn't going to happen (due to various reasons). What a letdown for us Europeans.