Nintendo Download: 28th May 2010 (Europe)

Congratulations, Europe, on getting Kirby Super Star (er, Kirby's Fun Pak) on the European VC. [Why did they change titles in NA and EU, I wonder?]

About time you guys got Super Star

Just Sing: National Anthems

So now they're just daring us to download utter crap, right?

The only game I'm interested in getting is art style: penta tenracles. I won't get kirby super star because of the superior ds remake.

Whoa, there's an actual game called Just Sing! National Anthems?

I'm surprised they didn't change the European name of the DS remake to "Kirby's Ultra Fun Pack"

I'm still confused as to why certain games' titles are altered when released in either NA or EU. I can understand StarFox (StarWing), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles), NInja Gaiden (Shadow Warriors), and Shadow of the Ninja (Blue Shadow). Otherwise, I'm afraid I may not understand why Kirby's Avalanche was changed to Kirby's Ghost Trap, or why Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage was changed to Spryo 2: Gateway to Glimmer, or why Illusion of Gaia was changed to Illusion of Time (having played the game, I understand how time plays a vital role in the plot, but I'm still unsure of why the title was altered?), just to name a few. It's a mystery to me.

Thought DSiWare was always about daring people to download crap.

I don't even care for these updates any more, to be honest.

No "Light Trax"? Consider me mad! @_@

nice week

@WaveBoy - Kirby's Dream Land 3 is one of those love it or hate it titles. Personally, I enjoyed every single second of it, and, imo, it's the best Kirby game ever made. Kirby Super Star [Ultra] being my second favorite in the series.
Kirby's Dream Land 2 is a great sequel to the original game; it's got three animal helpers, a chance to complete the game 100%, seven hidden rainbow shards, a true final boss (that can only be fought once you acquire all the rainbow shards) and two different endings, adding to the replay value. Kirby's Dream Land 3 has replay value, too.

downloaded Kirby's Fun Pak. I wonder what our next VC game will be. I'm assuming whatever it is, it'll be what America gets on Monday next week. So Wild Guns perhaps?

Do you have a Super Game Boy cartridge (if you have an SNES console), or a Game Boy Player (if you have a GameCube), WaveBoy? Either option works, 'cause you can play Game Boy games on your TV screen with either of those two. The Super Game Boy has preset colors, a border, and ambient sound effects in the overworlds (I'm talking about Kirby's Dream Land 2). The Game Boy Player plays like a Game Boy Advance (in which if you're playing a pre-Game Boy Advance game you can either decide to keep the screen in its original size, or you can stretch it, via the press of either shoulder button).

I think I owe one krotchy Kirby 5 bucks.

[^ What does that word mean, if anything?]
I love turning enemies into allies. I also love how The Great Cave Offensive has treasures that allude to other video game series (i.e. Triforce, The Legend of Zelda; Screw Attack, Metroid).

Hero of Sparta was pretty fun for it's low price on PSP. I wonder how the DS version stands up, especially considering it costs a good 3 bucks or so more.

Penta Tentacles, seriously? What a terrible name.

Great to see Kirby, but I still have the original SNES cardridge. Lead the Meerkats sounds interesting, but no clue what to think of it.

@7. StarBoy91
I know Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles was changed to Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles in Europe because they wanted to take the word Ninja out of the title which they considered to be bad or something and make it Hero because that would be more kid friendly.

@StarBoy91
Star Fox was renamed Star Wing (and StarFox 64 was renamed Lylat Wars) because of a trademark issue. There was a game called Star Fox before Star Fox.......

glad to see u all get a virtual console game......i cant wait to they finally want to give us contra and super mario world 2 yoshis island......

@skywake - I recall having looked that up in an article involving "The Making of Star Fox" (iirc) on NintendoLife.
I guess what bothers me about certain title alterations is why it's done in the first place. I'm seriously wondering why Quintenix/Nintendo changed from Illusion of Gaia (NA/AU) to Illusion of Time (EU)? Was there a disagreement which caused "Gaia" to become "Time" in the title? Maybe I'm just wondering about it too much.
Did Ninja Kirby remain intact in the European version of Kirby Super Star, or was that ability removed/replaced?

You could at least have a singing game that does not require knowing 5 different languages. But still, this game looks amazing. Im expecting a 10/10.

Hehe, Penta Tentacles

What a WiiWare update: Meerkats looks fun, Voodoo Dice looks fascinating, and Art Style! Terrible name, but Penta Tenticles gameplay footage makes it look like really good fun.

DSiWare is a bit disappointing though. The animal Pictoss game should be ok, I like puzzlers, so I probably get into Bloons, but other than that, it's terrible. Hero of Sparta, especially, is an appaling game, based on the iPhone/ PSN versions, with shocking framerates, ugly graphics, terrible collision detection, and such sedate pacing for an action game. It's actually better value to buy a PS3 and God of War or Dante's Inferno than plug down 800 points for that game.

@EU I knew you guys wouldn't have to wait long after NA got Kirby before you would get it as well.

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (UK) --> Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (USA)
Because the rest of the world is smarter than America - har har
Americans should be insulted at the insinuation that they don't know what a philosopher is.

Great update! I'm getting Kirby and Art Style and will wait for the reviews of Lead the Meerkats and Voodoo Dice.

KIRBY!!!!! YEEEEEEESSSSS _{must get Wii points now}

Oehoe, I can finally brush up on singing my own national anthem! Hope you get scored on how pretty you sing it as well. Awesomeness.

Generally NoE change names to be easier to understand for non-English speakers (FIGS I guess as those are the languages NoE translates into), so puns tend to vanish away (more recently they have done literal translations of game titles though some will argue at their accuracy like Sin and Punishment 2s subtitle). As for Kirby's Avalanche I'd have to check news stories around 1993-1995 but people tend to die in Avalanches (especilly given how much Skiing goes on in Europe) so having a Kirby game with name is a bit insensitive. As for Ghost Trap. I guess the Puyos kind of look Ghostly. Personally, I would have called it Kirby's Mean Bean Machine to really confuse people

I wonder if Just Sing contains all verses of the German anthem or if they've only put the third in there? The first two still exist on the books and if they didn't research it properly they might mess that up (the first two aren't sung anymore because of Nazi co-notations).

@StarWolf - okay, so, I guess that's a good reason.
I hope I'm not being antagonistic because of all the NA/EU nomenclaturization. I'm just incredibly curious, that's all.

@StarBoy91
Year, I think Starwolf_UK has a point. They change some names, that they think are to difficult to pronounce for non-English speakers in Europe ( And there are still many who can't speak and understand English very well in the big European country's. )
This has been the case with movies from NoE, so I think its the same with games. I remember no one in main land Europe could really pronounce "Miss Congeniality", so they changed it to "Agent Catwalk" here in Denmark, "Miss F.B.I." in Germany and "Miss Agent" in Poland, and so on.
"The Interpreter" is another movie that the changed in Europe, and simply translated its title to native language instead.

Difficult pronunciations? I never took that into consideration.

Downloaded Art Style Penta Tentacles and Kirby's Fun Park (despite having the fantastic Kirby Superstar Ultra DS). Both very satisfying and enjoyable games so far.

I didn't know Animal Colour Cross was "part" of Colour Cross DS (duh)! The Colour Cross DS game was pretty decent though it had the odd flaw (save function?!) so I sold it on after deciding Picross and 3D Picross were enough for my DS collection. Still, as a 500 point DS title, I'll give ACC a shot.

I'm getting frustrated at the lack of storage solution on the DS, I must say.

Hero of Sparta:
idevice-was 5 now 2 bucks
psp- 5 bucks
ipad- 5 bucks
DSiware(eu)- 800 np's

hm.. wonder why so many people hate Gamelofts ported games so much.

The RPG battles in Kirby Super Star [Ultra] are very fun. I like how the enemy windows are like the ones you see in an Apple computer.
HAL Labs also made a really good, unfortunately obscure first-person RPG for the SNES called Arcana [JP/NA] years prior to Kirby Super Star.

Lead the Meerkats and Kirby's Fun Pak Downloaded. Jesh!
I can't wait how relaxing are Meerkats!

Welcome to NintendoLife, Mikanes.
The Ice ability is very awesome. In fact, I have a pixel art of it on deviantART.