Video: Nintendo Shows Off Level Creation in Mario vs. Donkey Kong: Tipping Stars and, Weirdly, a Sing-Along in Code Name: S.T.E.A.M.

Shorten the sing along and put it on tv

Haha, I love how they start the Nintendo Minute off with saying that Other M won't be discussed.

That sing along was AWESOME!

If only you could stop the minis. I'd buy the game if you could just STOP THEM AT WILL. Why. Why'd they take that out? Sigh

I'd buy the game if they didn't charge you double.

I love the advertising Steam is getting. Even this song was all in good fun. Wish Nintendo did this more.

@ikki5 I've got good news for you! They are charging exactly 1x the price they are offering it for!

I almost liked the STEAM song. It like how it seems to fit the setting, but it doesn't really match the tone of the game when you are playing it. At least that's what I feel from the demo. It's just a little TOO goofy. And I like the over the top nature of the game.

The Super Metroid vs. Prime debate was pretty funny. Even they knew it was completely pointless as neither of them actually believed one was better than the other.

Arguing which metroid title is better is a moot argument. The fact is, the two are so similar and they each innovated so much in their respective playstyles that it's really just splitting hairs. Just because the two are a bit different doesn't mean that one's better than the other.

@aaronsullivan I think @ikki5 was talking about Mario vs DK in which some of the previous games in the series have always been $10.

@Grumblevolcano yeah, I know. It all feels silly to me. Games in the series have also sold for $40. The claim of double is impossible to make because there is no price of this game to compare it to. This game is the only game that is itself and it can only be double if it is available somewhere else at a different price. Seems to me that any price point would be called double by some because of the crossbuy thing. @ikki5 is right not to buy it if the price isn't right for him, of course.

♩ ♪ ♫ ♬ Heroes hand in hand, marching across the land ♩ ♪ ♫ ♬

♩ ♪ ♫ ♬ Here comes Code Name STEAM!!! ♩ ♪ ♫ ♬

♩ ♪ Duh dun duh dun duh dunn... Duh dun...

Oh, is the song over?

All hail, Code Name S.T.E.A.M!!!! I will be getting it.

God help me...

I love Fire Emblem and Advance Wars. I love Intelligent Systems. I love Steam-punk, and I love tactical strategy games...

But for the life of me, I can't figure out why everything about Code Name STEAM isn't working for me no matter how I want it to.

I think the art style is chunky and unappealing, the color palette makes my eyes bleed, the inclusion of lion men is confusing and doesn't work in my brain, the Abe Lincoln thing is kind of disrespectful...

I really, really, really, want to love this new IP from Intelligent designs...

@NebulaGamer @aaronsullivan

Minis on the Move - $9.99, Minis March again - $8.00, This game - $19.99. Now, tell me what this game offers more than what these games were, let alone Minis on the move did allow sharing of levels. Sure, the old retail versions often did cost more than $20, the later games have been significantly reduced. So far from what I have heard and seen, there isn't much more than what the $8 and $10 games were. But if you can show me otherwise that they have twice the content as those two that I named above, then I will always consider this game to be double the price to make up for the fact you get two copies for it.

@NebulaGamer I think @ikki5 is saying that even though the levels are brand new, there aren't enough of them to justify the price tag. There are fewer levels than Minis on the Move, which also had level creation and sharing and which cost half the price. We are paying double because of the "cross buy" codes which just give us two copies - so we are paying the $10 the game is worth for both copies of the game. The game is not worth $20 and then we are getting one copy free.