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Bust a Move Plus was my first WiiWare download. I greatly enjoyed it.

I bought it after having played the first Puzzle Bobble at a Pizza Hut many times during the GC era.

I didn't get a Wii U back in the day because it was expensive and had too many gaming options (3DS, Wii, PC) to bother adding another layer to what should've stayed a minor hobby.

But if I did have one I think I'd love it, I really like the Wii's design and Wii U feels like its ultimate form.

I got to try Sonic Advance 3 on cemu, and the VC interface is so good, intuitive and nice to look at, it's always something missing from unofficial emulators.

@Snatcher Same reason Fist Bump didn't fly with me, if the singers sound like agitated teenagers it doesn't appeal to me.

Tbh, if I ever get into Sonic Frontiers I'd want to do the same and get rid of the loud and obnoxious vocal tracks.

Not a fan of "open zone", I find it overwhelming, repetitive and generic, but since SA3 or a Heroes successor is impossible at this point, I'm hoping the next Mania endeavor tackles the Advance series instead of trying to make "Sonic 5".

And maybe add more than 4 zones this time.

Not on my list but wouldn't have minded having another cool female fighter.

We got Alex instead, th-thanks Sakurai!

Sounds like Dusty Desert from Sonic2006, really nice track.

The best 3D Sonic games have quite a few so I'll give a shoutout to:

Cryptic Castle from Shadow the Hedgehog.

It's the only part in the game where you see Cream and what is essentially a massive Chao garden.

The expert mode version of the level has a new puzzle gimmick near the end, and I'd say it's one of the harder levels in all Sonic games.

They should've used Blaze, I don't understand the insistence on making Big happen, most fans still hate him.

The facial expression he has on the poster is also uncanny, very out of character.

I wish they would portray the characters accurately instead of trying to "improve" them like Boom failed to do.

If I were to get a Wii U it would be to:

• Play Xenoblade X
• Play DS games
• Play Wii/GameCube games overclocked
• Play Wii VC/GC with 16:9 correction

So uh, yeah. I'd probably also want to use it as a video player, but I hear the homebrew side never bothered making a player. So the only way to use the dedicated video decoder is to load up a video stream on the web browser.

In 2015 Extrems stated that the Startup disc has less than 2 frames of input lag, and that the main GBI release has 2-3 frames of input lag, since the point is to filter out the repeating frame stutter.

I've never played a Bayo game yet, but I wouldn't mind trying it. I wouldn't boycott the game just because one part of the development process screwed up, even if it's one my favorite parts of a game.

I love voice acting, SEGA 100% broke my heart when they axed the 4Kids cast in Colors, but the whole game was a major downgrade from previous titles, I suppose I "boycotted" by buying the DS version instead.

THis iS wHy jApAnEsE VoIcE AcTiNh iS SuPpEriOr.

I mean, it doesn't matter how "ranked" Ikue Ohtani is for voicing Pikachu, you can still count on her to voice a character she hasn't voiced in a decade for your cashgrab mobile game (e.g. Gash Golden Memories)

My pride would not allow me to say Sonic 06, which at this point I just think it's a decent action game that is exactly what the fans wanted in 2005.

I just refuse to recognize a bad game if I find it fun to play. Like, that's the point.

Otherwise I could say Ocarina of Time, because the visuals are bad, the frame rate is bad, the pacing is bad, you can't skip cutscenes, and all the other aged stuff in OOT.

It looks fine to me but why do the voices have to be cheap copies instead of going for something new??

I'm tired of hearing Sonic sound like a fool.

Tho not exactly related, this reminds me that during a NM show, Kit talking about 3DS Virtual Console called the restore points "save states" so.... Kit definitely plays on unofficial emulators.

Deep... sure ...well except for the Sonic series, ya get yer character in the game but only melee attacks and spindashes... A second stage is nice, but it's from Sonic Lost World and shares the same aesthetic as the first stage...

Ken, Alex, Richter, Lucina, Dark Pit, Dark Samus...Sonic got a Knuckles assist trophy for his third appearance in Smash...thanks Sakurai.

I dunno, you'd think a character that has crossover'd with Mario for years would've had more care put in. The 3DS didn't have many games for Sonic and he's still featured on the eShop's home next to Zelda and Pokémon.

I don't know how much the game stands on its own with just minigames and rental pokés, but for a subscription service it does make some sense (if only a little) to just focus on the base game.

There's always the Wii or Wii U with PBR and DS linkup if you want that spectacle element to yer pokémon battles.

No Arden Lyn, then what the heck is the point?? Certainly not gonna spend the studs for Reva. She didn't ruin the show for me but well she took the Qui Gon death, man... and survived.

They should've called this AbyssWare, Inc.: Mega Falling $tars.

Not my cup of tea, but maybe it'll grow on me.

I just miss the more mature vocals, Johnny Gioeli, Steve Conte, Runblebee... Bentley Jones doesn't have a manly voice but it still sounded really good and fit perfectly the few times they used him.

EDIT: Referring to the main theme, not Vandalize.

KOF is a series I care very little for, I'm just here because of Shiranui-san's chichis.

It's no Crush 40 but it's miles upon miles better than that kiddy Fist Bump song that somehow made it into Smash Ultimate.

Vocals of this Vandalize song sort of remind me of A Little Faster by There For Tomorrow, the theme of the 2nd liveaction Ben 10 film. Super nostalgic.

The 30 fps bullet bill should not look that janky, for reference set the video to 480p and the 60 fps bullet bill is still smooth. I guess it's exaggerated to make a point, but still odd.

@Nua That's the thing though, nobody uses that phrase thinking of Sonic X, because nobody actually cared about it when the show was popular.

Several years after the show aired people started using it for memes and it stuck hard, many people think that it's been Sonic's go-to catchphrase forever, but no merch or game ever mentions it.

Maybe I am in the wrong, maybe NL writers are huge into the US Sonic X theme, but it's still tiresome when the series' history is so extensive.

I'd like to see the alternate universe where 4Kids didn't change Sonic Drive and thus "gotta go fast" didn't happen and every Sonic article in NL has a more creative tagline.

Another Code R is well worth buying, though it's not much of a game, it's a really nice experience. To me it will always be one of the highlights of the Wii, the visuals are also incredible.

Out of region Wii games are a bit friendlier than GameCube games, if you load the disc on a Wii set for NTSC-U, the game will not switch to a PAL video mode. In other words, you don't need to patch the game in any way, you just need to surpass the title ID check of the system menu.

My preferred method is using priiloader to remove the disc region check permanently. That gets the banner showing on the disc channel and starts right away. Riivolution and others would require stopping the disc and spinning it again, so it's slower.

Eh, isn't at this point in the story Shulk more emotional towards Fiora? So, more intimacy makes sense, unless Shulk sees her as a friend only, then it is a bit out of place.

My favorite era for SEGA, they somehow would bring out these huge, content-heavy Sonic games and still deliver new titles like, SMB, Billy Hatcher, PSO, and Virtua Quest.

And I like how even during the Wii era, there were a bunch of "Dreamcast 2" sequels, like NiGHTS, Samba de Amigo, a quite different SMB, and they even came out with arcade-y style Sonic (Secret Rings), plus all those SEGA All-Stars games.

If we're talking on a personal level, and not the value of the game itself, then surely Another Code R imported from the UK, I won it in an auction.

I guess imports usually take first place, since you definitely have to care enough to bother. Unless of course, you're a rich eccentric.

If we're talking value, probably SA2B, I got it used when the GC was already on its way out. I'm more of an SA1 guy, but it's a fun time either way.

This is the epic guy who brought FE to PS1 and then got sued by Nintendo.

Also, an unfortunate name to use in Spanish speaking countries.

Why do people want a sequel of Mania? The best stages to rip from are already in the first one, if a sequel is developed using original levels only then you might as well call it Sonic 5.

Sonic Mania Advance would be dope, though.

Anyone know if the blue coin crash in noki bay was fixed in 3D All-Stars??

I did the pachinko thing in about 10 tries, but the "Yoshi wait and test your patience" to then play on the poor lilypad controls, now that's the real nightmare.

I had this game around the same time as Sonic Heroes and have no problem admitting Heroes was the more enjoyable 3D action/platformer, it even does 60fps.

@YoshiF2 I couldn't care less for modern FE, it's not even FE anymore.

I don't want to offend AW fans but I still find it incredibly random that Nintendo chose this game to remaster and not something more popular like any of the GBA FEs.

@ReaperMelia It's impossible to buy on Wii U, because it only released on Wii VC, because Nintendo.

This is great, as someone who got the SNES experience through hand-me-downs we pretty much only had the carts, and never had an idea of what the manuals were like.

Now if someone would still have the old websites archived for the DS/Wii era, there used to be localization interviews for "Another Code: R" on the UK Nintendo site and it's offline now. It would be really interesting to read them again.

Look at this https://www.nintendo.co.uk/Games/Wii/Another-Code-R-A-Journey-into-Lost-Memories-280517.html

It's just a blank page, it's even been excluded from the wayback machine.

Gerald Robotnik.

In SA2 he's a dangerous individual who wants to destroy the world using a giant space cannon, in Shadow the Hedgehog he's a hero who gives people the ability to protect themselves from hostile aliens using said cannon.

Well, it's definitely something along those lines...

This was my first 3D action platformer and I enjoyed it a lot, the music in the trailer gave me a blast of nostalgia.

Here's my pro prediction: "We have re-started development on Prime4, here's the Advance Pack — for an additional $10 you get access to Polarium, Mario Pinball Land, (wow, it's really hard to think up underwhelming GBA games that could reach the service...) and introducing a re-translation of Mother 2 for GBA... only available for a limited time.

When WW released I was more into 2D Zelda like ALTTP and the Oracle games, seeing the new style didn't make me feel anything, I even probably thought the style better represented the deformed sprites of the 2D games.

That said, I'm glad it was not permanent just because it was eventually accepted by practically everyone.

Character re-designs can be such a dangerous gamble. When Sonic Boom was announced through a silhouette of the main characters, and you could see extra spikes, buff Knuckles, long legged Sonic, it was an absolute nightmare.

@victordamazio Happily fooled here. Game is still a joy to play.

'Scrap Riders' is what SEGA told Sonic Team in 2010.

Best kind of mod. Too bad they used the Roger voice.

I assume they're talking from Colors onward, 'cause previous games definitely did emphasize on combat, Silver's and Shadow's gameplay in 06, the Werehog, Sonic and the Black Knight, Adventure's Knuckles gameplay involved using various attacks and combos, Heroes has a plethora of ways to fight enemies.

It's just like Iizuka saying a bunch of false info about wanting to use Frontiers to make SA3 to get people hyped and it sucks.

I was definitely the target audience for SMC back in 2004, having little to no knowledge of the Genesis games, unlocking them after a while was a good thing to prevent me from getting bored easily and trying every game too quickly.

I do know I had a SA2B save, which reduced the number of play times by 30, when it came to unlocking some of the games.

It will always seem strange to me that both Hydrocity acts are not MJ's, since those were the first tracks I was like yeah that bit is definitely a callback to Another Part of Me, but that bit has been appearing in later games too, like in SA1 and Generations. So it must be a funny coincidence, or the composer who did that track (probably Senoue) was aware of MJ's involvement and wanted to add a nod.

If you ask me the biggest loss is Icecap, not even for the Smooth Criminal bits, it's just all-around great.

Ugh the yelling is terrible. No one can hold a candle to Griffith.

Wait a minute, that's such a bad way to pronounce Mephiles, perhaps they should start putting an é in there or something.

The attention to detail is 0, could you imagine if a Nintendo Direct suddenly pronounced Luigi with a hard g?