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Quite enjoying it myself. I like my roommate's point it was teen rated in Japan and it makes sense to have a similar rating here and possibly open it up to more people then the Mature rating would have.

I didn't like Warioware on the GBA so I was hoping for something to replace it. Nope. So my platinum coins will sit.

Nothing to do now but see what happens.

Nothing from today. Box Boy from yesterday though I think.

Guess I'll grab the theme tonight

@ThomasBW84 - There is a hidden mission to find a mii character's hiding place as well for 10 coins.

I'm not good at but I love Bowhemoth. I can't normally get a group for it but it makes great fun. Always only 2% finished.

We'll see on Tuesday. Though female Link I hope would mean Prince Zelda because Whynut

I had 5,7,8. I enjoyed 5 a lot and 7 slightly less. 8 didn't appeal and I got to try 9, wasn't my cup of tea so to speak.

Darn it Lego. Some of those I'd want and I was trying not to get a toys to life game.

Huh, I got one of those somewhere.

I don't like the practice in the least but if people are going to do it. I hope they would or will stick to titles that won't involve the game being pulled off the eShop.

I loved Prime Hunters on DS. The multiplayer sadly is likely the biggest draw here, good news is you can go into local multiplayer and play against computer controlled characters, they only use the power beam but if set to higher difficulties get more accurate. Not sure as its been so long but I think one can also watch an all CPU match. Single player campaign is alright, the coolest part was that the enemy hunters could be hiding on a planet you wanted to go to and you had to risk fighting them or trying to land elsewhere and hope when you looked again they were gone.

Dragon Quest IX is my favourite dragon quest and likely my favourite DS game in general.

I want battery saves. Passwords should remain in the past when it comes to save data.

That reminds me, I still need to beat SMT IV

Sounds good. I was debating building a coliseum to host player matches in and one of the vs. tricks a friend taught me has been fun.

Two things of note, most classes can be reclassed into by someone on each side from the other side's classes so classes aren't too exclusive. Of course you can only have a handful of your forces classes from the other group at a time. The other is Birthright has one hard chapter trick of note, so don't expect a total cake walk.

@BranJ0 - Conquest made me feel I finish a book and knew everything I needed to be satisfied with what I read, it felt complete. Birthright felt like my copy of "The Three Musketeers" (Which has entire pages blank and chapters, made it an awful read) I felt like I followed through but I missed things and didn't feel like I read a whole story. Of course I did play Conquest first so maybe in the reverse order Birthright wouldn't have seemed as bad and felt as it did.
Also no strange out of place Valm story chapter randomness in any of the three paths.

@Giygas_95 - I debated doing that but held back from it in the end, starting with Conquest.

@Fynnez13 - Honestly I'd likely go Conquest, there is nothing to set up any trust for me or care in the intro for Birthright.

Haven't got it and after trying my roommate's copy I won't be. Controls are a hot mess. Or as I responded in a tweet asking if I was barrel rolling. "...the Controls are not user friendly."

Looks decent actually. I wonder if Nintendo would someday let us make something like that for Zelda.

@Thomas - Pretty sure I got to play 13 stages (1 from the second area) before I had to use my Mario amiibo. Review reads about right and I've got a group of friends who are trying to beat the 3DS one by sharing our collections of Mario characters.

Fates and Awakening I'm in love with so to speak. Code Name S.T.E.A.M. I got for three reasons, $15 at EB Games, the speed up enemy turns and I had a Robin amiibo to try in it. I think if enemy turns could have been sped up before the demo launched it might have helped it. Its okay, something I occasionally put progress in but not often and if not for the Fire Emblem characters I likely would get less out of it. I really wish the character's would not keep screaming "ALIEN!" every time I tried re-aiming and moving to look for foes, I think that's my biggest complaint.

@Luffymcduck - I've been told the demo was updated with the faster enemy turns option.

Likely why I'm so happy to have VC Red version. No online, no natures, no breeding for better hidden stats, no mucking up IVs and no highly competitive people around. I actually can't stand the online for Pokemon, odds of cheaters, overly talented people and beginners mean I likely never am matched against someone on level with me looking for the same battle. Aside from Black 2 I still play through, enjoying the single player and whatever follows to the fullest. It would have been mid to late gen IV that my brother stopped cheating Gen IV and slowly became competitive with it. By gen V I had to at least try it to stand ground and gen VI it became too much. The signs of this to me start not in Gen IV, that's just where we got the ability to battle other trainers but Gen III, in particular Emerald version were a competitive area was the post game, starting the driving move pools, pokemon picks and main game run not towards enjoying the run and playing with friends but to a hard competition and has brought the post game, to collect missing legendaries, collect mega stones, do small post story and fight the battle facilities. The Frontier is likely why I didn't like Emerald version. I'm looking forward more to a SIlver, Gold, Crystal VC announcement then Sun and Moon because I'd rather play those with friends again then have all the tiers of different battlers that the newer games have brought.

@Thomas - Minor spoilers ahead but I figured I'd let you know this about Fates (Assuming you aren't hiding it for spoiler reasons.)

Intuitive controls? Skyward Sword is intuitive. Star Fox Zero is not intuitive, it is obtuse. Training left me baffled by them and playing the campaign was fine at first. I could set the motion only controlled by pressing ZR and ignore them. Once that didn't work then the controls failed miserably. From the silly zoomed out all range mode to the required touchscreen view that wasn't just the little robot helper. And don't get me started on Landmaster all range mode were you basically cannot steer the tank period. Also the second stick use was terrible. It was so much easier to use a button to say barrel roll, boost, brake, "U-turn" and somersault. Having the mapped on the analogs made mistakes and errors all too easy and the fact that two of them were on buttons anyways meant I always went for them. also the ZL lock on was useless, absolutely useless. It made it harder to find targets and fly as desired. In fact I beat

by ignoring ZL and playing it by somersaulting when they got behind me.

If they had gone with normal controls this would have been excellent but as it is, its a hot mess do to a poor control scheme. To quote honest trailers, "Get ready to do a Barrel Roll over and over again, directly into a wall." As that summed up the experience nicely.

I'm shocked Bravely Second made it. Most people I've talked to dropped out of the first one during chapter 3 (I dropped out in chapter 4), so I'm surprised there was enough interest to have it come in the top 10 of any list.

I thought so. Now just annouce the small daily gold income and payment plan for more and use gold to lock everything with breakable weapons and you got more or less the wall of text I described on another post describing what I thought would be Mobile Fire Emblem. (Not rewriting the text wall).

They completely fail if Lunatone and Solrock are not version exclusives. Oh extra points if Lunatone is in Sun and Solrock in Moon just because.

This is unfortunate. Too bad I only ever got the GBA rpg ones that were localized. I wonder if importing one of the DS ones would be worth my time because I haven't got a new one in soo long.

I have no interest in Animal Crossing and I'd rather not see Fire Emblem head to mobile.

@ASonic3582 - I bet that's explained in the beginning but it still feels like a spoiler, would have loved that as a surprise.

A mini story? I'm game.

First off the fact two well selling titles have turned this franchise into a major I.P. seems impressive and a really fast turn around.

I expected the mobile effort to pull in Mario, Zelda, Miis. Maybe some others like Animal Crossing, Metroid, Warioware, Pikmin. Pokemon was already expected by me, as they had previously released a pokedex and "GO" is in beta. Fire Emblem was off my list and it stings to see it going here because I doubt we'll see much of anything.

I'm not expecting anything worth bothering with, my expectations are no classic mode, just casual as you can't reset a phone game, no Lunatic or extra challenge. I'd say we be set in the deep realms, mainly fooling around with a "my castle" mode. Small cast of characters, about ten chapters long designed to at longest be 20-30 minutes with some kind of sleep mode/save state. I expect the class system to be highly reduced, likely back down to single paths and no reclassing. Weapons likely also take a knock back, I doubt we see daggers and magic is likely reduced to a single line of increasing in power spell books. Now to mobile make it. I'm guessing daily invasions of enemies or the ability to attack groups of enemies daily to force us to grind, to be able to take later chapters. They might even make most weapons breakable to force us to have to use a slowly earned amount of daily gold and I'd think the choke point for money would be to either summon more enemy attacks, to attack more enemies and/or to get more money. I'd also suspect that there'd be some kind of mode to handle fighting friend armies. Oh and because why not, dlc maps to extend the story or to get a "real ending".
I think out side of dlc, we see our character either in a Robin or Corrin role as an avatar of us. Then one mage, one archer, one pegasus knight, one fighter, one mercenary, one myrmidon, one cleric, one cavalier, one thief and one wyvern rider. So that's 11, we likely see one more for 12 main units and maybe childern because I'm not sure they'd throw supports to this or not. This is of course the best I'd expect them to throw out there, I'm expecting less then this.

I don't want to see this mobile is foolish to me. Play a game on my phone? What do you think I get handheld systems for? Too look pretty on my desk and to show off? No, to play games, on the go.Worst of all I learned in my small time fiddling with phone games, a game can get upgrade beyond what your phone can handle despite being previously playable and downloadable, rendering the game unplayable. So I'd rather pay up front and get a game for a computer or dedicated device and be sure not only am I getting a full experience, there is no pay wall, no micro transactions in my way and I'm getting a full game. I don't expect any of that from mobile and its why I don't bother or would rather not bother. I gave Miimoto a pass and will likely keep it up with the rest of the mobile efforts, they'd have to do some real work to get me to consider grabbing these future titles.

Extremely disappointed in this.

Release date isn't bother me. I'm disheartened there is no E3 showing for the console of any degree aside from learning Zelda is on both.

There goes my christmas game. I'll make a point and get it on Wii U, like how I got Twilight Princess for Gamecube.

That level looks exactly like the Rogue Squadron II level where you attack the Motivator above Kothlis.

Team Squidward? I guess I'll flip a coin.

This be pretty neat to have.

Some fun titles I picked up from the service but I won't miss it too much.

Thank you @Thomas. Would never have clicked the Mario Block other wise and don't worry, in Canada I bet we can get 80 coins in a single download because exchange rates.
eg. Pokken Tournament 74.99 before tax.
Edit: Nevermind, its $97.00 before tax for 80.

Redeeming codes is hidden under a menu on the top left of the page if anyone is wondering where to redeem a Club Nintendo code (Took me ten minute to find).

It was shocking to see this. Then there was Inkle. Then I checked the date. Well played Alex. Also 29 fps? Why so random.

@Wuvwii - You're welcome. I'll have to see what else you put together sometime.

Second level had a choke point but I got the world record of 2:34:507. I'm sure I'll lose that. Nice set of courses though. Loved the effect of the first three using the same top slightly edited.

Curious. My 36 are still up. I wonder why they deleted that level, it looked fine. Seeing how much time I've spent on some levels to make them, I hope this isn't a new trend.

I may have considered them at $ 7.99 for a few of them but oh no, we are getting them for $11.29. Not putting up with a $3.70 increase over a Wii U copy. Especially when the ones I'll want I likely own in other forms.

Canadian Gamer here. NA is more then the US after all. Playing my special edition, I think I'm about half way through Conquest. Birthright will be next followed by my preferred option of Revelations. Took a little bit to get into it but has a fantastic feel.

I'm getting a limited FE Fates. So nothing this time.

Heads up Pokemon VC in Canada is going to be $12.49. The games are up and there are 3 different language versions of each game. So you can get say Red in French, English or Spanish and each is a different download. Same for Blue and Yellow.

Majora's Mask, Skyward Sword, Spirit Tracks. Are my top.

How is the pacing in this one. I spluttered out of Bravely Default in the third chapter which I keep hearing is common. Came back later on, got stuck on the chapter's final boss. Came back later and stopped playing right before trying the Chapter four final boss. I found the game grew dull, tedious and slow or at least I became bored. I think I'm likely to skip this one till people push through and find out for me if there is another game dropping point.