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I had the close captions turned on, and it tried to read Aonuma's Japanese as English words; it was hilarious! The funniest part though was at the end.
Instead of saying "click here for more", the captions said "click here for porn". I was dying.

I would not even consider it for more than 15 dollars. 35 pounds sterling!? Are they insane?

I have 2 theories.
1) Breath of the Wild takes place between Ocarina of Time and Wind Waker . There is potentially hundreds to thousands of years of time between the two games, enough time for technology to advance past any point we've seen thus far.
1A) This is an adventure that is lost to history, and it never becomes a legend passed down. Ganon(dorf) never gains control of the world to the point where the people of Hyrule take notice and pass down legends of this hero when he is defeated.
1B) This adventure is spoken of in the beginning of Wind Waker, when Ganon returned and took over the world once again. The hero actually did return to stop him, but either:
i)The hero was ultimately defeated by ganon, or
ii) The hero is responsible for the flooding of the land of Hyrule to become the Great Sea.

2) This takes place as an alternative to the legend told before the Wind Waker. In that tale, the people prayed for the Hero of Time to return and defeat Ganon once again. In the Wind Waker, he never appeared, and thus the Goddesses flooded the land to stop Ganondorf. What if this is that same moment where Ganon returns, only in this timeline, the hero does return (after a 100 year cryo-sleep) to face Ganon once again? This would mean another split of the timeline, on the same path where Adult link defeated Ganondorf it Ocarina of Time.

Both of these would chronologically take place at roughly the same time, before the Wind Waker's Great Flood.

@Mario_maniac good to know you value your first born under $200.

Most are thinking this takes place after Wind Waker; what if however this game takes place post Ocarina, but before the great flood that sank Hyrule. We might even have an ending where Ganondorf is successful, or better yet, one where Link is responsible for the Great Sea flooding the whole kingdom.

I laughed out loud at "never truly played a game until you've smelt it", Earthbound in French, and "Link with short hair, Link with slightly longer hair,... Pokemon Go...". Hilarious!

Is it just me, or was the writing and tone of the review far more positive than a score of 5/10 would lead you to expect? Basically their only gripe was that they were left wanting more, which is hardly the worst thing you can say about a game.

Oh, so your issue is about the story? You're actually the first comment I saw that was specifically addressing the story, rather than general displeasure, or complaining about the artstyle. But again, all we have to go by is a tiny blurb. Does the name being Rock or Aki really make that much of a difference? Mega Man games are hardly known for their in depth stories. Absolutely nothing I've seen so far (which, mind you, is practically nothing) is unreasonable to me for a Mega Man reboot.

I'm really confused what the issue is here. I can easily tell that that is supposed to be Mega Man. It's not even like he went through all that drastic of a redesign. Why are people up in arms about this? There is literally nothing but one picture of one character on a white background. To me, the art style reminds me a bit of that short lived Iron Man cartoon, which was pretty well liked before it was shut down by Disney. I just don't get why anyone has a problem with it already. It seems like petulant whining.Reserve judgement at least until we get a friggen' trailer!

I literally caught only the last 10 seconds of the whole thing.

Mobile Handheld

Wow, I can't believe New Super Mario Bros 2 is still selling so strongly!

It gave me chills.

Man, Nintendo is pretty amazing at compressing these games to only take up a few gigs of data. When many games these days are coming out at over 50 gigabytes, Nintendo shows us games don't have to take up a ridiculous amount of space to be worth playing.

The argument about wanting to have a map on the controller is moot when there's an option for the pro controller. I wouldn't want them to focus on wiimote controls exclusively, but there is no reason why the option had to be removed. There are definitely some aspects of the wii controlls I prefer over the gamepad.

Wow, that Nintendo Direct lasted all of 5 minutes. I came in at 10:02 and it was already half over.

I'm really not seeing any resemblance between the ring and the keyblade at all. Is it just me?

Where the hell is Splatoon? That game surelyrics made more impact than at least half this list!

My brother's name is Corin, so it was really weird hearing all about Corrin in Smash.

Wishing you a happy and fun holidays. Really?

The middle name of Donald Duck is... Fauntleroy

I didn't see that head flying 187 feet into the air after the punch.

@rjejr It said 20 hours before you can even drive a Skell, and 40 before you can fly one. So no, you won't even be close to finishing the story in 20 hours. They also said it is not hyperbole to say that XCX is 5 times bigger than XC.

I find it hilarious that they specify that the plaintiff is a human being who does not literally explode when he loses a match, as reasons why the character isn't representing him.

For Super Mario Maker 2, I want them to let us tackle the 3D games. With 64, Sunshine, Galaxy, and 3D World palettes. It'd be tricky to make it as easy and intuitive as 2D, but it would be so cool if they could pull it off.

None of this story is actually a part of the game, is it? It sounds like it is fictionalizing the experience of a group of testers at E3, not an actual in game story.

Never mind I was completely off on that one.

Wait, How much did Yooka Laylee raise? Isn't it more than this since it was measured in Pounds?

I got Legend of Zelda: Part-Time Clam

That was the slowest paced speed run I've ever seen. The walk speed is just plodding along 9/10 of the time.

Yesterday I won a match by 0.1%.

Great, I really like the song Little Talks. I am looking forward to this game.

Unsung Hero, is that like a Guitar Hero spinoff?

I was hoping we'd see Something to fill the Zelda sized hole at the end of the year, but there was nothing.

Minor spoilers: It's funny how the order they went in was the same as their place in the MK8 time trial.

I'm pretty sure this was already patched. It only works on pre-patched firmware.

Blek says Count Blek.

A lot of people are complaining how expensive this game is micro-transaction wise, but I think the opposite. Is it a little ridiculous that there is an option to pay $48.00? Yes, but only because who needs to buy 498 lives at a time? Each gem is a minimum of 5 hearts, or 2:30 of downtime. This hardly seems the kind of game one would attempt to speed through, playing for hours at a time anyway.

I basically click on every article, however for games I have no interest in, I always skip to the summary and review score on this site. Only when it is a game I've been anticipating do I actually read the content of your reviews. As several others have mentioned, your reviews often run very long. I think if you were to forgo a scoring system, I'd be more likely to skip your reviews altogether, rather than sit and read through the content of every little game and rerelease that ever graces a Nintendo system. Honestly, if a game is ported with zero differences in how it plays, it doesn't need a separate review for every iteration! I often see reviews for the same game three or four times because it released on Wii virtual console, then 3DS virtual console, then WiiU virtual console. Nothing changed!

Keep in mind, The average consumer won't be aware of the existence of the smaller model elsewhere in the world. Most people who don't follow game journalism sites regularly will only know about products released in their territory, and won't be pining over what Japan/Europe has, and they can't get.

How did you know my name?!

Gotta say Brawl for two reasons. Subspace Emissary, and the stage creator. I created dozens of stages with that, but the WiiU one just doesn't measure up.

Why did each announcer have a full 10 second long intro? It totally threw off the pacing, and made the video incredibly boring.

I really don't feel that the absence of a multiplayer mode ought to affect a single player game's score at all. Focus on what is there, not on what was never hinted at or intended to be there. Not every game needs a multiplayer mode, regardless of how "easy to implement" you might think it'd be.

The interview was good, but those charts showed some bad times for Nintendo.

@ZachBeacon Do you really think the Vita will still exist in 5 years?

My circle pad's rubber cover came off last year. I dabbed a bit of superglue on it, wiggled it back into place, and haven't had a problem with it since.

Congratulations GameCube! You're a teenager!

1.8 gigabytes is considered large? Some games (admittedly not handheld) are well over 20 times that! The fact that they can keep it under 2 gigs is a testament to their skill at compression.

Wow, I can't believe how many butthurt people are bashing Ubisoft over this. Basically a guy tweeted his opinion, but did it on the company twitter account. It was an incredibly gentle rebuke, and makes a fair point. Why are so many people so up in arms about this? Do you really like the DLC that much? I personally feel it looks out of place in Mario Kart, but ultimately care very little about it either way. Are you really that passionate about a few digital cars, or are you just looking for an excuse to hate on Ubisoft?