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Re: Review: Mickey's Speedway USA (Nintendo 64)

BigBluePanda

I really enjoyed this back in the day. As you progressed, the difficulty increased hugely on the late cups/modes. The handling was also absolutely sublime.

Don't think it's aged too well, unfortunately, but this is definitely one of the better Mario Kart clones.

Re: Nintendo Europe Dropped London Life to "Avoid Delays"

BigBluePanda

@mumof2kids82 Professor Layton and the Curious Village came out at the end of 2008, where it was pretty much sold out everywhere and impossible to get a copy, as they underestimated how well the game would do in the European market. The following two years, Pandora's Box and Unwound Future have added to the sales success, before that, NOE knew that they had established a successful franchise from the first games sales and would continue to release each entry in the series on a yearly basis, even though the games had come a good year or two before in Japan.

I don't buy their excuse. They clearly had plenty of time to prepare a European localisation, considering Layton has become one of their biggest sellers over here for a good few years now, and they chose to leave it to the point where the latest version would've been delayed into the following year, thus missing their biggest sales - the Xmas period.

It may just be an added mini-game, but it easily could've been translated into all those languages in that time period.