Brainhost

I've got the tiniest fear that she'll be in a Dead or Alive paradise.

Well, there's my reason to buy this game. It had to happen somehow.

I'm crying a little. I'm happy

Ah well, if it's imminent (which both shantae and cave story have been for about 3 months now) I won't worry about it.

But awesome to see Cave Story brought to the DS anyway. As much love as possible for this great game. Europe wants to participate in this lovegiving though. So badly.

And we wouldn't want to get too excited over good games, would we now. God forbid we'd actually be excited!

So I'm just reading the comments, and I see this:
"I love to grind my dude up for some ass"
Whoa..?

Anyway, scott pilgrim got me interested in this game. Imma buy it.

Well of course they were considered. For what they want to do, it's not surprising that monthly fees passed the drawing board while designing the system's connectivity.

But yeah, I'm glad they went with SpotPass, just cause I'm a cheap barsteward.

Your eyes will probably start bleeding from the sheer beauty.

Hmm, very good. I've already pre-ordered this. I'm hoping, though, that you can turn off the superfluous starting animation where they introduce the monsters. I'll be seeing what's on screen anyway. Kind of redundant.

THAT's a legendary? What -Oh whoa, Video Chat, that's awesome!

YUS! This is awesome news. Makes me giddy.

Sweet, I want this. But yeah, TBA UK/AUS... too bad.

Waluigi time.

Yeah, I went there.

It's ridiculous how well that 8-bit flavour in the soundtrack works. That alone has made me decide to buy it.

This will be a day-one buy for me, meaning a 23rd of July day one. All the reviews weren't necessary to convince me of that. I like the writing here, by the way.

Strategy guide of this one is something I want to look into as well; I'm curious if it has any depth. This game deserves to be delved into deeply.

Is that a DSi XL He's playing?

He's right. The economy crapping out has jack-all to do with videogame sales. The affected areas only start at large pay-sums that could require loans such as cars and houses.

People are just trying to find excuses is all.

61 bucks for the full thing.

I wonder how this is not a retail game, yet I can see the logic in wanting to let people choose what they want to include in their game, and simply not pay for the things they don't care about, but that's a pretty big leap away of what I'm guessing is going on here.

Light Trax! Awesome.

But what the hell, seriously; I want my Cave Story. They haven't even announced a date yet! I'm getting kinda tired of it :/. I want to put my money on the table for them, but this is just stupid.

They don't sell cartridges with a system based approach, so why should digital ware have to suffer that fate, is what I always thought.

Hehehe, it almost constitutes a bad pun if the headline wasn't literal.

Out of that last quote, I'm getting this:

We're going to keep doing what we do. We're just trying to justify why.

Hmm.. I really want this to come out for PAL soon...

The running out of ideas argument has been invalid since Fearow, so don't start that crap and just enjoy your Pokeymens.

Also, second gen ftw. So there.

Aha! Tresure Maps.
I've got to get my hands on those.

They may be, and that's fine, but we're not. And that is NOT fine.

That's... kinda dumb.

I don't get it, but sure, why not!

Goro-Mario?

In what way DID we see Bit Man!! before?

What, no 7/10?
Sheesh, haters.

Hmm.. I'm thinking this might affect sales...

Ah well, I'm getting it anyway. Oh wait, no I'm not. I'm in Europe! Gosh darn it!

Also, can't wait for the review of Flashlight. I already got the scoop that IGN is writing a 4 pager on that, and it's probably gonna be a 9/10. Man, I'm just sucking up the details for this thing.

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Oh. My. God.
I will totally buy a DSi for this . It was about time that we got our core DSiWare title. Sheesh!

VC love.
And good love at that. Rondo of Blood is no small portion of awesomeness.

"(...) they should really speak up"

Is that a joke? What rock was it again they lived under?

I actually thought including the analog stick onto the touch screen was quite clever; I really digged the controls.

Anamanaguchi's Blackout City at the end is a nice touch. I really dig the fact that they're the guest artist this time around. They're the first one I really care for.

Yay for Mega Man 10 and BIT.TRIP Void!
I am a happy European camper.

Mustbuy. I've loved the Bit.Trip games every single time, and this one might shape up to be one of the coolest yet. I hope they go with 600 points again; it's such a nice price point.

@XCWarrior I'd just skip right on to MM9, if I were you .

Have we been desensitized by and for bad boxart? Because as people are saying, this one doesn't seem all that bad. It's actually kind of... sweet.

Oh shi-, appearently this comes out come Friday!

... 400 points short :/ I'll get this once I redeem points for Cave Story I guess.

Great review. I cannot wait to play this.

My point-card has been redeemed, Sonic & Knuckles has been bought, and now I'm just waiting for it to be Friday. Man-o-man, I'm looking forward to it.

@43. Nah, I'm not a big fan. I like the Metroid series is all. I'd like it if they go down the route of a voiced protagonist, but I was really just quite under impressed with the voice sample on the teaser website. That's all I'm saying.

That voicework is... not too good :/

I recall some (textual) dialog by Samus herself in Metroid: Fusion, but to get voicework, that's something else!

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=D

Weird how Microsoft and Sony have their consoles listed in the patent, but when it comes to Nintendo, it's not Wii... It's Nintendo. Would this reveal something?

"Another nail in the coffin of Virtual Console GoldenEye?"
That's, how many now, 27?

@Raylax Aaw, that makes me kinda sad, because those midi tracks were my heart and soul in my youth. I was really with my jaw on the floor (in a bad way) when I came to Carnaval Nights in the MegaDrive / VC version. The music was, in comparison and my humble opinion, soooo bad. And so was Launch Base; just a short, boring loop with some weird 'hey' voice-sample. Yeah Micheal... Ice Cap still had a certain charm though.