DDFawfulGuy

I'm not sure whether or not my years of watching anime has prepared me for this, but nevertheless I look forward to FINALLY playing another Ace Attorney game!
Lovely review! Looks like a day one purchase for me too!

Does the prize go to the best memory as voted by the staff or is it chosen at random?

They couldn't give us BDII DLC, but they could make a mobile gacha game with a new set of heroes that reuses assets from the previous games?
Ugh...

Just making sure in case I missed something, Nintendo never actually said they'd start hiring people or put them in management positions based on sex, race, sexuality etc. right?

The amount of Dom art I've seen is massive, so it makes that he's No. 1 for Japan. Some of it's a little weird though.
I have Dom too since someone was giving him away while I still have slots to fill on my island. Same thing happened with Beau.
I've also got Marshal and had Stitches in NL. Nice to see classics like Fang in the list too.
Shame there's no more love for Merengue or Elvis. I mean, he's the king!

I don't think real world history being heavily implied in AC's world is a big surprise. I mean every other seasonal item includes details on what holiday or event it represents, meaning it's full of real world history. Which means things used to kill people would also exist. Like knives, or cannons. Or that thing that looked like an electric chair in New Leaf, lol. All kinds of things are implied in AC. Like all female kangaroos are single mothers and even some art details reference the artists sex life etc.
That said, I'd bloody love it if we got an actual guillotine in NH! Or any other kind of weapon for that matter.

More amiibo villagers seems the most likely.

Did they remake the entire game for the Switch? Because it looks really, really good for a 3DS game!
I never thought we'd be getting these games! Perfect way to celebrate AA's 20th. Can't wait to buy and play this myself!

All I can see is SimCity with Etrian Odyssey characters.

Wow, some of the comments here are awful.
Like people claiming they know how mechanics and premises in XC2 work yet they're very inaccurate.
Anyways, I was really looking forward to a Rex/Pyra combo coming to Smash. I think it's a bit unfortunate that Rex couldn't play a bigger part, but having XC2 reps at all is amazing. I think a Pokemon trainer kinda thing might've worked with Rex swapping between Pyra and Mythra's swords? But this works too. Their moves are cooler like this and it's certainly a step up from that Rex Mii costume, lol. I appreciate that Sakurai and his team did at least try adding Rex first.

I still never understand how people are upset about Nintendo adding a leading character from the latest game in their No.1 JRPG series to their Nintendo crossover game.
And just as surprised that they can't comprehend that a lot of video game characters, especially the main characters, wield swords, so you're going to get a lot of swordies in Smash. And it's not even a high percentage of the roster.
It seems rather childish to me, but hey, I've seen tons of new Pyra/Mythra art lately so at least most artists aren't salty about this.

The voice over lady kinda sounds like Deneb from Bravely Second. A similar slight lisp. But the voice acting wasn't a good.
But speaking of battle mechanics, what happened to Bravely Second?
I haven't seen it mentioned so far, and if they've just tossed the mechanic out (especially just because the Switch has a different sleep mode) I'll be very disappointed.

Whoa, whoa, whoa....
SE is letting the guys who made the MOBILE GAME develop a Bravely game for the Switch?
Why?
I thought quite a few design choices seemed different (whoever thought holding + to view more info was a good idea should be sacked) but that's huge freaking change.
A lot of things are very similar to previous games though. The team asked for feedback just like with Octopath and it has the same character artist, right? Same composer as BD too. And the class designs are really, really good.
Having a team that only made a previous mobile game in the series makes me worry about the change in direction, but I enjoyed the demo and a lot of things/people working on the game are the same, I'm still looking forward to this.
I've already pre-ordered it, after all!

Well at least there's a reasonable excuse.
Honestly, saying 'It's going smoothly!' once a month and then saying 'Just forget about it for a while' was VERY worrying.
If they were going to be so tight lipped about it then perhaps they shouldn't have announced it so soon.
I can wait, though. Bravely Default II is coming out this month, after all!

Apparently the individual scores were 9/8/8/8 which sounds pretty good to me. And if Disgaea 5 got the same score then I'm all for it.

Already pre-ordered but glad to see how seriously they take player feedback. And voice acting.
Someone else said they were done with UK accents in RPGs, but considering how many have American voices I'm totally up for more UK accents being used, especially when it's done WELL. Like I hated a lot of the voices in XC2, but loved XC1. And seeing Bravely try it out with decent voice acting, as well as being localised for the UK, it's bloody fantastic.
Saying that I'm looking forward to BD2 is an understatement.

As someone who's actually British, I thought Zelda had the worst voice acting in the game. You can tell when someone's forcing a British accent because the voice tends to be quite low and rough, like trying to voice force something downwards by using their throat. You hear it all the time with Zelda. I just wish that they got British people to play the royals if they can't find Americans that have experience with them.
Oh, but more on point, yeah. You really do need thick skin on the internet and she certain doesn't deserve abuse for trying to perform a role. Instead you can also blame Nintendo and their casting director/voice direction, lol.

Wow, I just met someone last night who's also into Bravely and now there's another demo!
That said, do I really want to play the first chapter before getting the full game? Since you can't transfer anything and you don't get extra items like with previous Bravely demos, I might skip this despite my hype for it.

So, what? It's just a PR statement?
Whatever.

Yeah, I don't think these hashtags are serving the purpose people want them to. Unless they just want take digs at Nintendo and don't care about the repercussions.
I honestly don't see why people think that this movement(?) would actually work, not like it ever has before to my knowledge.
And I'm sorry, did someone really suggest someone changes their Pokemon nicknames to #freemelee? Is that satire?
I'm honestly trying to hold back laughter because GAMEFREAK are pretty much the last ones you'd expect to listen to fans. And that's just one reason to laugh.

3D Zeldas are so far ahead of 2D Zeldas it's not even funny.
Tried playing Link to the Past and a Link Between Worlds, but they don't even compare to 3D games like Wind Waker, Ocarina and Breath of the Wild.

A lot of people have been commenting on the frame rate, but honestly? I haven't noticed anything. No amount of enemies on screen has once made me notice any drop in quality.
It almost makes me think some of them are just making it up, or making a mountain out of an anthill. Certainly doesn't seem like a good enough to reason to skip this game entirely.
However, for some reason the game outright slows down after I defeat an outpost boss and the treasure chests appear in bursts of light. I think the slow-mo might be on purpose, but it's kinda jarring either way.

Steve has brought nothing but chaos, destruction and discord to Smash. This is only the beginning!

Mid-Twenties.
Been playing since Wild World.
I wonder if Nintendo are just reluctant to admit that young adults prefer their games more than children?
They do make games for all ages, after all.
It'd be hilarious if they had this huge revelation and then adjusted their games accordingly.

What a lot of people don't seem to understand is that he and his team are under orders from Miyamoto to NOT make a game too similar to TTYD.
Call me crazy, but I'm pretty sure that if Shigsy gave him the creative freedom we'd most likely get the games the fans desire.
I don't know why some of you are gobbling up this 'innovative' lark when several Mario series use the same base each time and improved upon them. Mario & Luigi, Luigi's Mansion, Mario Kart etc. etc. None of them changed as much as Paper Mario did, they just evolved. Just like TTYD was to Paper Mario 64. So you can't tell me a game that improves or adds twists to TTYD would be a bad idea, we've already seen that continuously evolving a series works.
And let's not forget how Colour Splash was basically Sticker Star 2.0. How can you possibly say that the devs are making the right choices and everything they say makes sense when they literally got one game in the series and tried to improve on it which is exactly what we want done with TTYD? It makes no sense.
TL;DR: Saying that keeping the core game similar to TTYD would be boring or not a good idea is nonsense and hypocritical when several Mario IPs already do this and they even did it with their own games Sticker Star and Colour Splash!
I wish they'd just admit that Miyamoto has them on a creative leash and tell us what they'd actually create given the choice, but that wouldn't make for good PR, now would it?

Finding the code was easy enough.
Although I'm not sure I wouldn't noticed it if I didn't know it was in the trailer, lol.
And you can use codes in New Horizons? How does that work?
I only started the game two weeks ago today, so I probably haven't gotten far enough.

Ouch. Tough choice.
The Western version gives me nostalgia, but the Japanese version has tons of red and shows off more characters as well as the audience feature.
I voted for the Japanese version, but ideally I'd have the Japanese art with the western 'The Thousand Year Door' title together. Best of both worlds!

@MeowMeowKins
Typo? What typo?

So basically mines:
1. TTYD 10
2. SPM 9
3. 64 9
4. CS 7
5. SS 6

I haven't played Paper Jam Bros or TOK yet.

I'm actually not sure if 64 should be higher than SPM or not, but I have more fond memories of SPM and I played that one first. Plus SPM gave birth to Dimentio, one of my favourite villains!
Apparently some people have mixed feelings about SPM? Initially I was disappointed that it wasn't turn-based like TTYD but I still loved it absolutely. It carried on the great story telling and unique characters and villain etc. The platformer/RPG style just worked for me without issue.

I watched the anime years ago and thought that it'd be nice to play the actual games, but it seems like there's never a good time to enter the series.
Speaking of, it'd be nice if Nintendo Life mentioned whether or not newcomers to the series would understand the current game's plot or not.

7/12
Shameful, really.

Imagine a world with consistently great anime video games...
Oh well, at least a lot of the Naruto, DBZ and One Piece games have been great. After finishing the anime a great Fairy Tail game would've been nice. I wish studios would work harder on these types of games. Don't the publishers want those huge sales? The more you put in, the more you get out.
And yeah, perhaps Nintendo Life isn't super into anime games, you'd think they'd have at least one anime fan to review games like this, lol, but if the cons are accurate I'll still avoid this game and wait for an anime game that's not just average.

I'm pretty awful and remembering stuff like this, but I saw that the commercial success that was the DS and the greatest game of all time, Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door released in the same year, 2004. Therefore it's Nintendo's Best Year, lol.
I must've been around 10 years old at the time, and right in the middle of enjoying the best years of my life, the Gamecube era!

Meh. I'm not too bothered about this.
Nintendo has been iffy and protective of their online features/IP for a while now and it's not unusual for those who try to hack and go online to get punished. Sucks for them though.
Anyways, I heard that you need an ID to see dreams and you can't search for Random Dreams or try to pick a theme or name like in New Leaf? If so, isn't that a bigger issue?

13/15
Not bad, eh?
I never really heard of Wave Race before but how did I get the first one wrong? lol.

Honestly when I found out it was a mini I didn't expect anything like BOTW2 news or a big reveal. Yet somehow I was still disappointed. Like I would've been satisfied with some short, possibly new clips of previously announced games, especially Bravely Default 2!
Instead we got just 4 games I had little to no instead in that didn't even last 10mins. Barely seemed worth a direct.
So basically: https://i.imgur.com/gSRPUc7.png

7/8
I think I've heard that Ludwig is the oldest, but I don't remember hearing about a youngest. You'd think it would be the smallest one.

Frankly I'm heart broken.
These rules do nothing for the series and I'm very disappointed that the devs didn't try to challenge it. As if the voices of fans of the original Paper Mario games and SPM fell on deaf ears.
The things we already loved they experiment and change, yet the things we enjoyed were changing are now kept stale. And for what purpose? So their Nintendo characters don't seem too different from usual? In a spin-off game that was originally called Mario Story and a proper RPG?
This is a farce. I can't believe this is coming from Nintendo.
And it certainly doesn't explain several other changes in Paper Mario's direction either.
With this happening and Alphadream dying, I've pretty much given up on getting a proper Mario RPG ever again.
Perhaps the game is still enjoyable in its own way, but from what I've seen it doesn't really do anything better than TTYD or SPM besides humour. I'll have to play it myself to be certain, but that won't be until it's on a very steep sale.

Wow. People complained about Sticker Star and Colour Splash's combat system and the lack of incentive and Nintendo goes and makes a battle system you want to avoid completely because it's not even fun either, lol.
Outside of boss battle I'm not seeing much gameplay here.
So the score does seem a little odd.
But having played SS and CS I'm certain the humour and scenarios are top notch.
Like a lot of other people I'm still majorly disappointed how it's not even remotely a return-to-form. But I hate missing out on a Paper Mario game, so I'll just wait until there's a really, really good sale and then give it a chance. If only for the story and humour.

17/21
I haven't played a Zelda game before Ocarina but I thought I'd do better than that.
Oh well.

I have to agree that the art style looks pretty cheap.
Which is a shame, because I really wanted a good, proper Harvest Moon game. Haven't played one in forever.
Personally, I'd like something like Magical Melody.

Bravely Second is a great game and an amazing sequel to Bravely Default. Those people are lucky and I'm glad so many more people in the UK get to experience it!
As mentioned, it should raise awareness of the series and increase BDII sales too. I just hope SE takes the criticism from the feedback and improves the battle system a bit (a lot) before release.
I took part in the feedback survey too and their honestly wasn't a lot you could say.

22/25
Hooray!
The Mable one almost caught me out, but the pose itself looked more like one that Mable would make rather than Sable or Lable.

3/10
I bring shame to my family.

If they were going to include a bonus for XC2 players then I could think of a few more interesting ways to do it.
But I wasn't expecting anything at all, so I'll gratefully accept 100,000G!
Especially since I've already beaten the game once. Methinks I deserve a little boost~

9/10
Better than last time.
I would've gotten 10/10 but I got the first question wrong and thought that Link's Crossbow Training counted.

8/10
Had a good run until the final two questions.

I have to admit, I'd totally sign up for this if I had New Horizons.
I think I've played enough of Happy Home Academy to build people their dream homes!

I have agree with most of the other people here.
Bravely Second was an amazing game that improved a lot of things in Default. And usually people complain about Default's time loop.
Although for me it was fine, because it lets you face the bosses in different situations which makes it really interesting. You also get some optional dialogue just by going to certain places each loop.
Like you know where you fight Artemia? If you go back to those woods there'll be a Party Chat where Tiz will deluge some of his zoology knowledge. Much to the show-offy Ringabel's chagrin.

Back to the point, he doesn't need to apologise about anything. It's the reactions to the BD2 demo that he should be worried about, lol. I hope they take the feedback to heart and improve the combat and menu system. I want to be able to fully immerse myself in that game as much as Default or Second!

If you've watched enough anime then you'll have heard of White Day before.
But never mind that, is no one going to talk about the actual tweet?
The message is nice, but what does Agent 8 and Agent 3 hovering over C. Q. Cumber have to do with Valentine's Day or White Day?