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By the way, what about Aus distribution? Really really really hope it doesn't need StreetPass here and we have codes instead, because I get about two-three StreetPass Hits a month (usually from the same people) and doubt I'd be lucky enough to get it from someone who had it passed over to them. Also, we have no Nintendo Zones, so no relays from them.

Don't forget that in order for this to spread, you'll probably need to get a hit from someone with ORAS StreetPass activated, who has the Ticket. Even if you StreetPass someone who got a hit from another with the Ticket, you might not get it from that person, if they didn't have ORAS (and ORAS StreetPass activated) to actually receive it.

Serebii says this is also going to be given out to StreetPass Group leaders or something in the US, so at least it'll be more common there, and hopefully more people who travel can spread it to different countries.

You say that like Splatoon was unsurprising and boring, or like Super Smash Bros. (with its recent hype-filled Direct) isn't a Nintendo game.

Anyway, good direct, although nothing earth-shattering. Great that single-player for Splatoon is confirmed, PAL Shovel Knight release and the Pikmin Short Films, nice to see footage of upcoming games like S.T.E.A.M., the DHD trailer was cool and MM3D was a pleasant surprise. This is far from the best Direct, though- still nice to have another good one after such a drought. I'm glad that Iwata is back and seeing Miyamoto always makes me happy.

GameFreak, Pokémon games have the option to recieve gifts via Wi-Fi, without dumb serial codes or anything. Please use that option, so that anyone with Wi-Fi can easily get the gifts, instead of making the gifts more limited and too difficult-to-get for some fans.

[sigh]

@JetSet To be fair, I never actually played it myself, but a lot of people who bought it complained about system lockups, freezing, etc. Others had no issues at all. But it's never good when the stability of a game is hit-or-miss and I heard a lot of people having issues with it. There was a multi-page topic about it on darkSpyro.

There was a little cut/changed content (like a hat being moved to the spot where, on other consoles, you'd teleport into another area that you'd go through to get the hat- that area was completely gone on the Wii). The guide had info on those changes.
I also heard there's an un-earnable accolade on the Wii, due to a glitch with one of the Lock Puzzles. Specifically, it's the one where you need to solve all Lock Puzzles- one of the puzzles can only be solved through the locked treasure in Woodburrow, but on the Wii version, trying to solve the lock puzzle on the treasure causes a freeze.

Again, I haven't heard similar complaints with TT- even on the XOne/PS4 versions, which Beenox also ported- though I would be cautious.
Honestly, TT generally seems glitcher than SF. I'm playing an installed XBox 360 copy and once it randomly erased data on Night Shift, once it wouldn't make a bridge out of Traptanium that I broke and once a boss fight glitched so that all I could see was the level background. Also, there's a funny glitch to access some Mystery Gates early. Still haven't had any freezes, though (but that could be because I've hardly played the game).

Ah finally you guys posted a review. T'was enjoyable to read and I agree with most of your points, though I'm disappointed there was no mention of how SWAP Force's more varied bonus modes were cut and there isn't even PVP. I think the bonus modes feel very limited (though they're nice in concept) and they don't compel me to play more; they're both very heavily focused on beating enemies, which is less interesting without SWAP Force's battle physics or score tracking and is something I already did plenty in the last few last years.
I can't help but feel disappointed with this game thanks to the lack of bonus modes and I thought the lore had more visible issues than TFB's other Skylander games. Maybe it's because I've played so much of this series already, but there isn't anything I want to tear into.

About the framerate: this seems to lag more then SWAP Force did on the XBox 360, but I haven't played the Wii U version, so I don't know how that performs (considering it was ported by Beenox- who were behind last year's awful Wii port of SWAP Force- I wouldn't set expectations too high, but I haven't heard the same amount of complaints at all).

I was going to spend all day playing Smash Bros., but my Pokémon itch and now Shovel Knight finally coming out are making me torn! O_O

I'm surprised that I saw this on here before Serebii.
Getting both for Christmas, I suppose.

Truly deserves its legacy. The story and lore behind this game is magical unlike any other game I can think of and its design has hardly aged. I don't replay it that often, but when I do, it amazes me.

Just realized the pumpkin is the death stare

@ZenTurtle This is scarier: http://www.ign.com/games/imagine-party-babyz/wii-14254709

I had such a bad day today and I usually don't care about sales-related news, but all of this cheered me up. I'm so glad Iwata is getting better. Hopefully Sakurai gets a break after Smash.

I don't like it. The detail is impressive, but Link's expression is ridiculous and the coloured plastic piece sticks out a bit much.

I hope tehy make a poster with Robin's art soon.

Want it!

@turbotri Fair enough.

@garthvader @PinkSpider *She, but yeah it's the sexualisation I'm considering it for the rarity more than anything, because if I eventually decide I really want it, I might have a lot of trouble getting it.

Why is there no "not sure if buying"?

I kinda want this game based on all its praise, and because I guess physical copies are going to become very rare and expensive, but I'd feel kinda embarrased when I get it and I'd have so much trouble convincing my parents to let me get it anyway...

So they officially have the coloured blocks. Sigh. I wouldn't mind if they were clear, but the yellow support Beam under Link looks awful.
But hey, after actually playing Smash I can see myself getting some amiibo and training them for the heck of it, so maybe I'll end up with more than I intended. I'll probably avoid any with coloured support beams, though.
Mainly just want the Robin amiibo.

@rjejr But what would be the point in that? You yourself don't have levels in game.
I'd like it if amiibo could also store your custom build, but I don't see any other point to playing as the amiibo since their stat boosts have an equivalent in the form of Equipment and their level couldn't affect your gameplay. Unless the level unlocked/buffed moves, which would be dumb since you couldn't practice a fighter at full potential without their amiibo (that would be horrible for competitive if it wasn't banned and would be generally annoying in general).

I don't know, I don't think I'll buy it. I heard a lot of great things about another WayForward game, Mighty Switch Force, and I didn't like it. It felt too weighty to be comfortable. Besides, I'm not a hige fan of 2D platformers and Shovel Knight is coming up soon.

The lightning in this screenshot looks very out of place...

Will you review Skylanders: Trap Team, NL? I'm very curious to see your opinion on it (I have mixed feelings, myself). I decided to continue collecting Skylanders and several favourite amiibo, but I cut down on Toys To Life purchases somewhat, not getting the entire collection of Skylanders this year.

And I hardly played it, but DI2 was so eh to me. A lot of the skill trees (main thing I wanted) feel half-baked, and the playsets just feel less fun- not that last year's were a masterpiece, but they were more interesting. Maybe DI2 just isn't for me; I don't have that much time for sandbox games any more (hardly play Minecraft these days).

@Shambo There'll be an amiibo figure for every Smash fighter, and there's about 50 of them, so I think you're wrong about there being less amiibo. (Maybe, in comparison to Skylanders- definitely if you add Traps to the Skylanders figure count- but not compared to DI2, unless you include Power Discs.)

This is how you reveal a surprise announcement RIGHT. Character data isn't in the game and instead they're DLC so people don't datamine and ruin the reveal. Heck, his unlockable trophy even made a lot of people give up hope because it was unlocked without playing through Classic as him.

If registering both games to CN is the only way to get him, that stupidly makes him limited ~

_{Still want Chorus Kids}

I can see how it'd be creepy if you took it at face value, but knowing that's just an actor in a costume (and seeing their strange movements), it's awesomely cheesy to Mii. I mean, just look at how Count Mii salutes at 0:37.

@lamco Nope.
@Hero-of-WiiU I like their voices in MK7 too. I'm a huge Mii fan and kinda disappointed that they're completely unusable in Smash online.

I love the Mario/Luigi moustache plates, but I'm still set on getting the NXL.

C'MON, CHEESE LAND.
At least Wario's Gold Mine is confirmed to be DLC. /shrug

Already remade in MKDS, but that looked worse than the original, and the remade version looks gorgeous. So I'm okay with this.

Was the typo "Lonk"?

Everyone is making a big deal about this hidden data, but I swear we already heard part of it. I mean, we knew quite some time ago that there was unused space with the download.

@Iggly I'd like to imagine him exaggerating the sarcasm the similarly to how he does with his "CONGRAAATULATIONS!".

@Grumblevolcano I don't mean adding natures/abilities/the later IV and EV systems in, I mean somehow changing how the data was stored or making a potential transfer to Gen VI program "translate" a Pokémon so it works like it would in the later gens. Like I said, pipe dream, just thought it was a cool idea if they did come to VC because you could continue using Pokémon you got from them.
I don't see an issue with savestates though. I know it's kind of hard to ignore they're there, but if someone wants to play the game like it was originally made, there wouldn't be anything stopping them from ignoring savestates.

Oh my god. Imagine if they released RBY/GSC on the eShop and changed things a bit so that you could transfer Pokémon from them to XY/ORAS. I know those games have a different IV/EV system and no abilities/natures set, so that would muck transferring, but I can dream...

Mega Glalie is really cOLD.

@MegaBeedrill

@Dinosaurs

@BensonUii Awkward Zombie is my favourite webcomic. Makes Mondays worth it.

@BlueFiend10 Yeah. I've had a membership for years, but I don't think I bought anything from CN, so I'm shocked that I was selected.
At least you have a chance to get it later, unlike the Special Smash Demo.

@Hero-of-WiiU No, by next gen it should be higher than that because textures, models etc. will be made more complex and require even more space.

I just heard about this game and looked it up. Fell in love with how it looked and the gameplay concept... Then I heard about the dumb controls. </3

I'm so glad it's not just me, thinking the demo was badly made. I could go on about it but to sum it up, it offers little entertaining exclusive content, has no interesting lore and the missions are poorly paced, repetitive and unoriginal. A couple of nice references, but overall it's pretty sloppy and lazily made.

You also have to consider version exclusives... If you just bought X and Alpha Sapphire, for example, you could not get Groudon, Zekrom, Reshiram or Lugia just using those carts. Also, if Skrelp/Clauncher and Swirlix/Spritzee are not available in ORAS you wouldn't be able to get them without trading or something.

Of course there's starters and Pokémon you need to choose between too, but you can always reset your cart for those (tedious as it may be, it'd still be possible to get them all, just with the two carts).

Piracy already exists on the 3DS in the form of Gateway. Even if the Homebrew Channel leads to a new form of piracy, it wouldn't be the first time that piracy made its way to the system.

@GeminiSaint That's like saying Pearl is still relevant because it's the only game in the main series where you can get a Glameow.

@Punished_Boss Agreed... Though it's kinda disappointing considering that they actually can patch these in for the first time and these are games a year later in the same generation!

Master Orders/Crazy Orders to go with some unused audio files hiding in the 3DS version. This picture someone created shows that the text would match:

What exactly Master and Crazy Orders mean is a mystery...

@MadAdam81 demo spoilers According to Serebii, after replaying the demo 10 times, you won't get anything for replaying it. If you replay it, you can earn some Poké Balls and Heart Scales to transfer to ORAS, but you can't catch/recieve any more special Pokémon.

@maetsnigiro Okay!

I got a code from Club Nintendo! Wasn't expecting that.

The demo actually made me less excited for the game. It's not very well made. I like the BuzzNav, though.

I hate the code BS they've been doing lately. It just makes stuff more limited- a lot more annoying than doing stuff over Wi-Fi.

The flying makes me think of the flight in Pokémon Ranger: Guardian Signs.

OH MY GOD STEELIX IS GETTING A MEG-- oh my god those floating rocks around its head make it look so freaking dumb

I haven't been more interested in a Mario game since Kart 7. Maybe it's because I haven't olayed a good puzzle game in a while, but I'm really excited for this, even though it does seem a little overhyped.

Doubt it will be the true ultimate Tetris experience over Tetris DS.

Whether that points to limited physical retail stock is will be interesting to see, but it's not often that the download version deliberately undercuts the physical retail equivalent, though Nintendo did something similar with its standalone limited edition boxed version of New Super Luigi U; that was originally DLC, however.

This will sound nitpicky as heck, but I think this sentence has some odd formatting.

Disappointed in the lack of discussion on how this works with Smash

Will get the XL. I've considered the small one many times, but the faceplates aren't a long-lasting incentive and I couldn't get used to the smaller screens again.

@babyguess I suspect it has something to do with the auto brightness changer (which always seemed like a stupid feature to me).

Are they headed to Australia?

Man... Great news.

@WaLzgi Man, that Spyro reboot called Skylanders is super geat, really does him justice! Haha!... _{Ooh, I made myself sad...}

I'M SO GLAD NINTENDO LIFE IS SPREADING THE GLORY OF THE WORD FAFFING
I've always wanted to see it used more...

I read the first paragraph and thought that was it. Didn't need to say more than that, guys.

@andrea987 That would be one hell of an update! ... Not as good as dem stability patches, though

@bezerker99 The winner is... NINTENDO!

Already in my favourite 3 3DS games, along with OoT3D and ACNL.

Nintendo Life, don't you say you want EVERY custom console you post about?