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@MitchVogel generation? Hell, it's one of the best libraries, ever, and I've been here since the 2600 (or Pong, if that counts).

If these Wii games were $15 (or the week 1 deal they had running for the first few) I'd be inclined to re-buy quite a few more of them.

@undomiel my extreme interest in seeing a Dragonlance game is tempered knowing that it would have been Lair-like, sigh.

I actually liked the old Club Nintendo ("ooh, throw lemons at 'im!"), but My Nintendo is reaching 'I have no words' crush depth =/

I would just make it regional and sub-regional via the Internet. You set your locale and sub-locale, e.g. United States//New England, and you basically have a system as they had in WoW years ago where various servers competed against one another to unlock events.

You get tags, automatically, from people in your sub-region (or even by zip or postal code), and you contribute to larger 'battles' against other regions based on play-time, perhaps in macro Street Pass games.

(Naturally, if you're in another region, you would get tags when among 'the English', and perhaps this could be set up in a Pokemon Go way, where getting outside-region tags provides some additional benefit.)

To police it, you only allow region changes once ever 1/3/6-months (or some variation thereof) and, bam, useful Streetpasses w/ a meta-game layered on top.

OR

You simply allow auto-tagging via your friends list, but I find the former formulation a lot more interesting.

@SLIGEACH_EIRE lol

The lack of co-op--even just locally--is a deal-killer, especially when the 3D Classics SOR2 managed to have it and at a quarter of the price! They made the same 'mistake' with RCREX, which makes one wonder why Million insists on omitting it.

Will buy when it hits $15 or less on eShop.

@Billsama lol, I am relaxed. I'm not "insulted", etc.--the fact you feel compelled to reply time and time again says you are and can't simply walk away! Let it go! You can even have the last word as proof that I don't care! Have a grand day (seriously)!

@Billsama the irony here is you think I was insulted or was insulting. I made a simple statement: splitting hairs over "clone" versus "inspired by" is ridiculous. Full stop. And it's something that happens all the time for whatever reason--it'd be great if it would stop, since no one, 'in the good old days' made such an assumption or had such a view. Anything beyond that is you making assumptions.

P.S. I'm not insulting you or feeling insulted now, either, so just let it lie.

@Billsama please, don't be ridiculous about hair-splitting--no one is saying Shantae or WayForward are thieves or that their games suck.

Screaming guitars, not "screeching"...

Technically, all of WayForward's Shantae games are Wonder Boy clones (of the Monster World variety), so it's a 'Wonder Boy' bonanza 2016-17!

I find gaming 'journalism' mostly a sick joke, but this example raises that wobbly bar (or is it lowers?) to nose-bleed heights.

Someday we'll get another Sonic Rush

@HappyMaskedGuy uh...you're not serious, are you?

As for the emulator, it was a piece of junk that barely worked.

The games run like garbage, if they run at all. Save the ten bucks and spend it on the eShop.

It's pretty fun, overall, but I would have really preferred Ancient used their powers for good, and not just for another tower defense game.

Heartbreak on River City being 1P only for the main 'campaign', just like RCR EX. Natsume went from selling me two copies, to zero =(

@Sabrewing or they could just make a new one, which might be about as much work

They DID NOT create Devil Crash (aka Devil's Crush)--they ported it to Mega Drive. NAXAT published it and Compile (of MUSHA fame) created it for the PCE first.

Setting this up as a launch title in the West (for NX) would probably do wonders for its brand identity over here.

@The_Dude_Abides I wouldn't be so sure that even Sony will be producing hardware for much longer, either...

@Manjushri more accurately, it is not the company helmed by Satoru Iwata, but by the reincarnation of Hiroshi Yamauchi.

When I think "devs" and "Street Fighter", I think Takashi Nishiyama and Hiroshi Matsumoto--not a bunch of no-name indie devs reminiscing...I can freaking reminisce, so can everyone here that played the game then.

(But bravo on the clickbait! It worked!)

So my 500+ gold coins are safe...probably forever, since they won't give us anything to spend them on!

/same rant as everyone else

I spend a lot of time in a small town in Canada and, within 10 square miles, you can basically catch/do everything, despite it being cow country, so this poor kid must have just rolled snake eyes.

@samuelvictor most of those pre-existing emulators are running with so many hacks, band-aids, etc., that they are hardly what you would call "accurate". Also, odds are this emulator will be used across all their products going forward, so they probably wanted a fresh, clean, code base to work with and, with any luck, getting a game to run on one platform means it can be moved to another with little fuss.

Nintendo Land is back on the eShop! Huzzah!

Maybe Nintendo Land will magically re-appear on eShop now!

#hope

@crimsontadpoles you're joking, right? EA knows everything about the NX--why anyone would suggest otherwise is mystifying.

(Moore plays the game so he doesn't have to answer any questions directly, but don't delude yourself.)

@BLPs you'd need to do actual work--and have a complete series of videos--to cover the seemingly endless parade of SuFami games that never made the leap.

@Madder128 Wha? RIstar came out in North America...

@DarkmarkUnited that came out as a Sega Channel exclusive in the USA, along w/ Alien Soldier and a few others.

Edit: King Mike beat me to that point.

As for games not mentioned by others, I always liked King Colossus (a solid ARPG) tho I don't think even Europe got hat one.

Please put Nintendoland BACK on the NA eShop, for the love of God!

Okami is good, but Strider is better--hurry up, Capcom!

@soupfist I concur--I will be pleasantly surprised if it feels like anything more than a Sega-published fan mod.

Also, this will come to NX, don't kid yourselves.

@roy130390 thanks, but i have all of those, too.

@Whopper744 I'm in the ~3500 plat (and nearly 400 gold) coin club and I, too, own everything on offer

I'd be more sanguine about this, but things like Metroid II and Wario 3 were regulars on Club Nintendo, so we're getting re-recycled games already. Oh well, up, up, up goes my platinum and gold coin hoard, with not a damn thing to spend them on.

(Why not the Euro update, Nintendo? AFAIK, we've never had a sale on 3DS PW, ever, and we certainly haven't had access to anything as recent as the SNES Classics.)

I'd have vastly, VASTLY preferred this to what we got in NA, ugh.

@A01 what if the current owners aren't generating sufficient value for shareholders and they convince said shareholders they would do better (in this case, paying out a premium on the share price would be a strong inducement to sell?

Also, there's nothing inherently illogical or wrong about a hostile takeover, and it's part and parcel of being a public company. If the Guillemots didn't want this, they shouldn't have taken the company public and/or should have taken it back to private (but they won't do that, because that's not where the money is)--iow, you live by the sword, you die by the sword.

Heck, there's nothing even inherently "hostile" about it, and since most people have no idea what the "hostile" part means--most assume it's some sort of business version of storming the castle walls, raping and pillaging--but it simply means management doesn't want the takeover, but everyday shareholders--including banks, investment firms, and mom and pop-- might very well want it because they see a potential share price premium being worth the sale, and since the 'public' do in fact own a huge chunk of the company, they have every right to sell to the highest bidder since those shares are in fact, their property.

Furthermore, given what happened to Activision-Blizzard under Vivendi's ownership*, shareholders should be more-than-willing to hear whatever the suitor has to say--'hostile' or otherwise.

*Acti-Blizz' value skyrocketed during Vivendi's ownership. They also didn't ruin them--see Blizzard--during their 'reign', so this bizarre anti-Vivendi response is just that--bizarre. It isn't like Ubi hasn't been notorious for years for shipping games that aren't finished and/or are completely broken, so odds are it isn't going to get much worse, even if VIvendi were inclined to meddle.

@Dakt except that a. 5.5 is average on a 10-point scale (which means half of the scores were average) and b. no one sees a 6 as "above average", including most of the people writing reviews, including the readers, who generally see anything under a 7 as terrible and c. a game with this much expectation behind it scoring a mere "above average" is a crushing disappointment*.

*Or maybe you think because people expected it to be a 3 (whatever that means) and it got a 6, so, really, it's twice as good as expected!

Just got mine! See you in a month, Internet!

@MisterMan I concur: FFE is like Romper Room to Monster HUnter's BS from Harvard, Masters from Oxford, and dual Doctorates from the Sorbonne in monster anatomy and weapon crafting.

@Pokefanmum82 yep, although I very much doubt Kirby will be on sale in one week, so I'm grabbing that regardless.

I prefer Monster World IV and V, but hopefully this will lead to those...

@nono6400 it may not be 'free', but you can find that shirt design here:

https://www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/150565-super-milkbone-usa

And are these XB discounts Europe-only? They don't show up on the North American side that I can see...(the SNES shirt and other clothing are, but no discounts on games).

Hopefully this runs a great deal better in 3D than the first one.

@Peach64 Japanese gamers and taste? Do you have American or European friends that play mobile 'games' like Kim Kardashian: Hollywood?? Next to dreck like that, yes, the Japanese have stupendous taste.

Food for thought: everyone is assuming the NX rev has to be a port from PS4 (or 3DS), but there's a third option: it could be its own, unique, game, especially if the emphasis on AR and the like is true.

So are we supposed to be excited that a Facebook employee is making a level? If so,....why?

@Spoony_Tech first, it's kinda hard to know this when they walk back their criticism mere days after they leveled their initial critique.

Secondly, this isn't a review, and you, personally, know nothing about the game other than what the feeding frenzy is saying, so how does it "seem" like a game that would get a 6 on other platforms if NL can't even make up its own mind mere days apart??

The fact is, they got in on the herd-like bashfest*, and now, having realized that maybe they went a bit overboard, are trying to close the barn doors to salvage some credibility.

(The mere fact they feel inclined to do this strongly implies that they were, in fact, going overboard on the first pass, realized it later, and are now trying to paper it over.)

*Such things have been going on since the dawn of gaming journalism--I know, I was a (print) gaming journo for years and watched the herd stampede to and fro based on what 'everyone knew' at any given moment.