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I do like the 3D effect. I’m currently playing Professor Layton vs. Phoenix Wright on a New 3DS. The stable 3D is definitely an improvement, but I still get the ghosting effect (or whatever it’s called) when I use 3D. I don’t wonder if it’s my eyesight that causes it, or something else, but if it wasn’t for that I’d have the slider on all the time.

I don’t know what’s happened to Nintendo Life, but every article I read now has text jumping up and down the screen. It’s a game in itself trying to keep track of where you are. Really frustrating.

It’s the adverts loading in and out by the way.

What I find baffling is that they don’t put the obvious candidates from their catalogue onto Mobile. We should be seeing Wario Ware, Pullblox, Nintendogs, Brain Training, Rhythm Paradise and the like. Even their visual novels that they put out from time to time. These are game series that are crying out to be on Mobile.

Recency bias

I have 390 of the coins apparently! Anybody know how I can get more? I don’t have a Switch.

I don’t watch Corrie so don’t recognise the guy unfortunately. But that didn’t stop me from enjoying reading this interview. Thank you!

I’ll probably get Nano Assault Neo and Art of Balance at these prices. Would be rude not to. I have all the others I think, including the physical release they did on the Wii U (Fast Racing Neo was it?).

Darn it just bought Spirit of Justice on the UK eShop for £25. Well, £22.50 as I used Nintendo Life’s discount code, thanks! 😀

I hope this sales comes to Europe. While I missed out on the above, I’d probably buy the Trilogy and Apollo Justice at these prices, even though I have the original DS games.

X definitely plays and controls better than GX in my opinion. GX looks nice, especially at speed, but it’s just not as fun to play. I agree this is the pinnacle of the series.

@jorel262 it’s already up for pre-order in the UK across various outlets (including Amazon). Not sure about the US though.

@Zeropulse I would say yes. I played the first GBA game in the last couple of years and thoroughly enjoyed it. I never played it originally so don’t have any nostalgia for it either, although I’d played the PS1 game not long beforehand and really enjoyed that too. It’s kind of puzzly using the double jump while holding an enemy mechanic a lot. I haven’t played the 2nd one yet but imagine it’s more of the same, which is a good thing!

The original GBA carts for these games are quite expensive these days so the Wii U VC releases really are a bargain. I’d say go for it!

I’m still waiting for Piko to release Dragon Sword for the N64 like they did with 40 Winks. Always nice to have physical releases of these unreleased games.

@SnackPop yeah I’ve just noticed that too. And the 10% Off code seems to have vanished and stopped working.

I’m guessing the 10% Off code has expired on buying the Nintendo eShop credit from you?

Played Silent Hill 2 for the first time last year. On the PS2 of course. It’s still an awesome game. Can’t believe I waited 20 years to play it!

What do they get for the FIFA licence? If they have 300 other licence agreements in place? Would they still have all the real clubs and players in the game?

@AlexOlney I guess they’d have a lot more spare cash to do that if they’re not spending multiple billions of dollars on the FIFA licence.

I’m literally playing Apollo Justice on my DS Lite right now. I bought Dual Destinies years ago and started it, but didn’t recognise the characters from Apollo Justice so put it off until I’d played it first. It’s only taken me 8 years to get around to it! Thoroughly enjoying it, I’d forgotten how much I enjoy the Ace Attorney games. I’ll probably go back to Dual Destinies straight after.

I’ll definitely be buying Spirits of Justice before Nintendo ban us from their shop. Hopefully I’ll get around to playing it in less than 8 years!

@Bman2425 thanks I’ll take a look. Although as per the other guy’s response, it looks like it would only work if you’re able to sign in to your Nintendo account via the eShop on the console, which when they close everything down you wouldn’t be able to. And during that time you could just redownload your purchases from the eShop anyway so I’m not sure if there is any real benefit to backing up your Wii U and 3DS games, at least for my purpose of not losing them many years in the future. Thanks for your response, I’ll certainly take a look on YouTube.

@VGFreak1225 I thought something like that would be the case, so it would only work when you’re able to redownload purchases from the eShop anyway. The article just mentions backing up your games casually likes it’s easy as pie. Thanks for responding.

Can you make backup copies of digital games from the 3DS and Wii U in case anything does happen to your original copies saved on the system? Is it as simple as copying the files from the SD card or hard drive to your computer? And can you just copy them back to the system they came from in the future and they’d play ok?

Netflix and Amazon Prime Video were my top Wii U ‘games’! Xenoblade Chronicles X was a distant 3rd….

These game companies (well, Sony and Nintendo) really need to make it so the digital infrastructure between consoles/hardware remains the same. In that way surely they can just keep them running at minimal incremental cost as their new/current hardware will still be using the same digital platform?

Maybe not the online gaming servers, but at least the store fronts. No need to have separate store fronts for every console.

Look at Steam or Apple, they have just had one continuous store front since day 1. And Apple release way more new hardware than Nintendo and Sony combined. I just don’t get it.

Nintendo really are the worst at supporting their digital storefronts. Probably won’t be long before you can’t re-download your purchases either. This digital present stinks.

@theflowergarden I know it’s not the same, as I’m not sure if they’ll be remastering or even re-composing the soundtracks and you may get extras, but you can easily find downloads for the first 2 games’ official soundtracks online. I have them both, and I like them very much.

I’ll definitely be buying this physically. The only question left is, do I buy it for the Switch or the PS4? Or both! 😀

I do love the Klonoa games. I only played the first one for the first time a few years ago, so don’t hold any nostalgia for them either. Even the GBA games, while not as good as the PS1/PS2 games, are really enjoyable too.

For anyone who’s never played Klonoa before, now’s your chance. They are some of the best platform games ever. Up there with Mario World and Yoshi’s Island in my opinion. Great music, great level design, and a great double jump mechanic that uses enemies and some very inventive uses throughout both games.

They did this for the Wii U release. I still have the PDF. It’s really nice quality. I wish they did this with all of their official guides from back in the day.

Hopefully they’ve done this in advance of releasing loads of their soundtracks themselves officially. So we don’t have to resort to downloading from YouTube.

Yeah right.

Not related to this article specifically, but does the text jump around for anyone else when trying to read Nintendo Life articles these days?

It never used to happen, but it’s now happening on every single article. It’s the adverts loading in and out constantly. It happens on Eurogamer articles too.

I’m not against adverts, but please don’t let them make text jump around, it’s really off putting.

You need to update the text in the article, as it says $70 million, which comparatively speaking, would be an absolute bargain!

EDIT: I spoke too soon 😀

I’m speechless about this news. I can’t believe how much MS have been spending on acquisitions. I’d love to see the business plans that show how this is all profitable for them.

This definitely impacts PlayStation more than Nintendo, as historically Bethesda’s and Activision’s games have featured on their consoles more than Nintendo. But it’s still a shock. And ironically, Crash Bandicoot will no longer appear on a PlayStation platform!

@CharlieGirl you’re probably right, Nintendo aren’t exactly renowned for price cuts but I’m happy to wait for now. I’ll (begrudgingly) pay full whack if I have to.

I definitely thought it would struggle. I thought the price for the tech was too high. I still think it’s priced too high (I bought a PS4 for less money instead back then). Obviously the general public don’t agree with me!

I stuck to my guns though. I still haven’t bought one as I wait for a price cut. Happy to wait as I’m still enjoying my PS4 and I’ll be able to get an OLED model which didn’t exist at launch.

I have bought a few Switch games ready for when I do eventually get one. Mainly special editions or ones I anticipate being hard to get hold of and scalped in the future.

Yes. Without a doubt Splatoon 2 is the 5th greatest game ever created in over 4 decades of game creation.

Well clearly they should have put it inside a clear plastic case and put a sticker on it with a random number over 9 written on it then sold it on Heritage auctions. $2bn easy.

I didn’t realise the new GamesMaster had already started and it’s on episode 2 already. I must have missed your article about the first episode. I best catch up.

I spent a good few months about 5 or 6 years ago watching every episode of the original GM series, as well as Bad Influence. I hope I enjoy this new series as much as I enjoyed watching those old ones.

@kuppakeff thanks for the reply! I really did enjoy reading it and seeing the pictures so thank you. Getting any insight into Nintendo UK from the 90s is quite rare.

And sorry, the comment about the game names wasn’t directed at this article! It was more generally aimed at Nintendo Life who, despite being a UK based site, seem to always use US game names in their articles. And it was in jest 😀

I really enjoyed this article, thank you! I’ve read stories about the US hotline but never the UK one. Being in the UK I found this much more interesting and relevant so thank you. I almost forgive you for using US game names in most of your articles, despite being a site based in the UK. I said almost….

I’ve always found this generation of consoles to be the most impressive in context of the time they were active. They were actually more powerful than the TV technology of the time, being able to pump out 480p long before most consumer TV sets were able to take advantage of it. And lots of the games seemed to be able to do 60fps.

I remember seeing the early GameCube games and being blown away. RS2, Luigi’s Mansion, REmake, Eternal Darkness, they all caught my attention after I’d been away from gaming for a couple of years and convinced me to get a GameCube.

I love cheesy Christmas films and I love Nintendo. Hence I love the look of this film! If it’s successful maybe we’ll get a 16 bit Christmas and a 64 bit Christmas film over the next 2 years!

On a side note, I find it weird how I never had a NES growing up and I grew up in the UK not the US, yet I still get the nostalgia feels from this! Maybe it was hearing Joey Tempest belting out the Final Countdown, I definitely remember that as a kid.

And if you click on one of their Wario Ware tweets you get taken to a video of Waluigi singing “Never gonna give you up”

This is an excellent choice. I’m more excited for the new show now, can’t wait!

I got their Jaleco Brawler’s pack a while ago. I liked that it was just a box and manual without all the additional tat so came in cheaper. However, I didn’t like anything about it. It all just felt really cheap. The box, manual, cartridge, none of them felt right and I ended up selling it.

Not sure how this one compares but it’s put me right off buying any of these re-issue type releases, hence I didn’t bother going for this.

The original trilogy are awesome, I couldn’t choose between them to be honest. And I’m one of the 4 people who played them on WiiWare and still thoroughly enjoyed them! If I played them on DS my wife would never have heard ‘Objection!’ while laid in bed and now use the term at me when I do something she doesn’t approve of.

I noticed this on Amazon UK earlier today at RRP (sold by Amazon) so bought it. They’re still in stock too.

It’s not delivered until Monday and I may still cancel it. I’ve really gone off Special Editions and sold BotW and Mario Rabbids recently as they were just too big and full of tat. Didn’t realise this was so big which is putting me off now.

Yep I really like Fusion. No arguments from me.

Candy Kong is quite disturbing

I used to love game books, in particular the Fighting Fantasy ones. I still have all my old ones, which is pretty much all of the main series.

I also have 2 of Nintendo’s Adventure Game Books from the earlier 90s, the Zelda ones. Never actually read them, I’ll save it for when my daughters are old enough.

Some annoying You Tubers should get together and do some real life research and experiments testing this ability, Space Pirates style.

I started playing the Wii U version of this a few years ago but I must say I found it very boring and wasn’t impressed. The only other one I’ve played is the Wii one years before, which I didn’t complete either, but I remember it was definitely better than this one. Must say I definitely prefer the Silent Hill games over these ones, from what I’ve experienced.

Looks worse. I still prefer the classic Namco logo that adorns all their great games from the 90s.

This also means if we do get Klonoa encore (or whatever they call it) it will have this logo on it 😔