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@StarDust "Nintendo doesn't give a crap about old consoles or games" Then explain to me why they have the Virtual Console service, literally the greatest thing on the eShop? They even went so far as to risk putting Earthbound on there.

Believe me people this game SUCKS. Everything about it is genaric and boring as hell. Only play it if you are THAT brain dead you can't tell you are playing a terrible game.

@Captain_Balko wait nono don't cry! I just... Liked Mario kart DS much much more. Not to mention I wasted 150 coins on this game and spent paid points on paper mario afterwards just to find that Nintendo put it up for coin buy In the next month batch. Dick move Nintendo.

@JSuede nah... The metroid timeline in its perfect place and hasn't had a plothole yet. We don't need another series's that isn't another series clogging the drain.

@JSuede "Retro Studios project" better be Metroid Prime 4. Ima be mad if it isn't. And this time they should focus on how the first two game played. Unlike MP3 which was good... But lacking a bit.

So Nintendo is a kiddie company that produced kiddie games huh? Well.......... Metroid Prime Trilogy, Legend of Zelda Majoras Mask, Mother Series, Fire Emblem, Sin and Punishment. Boom. Space Ape has been aniahlated.

@HeatBombastic brutally damn honest.

@Captain_Balko actually I don't like Yoshi's Island. It's doesn't gel with me. But I can see why people like it. And the 2D Mario kart games have those dodgy controls, bad steering and poor level design. The 3D Mario karts have more Potential!! But the N64 one wasn't good.

@Zeldalover look out we have a doofus over here! The Wii beats it. Fact. Why? Because the Wii can play Super Nintendo games along with a plethora of others ergo nulifing the Super Nintendo.

@LavaTwilight except that Nintendo has a soul.

@ULTRA-64 Either pay up, or get punched in the face for downloading games illegally onto your phone. Pick your poison.

@Knux GBA games for 3DS instead. It's where they belong

@Tertis link to the past belongs on portable. 3DS instead.

@luminalace super C came to 3DS eShop dum dum.

@TreesenHauser rare told Nintendo that they could do whatever they wanted with those games but Nintendo refused. They are extremely cautious and smart so I don't see it happening.

@burninmylight ....wait.... HOW MUCH MEMORY DID YOU SAY THAT TOOK UP?!

@sinalefa I'm really going to grab this as soon as it comes out. Not because I'm patient but because Im scared that it will get shut down in a week. Mother 1 was on the Wii VC at one time but they removed it for whatever reason.

@Happy_Mask indeed.

@motang would be nice... The graphics look a little dusty

@evanescent_hero that's because you didn't bother to look at the channels they gave you. That's pretty shallow of you.

@Justaguest that's sortof how I feel too. This isn't difficult or require workaround technology for Nintendo to do.

@evanescent_hero it outsold every other game before it including DSiware titles. It's because it's zelda and its awsome.

@evanescent_hero I... Don't have a problem with the top down perspective. I've played all the Zalduh games except for those two weird ones on GBC. I mostly want it on eShop to see how well it will sell. The top selling title on the eShop is Link's Awakening so the potential is there. Plus, having a big name title as an eShop exclusive would really boost the eShop's reputation. Zelda doesn't always have to be a big deal. Was minish cap? No. Was minish cap good? Yes (although kinstone fusing pisses me off). What about wind waker? Fans constantly tried to push it under the radar while they raged but it prevailed. What I'm trying to say is that this game could get the eShop the undeniable attention it deserves. I'm sort of hoping the game will look a bit like Four Swords Adventure. Oh, that's another game that flew under our noses but was great. This one won't. As it looks right now, I would drop about 20 bucks on the game tops. If this is given a resale price... It'll suffer in this day and age I assure you. This is not THE big zelda game. Top down games like this tend to do much better on the virtual market in these days. Nintendo isn't going to be alienating anyone, you shouldn't even get a 3DS if you don't have wifi, it's like, half the expirence.

@evanescent_hero also keep in mind that you might say those other games are small, but the fact that they were able to get so many download to warrant a sequel shows you the raw power of the eShop. Given more funding, games like Crashmo and DRW could become serious IPs. LttP isn't exactly a dangerous game for Nintendo to expirement with. I'm just hoping they make it an eShop exclusive so that the top down 2D Zelda games can live on in the eShop.

@evanescent_hero we will see, but until then you can not insist that you are right. You could be wrong or I could be wrong, but at this point you can't say oh I'm right because NEH! Just like I can't convince the idiots out there that the new pokemon is a new mewtwo form and not an evolution. grumble grumble

I just noticed something, this game appears to be even straighter top down view than the original LttP. Maybe they should angle the camera to lean back a little bit.

@evanescent_hero well you have Dillion's Rolling Western which has already gotten a sequel, Pushmo which was followed by Crashmo, HarmoKnight from Gamefreak, the Mario and Donkey Kong minis puzzle games, and Sakura samurai I guess. Quite a few IPs to be making their big debuts on the eShop don't you think? : 3

@evanescent_hero actually I know very much about Nintendo and I know that they are striving for the future in their market right now. Downloadable titles are the future so it's safe to assume they will lean that direction. You cannot just say you are right until they announce it. Man up, grow a pair, and admit where you can't state something for a fact.

@XephHunter pokemon are primarily based off of animals, they arn't running out of ideas. Pokemon is not getting worse. The mechanics are getting extremely better each generation. There is more to the game than just the pokemon. They will always get people to buy their games no matter what, so what you think really doesn't matter. Black and white 2 are the most refined pokemon games I have ever played, I actually felt CHALLENGED for once playing a pokemon game

@evanescent_hero look, I'm just saying I'm expecting it to be eShop exclusive, that doesn't make me right, and certainly doesn't make you right that it WILL be a retail game. I'm just hoping that its an eShop exclusive because it looks like it would fit in that area well. That doesn't make either of us right and many things are open for speculation. Personally I'm hoping that game will contain many of the old areas with time changes. Plus... I have to wonder if this game will have a cross feature with Four Swords. There was an extra temple In the GBA+four swords port. I'm also looking forward (ironical joke) to diagonal movement as well.

@DaveGX Cthey are calling it the awakened FORM. Not evolution. It's been confirmed everywhere. If it is indeed a form, then you are going to have to admit that you are wrong.

@DaveGX At the bottom of the article there is a link to serebii.net
THAT is where they got their information for this article. AND serebii has just recently posted more information CONFIRMING this is a FORM and NOT an EVOLUTION. If fake pokemon can be brushed off because they don't reflect Ken Sugimori's normal artstyle then the idea that legendaries evolve can be knocked out of the sky by the fact that it hasn't happened in the last five generations. I have much more evidence to support that they do not evolve than you do that they do evolve.

@XephHunter the designs aren't as bad as people think. You all are just butthurt because pokemon hasn't stopped moving yet. At a least I can say that every single design in gen 5 was detailed. Literally none of the sprites were bland or lacking features. Gen 5 has given some of my favorite pokemon, and I'm not going to let the genwunners bring it down. The klink line, while not very creative, comes to me as a cool concept none the less, and Zekrom, well, I'm not a fan of it but a lot of people really like it so don't blame me if you get flamed. Gamefreak will NEVER listen to the 1/2nd gen lovers. They are focused on moving forward and trying to create as many pokemon as they can base off of animals. They will go on for a looong time and there isn't anything anyone can do to stop them. Pokemon will longstanding be known as the cash-in done right.

@JSuede someone didn't catch the Team Foretress 2 reference. : P

@evanescent_hero also... This isn't exactly a brand new game entirely. They already have the majority of their overworld right in front of them. All they need to do is expand a bit and add more and more dungeons add new stuff to the old overworld. I think it should take place 5-30 years after the original. So in a sense, this game and four swords are similar. Four swords doubled, while LttP 2 is recreating and adding.

@Five-seveN obvious mistake on my part.

@XephHunter still has less crappy designs and concepts than gen 1.

@evanescent_hero ooookkkk... We'll see. Also I've never actually played animal crossing so I can't give an opinion on that. But I can tell you right now I'd much rather prefer it if it was an eShop title. For me it just fits. But if its a retail title... I'm not going to be so keen to pay 40 dollars for it. It's obviously not going to be anything that pushes the 3DS hardware to the limits, but I'm expecting to have a good time with it if it is 20 dollars. It's probably going to have dlc too, maybe not, we will have to see come holiday 2013. Btw what do they mean when they say that? Christmas? The closest holiday to this current time? The nonspecific "holiday" confuses me..

@Five-seveN hunters was made by just Nintendo. Just them. It's not the developer that makes me hate the game it's the GAME that makes me hate the game and in turn I blame the developers for that mistake. Bottom line, hunters does not feel like any other metroid game in the series. Therefore I'm writing it off as non-canonical. To me, it is just a fictional tangent from the main series.

@Five-seveN doesn't matter, it has so much more content it might as well be a new game. It perfectly shows how a Zelda title can hold its own in the eShop.

@evanescent_hero you fool! They did it with Four Swords Anniverary Edition! Plus this is not a "big project for Nintendo". This is going to be easy for them to do. What their REAL big project is making Zelda U (dungeons that take hours to compelte?! I can finish the water temple in less than 20 minutes!). So yeah, this wont atract too many customers with a retail price. Just look at it. Now if it was an eShop game I would pick it up without question, LttP was a great Zelda game and this installment seems to have the same style as that game. Excluding the fact that link has become far less stylish with the exclusion of his snazzy pink hair. : P
Also I'm holding you up to what you said about buying me a copy jk.

@Nibelilt I don't think so... We've made the coffin, we just need to secure it, the bury it. The question is what games will do that? We have Animal Crossing coming our way and some other so we should be set to kick the can in the hole.

@Trikeboy oh wait, LoZ LttP 2! "Oops". *laughs maniacally

@Five-seveN also it does matter who makes the game. The developers who make the game will affect its style. Retro focuses on polishing a game to where it blinds you but also focuses on imersion, playability, length, stuff like that. All the things that the metroid prime trilogy had, I felt that hunters did not. If retro had made the game they probably would have given up on the inferior hardware of the DS and moved it to a console. All the things I liked about the prime trilogy hunters lacked. The exploration felt cheap, there is a severe lack of thought, there are only two bosses in the game that REPEAT (not to mention they arn't even creative or fun) , the music sounds terrible, the aiming sucks even with the stylus customization, there are only 6 upgrades for you to collect and they don't even add to the puzzles of the game, the areas are confusing and difficult to navigate because everything looks the same, the graphics, while not bad for their time, are very pixely and blurry, even nauseating at times, the game lacks any imersion and soul you would find i the real metroid prime games, the backtracking isn't as fun or meaningful as it is in the metroid prime trilogy, the scan database was lazily made (which was one of my favorite things from the metroid prime trilogy!), the game feels too focused on combat, and it lacks depth. I have repeated tried to give this game a chance and time and time again it has disappointed me. I hate it for what it is, a cash in on a famous IP.

@Five-seveN yeah I had a little bit of fun with it, at times, but it just felt like your genaric FPS to me (not a fan of FPS). Instead of metroid it felt like a game that had metroid sprayed over it, like how Super Mario Bros. 2 was. I still think that Nintendo should leave all things metroid prime to Retro Studios from now on.

@Five-seveN Shhhhhh! They will hear you! All we want to do, is forget about it. (It's a "ok" game, but not by metroid prime standards. The main reason was because retro studios didnt make it)

@evanescent_hero if the 3DS eShop has enough space to put games like Luigis mansion 2 and Mario kart 7 on there then I don't think Nintendo is going to waste the plastic and metal to make game cards for this. Each of those cards they make costs them money, if it is downloadable, they don't have to waste resources on cards. Besides, the 3D models from what I saw were pretty basic, and its not like the game will be in SUPER REALISTIC HD or anything.

@Five-seveN we don't talk about Hunters. Shhhh... It doesn't exist... It's not canon... At all...

@DaveGX that not an evolution. It's already been confirmed twice over that this is a FORM. Go look at SEREBII.

@XephHunter how dare you, 5th Gen is the 3rd best gen. It had the smallest changes but they were in the right places.
Gen order in terms of greatness:
5. 1st gen
4. 2nd gen
3. 5th gen
4. 3rd gen
5. 4th gen