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Not interested in any of these... Why don't they ever do discounts for better stuff?

@Adamario That's pretty weird. I honestly haven't touched the 3DS version in the longest time since switching to Wii U so I forgot it was even like this.

Still, I'd take the Wii U one as the more consistent since it can use screen space better than the 3DS.

@Adamario Shulk isn't treated as a third party character. He's along with the other stand-alone series fighters and is at the very end of the list next to Wii Fit Trainer due to being the most recent stand-alone character franchise (and thus the "final" one). If you notice they order the stand-alone series chronologically using release points, like this:

Mr. Game & Watch (Game & Watch) > Little Mac (Arcade/NES) > Duck Hunt (NES) > R.O.B. (NES) > Ness (SNES) > Captain Falcon (SNES) > Villager (N64 Japan/GC USA) > Olimar (GC) > Wii Fit Trainer (Wii) > Shulk (Wii)

With a full roster including Miis, Mr. Game & Watch and Little Mac are at the very top after the DK reps possibly since there's free space. Duck Hunt is also oddly placed before the string of Kirby > Star Fox > Pokemon, but right under that come the franchises with only 1 rep each. You probably get the point now.
Since Shulk is the latest choice out of the two Wii games (Wii Fit coming before Xenoblade) he goes last out of the bunch, THEN the third party characters, though with a proper full roster the clone trio come after Shulk and THEN the third party characters, which shows he's not even considered 3rd party. If he were, he'd be after the clones, don't you think? I'm sure that if Shulk wasn't in the game, Wii Fit Trainer would be the one right next to the clones/3rd parties instead. It's just a matter of how they placed characters for this game.

I'm glad you guys came through with a review for this right on time. I noticed the game on the New Releases section of the Wii U eShop like 10-15 minutes before this review was posted, saw the $9.99 price, remembered hearing decent stuff about it and was keen on purchasing an eShop card for it before the $9.99 price went up tomorrow. I never get Nintendo games without first reading up on NL's reviews so this definitely helped at the last minute.
I'm a bit disappointed to hear that there's only 4 worlds and to a lesser extent, that boss fights aren't good and that controls can be clunky, but for $9.99 I suppose it won't dent my wallet that hard. I got FAST Racing NEO at full price and I don't even play it anymore after beating the single player stuff, so whatever.

@Spoony_Tech It's not like people can just scroll all the way down effectively ignoring the review all the same... oh wait, they can.
It's what I used to do to at least get an overview of what they thought of the game before actually reading all of it, mostly if the game turns out to be bad.

@Sligeach "I haven't bought any of the DLC and won't until a reasonably priced season pass is released."

That. Nintendo doesn't do that.

@twadezelda3dsxl They are releasing it at the same exact time, it just happens to be "different" in other areas. While it's February 4th in Japan and UK, it will be the 3rd still in America. In the end it's still the same thing.

@Sligeach Which is never on Nintendo platforms. You either buy the DLC now or never lol.

Pokken is definitely an odd pick. I don't expect the game to be strong on a competitive aspect due to the seemingly lacking depth in gameplay and controller compatibility, but I'll check it out nonetheless and see how that goes.

@KrakenSoup They do that on purpose. The whole strategic point to Monster Hunter is that you need to mind your attacks and other actions (healing, sharpening, cooking, etc.) because most actions will have long animations that will leave you open, and managing that is part of what makes it challenging and different, as opposed to being able to just mindlessly mash with fast attacks that barely leave you open.

It's not for everyone but you learn to deal with it. It mostly sucks against some of the more overpowered monsters or the agile ones that are harder to catch alone.

In one hand the inclusion of same-sex marriage is nice.
On the other, I don't see it as too amazing, progressive or whatever considering the male character is a sadist and the female is a stalker (which happens to be this game's blatant Tharja in appearance and personality trait, straight-up). It's sad and kinda disgusting.

Man, Dragon Ball characters really don't look pleasing at all as chibis...

How do you connect Wii Us with one another via LAN?

Wow, Little Battlers eXperience is already on sale? Was it that bad? lol

I love how the 3DS poll choices were copied from the Wii U one and it wasn't fixed.

This here is the only... fanfiction, if you will, that I'll let slide. It's too awesome not to!

@_exalt I was kidding haha.

@_exalt Clearly I'm an idiot then. Ignore me!

@SavoirFaire Same here. I see a lot of people dismissing this one already, but I'm one of the few that's willing to give it a chance regardless. Every single Mario & Luigi game to date is fantastic so I'm confident this one will be just as good.

@_exalt Nowhere. If it's not first-party it doesn't get it.

I just want the Smash DLC and Paper Jam. Unsure about getting FF Explorers for now, will wait on a review. I'm also not sure if I should bother getting Fates, either. Two versions both at full retail price kinda ruin it for me, I would've preferred one whole game.

Such a shoddy port and at that price? Considering the PC version is the more recent update-wise and is always on sale for dirt cheap... This version isn't worth getting at all. I'm glad I didn't waste the $20.

@A01 It's 864x864, actually. Only PS4 and Xbox One have the bigger worlds. Even 360 and PS3 had to settle for small worlds, and even then it's not that bad of a size. You'll never really end up exploring a world entirely anyway so it's fine. I wouldn't mind if it were slightly bigger though, not so much asking for PS4/One world sizes but a bit more would be alright.

@JaxonH It's ok, at least you understand now.

@JaxonH

You misunderstand. I don't care if we get more FE characters, anybody is fine with me as long as it's a new character over a veteran (as nice as they are, and them being slightly redone in this game is great, new blood feels a lot fresher and much more fun regardless). While I'm not outright interested in Corrin (and definitely not Fates for specific reasons) out of the last batch of DLC, I will still buy him, mostly because I play Smash tournaments and need him, and given that I enjoy using most of the roster anyway, I will give him a chance unconditionally.

All I'm saying is his addition feels like it's Sakurai being biased in favor for Fire Emblem, what with wanting to add Robin and Lucina because he really enjoyed Awakening. It just makes it feel like Corrin's inclusion is the exact same scenario, in that he added the character out of his enjoyment rather than anyone begging for it, especially with the ballot going on where they could've seen if anyone even asked for Corrin (though, what do I know, the results are kept away from us anyway).

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I never even said anything about that lmao. Hell, I'm one of the same people that would much rather have a Nintendo character, Corrin included, over undeserving indies like SK, Shantae, etc., and other characters like Rayman. If anything, I voted for Isaac and I'm not even mad with the results, despite being uninterested in Fates and never playing Bayonetta. Hell, Bayonetta being in made me try her game (which I enjoyed greatly, though its absurdly short length left a sour taste in my mouth at the same time :/ ), and I couldn't be any more excited for her. Cloud also turned out to be amazing and I'm thoroughly enjoying him aside from my main, Shulk.

Seriously though you're kinda ranting in the wrong place here. You misunderstood my original comment and, while people DO complain about more swordsmen/FE characters/whatever, I couldn't care less about that as I personally favor disjointed characters anyway. All I'm saying is Corrin feels like a biased addition from Sakurai, no complaints attached whatsoever.

"[It] honestly makes me cringe a little bit because [Liz is] only 13 years old. People are calling it censorship. I really see it as localisation."
Liz?

"Nintendo really seems to be doubling down on it, too, as the main unit, Corrin, will soon be arriving as a playable fighter in Super Smash Bros. to raise awareness."
Or Sakurai just wanted yet another FE character seeing as he's way too enthusiastic about the series. Looks more like bias on his part than anyone actually liking him and asking for him or to give the game exposure.

As long as it ends up being good, I'm fine with whatever they do.
Just stop with Sonic Boom please, the only good thing about that is the cartoon, we don't need more bad games to go with it.

@MitchVogel A new Generations game would be fantastic, considering the first one was solid. I'd just like it if that one was made for Wii U, it kinda sucked how the only Nintendo platform that arrived on was 3DS. I had to make do with the PC version on my not-so-great laptop...

I'm all for VC of Sonic games, though. Sonic Advance 3 is great!

I dunno about Fire & Ice being a good game for our hedgehog's birthday...

1 word, 3 letters:
Meh.

This is kinda old news but still cool. I knew the references, just not the dude that made their names a thing.

I'm honestly glad the New 3DS is pretty much dead. The expanded controls, built-in NFC reading and better 3D are welcome and I would've liked it in my original 3DS, for sure. But as it is I like that there's not really too many exclusives for it so that I don't feel forced to switch over just to play a game I might be interested in.

@rjejr My bad, there IS co-op for Tower Defense and 2-player versus for Death Match (both of which are only multiplayer). Just no co-op for Survival, the only "standard" mode with co-op is Creative at the moment, is what I meant.

I believe all multiplayer allows is 2 people, one on Gamepad and the other on Wii U Pro or Classic Controller (something that this game thankfully is compatible with, unlike Minecraft :/).

@rjejr Couch co-op is a thing but only for creative mode. No co-op survival, which kinda sucks. Had to get Minecraft anyway because of that, though my copy of CL:IS was also a free giveaway code from a while back at least.

I just got it myself yesterday. My only gripes with it are the small world sizes and lack of Classic Controller compatibility (seriously, now I need to spend $50 on a single Wii U Pro controller just to play this co-op?). Other than that it's just Minecraft, which is never a bad thing.

More support on the gamepad would've been nice but I hardly care about that. I'd mostly prefer the d-pad to function on the first control scheme cause I find that better for scrolling through my items instead of L/R. Still can't get used to that, and I don't like the 2 other control schemes which do use d-pad for that.

@hcfwesker @NaturalGus "The arcade version features two screens for local multiplayer and it was initially unclear how (or if) multiplayer would carry over into the home console port, but the development team has thankfully found a way to make it happen."

I think the article is welcomed due to how they handled multiplayer for this game on arcades. It's nice to know how it's going down in consoles thanks to people knowing ahead of time and informing people, since it's kinda confusing. Don't really see the problem in that.

Plus thanks to people talking about this now I know that it won't work like the Naruto Storm games for example, where both players could just play on the same 1 screen instead of needing separate screens over each player's shoulders. I personally wish it wouldn't be the way it's gonna be, but oh well.

I would've liked it better to all be on one screen, mostly if this game were to have a tournament scene of some kind. Kinda disappointing, but oh well.

@MitchVogel You might wanna add that Wii U Pro and the Classic Controller will also be available options. It'd help some people that didn't know prior such as myself (I just found out a few hours ago).

Favorite Metroid game, easily. I personally like the linear aspect of it, as well as the vulnerability you feel right from the get-go. I still remember feeling legitimately terrified because of the SA-X when I was younger ;_;.

Hoping this comes out soon, the first one was very good!

Only thing I have to say is that the character that seems to be the new protagonist looks really derpy in her art and I don't quite like it. I like the in-game sprites though.

@tedko Yeah it honestly makes little sense. MM3D is still pretty much the base game with a few differences ("upgrades") and slight changes to the boss battles to change the way the battle's dynamics worked.

MH4U is definitely the best 3DS retail game there was this year. Improvements over MH3, more engaging combat (the verticality to environments and mounting add a lot more to the game IMO), great visuals, really good DLC rewards in the costumes and weapons based on other series' tie-ins. I eventually got tired of the game not even going past HR7, but that was because I stopped having people to co-op with. If not for that I'm pretty sure I would've spent a lot more time in it, though I can safely say I didn't drop the game due to the game itself getting boring, moreso the lack of friends to play it with (friends that weren't way ahead of me, anyway).

Out of all those games the only ones I like are Super Mario Maker, Xenoblade Chronicles X and Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate.
I played Box Boy and felt it was way too easy, though not exactly bad. Pokemon Shuffle's nice but got old after a while and Majora's Mask is just a remake so I'd rather ignore that, even if the original is fantastic. I'll reserve my thoughts on FRN and Steamworld Heist as I'm still thinking about whether or not to get them.

Wii U eShop game of the year might as well be "Wii U Nindie" game of the year, that's all the 5 games are :Y.

God-awful, though I'm not surprised. I might just sink in and get Steamworld Heist and/or FAST Racing NEO after all.

@JaxonH Well I tend to prefer a lot more longevity in my games, or else it feels like I used them up way too quickly if there's already nothing else to do past the main story (or whatever the main draw to the game is). I don't really like replaying games right away either.

I recently got Bayonetta ($30 on eShop cause physical copies died) and while I enjoyed it a lot I was extremely disappointed by the length of the game and I don't see any point in replaying the same stages over and over to get more out of the game. This was so bad that as much as I'd like to give Bayonetta 2 a try I just don't find it worth it for something I can breeze through in 9-11 hours yet again, especially for $30 more. This kinda thing applies with any other game. If I can't get long play times out of it because it doesn't offer tons of other content besides the main thing (like Hyrule Warriors and Xenoblade) then it kinda doesn't feel worth the money to me, again, regardless of how great the game might be.

Is this game replayable? Apparently the levels are randomly generated, so I could probably just come back to it from time to time, but I'm not sure if it's worth spending the money on a quick game with no longevity, regardless of its quality.

TriForce Heroes is not better than MH4U at all lmao.

Only the Cloud+Midgar DLC, don't want anything else.

Here's hoping Bayonetta gets a discount so I can get it and prepare for February. Too hype!

Why is ZL+ZR in the middle...?

"What Are Your Wii U eShop Games of the Year?"
aka Indie games of the year that happen to be on Wii U.