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Nintendolife should have kept it secret. Without you guys making it a big headline here, I wouldn’t have known…
Why not make the headline something like „new character unveiled“, and then only if you click on the article you will actually get to know who it is?

JP‘s drawing quality looks so cheap. No contest really.

I.e. a disappointingly mid game? Let’s wait and see.

@Tasuki What?

This is not a „cult classic“. It was bad back in the day, and it still is.

Again. The physical release in UK did not „underperform“, as it was sold out. It makes no sense to say otherwise.

The term „Monstie“ will never not be cringe af.

If it’s undersupplied and subsequently sold out, it cannot at the same have underperformed. No matter how high or low the actual numbers are.

Neither is good, but I guess the Western one is better for various reasons outlined already in other comments.

Angry Birds was terrible right from the start (the physics were all wonky and random), and it only got worse with more reliance on microtransactions.
And the designs are ugly as sin.
shrug

Wow, pretty bad list and ratings overall, and some of the author's comments are really off.
E.g. my son has been playing Pokemon Smile (twice a day) for some years now, and he could ALWAYS catch a pokémon unless he purposefully messed around. Also, Pokémon Smile is great for what it does, but people here probably just downvoted it for not being a "true game" or whatever. And why are so many games missing here, like Sleep or all the Mini games and TCG2?
I absolutely love Channel, both Parks and several other lowranking games. They are heaps and bounds better than most of the freemium games on this list (except for Picross where the text is way off again).
Lastly, Dash is really not all that bad. I bought it back in the day and enjoyed it quite a bit. The controls are creative and really convey the rush and haste of a race. It's not perfect by any means, but I even enjoyed improving my times after I beat the game.

@Twilite9 Yup, me too. They should have offered us a key for another platform then.

It bears repeating, but they truly scammed people out of their money, and I am among those being scammed.
I backed Might No. 9 on Kickstarter with an amount high enough to grant me a digital key of the game.
So, when Comcept asked me which platform I wanted the game on, I chose 3DS. That version never came and has never been officially cancelled. It just never came. And thus I also never received my key.
Now, I can see why business considerations might lead them to cancel that version. That in itself is ok. But then they should have reached out to me (and all the others) and said "Hey, 3DS is not gonna materialize. Can we give you a key for a different platform? How about a Steam key?".
Then, I would have happily switched, but they never gave us any option.

To think that I once thought really highly of Inafune...I even once interviewed him and it truly was a special day for me back then...

Doesn’t remind me of the GCN at all. Yeah, it’s a cube…and that’s about it for similarities.

Like others here, I was just about to skip the article a second time, simply because of the terrible headline.
I am glad I did end up clicking on it, though, because it turned out to be a genuinely wonderful story.

@purple_shyguy You misread the quote. Tanabe said that it was their first Nintendo game, meaning a game made under the Nintendo brand and published by Nintendo.

Glad the Western Cover won, as the pose is rather nice and not often seen, whereas the JP one is rather generic.

@Nick2054
„ Wow, I thought that 'Zumba' marble game was a typo because 'Zuma' was the original. I guess theres a knockoff of 'Zuma' called 'Zumba' that shares the name with the 'Zumba' workouts.“

To be fair, Zuma was a blatant clone of Mitchell‘s Puzz Loop.

@Warioware My question was what part of the world you are in. Because in my part of the world, all the magazines back then understood that this was a successor to the Shenmue series and evaluated it as such.

@Serpenterror
„ this is actually the second Musou game in the series and the best one at that since Dynasty Warriors 1 is a fighting game and Dynasty Warriors 2 is the first in the Musou franchise“
Not quite correct. DW2 is the first Shin Musou game, aka „real“ Musou.
Even the first one was called Musou in Japan, just nit Shin Musou.

@Warioware
„not the unfair GTA comparison they initially received“
Where did that happen? In my part of the world, Yakuza was from the start seen as a successor to Shenmue. No one ever compared them to GTA.

@HingryHuppo
That’s true. The exchange rate was rather different back then.
Still, it’s nice to hear that you got different prices between different DS games. I think here they were indeed all priced the same, no matter how light on content they might have been.

@TrueWiiMaster
„But this is a $70 game with online service for less than a year.“
2 years

@HingryHuppo
„My copy was £18 at launch and most full priced DS games were about £25 ($30 US) in the first year or so.“
Sounds like UK got lucky. Here in Germany they were all €40.

As a lifelong Mega Man fan: nah, it‘s not a good time. This is just another rehash, and Dual Override looks really rough.

Interesting to see everyone gushing about Klonoa here. I only care about Mr Driller 2 in this update. ^^

@suika Really glad to hear I could help.

@atmb82 It happens. ^^

@atmb82
„But I remember Tiny Toons game for Genesis (Mega Drive) was beautiful.“

Developed and published by Konami. Acclaim was nowhere near that game.

@Tom-Massey So that‘s your entire reply when people point out an objective mistake? Alrighty.

@Tom-Massey
The collection does not contain all versions of classic Bubsy games. It‘s missing the improved PC port of the first game, called Super Bubsy.
Really should have been mentioned in the review.

@JJtheTexan How is it weird? Those games define themselves through being a giant crossover of different brands.

On topic: I first thought of Rockman Xover. Terrible mobile game I played at TGS 2012, but the pronounciation of the X is quite clear here, as it’s „cross“.

Any nobody thought of BMX XXX?

@DollyrotsFan1 „The 'Wonderboy' games were what they now call Metroidvania before Metroid even existed but nobody called Metroid a Wonderboy knockoff.“

Sorry, but that’s just completely wrong. Metroid and the first Wonderboy both released in 1986, but Wonderboy was just an arcade platformer.
The first Wonderboy with Metroid-like elements was Wonderboy in Monsterland, released in 1987, I.e. a year after Metroid…

@FishyS „There are a zillion vampire survival clones on the eShop“

Well, VS is a blatant clone of Magic Survival… ^^

Man, the negativity here in the comments is off the charts.
People just immediately decided to hate on it.
Looks decent for what it is.

I am honestly surprised by the negative comments towards the Western Cover. It is not the best cover in the history of gaming, but it’s quite fine IMO. The JP one on the other hand is a complete mess. My eyes cannot even comprehend where one thing ends and another begins.

@Daniel36 Actually we spent one day there, and we did everything we wanted to do.

@Daniel36 German here. We loved Efteling when we visited it with our son about 2 years ago.

@slaine That was just a grey import done by the shop. A shop in my area did the same back in the day.
Virtual Boy was never released in Europe.

At first glance I thought the US cover looks amazing, but then I looked closer and…the positions and perspective of the sword and the monster’s arm really make no sense at all. How could they mess up that badly?

Really far up his own arse, this lad. You did nothing insane. You just took a well-established concept.

@NeoGee I‘d argue that Chrono Trigger is vastly overrated.
Different people, different tastes.

Best game on SNES.
Fortunately I am European, so I got to buy and enjoy it back in the day.

@The_Nintendo_Pedant
„the most anyone has come up with is jungle beat and smash, both spinoffs. one is an ill regarded experiment that was left to rot on gamecube“

I know I am late, but this comment has me scratching my head twice.
Jungle Beat is also on Wii, and where did you get the impression it was „ill-regarded“? I have never seen anybody talk about it negatively. Sure. It was an experiment and not exactly a mass market game, but anybody who played it did like it. Maybe it was not commercially successful, but I‘d reckon „Ill-regarded“ is an entirely different matter and does not fit this game.

It’s really not a game for me. I am not the best at music games, but this one is impossible and annoying to me.

Nice. The only good game in the series. The Wii one was the last game I ever preordered. It was abysmal. It only relied on those annoying supershots.

„Nintendo has reportedly stated that it will respond to Procon-SP's complaint within 20 days, so we'll be sure to provide an update on the case as soon as we're able.“

90+ days later: You sure you‘re sure?

@Sylamp Japanese companies rarely fire you, but they will make you leave.

@LastFootnote Ah I see. Thanks. Would love a Legends collection.

@LastFootnote
„sure would be great if Capcom would redo Mega Man Legends Collection.“
Wait, there was a Legends collection? Or do you mean the MM Legacy collection?