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@Sylamp You skipped the most important step: Fire Inafune.

US looks so, so bad. How is it getting this many votes?
EU is also terrible, but at least it has a much nicer logo.
JP is the least bad, I guess…

@KayFiOS „and the Mega Man Legacy Collections seem intent on never reviving content that was exclusive to the Dreamcast or PSP“

Mega Man on Dreamcast?

@Kilroy Oooh, thanks a lot for the investigation. I would have never guessed that, because, while, yeah, you can pronounce "2" as "zwo", you cannot pronounce "zwei" as "zwo", if you get what I mean. If we write "zwei", then we already decided to pronounce it that way. So, yeah, not Alana's best...

„Zwei-back“? I don’t get it. Do I have to read the zwei in some English way to get the pun?

„As a first sample of FromSoftware's world, and the vibe the developer wished to convey, “
Wouldn’t that have been Demon Souls?

Nintendo is just going to BotW-ify more and more games, and that's not a compliment. I am just glad that this time around more people seem to look through the shallowness in Nintendo's design.
An empty world just for the sake of it, without properly filling it with meaningful content? Yup, sounds exactly like BotW, but for some reason that game was beloved by most.
Nintendo is absolutely losing me. Signed, somebody you bought every one of their systems (including VB and Pokémon Mini and e-Reader) since the NES.

Was a 6/10 in 2017, and probably still is.

„ In a way, this change lessens the experience, because the game can be beaten by visiting only six worlds.“

You only need to beat 3 worlds.

Was a 6/10 in 2006 and still is in 2025 (replaying it currently).

@antdickens I see. In that case you got a bit unlucky there. But it might have been better to plan with more buffer knbetween train and flights. But what do I know - it might have been your only option that day.

That sounds lovely. Would love to meet up with some people from the golden days of Rare. At least I made sure to walk by the old farm and the original location of Ultimate Play the Game.

@antdickens I did, but I believe you took a train to MUC? (It doesn’t specify in the article as far as I can see)
Trains between Cologne and Frankfurt are usually less of an issue due to the short distance and the frequency.
Taking a train across half the country will set you for disaster. That’s for certain with our Deutsche Bahn.
Oh, Nlife is based close to Ashby? That’s pretty cool. I hope you have some sort of connection also to Rare, then. ^^

@antdickens
Next time, better eat at the Press Center. They have decent sausages for a lower price, and lots of seating opportunities.
Also, welcome to GC. I have attended every year since 2003, most of them as press member.
And funny to hear that you came from BHX, as I occasionally land there on business trips to Ashby. My advice: Don’t have a stop over in Munich, but land in Frankfurt and then take a train to Cologne.

@Medic_alert The Internet isn’t all that bad in all places. Gamefaqs is still a great place for well-written guides of all kinds.
Sincerely,
somebody who has written several guides there himself in the past.

Am I really the only one who thinks this looks terrible? Everything looks so flat, stilted, empty and just lazy.
It’s just like when everyone praised the late 2D Rayman games, even though they had super lazy animations. Everything was basically stills that just morphed and bent.

It’s so funny how butthurt people here are.

@JakedaArbok „Rare redesigns“? Plural? What else besides DK did Rare redesign? Diddy for example was their creation.

@SoIDecidedTo Both the US and EU cover use the same picture, but the US cover cuts off the picture on the sides. You can see more of the picture on the EU cover. Thus, the EU cover is clearly the better one.
Also that quip about the 70 mini games on the US cover is just tacky as hell.

@Spider-Kev Maybe newer PlayStation controllers have a dpad, but the ones on PS1 and 2 certainly did not. You could e.g. play DDR on those, as it allowed for pressing opposite directions at the same time (up and down or left and right), because they were individual buttons.
By 2005 Nintendo‘s patent expired, so Sony might have taken their design afterwards. I don’t know. Haven’t had a Sony system after PS2.
And Microsoft has round discs with a cross on them. Also different from Nintendo‘s D pad.

@Spider-Kev Sony doesn’t have a d-pad. They have four separate buttons aligned in a cross shape. Exactly because Nintendo was holding a patent for an actual d-pad.

All the people here not realizing that a world outside of the US exists is wild, as usual.
He said 90 bucks. Not USD. In Europe the game is indeed 90 bucks as in 90 EUR.
Rockstar is based in Scotland, and who knows where this guy is located at.

Why does Alana always feel the need to dunk on this game’s title? The title is perfectly fine.

Two terrible shades of boring.
I am usually not one to say „both are terrible“, but here we are.
Also, nobody thinks that the Western Cover seems to be depicting an avalanche? It just happens to be drawn in such a nothingburger fashion that it’s even hard to tell if it is an avalanche, or just some snow flakes blown up by the boarder.

@PALversusNTSC
„Executives“? „Management“? „Team“?
Kirkhope is a none of that. He is a composer…

That‘s really sad to see.
Not only is it a song composed by Kirkhope, but you even hear his voicing the friggin movie. Of course they should credit him.
Especially when crediting Kondo. Either nobody or all, but why only Kondo? That makes it even more disgusting.

People like the JP one? The map is so utterly boring.
The Western one at least has a nice color scheme.

@Coalescence Are you really comparing Robox to this scam? Robox at least was an original game with the developer having poured effort into. On top, enough people actually liked it.

„Mech Guyva“
Oof, what a pun. ^^

What a waste of time this interview was. But then again, I am not even sure what this gentleman is doing at Nintendo, so I guess he might simply not be involved all that much in decision making? After all, he works in product development…at NOA?
Which begs the question why you would even interview him.

@charliecarrot „Let's not forget that NDS game cases also had graphics along the spine.“

Not in Europe, though. Always hated our bland DS boxes.

@The_Nintend_Pedant
Thank you! It always annoys me greatly to see more and more people calling Metroid Prime an FPS. It feels like around the launch of the first game more people understood that it’s in fact an action-Adventure involving shooting that happens to be viewed from first person.
It‘s the perfect transition into 3D for the series, keeping the original feeling intact. So why would people call it an FPS?

Hating the NA one. The coloring is bad, the cover is way too cluttered and why are the syllables colored differently? Because Americans would not be able to properly pronounce the title otherwise?

@Thomystic The shoutouts are decided entirely by Nintendo.
Nlife merely regurgitates the weekly Nintendo press releases here.

Fighter’s Destiny on N64 had a playable cow named ushi (Japanese for „cow“).

„Pokémon Stadium has hardly been the most lucrative spin-off for the series in the years since its launch, spawning just the one sequel in 2001“
There are 3 Pokémon Stadium games on N64.

And somebody should have noted how that Venusaur move looks like a classic Kabuki pose.

Hopefully as little MH as possible. Most overrated franchise by a long shot and just taking away so many development resources.

@Anti-Matter
„Even there was MySims made by Japanese team from The Sims popularity in Japan“
Not sure what you are referring to. The MySims games were developed in the US.

Never heard of the comedian or the ad, even though I was around at the time. I guess it’s a Uk thing? Or a US thing?

@SuperRetroArt Maybe English isn’t their first language? E.g. in German the country‘s name is Moldawien, and it might be similar in other languages. So maybe people just translate it incorrectly into English. To be fair, people rarely talk about Moldovia online.

So…does the exhibition currently still exist somewhere in Japan? I couldn’t care less about it coming to the Us, but I will be in Japan in 2 weeks, and this would be great to take my son to.

@Dr_Lugae Here‘s hoping you will make it onto S2!

@Dr_Lugae Thanks. Looks quite neat to me. Like a Christmas Undertale. I wonder why Ninty rejected it.

@Dr_Lugae Care to share what game that is?

They had already fired 140 people before that? Just how many employees did they have at one point? That sounds utterly excessive for the kinds of games they made.

@TotalHenshin Nintendo chooses highlights for their press release. Nlife merely regurgitates it wholly including the highlights.

@AmplifyMJ I bought Horace because of Nlife‘s glowing 9/10 review…yeah, it was a decent little game, but that rating was just ridiculous. This site sometimes tends to review British games better just on the virtue of being British.

@Zaruboggan I know I am late, but: Donkey Konga 3 already exists. On GameCube. In Japan.

@G_and_Thomas „The PlayStation already had its own Animal Crossing-esque life sim game“
They did?

„it's making extra use of the landscape orientation here to increase the size of the protagonist“
I will never understand this odd perspective Nlife always has here. The JP GBA boxes do not add extra space. It’s the same space Ina different orientation. In the hands of a good designer, the Western boxes can be used to add more space to an artwork on the y axis, while in Japan it’s the x axis.
And in this particular case, the JP box cuts off Klonoa‘s foot, while the EU version shows it in it’s entirety.

Looks like a Newgrounds game…cheap Flash style visuals.