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That’s Switch-only, I assume? Would be nice to clarify this in the article.

„One of the best“ is a tad meaningless with only four hori shooters made by Cave.

Edit: I see it‘s been edited out now. ^^

@accc „Zuma-like“?
I hope you know that Zuma is but a blatant copy of Puzz Loop, which was made by Mitchell - I.e. the same guys as behind Tokyo Crash Mob.

@Kiwi_Unlimited I see. Thanks for the reply. Though I think that’s a bit far-fetched. „Idas“ is just a Greek suffix, that was probably chosen just for sounding kinda cool.

@Kiwi_Unlimited I don't get it. What's the pun here? Dungeon + ???

@EliJapan Mixing up IX and XI?
IX is on DS. XI is on modern systems.

@Not_Soos You might want to calculate that again.
110 million consoles sold.

so, 1.1 million would be 1%.

so, 9 million is close to 10%.

@Bobb There were 4 in total. Japan got an exclusive 2D entry titled...Bomberman 64. The Western Bomberman 64 was called Baku Bomberman in Japan.

@ChromaticDracula The NLife team doesn't decide what gets to be "featured". They just pull the whole article straight from Nintendo of America. They decide which titles get the special spotlight.

@SwitchVogel Did you mean Nietzsche?

@jodudeit That's also exactly what I thought first. ^^

So, you still haven't figured out how "ranked from best to worst works"?
It's not that hard, honestly. Especially when multiple people already told you last time.

Oof, I joined this site in 2008, so I've been here throughout his stint, and I enjoyed his articles. I mostly remember Chicken Brutus (wasn't that his alias here back then?) for ripping apart terribly bad games.
Just recently, I was browsing old DSiWare and WiiU eshop reviews, stumbling over some of his work again, and actually checked what he was doing nowadays, and I was happy for him to see that he is still dabbling in video games journalism.
This news now comes as all the more of a shock...

@Clipse Just chiming in to say that I really like your game. There are some downsides, but overall I am sure enjoying myself and I can't wait to finish the game. I saw a review giving it a meager 2/10 and that's just...bollocks.
Sad to see 3Souls having been mostly forgotten about. Wasn't it possible to port it to Steam, rather than (only) itch.io?

@DTFaux So, you grabbed the game for free and promised to return the favor by sharing your impressions. Any chance of still seeing them?

"in the UK or Europe"
Pretty sure that the UK is still part of Europe, no matter how often the Brits try to claim otherwise.
What's next? "in the UK or on the world"?

Funnily enough, I had heard of this game the first time just the day before this article was posted, as I was searching for DSiWare games I might have missed. Kinda scary to see such a coincidence. ^^

Different to what the review says, this game has no levelling or stat increase system at all. All stats are merely determined by your equipment.
And it should be noted that the real game only starts after beating the initial 5 dungeons that are mentioned in the review. After seeing the credits for the first time, there are still plenty of secrets to uncover and nasty dungeons to beat. Overall, it took me close to 31 hours to see it all.

Will this game work on the 3DS, given the different location of the camera compared to the DSi?

@SportyMarioSonicMix What? How does it in any way relate to Streetpass? It's multiplayer and nothing else. You connect the Gamboys and play gaems together...
Right at launch of the Game Boy, multiplayer was a big thing in Tetris. Later, there even was a four-player adapter.

@SportyMarioSonicMix
I never played the GG version.

But I can comment on one of your questions:
7) Am I the only one who was SHOCKED to learn the Game Gear had multiplayer support in the early 1990s? WOW!!!

>Why would you be shocked? The Gameboy had multiplayer in 1989. You realize that the GG also only had multiplayer via link cable? So what is so special about it?

@Aneira
Are you referring to @RCMADIAX 's first game?
That was also nothing but a blatant clone, but it happened to clone a game nobody on the NLife team or most readers had heard of, so he got a free pass, and even a good review.
The game he had cloned was Tumbledrop. I had played it on my iPhone before RCMADIAX cloned it, so I was a little disheartened to see NLife actually praising the clone back in the days.

"Poisoft Thud Card (POISOFT, $2.99) - It's a very fun card game. Aim to be the world's top Thud player"

It's ridiculous to just blindly copy and paste all of this PR nonsense, especially without even disclosing it. As it stands, this site is calling the game "very fun" although I'm fairly sure you have no idea whether it really is any good.

No date given? As such, this news is pretty pointless.
I'll be in Japan on a business trip in two weeks. Here's hoping they are still active by then.

Edit: March 28th. It's in the link. Why wouldn't you give that information in the news?

A tedious, boring, repetitive grind?
So it IS just like Monster Hunter after all!
Seriously, MH is a terrible franchise for all the same reasons that this game here only gets a 6/10, yet every "new" MH gets praised to no end.

@Shiryu I highly doubt that Exe made these games and then looked for a publisher. It is way more likely that Kemco requested Exe to make auch a game...how else do you explain the literally dozens of extremely similar games all being published by Kemco?

@gcunit That's true. You can't rewind in online matches...because there are NO online matches in this game. XD

@BlackenedHalo Screenshots on Nlife are randomized. There is no way to know what Screenshot you referred to.

@JimmySpades It's already been on PC...

@Dom You know, it really is ironic: You kept emphasizing how you would favor personal analysis of the weekly Japanese sales charts over the (how you would call them) "cold" bare facts.
Yet, these weekly download news are the epitomy of soullessness as you honestly just repeat and quote PR babbling. It is extremely hard to stick with these texts as they are so blatantly promotional. What once had been my favorite news of the week is now barely acceptable. I mean, just look at the Fe text: A new kind of platformer? Because it doesn't tell you its story? That is just stupid.

@warp3d And they didn't mention the fact it was raining on the day development for these games started! Nobody cares. It has absolutely nothing to do with the quality of the games. Take your politics out of gaming. Thank you.

@BulbasaurusRex The review read more like a4 or 5. I have no clue where you felt it sounded overly positive.

That tagline hasn't attracted Anti-Matter yet? Just imagine gifting this game to him...

Is this review a joke? The abundance of typos and bad grammar are basically to be expected by now, but the length is just ridiculous. What I take away is: It apes Windjammer and nobody knows whether the community will stick around. Honestly: Nobody would need a review for that.

"at least we now know which studio is bringing Samus back to the FPS party."

The MP Series are no FPS games. They are action-adventures that just happen to be displayed in first person. God, this site is sickening me more and more by the day.

reads the title of the news
What's "live a stream"?

Seriously. This has been getting out of hands...for weeks already.

@BAN You complete miss both FatAlbert11's point and the numbers. MHW isn't merely selling more than those old Switch games this week. It has nearly surpassed all of those games' life time sales! Within a mere two weeks.

@Tingel Better things to do with €19? Yeah, I guess you could buy an English learning book instead of complaining about this game not being in German.
Also, you clearly have no idea what you are talking about. The game is already more than a year old and after a slow start, appreciation for the game just slowly started to rise, steadily growing from there. This is no recently hyped shovelware. It's a genuinely great game...but seeing your post, I'd say it just goes straight over your head.

@SLIGEACH_EIRE What? Please tell me a single issue of this game that a simple patch could possibly fix.

@rosemo Probably also because it wasn't rated particularly highly back then. If memory serves, only nlife reviewed it and they only gave it a 5. And since it was just another TD game, nobody took notice.

@rosemo Beat me to it. ^^
I was going to mention the same thing. Nobody seems to remember that game.

@derrin You are spot on.

@OorWullie Touch controls? You do realize that this is no endless runner or auto runner, right? It's a platformer. Why would anybody want to play this with touch controls?

@BigKing I wholeheartedly agree. In the vast cosmos of shmups this had never been anything special

@FinalFrog Because if it doesn't, you can simply keep playing a level, rack up points, die, continue, rack up more points infinitely. One can max out the score without any skill, just by patience, thus entirely ruining the whole system. High scores lose all meaning then.

@Lroy PvZ started on PC from where it only got ported to mobile. So if you consider this a "mobile game" then so would e.g. all those Mega Drive games on mobile be "mobile games".

@Bondi_Surfer I quote "they GET". This clearly implies that they don't start off that badly. Hence a sub-par score. Not that hard to understand.

The guy that wrote this review has apparently never played Geometry Wars Galaxies. Pretty much all he applauds for being "new" and "innovative" had already been done there...

"barley visible ledges" Yummy.

I don't get it. This guy appears to have a decent vocabulary. So why can't he be arsed to proof-read his articles at least once? As always, there are tons of stupid typos in this one. At least there is still an editor to proof-read it. Oh, snap.

Jon Cousins needs to be taught the difference between "its" and "it's".
Seriously, just read any of his reviews and you will find this a lot. Among other easily avoidable mistakes.