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@Burning_Spear Never had any issue with this or any other theme before.

@Kilroy It‘s a blatant copy of an Android game. That’s why. It’s rather sad that an outlet such as Nlife doesn’t even acknowledge the history of the game.

@Tasuki It has always been a subsidiary of SE. This isn’t much of a change.

@PipeGuy64Bit How can it be the „second and only“? For it to be second, there must also be a first one, I.e. another one.

Yo, Keiji, you still owe me a key for Mighty No. 9.
Every backer who chose the 3DS version got screwed. They should just offer us Steam keys, and it's ok, but they just kept quiet for the past years, and the 3DS version basically has never been cancelled, and we never got to change our choice.
Scummy guy.

Never had a problem with the Water Temple. I hated the Fire Temple back in the days.

And my account is at least nearly 16 years old. Joined the old VC Reviews site in January 2008.
Had been using it a lot longer before that, but only then decided to create an account.

That’s sad for me to read. Zelda used to be my absolute favorite series, starting back with the original on NES.
But now this series has lost me entirely, and Nintendo will not even care.

@Arminillo Genuine question: How so? I played it and thought it was pretty fun. Not outstanding, but certainly not terrible.

@Poodlestargenerica I suggest you also try Barnyard on Wii. That one always felt to me like the perfect family-friendly GTA-like.

@TheMegaMarshtomp „it all felt empty and meaningless“
Funnily enough, that’s exactly how I felt about BotW.
I am happy for all the people enjoying that game, but I think I will never be able to see the appeal.
Interesting to see rather many people here now apparently felling about TotK the way I already did about BotW.

@TotalHenshin DK64 came before BT, though.

@scrubicius I read your post multiple times and still have no idea what you are trying to say.

On topic: Wow, Zoid worked on MP and also on Q2? That’s quite the resume, I gotta say.

Meanwhile: cries in Wave Race

Insfune stills owes me a key for Mighty No 9.
I backed it on KS and chose the 3DS version…which never materialized. They didn’t even have the dignity to officially cancel it. Just radio silence.
They should at least then have sent me a key for the Steam version or let me choose again.
And of course I am not the only one. Anybody who chose the 3DS version is in the same boat.
Really shady behavior on Inafune‘s behalf.

@BiscuitCrumbsInMyBed Definitely not. I attended E3 2005 and the Nintendo press conference myself as a member of the media, and I have been following the E3 closely before and after. Definitely, back then, the exhibition itself and the publisher shows were not open to the public. If anything, it got more open in years after.
At the exhibition itself, you could also see e.g. Gamestop clerks or other people from the industry, but at the publishers' press conferences (as they were called), you would obviously only get in as a member of the press. And they would even limit the people per medium. We were three guys travelling to LA from Germany, but we could only get 2 tickets for the Nintendo show.

@BiscuitCrumbsInMyBed The shows were always exclusive to press.

@NEL83 Oh, really? Does NIS publish Persona Q and some of the SMT games in EU? Really difficult to keep track. ^^

@Midge In Europe we‘re having an Atlus sale, but no Capcom sale. I believe Capcom has held no sale for years over here…would love to buy the AA games, but not at full price.

@NintendoByNature Not in Europe. There is no Capcom sale in sight over here.

How does it have good 3D? Doesn’t the top screen just display a map?

@Shambo Severed on 3DS has never been free in Europe.
Currently it’s on sale for €3.74. The price has never dipped below that.

I don’t understand why Capcom never has these sales in Europe. I would be happy to buy a couple AA games.

You’re not gonna do an article on how Digger Dan DX is being given away for free now? They lowered the price -100%.
Now that is newsworthy.

I‘ve just been there in December. Looks like I should have waited just a tad bit longer. Oh well. ^^

Where‘s Master Detective Archive in this list?

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?