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Seeing the tagline, I loved the Water Temple. The Fire Temple was terribly designed, though, with tons of back-tracking.

@SayGuh Congratulations. Your post is the most narrow-minded and downright dumbest post of 2017.

@Masurao Not true in this case. Backers complaining after a backed game fails to get completed are one thing. But in this case it appears like the team never really meant to use the money for the game they promised and instead used it on another project, which is most certainly against the kickstarter rules.

@JayJ Problem is: The kickstarter didn't fail. It met its goals, so people gave money for the development of Dead Phoenix, yet the money was apparently instead used to work on Tiny Metal. So people funded game A bit instead got game B, which indeed is quite the scam.

@PlayStationswitc Ok. Thanks for the reply

Are there different COs each with their own abilities, like in Advance Wars?

@MeloMan well, neither of those games is bullet hell.

@bones Just delete them instead of apologizing...

"even for me it's kind of mystifying, yet kind of relatable, how a game like Neon Chrome is rated 95% positive in Steam based on 281 user reviews, yet its Switch Metacritic average is 67"

If this is "mystifying" to the guy, and he is responsible for PR and marketing, then he simply can't be good at his job. Sorry.
"95% positive reviews on Steam" doesn't say anything about how highly any of those users would rate the game, except for a majority apparently awarding it >50%. I highly doubt ANYBODY would rate ANY of their games a 95%. So probably most of those reviews are somewhere around 50%-70%. So, there you go, Jaako. Not exactly rocket science.

"Poly Bridge is bridge building simulator with a lot of charm"

Four words into the first sentence and it's already clear this guy doesn't proofread his article.

Also, this is $15?! It appears to do absolutely nothing to differentiate itself from dozens of games that had the exact same premise and structure and still gets an 8, which translates to "very good"? Holy moly.

The very same tagline as for the review of Snow Moto Racing Freedom?

Can anyone please tell me what this sentence in the review is supposed to mean:
"The artillery is pretty stock standard, from close-ranged shotguns to distance shooting snipers and everything in between."

It sounds as if the reviewer believes "artillery" to just be synonymous with "weapons" which would be rather ridiculous. He appears to be thinking of "shotguns" as a subcategory of "artillery", which, again, would be hilarious.

@lillith So...according to your logic, is a 5 mediocre or poor now?

@SBandy I don't want to live in a world where anybody would consider an 8 "solid".

@Expa0 You "believe"? It says so right in the review's second paragraph...

@crackafreeze
1. Context?
2. So does the European eshop. For months already.

@MeloMan The Genre did return at that time. Just look at PC gaming in Europe and you will find TONS of p&c adventures from that era.
Also, the Wii and DS also DID get a lot of classic P&C adventures. The Switch isn't anywhere close yet.

@Anti-Matter No. Just follow the link in the article to understand the meme..

@Spoony_Tech What I was getting at is that in comment #26 you had written this:
"I would liken it more to a gritty detective movie or tv show set in the 1040's then anything close to Ace Attorney."

It was a typo there (you wrote 1040's instead of 1940's) and I instantly visualised a "gritty detective show" in said 1040's, which would be just awesome to have.

@Spoony_Tech Set in the "1040's"? Now THAT is something I'd be down for.

@GrailUK what first game?
This is the only Sparkle on any Nintendo platform.

@dystome I've already seen the retail version of that MX game in various shops across Germany, so fret not: It's been released.

@zipmon I agree with the various praise your review has gotten in the comments. It really is a wonderful read and unfortunately somewhat stands out among many other reviews here.

@BulbasaurusRex I had contacted the staff the other day in this subject and from their reply it seems like they are pretty much through with reviewing each and every eshop game due to the massive Switch release lists as of recent combined with a lack of staff.
Too bad, as that is basically what made nlife stand out to me and apparently to others as well.
Still waiting on a review of that last Kunio-kun game for example...

@8-Bit_Zorldo And how would you want to control a game such as Warcraft 3 on the Switch? Wouldn't make much sense.

@Eigotaku

So...on one hand you call yourself part of "older folk like this reviewer", only to start your review with something as bollucks as
"Ever since the first 'You Don't Know Jack' game arrived on PC in 2011"?

YDKJ started way back in 1995. In 2011 it only came back after something of a hiatus.

@nab1 The statement isn't by iLife, but by the law company they hired. So their only purpose was this law suit. As such, they fully succeeded and are perfectly entitled to sound like an "ad". They didn't "suffer" from anything.

@GravyThief https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQCya6yn73o
Not IV, but X, but still gives a good impression of how great it can potentially sound.

@BornInNorway81 Those three along with Tommy Tallarico and Yuzo Koshiro do get quite a lot of attention.
There are superbly skilled video game composers getting way less recognition which is the truly sad part.
People like Alberto Gonzalez and Tim Follins, to some degree.

@SKTTR @NekoGeo
Both of those demos had already arrived in Europe last week.

@leemeyer26

I second @Kilroy 's sentiment. This has to be THE worst review I've ever read here. It tells me absolutely nothing at all about the game aside from it being a shoot em up. How about next time you're reviewing a Mario game you just keep on babbling how you move around and jump in the game, making it a good platformer?

Ugh. That first paragraph alone. You obviously have no clue when stating shmup would be another term for bullet sprayers.

And what about you prasing the training mode? Just about any shmup has that!

"the Japanese board game Go"

Go is no Japanese game. It's merely the Japanese name of the Chinese game weiqi. God, do some fact checking!

@SLIGEACH_EIRE Just because you don't understand how business works, doesn't make him a liar. However, you calling him a liar makes you a disgrace.

@UK-Nintendo But anybody can purchase an original SP for less money than this thing. AND get shoulder buttons. So there really is zero reason for this thing to exist.

@Clownshoes
Really? I remember Pokémon Stadium being the only bad Pokémon game on N64, while Pokémon Snap was and still is brilliant.

@Parkour_LMan
@Xaessya
More like Custom Robo 6, if anything. There had been two on N64, one on GCN, one on GBA and one on DS.

@HeroponRiki Screenshot appearance on NL is randomized. So for example your "second screenshot" doesn't even appear for me at all.

@Mahe Care to explain?

Playing the game at Gamescom I thought it was incredibly boring. Within the first few minutes I'd start to rack up combos, upgrading my arsenal and literally destroying everything on screen in no time without ANYTHING breaking up the repetition.

@JustinH lol, I honestly laughed out reading your comment. Also, I wholeheartedly agree. While I do own original copies of both games it'd be great to have them rereleased for other people to get to discover them as well.

@LegendOfPokemon The "original"? What exactly do you consider to be the original here? This game lends stages from three "originals".

"Gameplay is typical of a brawler, but it's greatest strength and weakness is how simplistic it can be at times."

sigh "Its", not "it's".

@MitchVogel Did anything come of this?

@remlapgamer Nobody commented on it, because it doesn't sound anything like the word you are refering to. Japanese pronounciation is way different.

@aaronsullivan Actually it appears that SEGA has recently bought all Technosoft assets. Or so it has supposedly been announced at this year's TGS.

@Tempestryke Which is exactly why NL chose the pic. You didn't honestly think that was an official pic used bythe developers?

@retro_player_22 Read the article before posting.

"Titles like BLOK DROP U and more recently SUPER ROBO MOUSE, among others, seem to have no such content."

I love how BLOK DROP U is always cited as a positive exception from this guy's norm and how people praised teh game upon its initial release, yet the game is a carbon copy of an early smartphone game, merely replacing the once cute visual assets with...barely anything to look at. So in a way that game was even worse than these recent officially licensed games in how he just took another guy's game without even acknowledging it.

@Ralizah You've got to be kidding me. Some people are just never happy until they get the exact specific game they are personally waiting for...

@Yoshis95 I know that that is what the other guy was trying to say, but tell me: How does a 2DS deliver more value than a phone? That's a ridiculous assumption.