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Re: Review: Prism Pets (Wii U eShop)

KeeperBvK

@MitchVogel 20148 was the "it" game of 2014? It got many clones? Clones that tried to capitalize off of 2048?
sigh
When are you finally going to do at least some tiny research before building up an entire article on such nonsense?
2048 IS a clone. It is one of those games that unashamedly capitalized on another team's ideas and hard work.
Threes is the original game, developed over the course of months, while 2048 has been slapped together in a weekend by some jerk.

Re: Review: Sweetest Thing (Wii U eShop)

KeeperBvK

@Dankykong More like Cranky Kong, eh? Looks like you're only one complaining about NL reviewing every download game, while most other people agree that this is the single best aspect of the whole site. Why do you even come here when complaining about what even made the site so popular over the last ten years?
It's not their fault some (or many) of the games are bad and occasionally some of theose alleged bad games turn out to be decent surprises. Also, what else would you like the staff to do? Review good games we already know are good? Wow, big difference.

Re: Review: Tachyon Project (Wii U eShop)

KeeperBvK

@Humphries90 Nobody cares that you've apparently also done reviews on pretty much all the download games reviewed here. Just post your opinion instead of repeating your "I did a review of this too." line over and over and over. It doesn't provide any additional information or makes your point more valid. Just state your opinion and we'll know that you've played the game.

Re: Minecraft Has Become the Ninth Best-Selling Game on the Japanese eShop

KeeperBvK

@MitchVogel What a horrible news. Not the content is necessarily horrible, but the news itself. How it was written. You know what a decent writer/journalist would have done? Give context when it's as relevant as it is here.
The only reason Minecraft is in the ninth spot is because there are barely any games on the Japanese eshop because Nintendo used to have this strict rule where a developer/publisher would have to have an office in Japan to be eligible of releasing a game on the eshop.
Hence there are WAY less games out there than in the West.

The way you have overblown this news by not giving out necessary information, people are going "Oh, wow, such a tremendous success" as can be seen in the comments.

Nice way of creating misinformation there. Not the first time either.

Re: Review: Pocky & Rocky with Becky (Wii U eShop / GBA)

KeeperBvK

Wow, this is a pretty badly written review, sorry.

Somebody who proclaims "after over 25 years of gaming, his love of Nintendo is no longer just a phase." should at least show SOME sign of recognizing that this is just an entry in a series of games. Yet you are giving us no context whatsoever. From your review I can't tell whether it's any different from the prequels or whether you simply didn't like the flow and style. Don't you have anybody on your team who could compare this to the prequels?

Re: Review: Perpetual Blast (Wii U eShop)

KeeperBvK

@ reviewer: "Perpetual Blast is an endless shooter. [...] The idea of Perpetual Blast is simple: find and destroy 100 boxes as fast as you can."

This makes zero sense. How is it an endless shooter when there is a clear goal you are supposed to reach within as little time as possible?

Re: Review: G.G Series SCORE ATTACKER (DSiWare)

KeeperBvK

@MitchVogel "Gameplay is typical of the bullet hell arcade shooter genre, borrowing heavily from titles such as Galaga or Xevious."

Those are NOT bullet hell shooters. Bullet hell shooters or danmakus are a very special subset of shoot 'em ups. Please get your facts straight. I remember this site already having called just about any shmup a bullet hell shooter on numerous occasions and it's sad. How about calling Project Cars a kart racer? Or Yoshi's Wooly World a 3D platformer?

Now I have no idea how this game actually plays, so for all I know it might be a bullet hell shooter. I can't argue with that. But calling Galaga and Xevious danmakus? Sorry, that's just plain wrong. Danmakus hadn't existed until the mid 90s when games like Batsugun or Donpachi made first babysteps into danmaku territory. By your definition every single shmup would be a danmaku and I could hardly imagine a shmup with less bullets than Galaga.

On another note: When reviewing a shmup, referencing Galaga and Xevious is a bad move anyways. Those two are already vastly different from another and naming just those two granddaddies makes it seem like you simply have no clue of the whole genre, merely bringing up two games you might have played years back.

Re: Video: You Can Turn Boss Weapons Against Their Owners In Mega Man Legacy Collection's Challenge Mode

KeeperBvK

@ricklongo The 3DS getting the release doesn't make a Wii U release any better a decision. Why on earth are people complaining that Nintendo isn't getting its fifth (or sixth when counting the 3DS collection) release of the very same 6 games? Even on a console that already has them? Just play the VC releases, especially given how lackluster this package seems to be, when apparently their biggest selling point is something the original games already featured.

Re: Nintendo Download: 30th July (Europe)

KeeperBvK

@linforcer Where else would we see it? This IS the European release list.

@ All the naysayers: Legend of Kay, Badland and Picross e6. Those are all good to great games. We've had many way, way, WAY worse weeks before.

Re: Review: Don't Crash (Wii U eShop)

KeeperBvK

@Inkling Um, aren't you a mod or admin or something for NLIfe? I don't think you're supposed to openly call a review of a fellow NLife staff "unfair". You should do this behind the curtain.

Re: Review: Don't Crash (Wii U eShop)

KeeperBvK

In the context of other reviews on NLife, I don't see why this would get a 1/10. It's not broken, it does what it sets out to do. It's priced lowly. Sure, it offers little content, but so do hundreds of cherished mobile games these days. If it was 5 bucks I'd understand the outrage. And I suppose it already warrants a low score as it is, but a 1/10 seems highly inappropriate.

Re: Square's Romancing SaGa Finally Gets Translated Into An Language We Can Easily Understand

KeeperBvK

"To execute the translated patch in a manner which will allow you to sleep easy at night you'll need an original copy of the game and a Retron 5 console, which allows you to apply patches to original carts."

The Retron 5 doesn't apply anything to carts. If anything, it applies the carts to the patch, since, you know, the cartridges are just used to run an emulation of the game files. The Retron 5 doesn't run the cartridges themselves.

Re: Nintendo Download: 2nd July (North America)

KeeperBvK

@BaffleBlend You must've gotten something wrong tehre, because usually the US gets the great games waaaaay before Europe does. But yeah, whenever it's the opposite, the Americans seem to pretend it was always like that.