@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.

@MitchVogel Nope, that was a 9, as can easily be seen within 5 seconds. How come this problem of different scores being displayed at the top and at the bottom pops up so often, but not even the NLife staff can tell us why that is?

@Zanark Or you could get like 100 bars of chocolate. What's your point?

@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.

@invictus4000 Dead? Lol. There have been TONS of great P&C adventures in the past ten years, but people STILL claim the genre's dead?

@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.

@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.

@MitchVogel Congratulations for merely repeating the same pun comment #16 had already done before.

@TheHeroOfTime333 It's not turn-based. And I'd hardly call it a JRPG.

I had been there in the room back then. I was working for a German website, got accredited for both E3 and the Nintendo PC, so I got to witness this moment as closely as possible.
Such an incredible moment on an already incredible day in an incredible week.

@MitchVogel "released"
Even twice in this news.

It doesn't release. It is going to be released.
Honestly, there's not a single news where you don't get this wrong.

@sevex If you're promising to cure or prevent terrible conditions such as Alzheimer's of course you need to back it up scientifically. Would you want me to advertise a medicine with me just making it all up?

@MitchVogel sigh You just love repeating the same false grammar in just about every news, don't you?

"As for the company's known plans for the Blue Blur, Sonic Boom: Fire & Ice will be releasing sometime this year."

A game is released. The publisher releases the game. It's really not that hard. Especially if (what I assume) English is your mother tongue.

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/release

@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.

"(Sonic Powered Co., €1.00 / £1.00 until 7th January, then €14.99 / £12.99)"

Wait, what? Seriously? That much of a spike?

@Darknyht And I thought I was the only one who didn't quite like how AC moved away from its tile-based layout to an entirely free-scrolling village. Those two gripes you had with Wild World are the exact same ones I had. ^^

Meh, I thought this was a rather poor spin-off even in 2005.

@Harmonia NoA has absolutely nothing at all to do with either the game or the trailer.
Nice try, bashing blindly there.

@DiscoGentleman Asobemasu doesn't mean "to play", it literally means "can be played". Hence Damien translated it as "enjoyable to play", similar to "playable".
"To play" would simply be asobimasu, not asobemasu.