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Such an underwhelming game. Far too easy throughout and the visuals are utterly bland.

@GLA Price reductions "screwed you over"? Wow, what a terrible way of thinking. You bought a game at a price you thought reasonable, you had fun with it and then others get it for less...and that somehow magically diminishes your fun with the game you bought for a price that was reasonable to you?
Screw that.

@Einherjar Unobtainable? Loose Japanese PC-Engines are easily obatainable via the internet. And they're inexpensive. Should be considerably less than 100 bucks.

Ugly? I think it looks pretty good.
Also lol at supporting SuperGrafx and its five games, but not NES.

@Troggy Man, I'd love to design my own lever. Those usual levers you'd find everywhere just don't cut it anymore.

@ChessboardMan Exactly what I was thinking. Was kinda disappointed to not see it mentioned in the review. Does this mean that it doesn't really play like Bomb Jack? Or does the review simply not know about Bomb Jack?

Who's the guy at 1:50? Does anybody know?

@RedDevilAde Thanks, I was gonna say that.

@NintendoFan990 Spot-on translation. ^^

The real reason why they won't release the WiiU there is even simpler: People in China aren't interested in gaming consoles. Years ago you would at least see some people on the subways using their PSPs (mostly as book readers, though) and 25 years ago the Famicom was moderately successful, but those times are LONG gone. For at least 7 years now gaming is only done on PC and smartphones in China. The only places in China you will even find consoles for sale, only Western tourists or Westerners living there go there to buy something.
If Nintendo'd release the WiiU in China, nobody would give a damn about it.

@manu0 There is no way they're gonna do that. DS games are 10 bucks, GBA games are 7. So they'd never give you the opportunity to buy the same four games for 10 instead of the current 28.

@MetalGear_Yoshi It's not different in content. It's just a matter of having nothing but a bunch of data to download or a real box with a real cart and a real manual...along with all the data.

So...this whole talk about Nintendo having moved on from SNES releases on VC is apparently bollucks/overexagerated?

No personal attacks please, especially when people are just voicing their opinions.
-Amiibo

@Damo "Castlevania: Mirror of Fate is one of Konami's few recent Nintendo exclusives"
It got an HD port on 360, PS3 and the PC.

@ZenTurtle How is that "cheap" of them? It's a stunning piece of gaming history. If you can't see that, fine, but don't insult people for your ignorance.

"The auction has a 'Buy It Now' price of $9,500, but at the time of writing has already been bid on to a total of $5,999."

Um, no, 5,999 is the starting bid, but nobody so far has bid on it.

How I love this kind of stuff: Nintendo fans always keep lamenting how games on other platforms are getting patched instead of being flawless out of the gate, yet when a game on a Nintendo platform needs grave bugs to be patched, it suddenly shows how much the developer cares.

I told you this game was going to be terribly average.
Why doesn't the review mention that this is the umpteenth release of Karous?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karous
Or any mention of the original developer? No? Just this odd "Klon"? How about doing the slightest bit of research?

@DarkmarkUnited Still there. Just click the link in the news.

@Prof_Clayton
"In this comments section: people who don't understand how copyright, trademarks or court proceedings work."

Well, Mr. Know-it-all, most people in this very comment section actually said the same thing as you did or at least shared the sentiment. Actually aside from the news writer there doesn't seem to be ANYBODY here who thinks it should or could be taken down.

@Aneira Capcom hasn't been any better than Konami for the past ten years.

Meh, Karous is pretty mediocre as are almost all Milestone shooters. Makes me wonder why their shooters still pop up so often in the West.

@AyeHaley You had a hard time finding a copy? Where are you living at? It never crossed my mind this game could be even remotely rare anywhere.

@crzysortagamer Ummm, why not?

sigh
"A vertically-scrolling shooter with 3D visuals and a heavy metal soundtrack, FullBlast calls to mind the likes of Raiden, Battle Garegga and DoDonPachi."

Really? None of those games has 3D visuals and from the trailer this game looks nothing like either of those three games. It reminds me more of Nanostray for example.
Whenever a shmup appears, people will compare it to just ANY other game of the same genre. Why is that? People would never compare a 2D platformer to Mario, Sonic and Bonk at the same time, but here we are, comparing a badly-looking shmup to Raiden, Battle Garegga and DoDonPachi. Also neither of these three games is even comparable to any of the other two, let alone to this "Fullblast" thing.

No new downloads whatsoever on the 3DS. Again.
Not even a demo or any meager piece of DLC.

@Supermak99 And 100 Floors rips off dozens of earlier Room Escape games that had already been around since the early 2000s.
It's a whole genre. I'd hardly say any of those rip off another game more so than others do.

People in NA keep complaining how they "always get the shorter end of the stick" when it comes to VC, but then again they get a Mario Kart more than 5 months before we do. And that's just one of many examples.

So I guess it's safe by now to say that 3DS VC is dead, right? sigh

@Sean_Aaron Because they allow us to immediately see how different opinions can be? Yeah, definitely "crap"...
These different scores merely summarize and represent the existence of differing opinions. What's crap about that, exactly?

@TossedLlama Well, I would hope for it to play like the N64-Castlevanias. They were amazing games and well liked back in the days. Too bad the AVGN can change all that with some blatant lies about a game and half the internet jumping up on the wagon.

@GrailUK What do you mean by that? Kirby hasn't started anything.

"It's a tougher challenge, and arguably trumps even the mighty Space Invaders. Ooh, controversial…"

Would somebody really call that controversial? Would somebody honestly argue that the original Space Invaders'd be better than Galaga? I think it's a pretty universally accepted view to call Galaga a major improvement over SI in every single way.

@housebreath Wow, such a long post to basically just repeat what einherjar had said before?

I wonder what people will find to complain this week.

So, this is a sequel to Mappy? I hope it's better than Namco's other old "Land"-sequel, being the horrible Pac-Land.

@WiiDSmoker Are you even being serious? There are five interesting games this week! It's a great week with choices for anybody. Some people just like to see the worl burn and some people...just want to complain.

@abbyhitter Yeah, if you're only going to play through the story in as little time as possible. But half the fun is exploring all the areas, finding power-ups, doing side-quests and collecting chips. Doing that in all the games can EASILY amount to a couple hundreds of hours.

@abbyhitter Such a marathon could easily take you hundreds of hours. Good luck with that. It sounds awesome, though. ^^
I love the series. I've only played 1 and 3 so far, despite also owning 5 and Batte Chip GP.

@1wiierdguy Been looking for this for ages? But it is on SEGA Ages: http://img.gamefaqs.net/box/2/3/6/54236_front.jpg

Sorry for the terrible pun. Sucks to hear the game's not being released in AU. Occasionally happens in Europe or more specifically in Germany, too. I hope you're going to get it sooner or later.

@Teslain Should they only be reviewing the great games? Yeah, that would make a lot of sense. How about only giving out 10s, 9s, 8s and 7s? That will help their readers decide on what games to get.
It's mandatory to review as many games as possible and ESPECIALLY the games we don't know yet whether they're good or not. Asking for anything else is just stupid. Yeah, let's only review Zelda games.

@JaxonH Yeah, because the US NEVER gets VC releases first or exclusively...get realistic, man. It gets old to see Americans whining here when you in fact don't get the short end of the stick.

@Artwark The point is to strengthen the Wii U's lineup. If GBA games were also on 3DS, the Wii U wouldn't benefit as much from them. It's not that hard to understand. Especially when it's been said for months on end now.
There is nothing to "fix" here. It's a business decision. Simple.

@Stargazer Why not just play the Arcade version? It's on PS2 and it's pretty cheap.

@GH05T Huh? No matter how often I read your post, I can't make out what you're trying to say.

@Yomerodes The diifference is that free mahjong games for PC are available legally, while downloading GBA games on your PC is illegal...

It IS a lot more than that.
You don't just dodge obstacles and die once you do. You traverse diverse levels in what is more of a puzzle game in an atmospheric world. All levels are carefully built rather than randomized and you need to use the various items in the right way to survive.
I personally love it. It's a great game t opass a minute, but I also enden up playing it for hours laying awake in bed at night.

sigh Again just Mahjong Solitaire. Can we finally get the real deal on ANY consoles in the West, please?

@Kitchener Why the hard feelings? This is not a case of people buying something with the intention of selling it for more. It's just a game that happened to become more expensive, so it sucks for any regular owner of the game to see its price plummeting.
This is not like those people preordering dozens of Majora's Mask New 3DS subsequently selling their preorders for a profit.