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@Operative "Federation Force, as confirmed by the director himself, is not focused on the exploration and isolation that Metroid is known for. It's focused on action and the ball game. So it's hardly an appropriate comparison, Reggie. Nice try, though."

It is a perfectly reasonable comparison. Your criticism is nothing but a nice try. All you're stating simply means that Federation Forces won't play like a standard Metroid game, but it says nothing about whether it's a good game or not.

@chris_of_ws Kudos to your cool reaction regarding this review. If only more developers were as mature.

@DESS-M-8 I hope you're not being serious. How can there only be one in existence, when you get your hands on two of each? They're just common Amiibos, nothing more.

@ the author of the article: Would you please stop this annoying "don't hate him" BS? It's like you're showing off your stuff desperately wanting people to feel like you've got something better than they do. Especially with something as mundane as a yarn yoshi. They're being released in Europe this week. Thousands and thousands of people will have one. But, ooh, yeah, they're gonna hate you.

"I offered up the understatement "Yes.","

Answering "yes" to a "yes or no" question is no understatement. Being asked whether you're good at Starfox and then replying "I've played it before" could be seen as an understatement.

@SetupDisk Urban Champion isn't that bad. It's actually a pretty clever game and fun at least for 20 minutes every now and then. People just love to jump on the hate waggon as they often do when somebody on the internet claims for something to be "the worst game everrrrrr!111!".

When will you guys finally learn?

"Projects like these never used to release on Nintendo systems"

Games don't release themselves. Games ARE released by companies.
It's really not that difficult and this is coming from someone whose first language isn't English.

For the love of God: It's bad enough when the comments are often riddled with the same easily-avoided mistakes over and over, but seeing even the reviewers sometimes unable to learn the simplest aspects of their very own language is just sad.

@arronishere I agree

At least the Wii U and 3DS both get a good game. So there have been way worse weeks than this.

"Insane Difficulty Level"

Oh come on, Contra is nowhere near "insanely difficult". I'd even say it's among the easier NES games.

@ekreig Haha, very true.

@Evenmoresteven It will not release. It will be released. The people that release something are the developers and publishers. Grammar isn't that difficult, kids.

@Legromancer "In Europe" doesn't necessarily mean "in all of Europe". Indie developers have complained about the high rating costs for Germany and already quite a few games have not been released in Germany without any remark on that matter. They were said to be released in Europe and they in fact were released in Europe. Just not in all of Europe; not in Germany. And a developer would probably never spoil their own announcement by publishing a news like "We're glad to tell you that our game XYZ is soon going to hit Europe! But not for you Germans. Sorry 'bout that.". They'd just keep silent on the matter.

@ThomasBW84 Has that really been confirmed? Glad to hear that then.

"That includes you Australia / New Zealand"
No word on Germany?

@manu0 It's not an "eventual" release. It's not going to happen. Such a release would offer nothing new besides a cheaper way of getting games curretnly already available on VC...so why on earth would Capcom do that and waste money on an additional release on something that makes them earn less? Spend money to earn less? Capcom's not the smartest company, but they're not THAT stupid.

@Kirby_Fan_DL3 What does Nintendo have to do with this game? This isn't part of Nintendo's approach to gaming. It's a game by an entirely different company. Nintendo had zero input on teh design. They just allowed for the game to appear on their console.

@ThomasBW84 "This was the last in this RPG spin-off series to arrive on the Game Boy Advance, though it did then progress onto the DS."

This is wrong. The entire series was on GBA. MMBN 5 and 6 thus were on GBA. MMBN 5 was the only one to appear on the DS and that one appeared on both GBA and DS. No "progressing" to DS at all.

Edit: I see. You already corrected that.
Edit 2: Oh, ChaosValentine was faster than me.

Why this stupid, panned isometric view? Modern, amateur shooter developers apparently love this style, but it makes dodgingso much harder for no good reason. Reminds me of Nanostray, which isn't the biggest compliment I could make to a game.

You've got to be kidding me. Nihilumbra is nothing but a "me too" kind of game. It wants to be artistic, meaningful, philosophical, clever, but ends being just an utterly mediocre platformer with "been there, done that" kinds of mechanics and generic puzzles. the story also beings promisingly, but it simply goes nowhere. It repeats itself over and over and over.
It's not a bad game, but the very definition of a mediocre game worth 5 or at maximum 6 out of 10. Giving it a 9 undermines your entire rating system and devalues your scores.

@DarthNocturnal This isn't about whether any of the players would have cared. It's about a guy at Retro using somebody else's work without that guy's permission.

"this solo effort from a skilled member of the Texas-based studio had utilised a third-party emulator"

How "skilled" can he be if he resorted to using an already available emulator programmed by someone else entirely? Sounds more like a lazy attempt that was rightfully shut down.

What about last week's STEAM theme that was supposed to be free? Why isn't it free? Nintendolife said it was free, so I'd like to see that being adressed in any form.

@ParSnake The Retron 5 is just an emulator inside a machine. The games run off this emulation software. No difference to an emulator running on a PC.
The games don't run directly off the hardware.

@LztheQuack So, as long as something makes money it's gotta be good and you're not allowed to criticise it? Wow, wonderful logic.

It's basically Puzzle Quest with monster leveling instead of character leveling. Wow, big deal.

@mjc0961 Aliens Colonial Marines doesn't prove anything here. That one was Gearbox's fault or rather fraud. Get your facts straight before resorting to name calling.

@Kami2Kami "when it releases"? When it releases what? The kraken? Oh, you meant when it IS releaseD.

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.