Laxeybobby

Impressed with what is shown on the trailer, especially as this is a single developer enterprise working in spare times and weekends. Take my hat off to him as he is very talented: Coding; art; level design; sound fx.
Look forward to a Review and UK release.

@Mogster Blame Game,

Game choose what stock to buy and promote.
Seeing as Game is the only major UK high street seller of consoles and games, they are highly influential in what the British gamer buys. They dedicate 90% store space to Microsoft & Sony with banners/posters and in store gaming podiums then someone coming into buy a console will choose either Microsoft or Sony. If the prospective purchaser wants a Nintendo Console they have to struggle to see one, invariably ask the store assistants if they have any, which they recieve a reply of "no and why would you want one of them, the Xbox 1 or PS 4 is far better and we have these in and these are our current offers ....." (Even if they have WiiU's in stock)

I can foresee that Nintendo will choose not to release there future console for the UK market. Releasing a Europe only console. (This will save them money on having to produce UK power supplies which are no good anywhere else in Europe).

Any news on Europe release date?

"But will consider an NX version" This seems to be the popular quote now from developers and publishers alike.
In my opinion this has ruined the NX before its even got here as it's going to repeat the the lessons not learned by the WiiU, that is on launch the NX will be full of lazy ports of games at full price that have already been out on the likes of XBone and PS4 for over a year.
If this prediction occurs then I for one won't be purchasing the NX as I'd rather save my money than repeat history.

Day 1 purchase if the review is favorable.
Price is great value. Considering all the build up to this release I was expecting a £20 price tag.
Let's hope they allow reviews prior to release.

@Tsurii I was trying to be facetious with that remark due to the Project Cars being promised then delayed by Bandia Namco before being cancelled. I know it was confirmed for a western release. ☺️

Still don't think the pay to progress/win formula is where the eShop should be heading.

Can't see this ever getting a western release. Bandai Namco the publisher behind the infamous Project Cars fiasco.
I'm also not sure free to play is where eShop should be going, just look at the Apple App Store where game progression is only possible through parting with more cash than you'd pay for a game or even a console.

Probably because most UK high street retailers, the biggest being Game, have stopped actively promoting Nintendo hardware and software in store.
My local Game has one wall for XBone with all the 'bells and whistles' the opposite wall for PS4 with all the 'bells and whistles'. Next biggest display is XBox 360 and PS3 software and accessories further into the store.
The next biggest display is for Lego Dimensions with all but WiiU starter kits available and Disney Infinity and Skylanders again with all but WiiU available.
Nintendo is on a small floating isle near the checkout desks, with mainly Pre owned Wii titles, eShop cards, a few old WiiU titles and a few old 3DS titles and the rest of the space being used by Amiibo. No consoles, no accessories. Untidy and uninteresting. Asked about Guitar Hero Live was told it wasn't made for WiiU and was promptly delivered a sales pitch on how the PS4 was what I wanted!!
Our local HMV doesn't have any Nintendo at all.

I know there is the online aspect, like Amazon etc but does those online sales go toward this chart?

If it gets the green light, and that's a big IF!
It will never see a Nintendo console, or have EA changed their policy for supporting the WiiU?

Looks like its closed down early. As getting the Error 505, cant find this page

@DarthNocturnal
You're right it's not something that can be stopped. 😆
It's just a shame as there are people out there creating some great playable levels that aren't getting any exposure unless you're following them or you randomly come across them.
The up and coming section is there but it's limited in size and the popular section is taken over by the thousand star YouTube brigade.

@Graeme Exactly my point. I skipped 70% of the levels in the 100 Mario challenge as they were insane Mario killer levels where the only way you completed them was by luck or fluke and not gaming skill.
I make all mine to challenge gamer skill, all have clear routes, achievable, hidden extras and shortcuts and all play tested to make sure one missed or lost power up doesn't mean a restart.
Traditional level design.

Mario Maker is a great utility/game. I'm loosing hours in designing levels & extensively play testing them.
However it has one flaw and that's the star ranking system for the creators.
It appears if you have a YouTube channel you get thousands of stars for creating crap / insane levels just because you have a following. (Just look at the levels where you do nothing! - ok it's clever but not a Mario level to play)
And those level creators who put a lot of effort and thought into making 'traditional' Mario style levels that wouldn't look out of place in the next Super Mario platform game, who have no platform to get noticed don't get noticed and struggle to gain stars.
(There's a lot of comments on Miiverse about this issue)
I hope they look at improving this and a few other bits in future updates.

Just wait when you find out that five copies have been shipped to coincide with the five charges.

Charged twice. Not happy

Also will this release have all the add on content that's available on steam?
If not will there be DLC support?

This is a game I've been waiting for and held off from a steam purchase when I heard it was coming to WiiU.
I hope they announce what features it will have on the WiiU in terms of game pad utilization.
Would also like to see a multiplayer mode, but I'm guessing that probably won't happen as its a port.

@TheDavyStar Very little - If anybody used the micro transactions it would be to buy the X weapons which you only have access to after so many kills in a row. Like the CoD kill streak perks. You can buy Golden Eggs to exchange for in game cash to buy standard weapon & add ons like red dot scope or second grip, but to be honest you get enough eggs free in the game when you start and you earn more as you progress in solo and multiplayer.
To me only people with money to waste would buy these eggs because they want all the weapons and add ons to start with and would probably do so as they could be bothered to play the game to earn them.
I haven't seen an unbalance yet.

Overall I'm starting to enjoy this game the more I play it. At the start I was very frustrated as I found the aiming to be jumpy and not smooth to control and the control schemes provided take a bit of practice. I put this down to not being used to playing shooters with dual sticks and pad controller as I play CoD with wii remote plus and nunchuck, and splatoon with giro enabled. I resolved this from advice from players on Miiverse and adjusted the sensitivity downward and it performed better.
I would say to anyone on the fence with this to play it in store or find a friend that has it and try it. (Or rent it if they still do that now)
I don't regret buying it and I feel the online multiplayer side is far better in terms of options, choices available and maps than any of the CoD's that are available for the WiiU. Plus they have announced a patch in Sept that will add further game modes.

This was not a surprise, the only surprise is they left it this long to confirm it.
I believe the WiiU version was canned months ago even before they made the announcement about the problems they were having.
I think they should have just said "game cancelled" and left out the "we're going to wait for the next hardware" as to some this brings false hope and some will see this as a promise that PC2 will be on the mysterious NX.
If the NX is a cross mobile home console, or indeed a dedicated home console, with the leaked / rumoured chip set that will be at the heart of the NX. I am certain that SMS wouldn't be developing for that either nor will, Activision, EA, UbiSoft, Capcom or any of the other big players.
It's very hard to change a perception/reputation that has been built over three generations of consoles. Unless the NX is something totally revolutionary like the Wii was, the NX will just add to the gaming world perceptions of Nintendo consoles.

I cancelled my pre-order based on the initial NL preview.
Im now tempted to re-order it again purely as this was one of the few mature titles I wanted. I have Bayonetta 1 & 2 and I did buy COD but felt let down by lack of support by Activision.
@Alex_Olney Could the issues highlighted by your team in this game be pacthed?
I have read the other articles about the game designers comments about how his game has been perceived, has the NL team asked him this question about patching / update post release??

Pre order CANCELED. 😢😩

If only this had been a launch title. It may have helped the WiiU to be better subscribed than it is now. This game is Nintendo at its best and free updates and DLC. Who needs season passes activision.

So what!

Sadly I had selected too many 'Not for me' or 'Maybe'.
Only three WiiU titles were 'Want' or 'Must Have' 😕

the WiiU or any future Nintendo console has as much chances of getting this game as the WiiU being the worlds number one console!

@accc I'm like you. I don't back any Kickstarters - to high a risk of loosing your money as people have already seen with other titles that were allegedly coming to the WiiU (project cars). 2017 is a long time away and if the WiiU is still the current Nintendo console will be another factor of it appearing I think. However if it ever does appear on the WiiU and it is reviewed well I will purchase it.

Had this on pre-order when it first appeared and now I can't wait to get this through the door. Mature gaming subjects are few on WiiU and this one looks awsome. Who needs Activisions tired and dated CoD, this I fresh. Hope the multiplayer lives up to expectations.
Wonder if they might do a pre-release test like they did with Splatoon?

CoD games have never really been fully supported on Nintendo machines, and to me Nintendo was always an afterthought.
After the last CoD and lack of support I never expected to see any further iterations appear on a Nintendo machine ever again so this doesn't surprise me. Nor is it a great loss as this brand left me frustrated by how Nintendo users where treated by Activision and I swore never to buy a CoD title again unless it was on equal footings with the other consoles.
Now we have Splatoon my multiplayer shooter fix is being satisfied and when Devils arrives then my mature shooter fix will be satisfied.

I think I'm going to paint the town red, pink, blue, green, yellow. Can't wait.

Looking great, hope the video in June does the screenshots justice.
This may be another day one purchase.
I've spent more money on my WiiU these last few months than I've spent from its release. There are so many titles on the horizon that I've penned in for a purchase.

Keep it coming. Hopefully the game will build and build in quantity and quality. Let's hope it gets a following and sells some consoles as a bonus.
Haven't seen any UK TV promoting for this though.

Wondering if this is going to follow the smart phone formula of in-game purchases (£60 for a chest of 1000 in game credits) with game or character progress hindered unless you spend credits and 1000 credit go in two purchase. Or if this will follow formula of MMO's that are free to play where you can subscribe and unlock all access.
I'm interested if it's the latter MMO style.
Looks good though from the very brief trailer.

Hoping for a European release as this will be a definite purchase

Someone save the post for future reference when in a years time they say "we said maybe there'll be a WiiU version" 😈
Supporting any kickstarter, crowd funding project is a complete gamble and riskier than dabbling on the stock markets.
I wish them and their WiiU backers well and look forward to having the opportunity to buy this game for WiiU in the future.

The only issues I've had was once yesterday and once today. Yesterday I was waiting 7 minutes for one more player to join, the timer kept counting down and starting again and in the end I had to switch my WiiU off as there was no obvious way to exit back to the plaza from the player list screen.
Does anyone know how to exit that screen where you wait for players?
I pressed all the buttons including the Home button but nothing worked. After waiting for 7mins and being bored of the squid jump game on the pad, I had no option but to turn the WiiU off and back on again.

Today I had eight players on the list yet it failed to go into a game and the timer counted down, but this time it came up with a message that it couldn't find eight players and restarted.

I also had issue trying to join a friend, I selected the friend to join, waited for their current game to finish (a timer is displayed) but once that happened it didn't put me into a game with my friend. It just showed me alone in the list with it saying searching on the other seven players until it timed out.

Im hoping that they patch the game to allow you to leave the players list when your waiting indefinitely.

Re the content. There's enough there to get you started but there is so much scope to add to it via DLC which I hope they do.
I'd like to see a couple of different 1vs1 modes other than the balloon pop.
Same as well for the main online mode, maybe a mode that has secondary objectives to the turf coverage.
So many ideas but I'm sure they have ideas in the wings waiting.

Does anyone know how to exit the online battle lobby where you wait for players?
This morning I was waiting 7 minutes for one more player, and I had to switch my WiiU off as there was no obvious way to exit back to the plaza. I pressed all the buttons including the Home button but nothing worked. After waiting for 7mins and now bored of the squid jump game on the pad, I had no option but to turn the WiiU off and back on again.
This needs to be patched to allow you to get out of this lobby area if it's continually waiting for players.

Why would they do this when you can go buy and use the real thing?
I'm guessing this is a hoax but if it's not one thing will be certain. "Coming to all home consoles except WiiU" 😂

I find it hard to believe that with so little information surrounding two letters 'NX' that the assumption is that this is a new console.
I'm sure I read somewhere that Nintendo's future outlook was for a handheld and home console that works together and the duel screen handheld formula will not be used in the next handheld.
Maybe the 'NX' is a cross device operating system that would run on console, handheld and mobile? Not hardware at all?
The fact is until Nintendo make a detailed public announcement no one will know for sure and those that do know are so tied down with legal non disclosure agreements that you'll never know that they know.

@wisdomsprince I totally agree with you on this.

Month and months ago I stated that I didn't believe this was anywhere complete as nothing was released to prove otherwise. No screen shots, no gameplay footage. The only WiiU video on YouTube was PC emulating WiiU settings.
This was never and will never be seen on WiiU or the next Nintendo system (whatever it will be called in 2017/18) as by then the game will be dated and likelyhood Slightly Mad studios will not exist having been bought up by Microsoft etc.
Had this on Pre Order since the date is showed as available on WiiU. Cancelled now.
The worst thing is the lies, but of late all developers of AAA titles allegedly coming to WiiU are guilty of this. Ubisoft for example with Watchdogs.

Well now round 3 is complete. Do we delete the demo or are there more tests planned?
Guys at Nintendolife any ideas?
I'm guessing these rounds are to test the servers and probably stream live play data to the developers so they can make tweaks to improve the play experience.
It would be better still if we the players had somewhere to post feedback to the developers following this test day.
My feedback would definitely be about the missing voice chat. For me this is a travesty that it's not included. This game is all about teamwork and not being able to communicate with my fellow teammates, especially the warnings "he's behind you" or "get out of there" is an opportunity lost.
I live in hope that maybe this will come as a patch update.

I played the second session. Had connection issues twice. Loved the game, tried all the weapons. My least favorite being the squirter (sniper type) rifle, just couldn't get the hang of it and was quickly splatted by those with the other two pistoles. The roller was fun but you need a body guard to defend you.
This is where the lack of team talk is a big missed opportunity, as looking out for each other on the team is disorganised. Several times I was shouting at the screen warning my team mates that I've seen an opposition squid swim behind them to watch them be splatted.
I also found it hard to view the map and play the game at once, which would be the only way you are able to know where everyone is.
Overal impressions is I think it's going to be a big splat of a hit for Nintendo, if they get the variety, maps and team players levels balanced when making a team.

@Kaze_Memaryu @ryanator008

I'm just stating that nothing is guaranteed with these kickstarter projects as there is no legally binding contract to guarantee what you back you finally get.
Wasn't that the case with Project Cars when they were funded? WiiU promised as a primary release platform, which is allegedly why so many Nintendo users backed them.
Now look at Project Cars - Namco Bandi take it on and all platforms except the WiiU get a release date (although WiiU version was in doubt long before they signed as publisher because no WiiU preview material has ever been released).

Great news, but let's not forget that there is no guarantee that the WiiU version will be released on launch day, or even released if a publisher has any say. Let's not forget Project Cars!

I take it that to see the 200cc mode you have to have completed the 150cc mode?
I ask as we don't have the 200cc mode showing and we've downloaded the update and all DLC

Well only a few days to wait to find out if it will or won't be for WiiU.
Personally I can't see it coming to WiiU for a number of reasons. The biggest one being the latest COD missed the WiiU so why would they take a 'backward' step and do this one on WiiU.
Other reasons poor performance of the BOppsII on WiiU, the scaving Activision got from WiiU users for not fully supporting it with DLC etc.
Low install base probably means that if they did bring BOppsIII then it will be just as poorly supported as BOppsII was, and thus WiiU users will not buy it. Vicious circle!

When's the European release?
This is a day one purchase if the review is positive.

This just goes to emphasize the pitfalls of crowdfunding / kickstarting. It is no different to gambling. If you cant afford to loose the money then don't pledge it.
There was a recent TV news feature in the UK on how Kickstarter and crowdfunding sites are being hijacked by criminal gangs and fraudsters who are just wanting to make easy money, which they are doing, as there is no protection or insurance for those "investors". These sites need to create a scheme similar to what Paypal did (buyer protection) to make ebay less of a gamble.

Edit: I am no way inferring that the people behind this project are crooks. I was just highlighting the dangers of the kickstarter crowd funding territory.

@faint Your absolutely right, it was a while since i read the article, I think it was shortly after they announced they were the publisher. I knew it was a far east publisher, just picked the wrong one.

@sillygostly I don't think we will ever see Project Cars on the WiiU. The release date for all platforms except WiiU is later this year. Konami (Correction @ 16:40hrs Namco Bandi) have said they have no date for a WiiU release.