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WayForward or not, I'm skipping this one. Those little blue runts are irritating and not much else.

Nothing against WayForward themselves of course, they might not be around today if they weren't willing to slap together the occasional licensed throwaway title. Heck, the fact that some of those licensed games are actually worth playing just makes WayForward more impressive to me.

I usually don't have much success with banana peels in Mario Kart. Heck, I usually end up slipping over the same ones I dropped the previous lap. Am I the only one...?

Looks kinda like a Super Meat Boy knockoff. But hey, that game never did make it to a Nintendo system, now did it?

How to deal with people who don't like a new Pokémon

Claim that for every new Pokémon they have a problem with, you can name 5 from Generation I that are more ridiculous. When they choose one, recite the following list:

1. Jinx
2. Jinx
3. Jinx
4. Mr. Mime
5. JINX!!!

If they continue to argue, respond to each of their points by saying "Jinx!" in an exasperated tone. Repeat until they give up and decide not to bring up the subject with you ever again.

Is it really that complicated...?

I waited in line at PAX, but the line moved so slow that I gave up. Wait, didn't I already say that about another game today?

Oh, I get it! He's a knight! With a shovel! So he's a blue-armor worker!

I wanted to try it out, but the crowd was impenetrable. At least I got some time with Game & Wario.

I saw this at PAX, too. The game looks gorgeous, and the move to using elements of the environment to solve puzzles rather than limited-use tools gave it a bit of a Wario Land vibe. Sold!

I think they said this already...

I like the sprites, but not so much the way they look against those 3D backgrounds. I can live with it, though.

I love how so many scenes had something fly into the foreground as a subtle jab against gratuitous 3D camera work. I'll have to watch it again just to count them all.

Firefighter, huh? Didn't somebody call that back when that first screenshot was released?

Q*Bert lives!

Society is doomed.

I'm not too interested in Dead Island or Saints Row myself, but I will admit this trend is starting to worry me. I mean, Nintendo's console is finally in HD and it's still too hard to give it some multi-platform love?

Ick. Those toys look ugly in real life, too.

I like the box art. He's all >:{. Tee hee!

@Geonjaha @Radbot42
Presumably, this game will not take five years to develop, like Cave Story did. If that's the case, I personally don't mind if it doesn't quite reach the same graphical heights.

Pretty funny trailer, even though I'm not terribly familiar with Harvest Moon. Nicely done!

I've seen that guy before, I think. Isn't he in those Know Your Meme videos, too?

I'm gonna sing the doom song now!

Doom doom doom doom doom doomy doom doom doom...

Man, that narrator's voice is kind of ridiculous. It's like the story time narration from Kirby's Epic Yarn, but... more.

Just recently started playing the first Beyond Good & Evil, and I can definitely see what all the fuss is about!

Still, with Rayman Legends, Assassin's Creed IV, and Watch_Dogs still on the way, I'm not holding my breath that we'll hear any real talk about a sequel any time soon.

To quote Herman Melville: "Enough of this blubbering. We're going a-whaling!"

In all seriousness, though, there's enough problems with real-life whaling practices that I can't be too hard on PETA for being touchy on the subject.

Say what you will about it, but I would have enjoyed having a Rabbids themed level in Rayman Legends. Just one!

If he was looking for licensees that would help him make something using the idea he patented, I don't think it's fair to call him a patent troll. If I'm not mistaken, a patent troll simply files or purchases patents in order to obtain money from patent infringement lawsuits, with no intention of actually manufacturing a product. From what it says in this article, I could probably have sympathy for either side of this one.

Another subpar handheld port from SEGA. I'm still a little sore over Sonic Generations, too.

Having new stuff in a game is always fun. Ideally, though, shouldn't the challenge of acquiring said new stuff also be fun? Shouldn't it be more than something you muscle through to avoid spending real money?

Think of Pokémon! You don't catch the best ones just by leveling up enough or saving money for weeks. You catch them by talking to NPCs that know about them, looking over your map, bringing the right items, teaching your pokémon the right moves, venturing into treacherous territory, carefully wearing down your mark, and throwing one pokéball after another until the thing admits your superiority! If you would pay actual money – in any amount – to skip all that, then the answer is not micro-transactions: the answer is play something better!

Good games don't make us do this just to draw the whole thing out longer. Good games put us through these challenges to make us assign more value to the rewards we get for overcoming them. If we care so much more about the rewards than the gameplay it takes to get them, then something has gone truly wrong.

I don't mean to say that there could not possibly be benefits to micro-transactions, but the future looks pretty murky right now...

Hey, that sounds good! Erm, this thing is, in fact, coming out on time, right?

@SMEXIZELDAMAN
That's the right attitude. When I see this kind of thing, though, it usually sends me a message that whoever made the game wasn't motivated to sell it on the merits of the gameplay, so they resorted to sex appeal to draw a little more attention from the adolescent male demographic. It may not bother everyone, but it bothers me.

I guess I'll stop holding my breath, then.

I am so sick of these kinds of character designs. Not buying, even if it's good.

That's some good rapid-fire comedy. So many bad puns!

These guys are good at naming video games.

Tried the demo. My poor tiny brain...

I skipped out on earlier games in the series (sounded like a lot of micromanaging, even for a JRPG), but the demo has me intrigued. Outmaneuvering FOEs adds some tension to the dungeon-crawling that's missing from a lot of similar games.

I wonder if the storyline will have as much intrigue as the previous installments (minus the WiiWare one). Explorers of Time and Darkness caught me a little off guard with how dark it got at a couple of points. Excited for StreetPass and SpotPass features!

2D play-sets would be a tough sell, I would think...

I poured about twenty dollars into the first one when I saw it at a Disney resort. I think that's all I'm willing to spend on Mario Kart in an arcade, though. Having to spend a dollar (or was it $1.25?) for every single race is hard to put up with for too long.

Let's face it, it's pretty easy to find smartphone games better than this one.

If the big issue is the level design, that's probably not something that can simply be patched.

A 2D puzzle game with an open world is quite ambitious. Glad to hear they're committed to their goal!

What a delightful cornucopia of metaphors this review had!

Aw, man! I'm gonna have to start from scratch on all my NES games.

Not again!

This is getting out of hand even faster than I expected... They haven't even released one yet!

The heck? Admittedly, I haven't played Darksiders II, but my impression was that it was one of the best things to come out of THQ in recent memory. How could nobody be interested in the studio that developed it?

Personally, my own experience with Super Ghouls 'n Ghosts rarely gives me that kind of self-confidence, to say the least.

"Zombies (Call of Duty)"

That... that's just... ah, what's the use?

Pretty varied history this publisher had. I could safely ignore the majority of their games, but the company was big enough that most people have probably bought something from them. I think they even distributed the Sonic Advance games here in the US.

I wonder what will become of de Blob...

In addition to the AR Fishing game mentioned, I keep thinking back to how much I enjoyed fishing in that one little area in Twilight Princess. When Nintendo can toss something like that into a game as a side activity, it becomes even more embarrassing when dedicated fishing games fall so short of the mark.

Phew, I was thinking of getting this one recently. Glad I didn't!