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I don't really care what they call the difficulty levels, but I'm glad I'm not the only one who dislikes that you can't save manually or "save and quit."

Didn't you guys already review this game when it came out in NA?

Now a $6 eShop game in NA. Given that price point, what's the score?

@AVahne Very good point. They also need to make sure every single person who buys that MK8 console bundle knows it comes with a free download game. Put a sticker on the box or something.

I moused over that Dinosaur Comics for the alt text out of habit. I had no idea Ryan North wrote Stick It To The Man! That does increase my interest slightly.

This is a good 3DS retail week anyway. I had to pick Picross because I get retail games... at retail.

I upped my pledge a bit just before it got to the Wii U stretch (last night) and the dev sent me a personalized thank you. Not only does the game have a lot of heart, the guy making it does too.

Welp. This was a thing. I like how at one point in the review you called it "Me and my Furries." I think that would be an entirely different game altogether!

I prefer the traditional press conference but... their lack of one brought us that video. Holy crap was that video awesome.

Honestly a giant Smash Bros. tourney will have all eyes on Nintendo while it happens and people will want to hear more about what they have to say. It's not like last year when there was nothing major going on really.

@2Sang I'm just gonna buy the toy.

Those do not look like standard issue Pokeballs. I don't think this promotion is affiliated with the Pokemon League, guys.

@sinalefa D. E. A. D. Spot on.

Just a few more hours. Come on, midnight! (Yeah, I'm not @sinalefa, I'm getting this NOW.)

QoL: concerns me, and if they keep talking about it in vague terms like this it's going to continue to concern me... But I have a feeling they'll reveal it and we'll all go "OOOOHHH" and it might even be worth it.

Doesn't excuse not marketing the Wii U, which is such a promising console and so, so dead in the water right this moment.

Keep donating for Hex Heroes via Paypal, guys. They're honoring some of the tiers for the first month and we're really close to the $90K stretch.

Also very excited for Popup Dungeon and I suppose I will go fund Cosmochoria now.

I still won't transfer my Wii data over to the Wii U. Call me crazy if you like but I'll keep my consoles exactly as they are and not wipe all their data, thank you very much.

One of my best friends works at a Gamestop.

We only have one where I live and I've been shopping there since I was 12 and it was Electronics Boutique. I'm 26 now. It's even got some of the same staff from then, so they know me really well. I was just in there the other day and a new guy asked if I wanted to trade in any games and the manager just laughed and said, "She never trades in her games! She has an amazing collection."

Gamestop as a company is garbage but on a store to store basis it's full of good folks and I'd rather not see them lose their jobs.

I loved the first but I never completed it. I'll have to beat it AND the second before I can get this one! So glad they're releasing more games in this series though because it's really unique.

I love this game! It's not always easy though, I think I've lost a few fistfuls of hair.

I loved this game so much as a kid, but it definitely stumped me. It stumped the Nintendo Hotline lady when I called in about it too - she'd never heard of it!

I'm definitely interested in Child of Light and NES Remix 2.

I backed Hex Heroes at the $500 level because I was so eager to see it get made. I can't wait to start designing my monster! (I get to have my face and voice in the game too, which is pretty cool.)
Oh and they're accepting PayPal donations toward the stretch goals and Mario was saying no matter what all of them will make it into the game eventually, even if they have to be free DLC after the game is already out there.

Get Funky Barn instead, it's got this aesthetic and it's only like $10 now (the price that it is worth).

I backed Earthlock so I was excited when they hit their goal. I hope they can hit a few more of the stretch goals through Paypal because those look pretty cool. This is going to be a good game.

Go back Hex Heroes, guys! I backed it like a week and a half ago, I want to see it funded so badly. This is the kind of game that the Wii U was made for.

I think @ChessboardMan is on to something. Twitch Plays Pokemon works because the underlying themes of Pokemon are friendship and perseverance (and making cute fuzzy animals get into pit fights with one another, but I digress). So having 70,000 people cooperate to see if they can collectively beat it together is in the spirit of the game. At the same time, Pokemon never takes itself too seriously (see: pit fights with cute fuzzy animals). So TPP just works.

Zelda has varying levels of taking itself seriously, and also isn't really about persevering so much as going off on a grand adventure to save the kingdom/princess. While trying to get hundreds or maybe even thousands of people to cooperate is a grand adventure, of a sort, it's not a Zelda-esque one. At least imo.

If only I were five years old. I was born 21 years too early!

I remember those Barbie Jeeps and such when I was little. Most of my friends had them, but my mom wouldn't let me have one as she thought they were too dangerous - might tip over or something.

For this I would take my chances.

@ledreppe AGDQ in January always goes to the Prevent Cancer Foundation; however Summer Games Done Quick, which is obviously held in summer, I believe changes every year. 2013 was Doctors Without Borders. You should check that out, maybe it's more up your alley. Either way you can't disagree gamers raising $1 million for charity is a feat to be praised.
Also everyone is affected by cancer in some way. Maybe not you but a loved one, surely.

http://www.reddit.com/r/speedrun/comments/1ui4dn/agdq_vods_thread/
You can watch the videos here in the mean time. The OP has highlighted the Super Metroid race, among others.

Last night, watching the donation totals climb to a million, actually eclipsed the Chrono Trigger run for me. I wasn't even watching it; I had the page up where the tracker refreshed automatically! (With Chrono Trigger on in another tab of course.)

He's running WW:HD tomorrow at AGDQ 2014. Should be a treat.

Oh yes, you definitely have to like sim games. But if you do, this is one of the ones to really take a look at.

I do recommend this game. It's not my favorite HM but it's quite good. A New Beginning is my current fave but that's full 3DS. This is the DS version with some very light 3D applied, Overall neither is a bad entry to the series, though this one can move a bit slowly!

I've actually seen a ton of good press lately for the Wii U, saying it's the best bet this holiday season. Naturally there's still the doom and gloom but that's seems to just be what's popular these days - a fad really. It will blow over, the tide is already turning.

It's true that Nintendo didn't make use of its extra year advertising wise. It's also true that Sony and Microsoft don't have much going for their systems in terms of content yet anyway, and they are once again very similar while Nintendo once again forges its own path, if that's what you're into. And at this point a gamer knows if they are into that or not, and a family is going to look at all the bright colors and plethora of games (because don't forget backwards compatibility) and local multiplayer and go, "Heck yes! And it's cheaper, too!"

Wouldn't it be funny if he came out and dropped a trailer for whatever it is that new IP Miyamoto has been doing?

That'll never be it, but wouldn't it be funny?

I need this. I really do.

I was the saddest crustacean in Paris that day in 2010 when I arrived at the Louvre only to discover - it's not open on Tuesdays.

So I've been at the Louvre, but not to it. Feel free to point and laugh.

Well, OK, that's not completely awful. Sounds kind of tedious but the kid didn't sell me a total dud.

Sunk Cost Fallacy? Maybe. But I'm not dreading playing it, it's just on the back burner for now. My own fault for buying a game without waiting for a review, after all!

I skipped ahead to the bottom just to see the score. Man, I'm bummed. I picked this up on my birthday (Sunday) when I was getting Mario and Zelda (Link Between Worlds) because I felt like I was being kinda brusque with the poor sales kid and wanted to let him rec something for me. The problem was, I already had like 90% of the games he pointed out, or they weren't my type (they were all good games). Finally he pulled out this one. He was clearly a HUGE Adventure Time fan and I asked him if he'd played it, he said no. I mentioned the other AT game was kinda wonky (mixed reviews), and that I hadn't seen any reviews of this one yet. But he was such a big fan, and frankly a lot of my friends are too and I know eventually I'm going to start watching the show as well, so I caved.

Off to read the review to find out why I shouldn't have. (Who knows, maybe it will still be playable... But obviously don't trust holiday part-time staffers, even if they can point out all the really good games for a console first.)

I've been so excited about this game for so long, but I haven't heard anything about it in ages... I'm starting to get really worried.

Well the screenshots certainly tell an interesting tale.

They should bring this commercial to every territory just because it's so bizarre, you know? Everybody always knows Nintendo is always the odd console out anyway. Might as well advertise it like that too.

My Japanese is only barely proficient enough to navigate the site, not enough to understand what they are saying, but I think it's pretty cute!

Loads better than those weird commercials with the kids and the giant noteboards or whatever, the "Why We Need a Wii U" campaign (see, I can't even remember the tagline). I mean, I get where they're coming from with that campaign but it's just so uninspired. It seems so blatant. Also the commercials themselves are pretty bad.

At least I'm seeing commercials now, though!

I tried to back it but Kickstarter doesn't seem to want to let me. Too bad. :/

This was precious... And now I feel guilty. A combo of Pokemon and NaNoWriMo has struck my village and left its mayor completely gone!

Too bad. Maybe it'll have a sale at one point. I do have an Android phone, so I'm apparently out of luck on the mobile front. Or I could just dust off Roller Coaster Tycoon, which is still fun after all these years.

On mobile, is this one of those freemium games, or is it a legit game that doesn't beg for in-app purchases for experience points and the like? If it's that way on mobile, and the fact that it obviously isn't on Wii U, does swing my opinion in favor of the Wii U version.

Oh, that's nice! At $2, it might as well be free. I hope he likes it.

@sdelfin I agree with you, that report WAS a lot more accurate and fair than you'd see these days. I think news in general was! There weren't multiple 24 hour networks scampering to fill all that air time, searching for ways to get the most eyeballs. That always seems to mean scare tactics, blowing things out of proportion, and eventually beating a dead horse. This report was short and to the point, and didn't do any of those other things. I've watched Good Morning America a few times in recent years and it has just gotten totally inane, in part I think because they can't compete in the news business anymore.

Loved seeing Howard again. Notice the party line has not changed in over twenty years: it's the GAMES that matter! How true that is. It's carried them far and will carry them another twenty plus years for sure.

This seems pretty packed to be honest. I'm impressed. Of course, with 10K systems out there this last quarter I don't know it's doing much good...

If it were a $150K stretch, maaaaybe, but $250K is so steep. While it's encouraging that games want to come to WiiU, I just don't think they can possibly raise that much money!

Of course, this is why we're going to have such a horrible drought in 2014/15...

Well, now the moon is going to crash into the Earth in three days. Quick, we need a Link cosplayer! He should be prepubescent.

The first two are pretty ridiculous*, but the last one, I'd like to see that one play on TV. Not incessantly or anything, but it's the sort of clever ad that could get people excited about the system itself if they saw it.
*in a good way

"Do you like gender equality? If you answered yes, you are an awesome person."

I guess I'm a terrible person then, because I would hate for him to take up an entire slot (I don't think he will) and as a woman I get tired of the under representation of women in games, and the fact that the "default" gamer (and thus character option, when offered) is still assumed to be male when women make up 45% up gamers these days. I mean come on.

So in this case I am a terrible person because "gender equality" would mean adding yet another dude. I thought it was super cool Nintendo added the female trainer over the male one to start with. I think it's cool that she still appears to be the default option. Finally!

OK, I'm not actually going to discuss this further, like that's all I have to say on this topic and I won't be checking the comments on this article further. Sorry if people felt this was a derail, I was just responding to two sentences that really stood out to me.

This was my first NES game I unlocked in Animal Crossing and I loved it. That said I wouldn't buy it again.