LunaticPandora

You must be pretty damn ignorant. Do the words "OUT OF PRINT" mean nothing to you? They can't profit on it anymore because it hasn't been produced for 3 years. God you're dense.

I suppose its too bad really, as i couldn't care less about anything to come from kickstarter.

Which has been out for 4 years, is out of print, and is rather rare. That's a pretty selfish reason to not offer the All*Stars games, but hey, Nintendo right?

More junk. Could at the very least make it interchangeable between 3DS and Wii U, but nooooo. And they don't want to share the all stars versions with us either, big surprise. Nintendo, you can take your virtual console and shove it.

I never claimed they didn't need games, i just said Nintendo EAD hasn't made new IPs in recent years outside of N. Land and Steel Diver. Unfortunately i couldn't get into most wanted, I bought it because all the previews were making it sound very much like a Burnout Paradise successor, it wasn't quite close enough for me, and i've never really been an NFS fan.

@BraveBold5 You don't give up do you? I don't care if nintendo owns studios that were formerly 3rd party, I am talking about fresh IPs made directly by nintendo themselves, ie. EAD, not a 'subsidiary,' which they hardly ever dp.

@BraveBold5 Not wrong. Nintendo EAD did not make them, 2nd party companies did, ergo they are not "Nintendo" IPs. Besides Xeno was on playstation before migrating to Nintendo systems almost a decade later.

@BraveBold5 Except published, not made by nintendo themselves. /fail

In other news...... Wii u will end up a 1st party machine like every Nintendo system since the N64.

@Geonjaha Steel diver and NLand are the only recents i can think of, the former of which bombed, and the second was dismissed as a WiiPlay minigame compilation. They do seem to be a bit more fixated on old franchises that were on life support for a decade or so these days -Pilotwings Resort, Kid Icarus and Luigi's Mansion for starters.

@Site staff - i don't suppose anyone has figured out why the name is now "and" instead of "vs.?"

Hello? What do you call Nintendoland? Nintendo is constantly creating new IPs, yet because they're new IPs and not a Nintendo staple, they're always brushed to the side, dismissed as crap/casual game, bomb in sales and only get 1 game in their series.

Good one insomniac, don't worry, i'll be laughing after fuse bombs.

@nintendogamerz just because they made a joke about, doesn't mean they'll bother to do something about it.

2 embarrassing press conferences in a row - i would've dropped out as well.

@kereke12 And you're surprised? Wii U VC only got EIGHT games at launch, Wii managed to launch with more than that, spanning across 3-4 systems no less. Wii U can barely manage 1. Its absolutely pathetic, we should've gotten at least 20 titles if not more, considering the amount of titles already on Wii VC. So this not only means nothing to buy, but also nothing to upgrade for people who already have games on there. I'm almost embarrassed to own a Wii U right now, I can't believe what a sloppy performance nintendo has shown us thus far.

I'm glad i just buy all the old games i want to play off ebay. Look nice on my shelf, and i'll get them 10x quicker than i'll ever get them on this joke of a service. VC (in general) is absolutely pathetic.

@aronatvw lol yeah, i didn't actually, nintendolife did, i wasn't exactly given a choice.

@JogurtTheYogurt Well here's an idea - don't.

@aronatvw No actually, i like nintendo otherwise i wouldn't have signed up. I just hate what a mess nintendo has made of the wii u.

I can see it now.... Wii U VC is going to be a joke and a waste of time.

@SilentHunter382 Yes it does matter, there have been plenty of simultaneous releases in the past which disprove your translation theory.

@SilentHunter382 It doesn't need another 6 months as it came out in japan barely a month ago, so there's no excuse really other than another misguided attempt to let 3rd parties "shine," which they failed to do at 3DS' launch, and are failing even more spectacularly here. So there really is no excuse for it not to be out right now.

Why? Why is it still 2 months away? Why is Nintendo too incompetent to get any games of their own out faster than this? What the hell is wrong with them?

still offering the same old crap nes games no one wants for only i don't know, like the third time now?

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looks like the days of good 3dsware are over....

@Trikeboy "Many people belittled Wind Waker and it turned out to be one of the best games in the series."

Uh, no it didn't.

i'm getting fed up of seeing this exact story over and over. how about release some damn games already so this statement stops getting repeated?

@ThomasBW84 I know its A&O, but I'm not comparing the games to each other, I'm arguing the fact that both games changed nothing between sequels(at least that's what I'm getting from this review, as I'm in EU and can't buy it yet) yet this gets a deserved average score, but E2 still scores highly, when I even argued it should have been scored lower when it was reviewed because it was the same as the first, just with new puzzles, which isn't enough to warrant 8/10 IMO. But i guess I understand clearer if D2 has problems the original had but didn't address.

You say the series seems determined not to evolve, yet Picross E-2 is doing the exact same thing and you still gave it 8/10. Double-standards much?

i haven't bought anything since picross e2. i refuse to pay above £8 for digital titles.

meh, not like anyone cared to begin with.

The gamepad can offer experiences we've never seen before.... yet it doesn't have any games to show us these experiences. Great logic ya got there, Miyamoto.

@Grubdog Waiting for 1st-party games most probably.

A Mario game? Not make it out of Japan? Not in this day and age!

@Omega The little interest says otherwise.

@Omega Ignorant or what. Lets see - SD only, no 480p, no SD card support, people DO care about online you know, which also means no VC/Wiiware, no gamecube support, waste of resources when they should be focusing on the Wii U - and by extension, no customer interest means people don't give a crap about the Wii anymore, which further solidifies my point that they should be focusing on Wii U, not attempting a quick cash grab which hasn't well... grabbed cash. Face it, this console is a piece of junk which has no reason to exist.

Oh my god, more price cuts won't do a damn thing, we need more bloody games, does someone have to go up to Iwata and repeatedly dopeslap him across the head until he realizes this?

hell yeah. this game was begging for 3D the moment it was released.

i bet japan sells the figures in gashapon machines, explaining their price. well how are we meant to buy them then?

@DerpSandwich Here's an idea - maybe try releasing some games and these stories might stop, hmm?

l'm not paying over 10 quid for any download, no matter how good it is.

@Vallu I assume you mean above the Mutagen? There is nothing "below" it - its on the bottom row. I would also like to know. I would think you have to beat a level using every object, but damn, i can't beat any levels using the Mutagen - or the doll for that matter

Ah well, spiderman and 007 legends were crap anyway so its not exactly what i'd call a "loss"

i thought splash or crash was gonna be crap but it actually looks worth checking out

about damn time. europe desperately needs some 3ds love.

Forget playing games, i want to engage in another graphical debate!

sorry, but i disagree. it should've gotten a 5 at the most, due to laziness. its exactly the same as E, only with different pictures. the menu alone is proof of that. the only new thing is micross, and with only 5 puzzles, not good enough. lack of self-created puzzles and online is pathetic, so is the measly amount of puzzles that go no bigger than 15x15. jupiter needs to step it up or make something other than picross for once.

@Ryno_Choryzo agreed, but lets be real here - nintendoland isn't exactly a "big name" title if you ask me. to the average consumer, it probably looks like your run-of-the-mill minigame compilation with nintendo franchises. oh and releasing 2 NSMB's in one year is quite possibly the stupidest thing they could've done, especially considering NSMB2 suffered as a result.