MekkaGodzilla

Loved Xenogears, back in 1999. It was a weird mixture of brilliance and deep flaws. The story was good sci-fi for a video game, the anime cut-scenes were great for the weabo in me, but the pacing was all over the place.

Now I can say I'm excited for this new game, but I'm afraid I can't commit to long games on a home console. I can only really play long games on handheld, strangely enough.

One of my favorite SMB3 levels so far.

I remember seeing pics in magazines back in maybe 1993, and being blown away. It just looked amazing compared to games like Megman X I was playing at the time.
Then when I finally got a copy, I was very impressed by the cartridge. It was the heaviest SNES cart I had. The difference was really significant.
Anyway, I was a very happy 14 year old, and I played this game to 101% completion many times over.

Made in France! Game Backers is an indie based in Montpellier and lead by a former Game Design Director from Ubisoft. Looking forward to playing it.

IMHO nintendo needs to seriously reach out to the indies, and promote the hell out of them.
They would be a good fit for nintendo's hardware strategy.
If I could play Starbound, a bunch of retro games, and Nintendo games on the WiiU, I would be so happy.

Well, I’m certainly not buying this.
Even though the GBA version has downgraded music, the bug fixes and translation make over make it my favorite version of this game.

Maybe they couldn't make it work without game breaking lag.

There's a long history of such minor edits. In the American release of Final Fantasy VI, the sprite of the summon called Siren was changed. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d3/FFVI_Siren_Censorship.png

I don't get it. If you want to get aroused, there's much better stuff out there.

This picture was at the back of my NES box. I used to play the "10 errors game" looking at it.

So for instance in FF7, he designed the materia system and then built the story around it.
Makes perfect sense, I can’t really see it happening the other way around.

I think Miyamoto and Iwata are definitely underpaid. Do we have similar figures for top managers of Activision-Blizzard and EA?

@grenworthshero: You assume right, for instance, the New World Symphony part is the 4th movement.

As much as I hate Apple, ignoring the threat it is would be foolish. Obviously, Reggie is just taking this stance for the media. The iPhone/Pod/Pad might have a huge list of shovelware, the appstore is really miles ahead from the DSiware store it terms of usability and quantity/quality of games.

SMG1 is the best game this gen, can’t wait for the sequel. The game designers behind this are freaking geniuses.

@Damo
Hedgehogs are placental mammals (like you and me) as opposed to marsupial mammals like kangaroos or koalas.
Knuckles is not a marsupial either, as echidnas are egg-laying mammals.

Sonic is not a Marsupial, please get your biology straight dudes .

Is there any connection with Advance Wars? Looks really related.

The main problem with DSiWare is the stupid 16MB or so limit. How are developers supposed to put out nice games with such a limit?
iPod/iPhone games on the other hand have no such limit.

@Objection_Blaster: I think that the lack of info about where to go next is actually a great feature. You have to explore, make guesses, take wrong paths, and when you finally figure out where to go, it’s a great little discovery. Games nowadays either lead you step by step or are just too linear. I understand that finding dungeons in the very first Zelda was too cryptic, but ALttP is just fine to me!

@Ben546: they’re basically the same. Some Pokémons will be missing from Silver and be in Gold, and the other way around.

I will definitely get back into Pokémon with SoulSilver. I am 29

There is no WiiWare version.
Nice review of a very nice game!

“Dogz” is a trademark isn’t it?

I have this phone, and even though having a SNES emulator is something you might get excited about, it's not all that great for three reasons:
1-Sounds are not emulated very well. Depends on the game though
2-The screen is just too small to really enjoy it.
3-Controlling games with a tiny plastic keyboard is horrible. Platformers are a pain to play. RPG are usually less problematic, as they don't require to hit Y and B at the same time for instance.