MindWanderer

1) No. A 10-hour, $60 game in a market saturated with excellent games in the same genre costing $15-$25 is not going to break through anything no matter how well it's reviewed. It's a sequel to Samus Returns, which did well but wasn't a breakout title.

2) You're comparing this to Fire Emblem Awakening? Sure, that helped the series, but it mainly languished due to most of the series never having been localized. It's still not all that successful a series--already less so than Metroid. If Dread does even as well as Three Houses it will be a disappointment as a Metroid game.

Prime 4 on the other hand? If it's at all decent, it will sell like gangbusters

@Friendly Metroid Dread is not a sequel to Fusion, despite the "Metroid 5" trailer. It's a sequel to Samus Returns, which is a mere 4 years old. A game which was overpriced at $40 IMHO.

Since Ender Lilies will likely go on sale for $15 within a year or two, if the reviews are good I'll pick it up for sure. Dread... maybe, maybe not, it would pretty much have to be GOTY for me to pick it up for even $40.

I paid $30 for Samus Returns and was disappointed. For a 10 hour game at that price point, the game should be stellar, and it wasn't. Difficult bosses that didn't communicate their patterns and weaknesses well. (You know you have a problem with difficulty when you need to add extra checkpoints!) Exploration with no middle ground between obvious and invisible. Dull environments. It's my least favorite 2D Metroid game, and I'm the original Metroid 2 counting AM2R. (Never played M.)

I'll probably end up paying $40 for this just because it's Metroid, but I don't have high hopes.

@RupeeClock Do we know that? They might count and you can only get 98% without them. Or get 102% with them (and 100% by skipping two placed items). You never know with Big N and their haphazard ideas for amiibo.

I wasn't able to find this alleged free Character Creator item in the menus, and not a single article names this item or says how to get it. I'm not at all sure it's really there.

Also, it's 53 MB. What the heck is taking up that much space? There's a good chance it's hiding something else in there....

I haven't gotten a bundle from them in a time, but when I did it was for something I didn't really want much but figured the money was going to charity anyway.

That said, if the publishers start getting a guaranteed 80% cut instead of 0%, the quality of the bundles may go back up again. If it increases their bundle sales enough by offering quality products instead of obscure games and comics, random manga, and software totally outdone by its competition, the total amount going to charities could actually go up!

Long loads. Too much dialogue (5 hours out of a 6-hour demo). Unclear visuals--the 2D style is a bad idea for a 3D map, and things were highlighted in too many colors. Balance is off--one fight was much harder than the other two, and some characters border on broken while others are meh. The "triangle strategy" idea was impossible to pull off.

On the other hand, cool gimmicks and solid, if vanilla, gameplay. I'll probably buy it when it goes on sale.

Ah, OK. That makes it even easier. Speedrunners can beat each game in just a few hours using only their starter and an HM slave or two. Following the rules he spelled out, he could put off swapping his starter out until the end of the game if he wanted.

How is this possible? You only have three starters between Black/White/1/2, Ultra/Sun/Moon, Red/Blue/FireRed/LeafGreen, Gold/Silver/Crystal/HeartGold/SoulSilver, and Ruby/Sapphire/Emerald/Omega/Alpha. You'd have to at least use one of those to catch your second Pokemon, or else trade (and if trading is allowed, what's the point?).

Sounds like a good race category. Give the runners a menu of 4 random foods and see who can cook them all first.

Aww, Triage got nerfed. That'll make using the pokeball much harder. I should probably try to collect the Golem's blueprint before the update comes out....

Receiving a Cease & Desist is not the same thing as "getting sued." The former means sending a letter, nothing more. The latter means getting the courts involved. She was not sued. False headline.

Wait, how do you even wishlist through a web browser? There's no option for it on the product pages. The FAQ says you can only do it via the console shop. I never use the wishlist feature for this reason.

I was with a friend when he called the Nintendo hotline (which was a 900 number, not free, at least at the time) because we couldn't beat the boss of Level 5 in Blaster Master. He insisted that we use the grenade pause glitch, even though it only works on the bosses of levels 2, 4, 6, and 7. He promised that if we couldn't get it to work we were doing it wrong. Neither my friend nor I ever called them again.

Ugh, videos. Since one of the things mentioned was small, sloped "pipes" (which are just solid blocks in particular themes), I'll be skipping this one.

Shovel Knight's soundtrack was by Jake Kaufman. Only two tracks were by Matsumae.

I have never seen an article on Nintendo Life with as many errors as this. All abilities that can be scrubbed yield chunks. Unique abilities cannot be stacked because it's impossible to get two of them at once (each one appears only on headgear, only on clothes, or only on shoes. The photo showing exceptions is from a bug that was patched out.) Sub power up and special power up do not increase damage, only things like range and duration. Secondary abilities are less effective than primary abilities, so saying "two or three of these" could mean anywhere from 6 points to 30 points' worth.

Lots of problematic questions. Many missing "zero". Many missing "other" (e.g. Redbox rentals). Categories are often strange.

@Wyk126 Call them. I tried email, website, etc. for weeks. Got a return label with a 5-minute phone call.

Final Fantasy Mystic Quest is a different game (an SNES RPG from the makers of the SaGa series and Final Fantasy Legends).

I agree--they haven't localized Seiken Densetsu 3 yet, so the chances of a Western release of this are nil.

I have had serious problems with disconnects, but I haven't filed a repair/replacement request because YOU CAN'T. Following the instructions on their website, you can request a repair for literally any other problem except this one.

If they continue to deny the issue, I'll probably have to just buy another pair of joy-con and then return the original, defective ones in the new box. Which is illegal, but if there's no other avenue for replacement then I won't have any viable option.

@HeroOfTime32 I use an HDMI switch that detects active input. When sleeping, the Switch periodically triggers it and steals the input every 3-5 minutes. Also, it draws a lot more power when sleeping than when fully off.

You guys must not have the really bad joy-cons. I do. I played 6 feet away from the console, clear line of sight, and I had lots of disconnects (that resulted in more than a few mishaps and a couple of deaths).

Also, the power-off thing deserves a mention at least. I use an HDMI switch that detects active input. When sleeping, the Switch triggers it and steals the input from other devices every 3-5 minutes. I have to power it off fully by holding the button down for 12 seconds to prevent this.

Less than 100 years passes between Wind Waker and Spirit Tracks, so it would have to be after the latter. It could be then, but only if the Koroks actually lowered the sea level rather than just planting new ground. Otherwise the castle and temple would just end up further underwater. And the location of the Master Sword is definitely a problem.

The Decline timeline makes the most sense to me. It's the only one in which Ganondorf becomes Ganon, and the Koroks could have evolved anyway. It could be after Zelda II, or it could even be a retelling of the original Zelda. It should be far in the future, because they had time to both invent all this technology and then to have it all get trashed.

@tjhiphop I'm guessing because as the game and the Wii U die off, weekly will become depressingly sparse.

Apparently it's based off of "Squirrel King," which was a Taiwanese knock-off of Rescue Rangers. It's not Korean, but Korea was probably one of the few places you could find it.

Really a terrible choice for this hack. There are MegaDrive games with much more Mario-compatible mechanics.

Harder than you think, I think, and extremely long. I enjoyed much of it but restarting on each late-stage death was pretty painful. The low completion rate is quite justified.

Much easier than it looks. Seems like it will be confusing and challenging at first, but unless you hunt for the hidden items, it's almost completely linear. Nice design but disappointing if you wanted a puzzle.

Why is it in such a strange key? Did you not have enough range? There's over two full octaves of range, you should have been able to get closer than this.