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Oh wicked, more gameplay like Secret of Mana!

It's too bad they couldn't update the geometry and enemy character models. Everything else looks good enough, given it's an upgrade, but those two things really stand out.

EU boxart is easily better than the US art. I wish I could have that one.

IMO, given they've had so many other classics like Pac-Man and Megaman they should have tried like hell to add Simon Belmont just to complete the NES classic roster. Of course Konami officially hates video games so maybe it wasn't possible with those douches.

@LinkSword Sometimes you just want to see the ending.

@MavezIgnikari Ninja Gaiden 1 is about as hard as Castlevania 1 is. I say that only because I've never been able to beat either of those games. Ninja Gaiden 2, by comparison, is far easier. It got to the point I could breeze through that in a single life, same with Castlevania 3.

It's like they're going out of their way to mess his face up. The rest of the image is fine but it's like the wrong face was photoshopped onto the rest of the image.

Awesome, just a week away. I'm very excited for this!

And I was so hoping it would be somebody with talent....

Given it was based on a story by Brian Michael Bendis it wou8ld have started out intriguing and then meandered to nothing by the mid point.

Cannot wait. I've wanted another Futuristic Racer for years.

Yeah, this game required a lot more work given it's more realistic look. Tweaking Wind Waker was relatively easy. But a lot of geometry and textures here just look baaaaaad.

I am not sure what video people are watching here but this is completely unplayable. And this is only with a clock downgrade. It would be impossible with the reduced cores and less/slower RAM. Some simple "optimizations" would not have worked.

I would be excited for it if it weren't for the fact I need a New 3DS to play with the 3D effect.

@TeeJay Technically I do but I choose not to.

Cool it's finally translated. I didn't know this even existed. That being said the gameplay doesn't look like much fun at all.

Also, I know who The Beetle is.

I didn't find The Lost Levels all that difficult when I finally got play All-Stars. Then again, I can't even really play the original SMB very well anymore. So maybe I was just in really good practice at that time and it would have been monstrously frustrating for newer gamers.

I don't think the Streets of Rage games are nearly as good as people claim they are but I buy all of these games because I like that Sega and M2 are actually trying. I wish we could get more 3D conversions of various Arcade/SNES/etc... games from other companies.

While I like the music it would be nice if we could play our own tunes in the game to make it as Wipeout-ey as we like it.

I love the fact they have skins for every doctor as well. You can play as whoever is your favorite. Or as your least favorite and then keep knocking him to bits with Batman's Batarangs.

@HollywoodHogan Ignoring the fact the Camecube was more powerful than the PS2 and easier to develop for and they still got the shaft then?

@6ch6ris6 The PS4 is a significantly underpowered PC from six years ago. If you factor in that the NX should release later than the PS4 you have to figure that even with tech from four years ago it should be more powerful than both of the other consoles.

Do it, then surprise us all and release the game this November.

What is funny is Sega seems to understand better what to do with their old properties on the 3DS than Nintendo does. I will totally buy a 3D version of Gunstar Heroes.

It should be renamed "Taken Down By Nintendo in 3..2..1..."

That's a disappointing review, I was hoping it would be a really good game too.

@Sanicranfast I was only talking about this one game.

@rushiosan Also because some of us have smaller hands the XL is uncomfortable to hold.

Man, I really want to give this a go but that wait for we US'ers is long. You guys in the UK are lucky to be able to play this so soon.

I am very interested in Fast Racing Neo. Have any of the NL crew tried it out yet? I'd love to know how the controls feel.

I don't know if people will go back and buy their hardware after all of this but I do know there is a large group of women (mid twenties range) chomping at the bit for some Nintendo games on their phones, who still play stuff like Harvest Moon on their Wii's and REALLY want to check out what Universal Studio's is going to put in their parks from Nintendo. I think with those two moves people will be re-introduced to Nintendo again and there's potential to come back to the hardware after that. But that is in a few years time.

@RaphaBoss The original Star Fox was played on a digital pad, without having to look from screen to screen.

And it's Arwing. Not Airwing.

For me I pretty much don't care about anything here at all. I think the shoe-horned mechanics in Star Fox will ruin the game (plus the graphics are suspiciously bad) and 'm still waiting for Zelda. Nothing else surprised. Really a let down.

The graphics in space look flat and terrible. On planet they look alright, but not mind blowing.

And they could have easily mapped the targeting reticule to the second analog stick and left the rest of the controls as is. I'm a fan of the gamepad but this is very clearly a case of pounding gameplay into something that shouldn't be using (much like the stupid touch controls on the DS Star Fox game I never finished, because the controls were stupid.)

No MP for me.

This could also give hope we'll see Castlevania properties in Smash as well. Capcom very well hasn't released a damn thing on the WiiU except for Monster Hunter, and certainly no new Street Fighter titles. They could get Konami properties that haven't appeared on the WiiU as well, really.

Kind of cool, but if you're going to go to the lengths of adding in the motions to execute the special moves why not just let us use six buttons instead of the silly timed button hold mechanic?

I really can't tell what the gameplay is like. The style of everything looks like Wipeout but people keep relating it to F-Zero. I hope it plays more like Wipeout because I've never liked F-Zero's controls.

@Quorthon Yeah, that's a good point. I personally owned two DS'es prior and would own two 3DS'es if NOA had released the standard sized version. The 3DS certainly does not have the wide-reach of the previous handheld. I used to see EVERYBODY around here with one when I went out to eat. Now, I've never seen another 3DS system in public. So likely you're right that their numbers are skewed and it's only a third of the numbers who are actually buying one. Likely an original 3DS, and XL and then whoever upgraded to at least a N3DSXL in the US, and possibly to both versions elsewhere.

@Fuz Right, well, looking up the differences between 03 and 11 isn't much different, but changing things backward is more work.

However, simply because they've been using the latest version doesn't mean that older or previous projects weren't started on an 03 build. It could still, theoretically, be laying around on a hard drive somehwere and they could start form that. It's also entirely likely if they have a license they could ask Epic for one of the older versions to work with, we've done that plenty of times with Green Hills for legacy systems around here.

@Fuz maybe they have an older 03 version they will start off with, then? I've had to updated some 03 to 11 C++ at work recently, it really wasn't that bad. Then again it wasn't anything near as complicated as a graphics engine either.

@Quorthon Epic said it could be done by developers if they really wanted to but they wouldn't officially attempt it themselves.

@Fuz Really? GH03? Why so fricking old???

@Damo That is actually not true, the other day IGA posted video of the game running. Other than the comments about the animation looking a bit stiff, it looked pretty good. And he told the developers to add in their own visual flourishes if they wanted.

But where are the statistics on lost sales because NOA screwed some of us by not selling the version we wanted?

@Stargazer @CaPPa Your taste in level design and puzzles may vary but that other stuff sure never happened to me on the PC.

Why go smaller when the previous Marvel game was packed with tons more characters from all of their comics?

I already own all of the MM games on 3DS already but if they make the first six stereoscopic I'll buy this.

They'd probably get a bigger push at the end if it were a 3DS port and not Vita. It was always the Nintendo Handheld fans who bought up the majority of the Castlevania games (of course, the majority of the games were on Nintendo handhelds as well.)

I can't imagine it will be too great but I've always loved shmups and am wondering how Fullblast has turned out for the WiiU.