Philip_J_Reed

@Captain_Gonru Wow...you solved it. A Google image search turns up exactly what I had. The white version, not the brown. Incredible; I always just assumed it was some kind of professional banner paper. No idea how or why my mother got her hands on a roll of butcher paper, but that's one part of the mystery solved. Thanks!

Pantera and Rage Against the Machine are considered classic rock now?

I woke up in a very unpleasant future.

This comes out this week?? I thought it was later in the month. What a pleasant surprise.

I cannot. Wait. To grab this.

Awesome idea.

September really isn't that far away. Or maybe I'm just an old man who's ceased to notice the passage of time. EITHER ONE.

I'm stoked for this. Bring it on!

I don't care how much is FE and how much is SMT. I care how good the game is.

Such a wonderful, nearly-perfect little series.

2 > 4 > 3 > 1 in my opinion, but the quality is rock solid throughout. Looking forward to seeing how these look on the big screen!

(just kidding. Gamepad for sure.)

Meh, broke down and bought this anyway. I adore it. So intensely addictive.

@killustrator:
Keep up that 100% negativity streak! You're an inspiration to us all.

Lots of great games here...but let me just throw my recommendation behind Siesta Fiesta.

It looks like a simple Breakout clone. But it's a lot more than that, and one of my favorite recent eShop titles. It's one that needs and deserves more love.

(Whoa, Dave is a stone cold masterpiece.)

I'd get this if Devil Survivor 2 weren't right on the horizon. As it stands...well, I'll still get this. But a little later.

Haven't played this one, but the Steam version is an easy 9 for me. I adored everything about this game.

waaaaaant

Oh my god, Steamworld Heist. Every time I think about that one I get excited. So looking forward to this.

Microsoft didn't buy exclusivity for Meme Run. Even if they were insane enough to want it on their consoles, they could just make their own by importing the same graphics into the same endless runner template NinjaPig did. A whopping 44 seconds of work for any professional dev, I'm sure.

I really hope they do more Rusty's Real Deal (and Steel Diver) and less of this. I'm not complaining, but when I'm paying piecemeal for the parts of the game that I want, I'm happy to do so. In fact, that's the only reason I took a gamble on Rusty in the first place. (And I'm darned glad that I did. I'm still playing it.) But paying for plays is not my thing. That should have died with the arcade. I'd much rather pay for a game and play it as long as and as frequently as I like.

Only one DSiWare game?

Worst week ever.

I don't glitch hunt, but I've already found a few bad ones. (I never seem to find the good ones!) It's majorly improved from the N64 original, which was a buggy mess, but it's still kind of annoying to have to redo all of your progress.

The first glitch was during the second beaver race. As far as I can tell, I swam just over a ring, and it bugged me out of the water, which for some reason counted as a death. (I think it registered me as being crushed somehow.) The area reloaded and I had to start again from the beginning of the first race.

Much more annoying was the Great Bay temple. I was about halfway done (going by number of fairies collected, anyway) and couldn't figure out what to do in a room. I jumped off a ledge figuring I'd explore the water again and...the game froze. When all I did was jump off the ledge. The music kept going, but I had to hard reset the system.

bah

Loved the first. I'm glad this finally has a release date!

@squidzilla
Exactly what I thought. Even the outfits made me wonder if someone made a Dayman video game...

I've literally never figured out how to get this working.

...don't people usually send out press releases to announce good news?

Or, as I like to call it, Treasurenot.

@GeminiSaint
BLAKE STONE FTW

Seriously, I loved that game.

The original is still my favorite game of all time.

Very much looking forward to this.

Good. This leaves more room on the eShop for my upcoming release, Fire Emblem. It's a Frogger clone that uses the assets from Super Mario Bros.

I loved it. (Though I agree with @Klimbatize that it had a "budget feel.") It seemed like a fun little timewaster at first, but it ended up being one of the few DSiWare releases that I bothered to 100%...and then replay. Looking forward to this.

@ninjapigstudios
"nor did I behave in a “jerk” manner which @PhotonStorm accuses me of."

Being as "jerk" describes the manner in which you've behaved on literally any outlet that I've seen you to literally every person I've seen you interact with, I'm going to go ahead and remain skeptical.

This game is brilliant fun. Probably the only time I waited for a sale, and ended up wishing I'd spent full price. Insanely difficult and crazily addictive.

(Gotta love that dark, dark game over screen, too...)

@Quorthon
I don't know. Why would you keep asking the same question I've answered three times in a row?

MYSTERIES FOR THE AGES

@Quorthon

Man, I think you need to look up the word precisely. Because here is precisely what I said:

"Repeat these words to yourself every night, 99% of developers working right now, until you understand them."

And it means what I've already said it means. It's solid advice, and I think nearly every developer working today would do well to keep it in mind.

@Quorthon
"You said 99% of developers, almost deliberately, release buggy games."

lol no, I didn't, but nice try. I said Horberg's words should be repeated by 99% of developers until they understand them, as it's solid advice.

Agree or disagree, that's fine. But don't put words into my mouth and then spend long rants trying to debunk them.

@Quorthon
Sure, it's cynical. It's cynicism borne out of a career of playing and reviewing buggy games.

And bear in mind Horberg's original quote for context. He's referring to known bugs. Nobody's doubting that video games are so complex that bugs slip through simply because they're impossible to catch before release. I don't, however, think it's too much to ask that known bugs are addressed before you start charging people for your product.

Come to think of it, I don't believe that's cynical at all. I think that's just fair.

"it would feel worse releasing it knowing about the bugs."

Repeat these words to yourself every night, 99% of developers working right now, until you understand them.

@leemeyer26
But then why did you rate it higher than Mega Man Zero!?

...oh, wait.

Dang. I'll buy / trade for this if anyone pre-orders and doesn't want it.

@LinktotheFuture
Having them all in one place, not waiting for the next to be released, and (potentially) having them all cheaper.

Otherwise...not really. The bonus features didn't do much for me, but if you're a completionist by nature maybe you'll enjoy unlocking all the art. Then again, there's no shortage of stuff to collect in the actual games, so that may not be much of a selling point.

There's also an easy mode added to these games, but man does it suck the fun out of them.

Zero is a masterpiece. 2 is even better and refines almost every shortcoming of the first game. 3 and 4 (the latter of which I have a particularly soft spot for) are awesome as well.

Wall to wall it's my favorite Mega Man series, because the quality never dropped and the experience never stagnated. A brilliant set of games.

^ Comment of the year right there.

Not disappointed at all! Four things this week are getting downloaded. Whoa Dave and Steel Empire while on sale, Xeodrifter and Phoenix Wright whenever I clear out the backlog a little.

Seems like a pretty good week to me!

Grabbing this for sure. I love Treasurenauts and Moon Chronicles chapter 2!

How many times, exactly, is Sega going to rush the development of Sonic games? By now how have they not learned their lesson? It's beyond bad planning at this point. It's willful stupidity.

TBD posted what I was just going to post.

I'm...getting kind of tired of "episodic" releases that never actually get the episodes.

@maceng
That's the first time I've heard somebody say "Having said that..." without having said anything.

It's insane how much great stuff the 3DS is getting before the year is out.

XSEED is wonderful.

Grab this. The game is great.

Yeah, I think the unlocks (by number of battles) are random. I got Wario first, and I have Dr. Mario without Lucina or Falco. (And I've beaten Classic mode a bunch of times.) My most recent unlock was Ness, so it has to be random.

the online multiplayer can be very hit-or-miss in terms of connection quality

Great review, but after the unplayable nightmare that was online Brawl, I think this is going to be the breaking point for me. Here's hoping the WiiU version is reliable.

I just finished Circle of the Moon for the first time a few months ago. I loved it.

I've not heard of this before...looking forward to it.

@Stu13
Whoops, my mistake. Ignore me.