Rum_Rapture

It's funny, The After Years isn't nearly as popular here as it seems to be in America... UK:

1 (2) - My Aquarium
2 (8) - Water Warfare
3 (9) - Puzzle Bobble Plus!
4 (1) - NyxQuest: Kindred Spirits
5 (4) - Texas Hold’em Tournament
6 (3) - World of Goo
7 (N) - Gradius Rebirth
8 (6) - My Pokemon Ranch
9 (7) - Onslaught
10 (5) - Final Fantasy IV: The After Years
11 (10) - Pop-Up Pirate!
12 (N) - Bit Boy!!
13 (11) - Swords & Soldiers
14 (12) - Defend Your Castle
15 (14) - Bomberman Blast
16 (17) - Snowboard Riot
17 (20) - Tetris Party
18 (18) - BIT.TRIP BEAT
19 (19) - LostWinds
20 (16) - Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: My Life As A King

Up: My Aquarium, of course. Water Warfare and Puzzle Bobble Plus! are both up 6.
Down: WoG’s first movement in ages! It and NyxQuest are down 3. The After Years falls 5.
Hello: Gradius debuts at 7, Bit Boy at 12.
Goodbye: Let’s Catch and TV Show King, falling from 13 and 15 respectively.

We don't always get the good stuff first. Liiike, we got Brawl 3 months after NA did. And Trauma Centre games come to our shores about a year after they hit there. And we don't have a release date for Excitebots. And we don't have Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World yet. Really, it evens out

(here, do staff members get a special golden badge next to their name now? Swish!)

@Aquateen510: Are you serious? Haha.

So Taito are all, we'll give Europe Bubble Bobble and Puzzle Bobble first, but at a higher price. Sake! But I suppose Konami did it to the US with Gradius... Really, I think they should just release games at the same price point everywhere...

There's a video featuring all 8 titles on the Nintendo Channel. Lovely!

UK:

1 (2) - NyxQuest: Kindred Spirits
2 (1) - My Aquarium
3 (3) - World of Goo
4 (5) - Texas Hold'em Tournament
5 (4) - Final Fantasy IV: The After Years
6 (8) - My Pokemon Ranch
7 (6) - Onslaught
8 (N) - Water Warfare
9 (N) - Puzzle Bobble Plus!
10 (9) - Pop-Up Pirate!
11 (7) - Swords & Soldiers
12 (10) - Defend Your Castle
13 (15) - Let's Catch
14 (11) - Bomberman Blast
15 (13) - TV Show King
16 (-) - Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: My Life As A King
17 (18) - Snowboard Riot
18 (14) - BIT.TRIP BEAT
19 (-) - LostWinds
20 (16) - Tetris Party

Up: NyxQuest, though I doubt it'll fend off My Aquarium from number 1 for long.
Down: Swords & Soldiers, BIT.TRIP BEAT and Tetris Party all fall 4 spots...
Hello: New entries Water Warfare and Puzzle Bobble, re-entries MLAAK and LostWinds.
Goodbye: Bubble Bobble Plus!, The Incredible Maze, FUN! FUN! Minigolf and Cocoto Platform Jumper.

Most reviewers think it's pretty good. The consensus is just that it's a bit soulless.

These are the guys who made Dementium aren't they? At least Moon wasn't delayed for as long as that was.

@Sean Aaron: I'm not sure, there is a press release (link) on Namco Bandai's website about Dawn of the New World being released here but whether or not that means it's them publishing it, I don't know!

I really liked Tales of Symphonia, the real-time battles were really good in that you didn't really feel like you were grinding away as much as you do in turn-based ones.

@Kadunta: I think Dawn of the New World is hitting Europe in autumn. So with any luck we'll only have a couple more months to wait. It is also coming with some extra stuff (galleries and accessories and the like), that might make up for the fact that its release will be almost a year after NA's :S

I got an email from them last week saying this. And I tweeted it! Nintendo Life, you clearly don't pay enough attention to me. [cries]

This is one of six Wii games out at the moment that I can't afford. But I haven't finished Little King's Story yet, so that'll be satisfying my flinging-little-minions-at-monsters cravings for the time being.

@Corbie: Bird and Bean? That sounds like a beautiful double act!

The UK <3 fish:

1 (2) - My Aquarium
2 (N) - NyxQuest: Kindred Spirits
3 (3) - World of Goo
4 (1) - Final Fantasy IV: The After Years
5 (4) - Texas Hold'em Tournament
6 (6) - Onslaught
7 (5) - Swords & Soldiers
8 (8) - My Pokemon Ranch
9 (7) - Pop-Up Pirate!
10 (10) - Defend Your Castle
11 (9) - Bomberman Blast
12 (N) - Cocoto Platform Jumper
13 (14) - TV Show King
14 (13) - BIT.TRIP BEAT
15 (N) - Let's Catch
16 (12) - Tetris Party
17 (11) - FUN! FUN! Minigolf
18 (19) - Snowboard Riot
19 (16) - The Incredible Maze
20 (15) - Bubble Bobble Plus!

Up: My Aquarium, again. TV Show King and Snowboard Riot up one each.
Down: Loads! After Years didn't hold on long. Minigolf down 6, Bubble Bobble down 5.
Hello: Kindred Spirits debuts at 2, Let's Catch at 15. Took a while but Cocoto enters at 12.
Goodbye: My Life As A King, Fish'em All and Equilibrio.

@Omega: It still might, but it's not being published by Hudson, so they wouldn't have been announcing its release. So we might get another unannounced title or two as well as these three this Friday!

@warioswoods: No, you're right, Cing developed it and Nintendo are just the publishers.

I really, really, really want to buy this, I loved the first game and Hotel Dusk. But I just don't have the money at the moment. Perhaps I can convince someone to buy it for me. Maybe YOU.

I think I will buy LIT. It got positive reviews first time round, so with improvements, it definitely looks like it will be worth it.

Did the US version of Bit.Trip Beat ever get fixed? That bug which meant you couldn't save unless you got a high score?

@Outrunner: Prosody is right, Little King's Story is much more than that. It's similar in the whole controlling your troops thing, but the atmosphere, your goals, the humour, characters, it's so different to Pikmin, it really is! If you enjoy Pikmin then you really must give it a go.

I am quite happy to join the "buy Little King's Story!" bandwagon.

Hey guys, guys guys, you should totally buy Little King's Story when it's released where you live. It's awesome! And in exchange, give us a European release date for Rune Factory: Frontier. Thank you very much!

I remember people being surprised at Texas Hold'em Tournament doing so well last week. But it's been a big thing all over Europe for ages now.

@Homer Simpson: WiiWare and DSiWare are bought from different shops and played on different systems, so it makes sense to have different posts for the top sellers. The VC top 20 doesn't really change at all. People complain that WiiWare doesn't change enough to merit its own weekly Top 20; VC is a hundred times worse!

Anyway, UK:

1 (2) - Final Fantasy IV: The After Years
2 (1) - My Aquarium
3 (3) - World of Goo
4 (4) - Texas Hold'em Tournament
5 (5) - Swords & Soldiers
6 (6) - Onslaught
7 (8) - Pop-Up Pirate!
8 (7) - My Pokemon Ranch
9 (9) - Bomberman Blast
10 (10) - Defend Your Castle
11 (12) - FUN! FUN! Minigolf
12 (14) - Tetris Party
13 (11) - BIT.TRIP BEAT
14 (19) - TV Show King
15 (17) - Bubble Bobble Plus!
16 (15) - The Incredible Maze
17 (16) - Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: My Life As A King
18 (13) - Fish'em All!
19 (N) - Snowboard Riot
20 (18) - Equilibrio

Up: The After Years tops the chart now. TV Show King inexplicably goes up 5. Tetris Party hasn't been that high for ages.
Down: My Aquarium, but for how long?! Fish'em All drops 5, and it only entered last week.
Hello: Snowboard Riot, making a reappearance at 18.
Goodbye: Rainbow Islands Towering Adventure!

@Chicken Brutus: A chapter takes about a minute to read, or you can flip through the pages in a matter of seconds, or you can just not go to the library at all. It's hardly trundling through a mass of text!

@theblackdragon: It could have. But it doesn't make a difference. She is a space princess who acts as a mother to cuddly adorable stars and has an observatory that she lets Mario use on his quest. It's suitably nonsensical for the nonsensical Mario canon!

@theblackdragon: Well, Mario did use her observatory to get to all the galaxies, and she did find him when he failed to stop Bowser kidnapping Peach in the first place, so I think she's going to have to be in the next game unless he does it by other means. Even so, I don't think she was ever intended to be essential. I mean, really, Princess Daisy doesn't do anything of import, but she turns up all the time unnecessarily

@theblackdragon: But given that they were introducing her as a brand new character it didn't hurt to tell us a little bit about her, cos otherwise she'd be this totally unknown character with no real meaning. It wouldn't really matter if they didn't do the same thing in the sequel, because she's an established character now. And it did explain why the Lumas followed Rosalina as well. So the story did have its uses!

People are talking as if the Rosalina story in Mario Galaxy was a major thing. It was just an aside that was meant as a backstory for her, not as an integral part of the game or anything. You didn't need to know anything about the story to understand the ending...

The Rosalina subplot in Galaxy was nice, though... Good accompaniment to the main story. It's not exactly like Galaxy was story driven, but rather complemented by the addition of one. And it's not like it bogged the game down in dialogue or anything. But it's the gameplay that matters, so assuming it'll be just as awesome as the first one, it's fine!

To the people annoyed that they didn't get Smash Bros: sure, Europe has gotten Majora's Mask and Smash Bros before America. But America has gotten plenty of big VC titles before us in the past. Like...

Super Metroid
NA: 20 Aug 07, EU: 12 Oct 07

The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
NA: 22 Jan 07, EU: 23 Mar 07

Mario Golf
NA: 06 Oct 08, EU: 23 Jan 09...

Well those are a few examples. So just think of them when you're annoyed that we get a game first, and maybe it won't seem as unfair . And THEN look at RGVEDA's WiiWare list. We're positively starved!

It's funny that Rare had more of an identity when they were with Nintendo. What Molyneux says up there sounds like a criticism of Nintendo (as if they smothered Rare or something) when really Rare've lost favour with gamers since they joined Microsoft. That's not to say that games like Viva Pinata aren't good, but people associate the company with games like Banjo Kazooie and Goldeneye, which would imply that they were in their heyday - when they were well known - in the Ninty days, not the Microsoft ones. I don't see how he can blame Nintendo for Rare not being well known enough now. Nintendo don't really have anything to do with them apart from the odd DS title.

I don't think there's any harm in a company being secretive. It means that they make a bigger impact when they unveil games and stuff, you know? Like, say, Other M. Companies would do well to learn from that. The Last Guardian could have been a much bigger deal had it not already been leaked. Secrecy is no bad thing!!

HOORAY. Really, the 2010 release date they had before was ridiculous. With any luck my Christmas will be filled with Muramasa and New Super Mario Bros goodness.

Less than a day and Super Smash Bros is already no. 16 on the VC download chart in the UK. I reckon it's going to be in the rankings for a good while.

Remember last year when North America got Brawl 3 months before we did? I think you win when it comes to Smash Bros release dates .

As for Earthbound, that was never released in Europe at all. It would be a wonder if we did see it eventually.

1 (1) - My Aquarium
2 (N) - Final Fantasy IV: The After Years
3 (3) - World of Goo
4 (4) - Texas Hold'em Tournament
5 (2) - Swords & Soldiers
6 (5) - Onslaught
7 (6) - My Pokemon Ranch
8 (7) - Pop-Up Pirate!
9 (9) - Bomberman Blast
10 (8) - Defend Your Castle
11 (10) - BIT.TRIP BEAT
12 (11) - FUN! FUN! Minigolf
13 (N) - Fish'em All!
14 (20) - Tetris Party
15 (12) - The Incredible Maze
16 (14) - Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: My Life As A King
17 (15) - Bubble Bobble Plus!
18 (17) - Equilibrio
19 (13) - TV Show King
20 (16) - Rainbow Islands Towering Adventure!

Up: Tetris Party is up 6, after almost falling off the charts...
Down: TV Show King took a hit of 6 spots.
Hello: The After Years, in at 2, and Fish'em All, after a slight delay, at 13.
Goodbye: CueSports and Snowboard Riot.

@pixelman: But Bowser's Inside Story was released ages ago, really they were just reaffirming that it's coming to the West soon. Whereas Golden Sun is a series we haven't seen for ages that nobody saw coming!

Nice podcast James, though I have to ask, do you like listening to it? I hate hearing my voice back on a recording!!

@Sean Aaron: You know, that hadn't even occurred to me. Really, it was just an attempt to plug the idea of Bit.Trip Fish.

We do love fish in the UK. Further proof that Bit.Trip Fish could be a winning idea...:

1 (2) - My Aquarium
2 (1) - Swords & Soldiers
3 (3) - World of Goo
4 (4) - Texas Hold'em Tournament
5 (5) - Onslaught
6 (7) - My Pokemon Ranch
7 (6) - Pop-Up Pirate!
8 (9) - Defend Your Castle
9 (10) - Bomberman Blast
10 (8) - BIT.TRIP BEAT
11 (12) - FUN! FUN! Minigolf
12 (13) - The Incredible Maze
13 (14) - TV Show King
14 (20) - Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: My Life As A King
15 (15) - Bubble Bobble Plus!
16 (11) - Rainbow Islands Towering Adventure!
17 (17) - Equilibrio
18 (18) - Snowboard Riot
19 (16) - CueSports - Snooker vs. Billiards
20 (19) - Tetris Party

Up: My Aquarium back to 1. My Life As A King climbs the most, though; 6 places!
Down: Swords & Soldiers back at 2, Rainbow Islands Falls a sore 5 places.
Hello: No new entries. Fish'em All didn't break in.
Goodbye: No losses, but Tetris Party and CueSports are slipping.

I never quite finished The Lost Age. Love Golden Sun though, love it love it love it. I can't believe it actually got announced! Through the whole RPG bit I thought, ok, Crystal Bearers, Kingdom Hearts, maybe they'll show Dragon Quest IX? But when Reggie mentioned a game that we hadn't seen for 6 years, I thought... It can't be... And it was. .

@Djungelurban
We were almost rid of TIM and everything! Clearly the nation thought it was more deserving of a purchase than, say, Tetris Party. Sigh!

1 (2) - Swords & Soldiers
2 (1) - My Aquarium
3 (3) - World of Goo
4 (4) - Texas Hold'em Tournament
5 (6) - Onslaught
6 (7) - Pop-Up Pirate
7 (9) - My Pokemon Ranch
8 (5) - BIT.TRIP BEAT
9 (10) - Defend Your Castle
10 (11) - Bomberman Blast
11 (8) - Rainbow Islands Towering Adventure!
12 (19) - FUN! FUN! Minigolf
13 (18) - The Incredible Maze
14 (17) - TV Show King
15 (13) - Bubble Bobble Plus!
16 (15) - CueSports - Snooker vs. Billiards
17 (12) - Equilibrio
18 (16) - Snowboard Riot
19 (14) - Tetris Party
20 (N) - Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: My Life As A King

Up: Swords & Soldiers now reigns supreme. FUN! FUN! Minigolf is up 7 places; The Incredible Maze's up 5. Hmm.
Down: My Aquarium, for now. Equilibrio & Tetris Party down 5 each.
Hello: My Life As A King, again. Crystal Defenders R2 and Penguins & Friends fail to make a dent in the chart.
Goodbye: LostWinds. You'll probably come crawling back...

Ooh, I have this. But the only thing I really remember about it is the copious amount of sirloin I picked up when wandering about...

@LEGEND MARIOID Haha, no need to apologise! I forgive you, though .

I might consider buying it if it comes out for a budget price. If not, maybe once it comes down in price. But then I do that for most games anyway!

@LEGEND MARIOID: Download it? It's not coming out for download in Europe.

The lovely British charts:

1 (1) - My Aquarium
2 (N) - Swords & Soldiers
3 (4) - World of Goo
4 (3) - Texas Hold'em Tournament
5 (2) - BIT.TRIP BEAT
6 (5) - Onslaught
7 (7) - Pop-Up Pirate!
8 (12) - Rainbow Islands Towering Adventure!
9 (6) - My Pokemon Ranch
10 (10) - Defend Your Castle
11 (8) - Bomberman Blast
12 (9) - Equilibrio
13 (11) - Bubble Bobble Plus!
14 (13) - Tetris Party
15 (14) - CueSports - Snooker vs. Billiards
16 (15) - Snowboard Riot
17 (16) - TV Show King
18 (18) - The Incredible Maze
19 (19) - FUN! FUN! Minigolf
20 (N) - LostWinds

Up: World of Goo's up 1, Rainbow Islands' up 4.
Down: BIT.TRIP was no. 1 briefly over the week, but now down to 5. Lots of drops this week.
Hello: Swords & Soldiers, straight in at 2. Impressive! LostWinds re-enters at 20.
Goodbye: Adventure Island and My Life As A King. The latter will probably resurface though.

"a release in Germany on the dump is."

Oh my!

It's true! And here is the photographic evidence: see!

"9. Harvest Moon: Show Me Your Nicely Cut Lawn!"

Haha... That's a brilliant title for a game.

UK:

1 (1) - My Aquarium
2 (4) - Bit.Trip Beat
3 (2) - Texas Hold'em Tournament
4 (3) - World of Goo
5 (5) - Onslaught
6 (6) - My Pokemon Ranch
7 (7) - Pop-Up Pirate!
8 (11) - Bomberman Blast
9 (9) - Equilibrio
10 (12) - Defend Your Castle
11 (10) - Bubble Bobble Plus!
12 (N) - Rainbow Islands Towering Adventure!
13 (15) - Tetris Party
14 (20) - CueSports - Snooker vs. Billiards
15 (13) - Snowboard Riot
16 (16) - TV Show King
17 (8) - Adventure Island: The Beginning
18 (17) - The Incredible Maze
19 (18) - FUN! FUN! Minigolf
20 (19) - Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: My Life As A King

New: Rainbow Islands at 12!
Gone: Crystal Defenders falls from 14 to obscurity.
Climbers: Bit.Trip is up at 2; CueSports climbs 6 spots.
Falling: Adventure Island is shunted down 9 places. YOWZA.

The chart of everybody's favourite UK:

1 (1) - My Aquarium
2 (2) - Texas Hold'em Tournament
3 (3) - World of Goo
4 (N) - Bit.Trip Beat
5 (4) - Onslaught
6 (5) - My Pokemon Ranch
7 (6) - Pop-Up Pirate!
8 (10) - Adventure Island: The Beginning
9 (7) - Equilibrio
10 (8) - Bubble Bobble Plus!
11 (12) - Bomberman Blast
12 (11) - Defend Your Castle
13 (9) - Snowboard Riot
14 (N) - Crystal Defenders R1
15 (13) - Tetris Party
16 (16) - TV Show King
17 (14) - The Incredible Maze
18 (17) - FUN! FUN! Minigolf
19 (15) - Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: My Life As A King
20 (18) - CueSports - Snooker vs. Billiards

The top 3 remain the same, Bit.Trip makes a well-deserved debut at 4, causing 3 titles to be shifted down a place each, Adventure Island following up with a 2-spot climb, the next 2 dropping 2 places each, with Bomberman Blast climbing 1 and Defend Your Castle dropping 1, Snowboard Riot shunted down 4 spots, Crystal Defenders entering at 14, Tetris down 2 but TV Show King is a non-mover, which can't be said for the 3-spot dropper The Incredible Maze, the 1-spot dropper FUN! FUN! Minigolf, the 4-spot dropper My Life as a King or CueSports which drops 2 but hangs on in there unlike LostWinds or Space Invaders which have both been kicked out of the top 20. End of sentence.

UK:

1 (1) - My Aquarium
2 (2) - Texas Hold'em Tournament
3 (3) - World of Goo
4 (5) - Onslaught
5 (8) - My Pokemon Ranch
6 (7) - Pop-Up Pirate!
7 (6) - Equilibrio
8 (4) - Bubble Bobble Plus!
9 (9) - Snowboard Riot
10 (N) - Adventure Island: The Beginning
11 (12) - Defend Your Castle
12 (10) - Bomberman Blast
13 (15) - Tetris Party
14 (11) - The Incredible Maze
15 (18) - Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: My Life As A King
16 (13) - TV Show King
17 (14) - FUN! FUN! Minigolf
18 (17) - CueSports - Snooker vs. Billiards
19 (20) - Space Invaders Get Even
20 (N) - LostWinds

No sign of Crystal Bearers, but My Life As A King went up a few spots, and we lost Brain Challenge and Family & Friends Party to make room for Adventure Island and LostWinds.

P.S. Bit.Trip Fish sounds like a winning idea.

Doesn't that mean WiiWare for two weeks in a row..?!

HELLO. UK chart ahoy:

1 (2) - My Aquarium
2 (1) - Texas Hold'em Tournament
3 (3) - World of Goo
4 (6) - Bubble Bobble Plus!
5 (4) - Onslaught
6 (10) - Equilibrio
7 (5) - Pop-Up Pirate!
8 (7) - My Pokemon Ranch
9 (8) - Snowboard Riot
10 (9) - Bomberman Blast
11 (11) - The Incredible Maze
12 (12) - Defend Your Castle
13 (13) - TV Show King
14 (14) - FUN! FUN! Minigolf
15 (15) - Tetris Party
16 (N) - Family & Friends Party
17 (18) - CueSports - Snooker vs. Billiards
18 (16) - Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: My Life As A King
19 (19) - Brain Challenge
20 (20) - Space Invaders Get Even

Bubble Bobble and Equilibrio are proving to be pretty popular. Unfortunately Family & Friends Party has also wormed its way into the chart at the cost of a much better game: LostWinds.