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I can vouch for Bad End Theater. Simple yet compelling premise, really sold by the charming and distinctive character art! Doesn't take long but I found it very enjoyable and interesting. Seems to be by the same developer as Syrup and the Ultimate Sweet, for anybody who may have played that one (I haven't yet).

@8thDoctor True! For a company that's been around for over 100 years, their identity has remained remarkably consistent in that way.

@CaleBoi25 Miyamoto would probably never allow it.

@DripDropCop146 I kinda hope this is just a joke comment you're making. It's not a spoiler to say there's a bit more to the game than what you said.

And besides....

"You HAVE to slay her. If you don't... it will be the end of the world."

@Tyranexx Legit! Just keep in mind that while both Investigations games came out after Apollo Justice, they actually take place before the time skip.

@TYRANACLES Crayon Shin-chan is a series that's targeted at young children in Japan, I believe. I don't know for certain, but I figure this game is almost guaranteed to be not as juvenile.

@russell-marlow Well yeah, but: free low-poly Sonic!

@Semudara Actually, I was thinking of BattleZone... but I'm pretty sure there was some rights issue with Defender 2000, or it would have been in the Llamasoft collection.

@Serpenterror They can't do Defender 2000, sadly. Some other company owns the exclusive rights to Defender and has just been sitting on them. =/

I'm honestly excited to revisit these games; especially Gex 3, which I remember being peak. But if this version of Enter the Gecko doesn't have the Titanic level (from the N64 version), then it's a stretch to call this the "definitive" version.

I love LRG's webpage for Gex Trilogy. They don't have a release date, they don't have a price point, but they do have this beautiful and stunning description:

"Gex Trilogy includes Gex, Gex: Enter the Gecko & Gex 3: Deep Cover Gecko in —but these aren't isn't just re-runs! This Carbon Engine collection includes extras and quality of life improvements to bring Gex back into prime time!"

@DarkScythe13 Rugrats is an interesting one, because there WAS no original NES game this is based on. They made a brand new Rugrats game for NES, then also created the graphics and sounds for a 'remastered' version thereof, and are releasing them as one seamless thing.

Would be fun to see a similar thing with other franchises, maybe even including ones that didn't exist back during the 8-bit hey-day.

@PinderSchloss I actually totally agree, lol. In fact, I believe I'd have enjoyed the newest Zelda 1000% more if they had given it a smaller, more manageable scope.

@PinderSchloss To be fair, a core part of Nintendo's philosophy comes straight from Gunpei Yokoi: "Novel experiences via withered technology". That was what ended up making Game Boy such a smash hit. Use weak tech, but use it better than anyone has seen before, and/or in a completely new and novel way.

@PinderSchloss What, you mean her huuuge... uh, sword? Nothing wrong with that. This warrior lady be packin' heat.

I wasn't even a backer, so I was never quite as invested as some of the other commenters here. But even so, as someone who enjoyed Chicken Wiggle on the 3DS, I find it bizarre and disheartening that Jools Watsham has completely scrapped not just the name, but the entire tone and story and aesthetic of the original game.

Porting all the original levels just doesn't appeal in this situation. I made and uploaded levels for a cute little yellow bird with a worm friend in his backpack, rescuing his hatchling pals. Not this... angry eagle with a hookshot? Fighting an... ice demon? This was just going to be a remaster with new tools and a new cute story mode, but it's like he was just super insecure about the original game being childish. I kind of liked that about it.

@NINTELDRITCH Hey! One of those movies was pretty good, actually!

@Steel76 Yeah, I'm really tired of the huge open-world bloat, already. I don't think the Zelda series should abandon these open-world horizons (there's still great potential there!), but let's get a few games in a more traditional style too. Good change of pace.

@Tchunga I'm 100% with you! All I wanted out of a BotW sequel was a smaller, but more alive area to explore. When I found out they were just gonna go "bigger is better", I still dared to hope; and the Depths were honestly astounding for the first few hours I spent there. But ultimately, the whole world was too big, and the resource grind took up too many hours, I couldn't motivate myself to continue playing. (Also the fact that everybody in Hyrule just... sort of... forgot about me. ;_; )

@SykoMuffin They really did pull an "Angry American Kirby" on her, didn't they? And don't get me wrong... I don't feel married to the older Peach design. If they want to reinvent her visually, bring her closer to the movie version with a more expressive face and slightly more attitude, I'd be cool with that!

But, that isn't what this game is at all... her old design is all over it. And it's a very simple, cute, low-stakes, cheerful game, which means her super-sunshiney face in the original cover art suits the content way better. Which makes the cover alteration just feel contrived, fake and utterly pointless, frankly.

@N64-ROX Nontendo 4DS is actually a reference to Rusty's Real Deal Baseball! Which is neato, because that game is incredibly underrated.

@Porky Y'know, I'm starting to get really sick of all this badmouthing of localization. I keep seeing such a baffling, caricatured version of it being paraded around as some incredible offense and evil against the Japanese and their culture.

Localization, when done well (and yes, it CAN be done well) is better than a straight translation, full stop. It can more effectively convey the tone and the ideas of the work, and appeal to the target audience in a way closer to how it did in Japan. And even when it doesn't do those things, it can make the end product more interesting: for example, the Olde English way that Frog speaks in the localization of Chrono Trigger, which has been removed in more recent translations.

It was charming! It was memorable! It enhanced the work. And now it's just gone. Everything's more faithfully translated, which is nice in many ways, but it's missing the spark and fun that actually made people fall in love with Chrono Trigger here in the west.

Localization is not some all-consuming evil, and it's (usually) not motivated by racism or anything. It's just another layer on translation that can help the final product find its audience and make the splash it deserves to make.

There are plenty of individual changes to certain games that I have complained about, especially when entire features of a game have been just removed outright. But there are other changes I have loved, that I feel enhance the game instead of stripping its identity away. I feel like it needs to be assessed on a case-by-case basis, instead of being treated like it's a monolith.

@SalvorHardin I do kind of agree, but on the other hand, I love seeing some actual martial arts fight choreography in the series again.

Did they need to be kids for that to happen? .....no, definitely not.

The animation looks great, though!

@Aswannsong In any case, I appreciate you posting that link! I was hoping to read all the details of DF's report without having to watch the video, and that article delivers.

@Revolution_Falls And they tried to charge more for Sonic Superstars than the price of Super Mario Bros. Wonder, when you factor in all that Digital Deluxe and cosmetic stuff.... wow, amazing that didn't work out perfectly, huh?

Just a quick spell-check here: it's actually "creek", not "creak".

@NTDO89 Oh, I wouldn't say "no one". Having gone through it before with DS online features shutting down, I realized in advance just how much of a loss this was gonna be.

But yes, there will always be people who think, "Oh, two years? That's forever. Plenty of time still to go." Until it isn't anymore.

@Zach777 Ah, you are a trainer of taste! Yeah, literally some of my favorite Pokémon are the ice cream, and the keychain. x'3

Ocarina of Time definitely earns a place, but so many of the commenters here are sleeping on Rogue and Parappa the Rapper! Rogue: come on, the influence is undeniable, it's EVERYWHERE. And then there's Parappa: not just a weird gem, but THE original rhythm game before it became a whole genre.

As some folks have pointed out, there were big Atlus and Capcom eShop sales just a couple of months ago. I really hope they'll bring those back, for all the folks just now hopping back on their 3DS to grab what they can!

"We are providing this notice more than a year in advance...."

First of all, no. You're not. That would be the minimum of decency, but you have given about THREE MONTHS notice, given that shutting down the ability to add funds is, itself, effectively the start of the closure.

@TheRealMr_Carpainter The difference is, moodycat here was sharing their opinion about some games. You were being pedantic and somewhat obnoxious. Amazingly, there is a difference!

@Bolt_Strike Based on what we're seeing, this game has had much more of a development cycle than Splatoon 2 got. I mean Splatoon 2 came out so soon after the first, presumably to give the Switch another good launch game, so it felt like a glorified Splatoon 2.0 in many ways.

This game has more new mechanics, looks like it'll have a much more signifcant new story... if anything will really shake up Splatoon in a good way, it'll be this game. Probably.

@Chibi_Manny Minor spoiler, but it's not a BotW prequel, and even its canonicity is unconfirmed at this point. It's a time-travel story that shows us an alternate timeline and a completely different course of events; frankly, it's more of a sequel to BotW than it is a prequel.

@Mountain_Man Some people may not be interested in the combat that comes with those games... but I agree that otherwise they're excellent options!

@MBII Not nearly as pointless as Tsurii being rude as heck. Not everyone notices little tweaks like that; it's a silly thing to act all ANGRY about. xD

@jameswarrensaid Well, it's a huge bummer because Animal Crossing fills a special niche that almost no other game really can. And people have been eagerly anticipating a brand new one since the Wii U first came out.

I'm genuinely wondering what I can play that will scratch that same itch until New Horizons comes out in March. They have good reasons for it, but that's why this delay is rather difficult compared to most.

@Emob Yeah! I've always wanted to play Sonic Jam, for example. And I don't think they've ever digitally re-released that one.

@victordamazio Gonna disagree on the "worth $60 even from the start" part, but the rest of that is a good point. Even when Nintendo releases a game that's missing important pieces, it's still a game that runs and plays well at heart.

Aw, dang, and I already bought a New 3DS XL just for this game.

...okay, not really. But I'm totally going to get this, in any case.

@Scrummer Nooooooo, really?

I remember hearing about the Shadow of the Colossus -esque idea for the Ganon fight a few years back. I was disappointed they didn't implement the idea in Skyward Sword, which had the stamina meter. I feel like that would have been a perfect match.

@Tempestryke It's pretty great! I recommend trying the Wii game, if you run across a copy.

They're still listing Animal Crossing: amiibo Festival at an MSRP of $59.99, which is... gutsy, I guess. Considering Best Buy is selling that for $20 these days.

Not on sale, not with the figures missing. Just straight up, $20.

@Flowerlark I feel the need to point out that Frozen is not a Pixar movie, it's Walt Disney Studios. Other than that, I couldn't agree more! ^_^

Are those sound effects the same ones from designing patterns in Animal Crossing? They sound eerily familiar.

@Titan_Clocker "You all have the freedom to disagree with my position, except that I'm absolutely right and YOU CAN'T STOP THE FUTURE, FOOLS."

I wish that for this version, they could have improved on the final level. While I really enjoyed Risky's Revenge, the final level did not take advantage of her animal transformation powers very well compared to the finale of the original game. I think a comparable gauntlet would have made a certain end-of-game incident that much more powerful.

It's not January 31st yet, but it's already been removed from the eShop. I was planning to get it so I could see what it's like before service is discontinued.

This is profoundly frustrating.

@WireWare I love that, mainly because it's actually a subtle reference to Rusty's Real Deal Baseball on the 3DS eShop.