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@Late I had to import that game a couple years back because I had replayed Hotel Dusk over and over. The sequel never came out stateside, but I managed to get an import copy pretty cheap. It’s a really good game. I felt like the localization was kind of bland (it was obviously someone who’s used to British English trying to write for Americans) but the storyline was good. I hope you enjoy, feel free to reach out if you want to chat about it. I’ve never met anyone else who’s played it.

I like the S series...but really nothing beats the touch screen controls of Picross e series. It’s harder for me to go back to buttons.

@lacaras4 I remember that one being the worst star in the game but actually, this time around (I 100%ed the Switch port over the weekend) the star I had to try the most times was the 100 coin star in Rainbow Ride. So annoying!

@lacaras4 And Mario Over the Rainbow! (Sorry to remind you)

Don’t forget that next year is the 35th anniversary of Legend of Zelda, so all these theories about MORE Mario releases are maybe misguided considering what will no doubt be a Zelda-centric year.

@Philip_J_Reed stumbled across this comment nearly ten years later and boy it did not age well

This was my first Paper Mario game. I’m about 30 hours in and I’m really enjoying it. I’ve always preferred the Mario & Luigi series RPGs, but this is similar.

How many times can you use “dozens” to mean “a lot” in one review?

This conceit reminds me of Level-5’s 3DS game “Crimson Shroud,” which I really liked.

@VelmThrift they changed several puzzles (most of which were not well made in the 3DS version) and added a lot of outfits. Also, obviously, it’s in HD. Otherwise it’s the same game.

@TeslaChippie I see it as a continuation of her story. In City Folk, she and the other two were in a sort of feud, because she rejected her home and her birth name to work for Gracie, a big brand corporation, and changed her name to Labelle. In New Leaf, she’s back to being friendly with her sisters and helping the family business in her own department. Maybe by now she’s realized she wanted to stick to her roots. (Pretty common narrative for adult siblings honestly)

My town tune I wrote for New Leaf: https://tunes.nooknet.net/?melody=B-f-D-s-G-B-f-s-c-b-f-e-B-A-B-s&title=New%20Horizons

I’ll probably bring it back to New Horizons, I love it so much.

This is one example where a demo actually discouraged me from purchasing. Bad idea to make a demo for a game that has boring, repetitive gameplay and a bafflingly bad art style (it’s so close to being right, but as it is, nothing about it works for me). I loved this series back in the day but didn’t like the plot in Super Mystery Dungeon and hate how slow-moving and tedious the dungeon crawling has become in this release. Sorry, Spike Chunsoft.

Guys...this is almost definitely just going to be an in-game prompt to buy a Nintendo Switch Online subscription. Other games have had the same marking (such as Pokémon, way before any paid DLC was announced).

Most of these make sense to me, but I have to admit “Shadows of Almia” really got me laughing

I’m fine with that. He hasn’t composed a decent track since Black and White (well, maybe the XY trainer battle, but even that was just Ichinose doing his arrangement magic). Minako Adachi, on the other hand—she is a really fantastic, versatile, and above all INTERESTING game composer. I loved her work for Sun and Moon and was overjoyed to see her name again. But most of all I’m glad that Shota Kageyama wasn’t a part of this. I’m less glad that Hitomi Sato is missing from the crew—I really love her style.

Edit: also, Masuda hasn’t been lead composer since the very first game. After gen 2, he basically only composed the battle music, and the last couple gens others have been helping even with that part.

@Ardisan @Porky I can’t believe they actually took my comment down just because I linked to a legitimate collection of complaints. How much is Nintendo Life getting paid to give this game positive press???

The moment I finally got the “How Many Mice?” puzzle from Curious Village is such an intense memory for me, even nearly twelve years on. I love these games.

@Xylnox My recommendation is to start with Curious Village on mobile, but the truth is you can’t go wrong with any of them. The only one I wouldn’t recommend starting with is this one. It is not a bad game, but it doesn’t give the best idea of what the series is all about and why it’s loved.

I’m a major fan of the Layton series, but saying this game has fantastic writing is really just not accurate. The characters and locales are perfectly charming, but the story is not interesting in the least, as much as I wanted to love it. Also, as a longtime Layton fan, the new localization style with all the puns and obnoxious Britishisms and accents in the text really got under my skin. I get that the reviewer liked it, but it’s not at all consistent with how the other Laytons have been localized.

Why on earth does everyone want this wonderful little console to die so badly? There’s been something unnecessarily cruel about the way this site and the general public clamors for it to be stamped out.

@CarpeDiem took me forever too. Made me think maybe I should have activated E. Gadd’s hints.

Unwound Future is going to win this poll, but (while I love all of them and played every last puzzle multiple times) for my money, the series still hasn’t recaptured the charm and atmosphere of Curious Village and Diabolical Box. I also think the 3DS games and the prequels in general are unfairly criticized a lot; I really can’t stress enough how great each of the main series is.

Layton’s Mystery Journey is...okay. I’d have preferred fewer puzzles if it meant that we wouldn’t have so many with trick answers or dumb solutions; you can really tell Tago didn’t work on the puzzles unfortunately. The story is also completely dull, even if the locales and characters are charming. It’s like someone took the egg hunt chapter of Azran Legacy and stretched it out to an entire game, except the egg hunting stories were much more interesting. Oh well. Hopefully Layton has a return to form in the future.

Great write up. I love Twin Peaks and saw a lot of similarities through Link’s Awakening and especially Majora’s Mask. I would have liked to see this article go deeper into the parallels to the 2017 season, though, which is imo the most interesting thematically and has a lot of similarities to Zelda’s quirkier aspects.

I can’t believe the author got through this entire article without mentioning Polteageist.

Also, Weezing is doubly good when you consider that its smokestacks resemble a Victorian London chimney, with the smog and smoke.

I actually returned this in less than two weeks. Truly a horrible game. For what it’s worth, I didn’t really mesh with the original, but I was at least hoping the story mode would be fun (as many reviews including this site’s indicated). Nah. I didn’t get much for it back, but what I did get back I put toward Fire Emblem, a much better purchase.

Is this game recommended to someone who’s never touched a Fire Emblem game before?

I got this for Vita. I played about ten hours but didn’t finish the game, I just lost interest. It had a fantastic horror atmosphere, and I liked the general gameplay, but the writing (and I suspect mainly the localization) was bland and boring. This is coming from someone who loves visual novels, adventure games, and mystery horror. It wasn’t a bad game, but I personally don’t think it was realistically worth above a 6/10. Again, however, I didn’t play past chapter 4, so there’s a chance the last chapter is really excellent or something. But up to then, didn’t really do it for me.

I just love whenever Kyle Hyde is featured on anything. Hotel Dusk will live on in our hearts, I guess.

This is a really annoying article lol

This should have been a 10.

I don’t want a Yoshi game that’s harder than this one. This and Yoshi’s Woolly World are both relaxing, positive, and cute experiences that I find perfectly satisfy my gaming needs when I’m in the mood to unwind after work or class. It’s to the point where I’m actively saving the game for times when I feel depressed or unhappy—the creative aesthetic, cute kazoo tunes, and gentle gameplay rhythms make me feel like the game equivalent of being cuddled. If the game were more difficult than it is, I wouldn’t want to finish it (just as I never was able to finish Yoshi’s Island or Yoshi’s Island DS) because it wouldn’t fit the aesthetic.

Hard to believe we can get a physical release for the likes of this, but not Ace Attorney.

The 3DS version’s controls are better than the Switch’s (I played both demos) so that’s the one I went with. Guess I’m being punished for supporting their system at the end of its life.

I bought it, but even as someone who’s pretty obsessed with the Mario & Luigi series and has 100%ed all of them (including the extra challenges that started in Dream Team), I could not get into this remake. The series is getting stale. I regret buying it, and not just because I played it on DS several years ago. It’s just not a very good remake; it feels sanitized and the lack of 3D has zero justification—it doesn’t even have the 60fps that Superstar Saga got in 2017. Just kind of a baffling release. Though it’s worth noting that low stock might be part of the reason for low sales: my local GameStop and Walmart both only got two copies in, and I had to go to multiple places to find mine.

But...Peach and Daisy DO have a counter.

@Antraxx777 if you’re into the same pizzicato and piano orchestration for practically every single track then sure. I’m not, there are more interesting ways of making music sound pleasant through orchestration. I will say though, there are a couple where it genuinely suits the theme, especially the Trainer Battle and Lavender Town.

I really hate the music arrangements in this game. Thank god Shota Kageyama was working on this and presumably not the new Pokémon game for next year. His orchestrations here and for Omega Ruby/Alpha Sapphire (and even most of his tracks in XY) completely sterilized anything interesting about the music. He wasn’t involved in Sun and Moon at all, and that’s the best soundtrack they’ve had in years. Minako Adachi and Hitomi Sato are so much better as composers for Pokémon—girl power, am I right?

I’m guessing that’s a typo and you meant Pokémon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon? Pokémon Sun and Moon have had 24 months on the market, not 12.

This is a spoiler that is really obnoxious to see in the title...Red was not in the original games (technically, your character was Red) and I’ve been avoiding trailers, so sorry if he was shown in one, but yeah this is really kind of a bummer to be spoiled about considering this game has so few surprises anyway. Please be more conscious in the future—I’m not being butthurt, that’s a legitimate request.

This looks Americanized and awful. This isn’t what Pokémon is. This isn’t even what the Detective Pikachu game was. This leaves a sick feeling in my stomach.

“From Baroque to Romantic?” Where is the love for contemporary period and atonal music 😭

I wish Nintendo Life would either drop the number system or start awarding 10/10s instead of being too scared to ever actually do so.

This list is absolute nonsense. Ruby and Sapphire being marked so far from Emerald? Diamond and Pearl being at the bottom with Platinum near the top? Theyre practically the same game. Besides which, you literally just listed the games’ features instead of giving any reasons for why you ranked them in this order. Awful, poorly-written list.

This is far and away the best NSMB game in my opinion, especially factoring in the Luigi game. I 100%ed the games on Wii U, and I’m going to buy it again on Switch. This is honestly a dream announcement for me, playing on Switch sounds amazing.

Ughhhh I hope this ends up being good, and I’ll keep an open mind, but Shota Kageyama is the worst composer to have ever worked on Pokémon games. He didn’t work on Sun and Moon at all, handing the reins over to the likes of Minako Adachi and Hitomi Sato, and those two women (along with a few tracks by Go Ichinose and Jun’ichi Masuda) composed a soundtrack six times as good as X and Y, which was dominated by his sound. I sincerely hope Kageyama’s technique has improved from the bland style he’s had before, because even his arrangements of the great tracks in Ruby and Sapphire sort of “sanitized” them in ORAS.

This is honestly more exciting than the Nintendo Direct.