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...At least it's somewhat less pointless and time-consuming than the golden Mario statue you get for amassing a million coins in NSMB2?

Being an Android ain't always easy, but at least we can sleep in good conscience.

...Oh, who am I kidding? Apple and Google will both inevitably become Skynet in the future. It's pretty much a toss-up which will doom the human race first, though.

This Picross madness has got to stop. If you've played one, you've played them all. What, you want zero-effort cash-in Picross games to outnumber the zero-effort cash-in Minecraft clones on the eShop or something?

Some people.

You're a fool if you aren't expecting some concessions to be made for the benefits of its portability and price range.

Don't be yuletide fool. You can wait some four and a half months until April Fools, can't you?

Suckers. Here's everyone going on about some random throwaway giveaway promotional mail thingamajigger, whereas I have received a communiqué from a representative of Nigerian nobility regarding transactions of exorbitant wealth. With this coinage thus in hand shall I buy rights to the entire presentation and render myself the sole attendee.

Oh, ye of low ambition. Belike thee and thy kind shalt forever prepare finely-cut potato products in accordance with French tradition at thy nearest McDonald's forevermore.

Combine procedural generation with blast processing and here's your system seller, folks.

I much prefer it to the lifeless, faux-Shakespearean mockery that was the DS retranslation, I'll tell ya that much right off the bat.

More like maybe a month of excellence if you cumulate the release dates of its worthwhile releases.

@SaKo I can't recall doing that any kind of waiting like that, but then I've only played New Leaf and I never bothered to get all the items or whatever. And at least it wouldn't be tied into "completion" in quite the same way. I guess it should be viewed on a per-game basis, but I still think these levels of time required are beyond the pale in a general sense. At what point does patience become signs of masochistic inclination?

Can't beat the atmosphere of them old chiptunes, let alone the instantly classic arrangements. Way too pricey, at that.

Well, there's their chance to help eliminate the doldrums of one very bad year right off the bat. Between its potential and the release of the entire Kingdom Hearts series on PS4 they have the potential to outdo an entire year in just the first four months of 2017.

Here's hopin'.

Just another brick in the wall that Nintendo are sealing the Wii U behind while still alive like they did in medieval times.

Twilight Princess HD. And that about says all that needs be said about the year 2016; an HD remaster is the only thing that even comes to mind. It's more or less just by default. Spirit of Justice earns its position as the best 3DS game, but even that's without much competition.

2016 has been a calamitous year of biblical proportions in almost every conceivable aspect. I can't wait to make a toast to its demise come New Year's. It's an auld acquaintance I could do with forgetting and never bringing to mind again.

This is just poor, pragmatic game design. They should ban the concept of being forced to wait hours to get something in a video game outright. Much less of a stopgap measure.

I'm pretty sure Fils-Aime is an ancient Olmec phrase meaning "Captain Obvious." Then again, linguists are conflicted due to various extant dialects, meaning it could just as easily stand for "Corporate Stooge" or "Damage Control".

I just want them to defictionalize Chateau Romani already. What's more, a proper milk bar might undo the damage a certain chelloveck and his droogs did to the concept's public image decades ago.

Let me guess... it would've had no online support, no way to share your creations with others, no way to modify the game files, restrictions on "religious" themes, and been subject to Nintendo's draconian video licensing agreements.

...Yes, I'm sure it would've dwarfed Minecraft in every conceivable aspect.

In the spirit of the season I shall perform the service this comment section requires for subsequent messages to be on-topic.

Ahem.

TETSUOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

KANEDAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!

Now, please go about your business.

Our lord and saviour, the King of the Stags, once said that a good deed does not wash out the bad, nor a bad the good. Some book featuring another saviour makes another eloquent point about not questioning a gift given in confidence.

Pretty much any good deed can be picked apart as being "self-serving" if you go deep enough into it, but that doesn't necessarily devalue it, especially for the recipient. Have some faith in the world, people. Better yet, why not perform a good, selfless deed yourself so as to fully ascertain its purity? Tearing down something that made someone happy is about as non-constructive as things get.

Nintendo are full up on potential and have been since the Wii launched; problem is, they're as good at delivering on it as a double amputee with a chance at an open goal. At best it'll maintain Nintendo's "reliable" trickle of content where there should at least be a stream, in lieu of a river.

That's what I like about humanity's freedom of choice: he has the choice of not only piggybacking off someone else's work but summarily destroying what made it good in the first place by infusing it with his distinct lack of musical ability.

Whereas I have the choice of dismissing said musically-inclined travesty with a crass comment on the internet that nobody will read or care about, making you ponder who really wasted their time in this instance.

Fascinating, no?

It takes all kinds of dynamics to make for a versatile game library; this'd have the Switch covered in terms of pretentiousness, tastelessness, and phony symbolism.

I wanna see Shigeru hype this one just for the laughs. He'd be wearing a disembodied womb for a hat or what-have-you.

Have your cake and let Miyamoto eat it too?

Exhaustive AND exhausting, even for a man who knows something of specs and mods and what-have-you.

Sake and tequila powerups for samurai attire and sombrero confirmed. #Irrefutable

Destined to be a future classic. You heard it here first!

PS: I come from an alternate universe where the word "classic" means something, well, rather unsavoury which is not fit for repeating here. Please don't be confused and think this could actually be good. That's right; in all the different parallel Earths I've visited, the unmitigated shoddiness of RCMADIAX games has been the sole constant.

Themes are a fraction more desired than an RCMADIAX game.

S'beautiful.

West's megalomania knows no bounds. If he were to do something more in league with his "talent," he'd base it on the Xbox library instead. It'd be an incredibly short album--one or two tracks, at best--but at least it'd be honest.

So this was a well-researched and useful article, no doubt the result of countless hours of bargain hunting. Six days, at least.

Eh, you deserve a bit of obvious clickbait and referral money after suffering through the soul-crushing minutiae of one of Nintendo's worst years in living memory, all for our benefit.

Have a seventh day of rest, on me.

Thanks to the patented desaturated palette of the N64 VC, now more than ever does this look like an early progenitor of the mid-2000s' obsession with dull browns and "realistic" character design.

Decent game but once you've both a Mario Kart AND an F-Zero on your system any other racer is obsolete at best.

Pachinko to the rescue?

RCMADIAX should be paying people to play their uninspired, cookie-cutter, financially motivated guff.

Anything but more lackluster Donkey Kong "Country" games.

It's still a crying shame that the GB(C) Virtual Console wasn't based on the SGB versions, or at least added them as an option. Many of the colour palettes were superior to the largely ugly primary colors of the Color. And that's saying nothing of the unique borders that added a nice arcade cabinet vibe.

N3DS should've been able to process both emulation processes required with some work. I realize it's a waste pointing out yet another missed opportunity for the N, but this one is sorely missed.

We already have a contemporary equivalent to this clunky, overpriced, game-deprived and headache-inducing exercise in redundancy in the Xbox family.

Such a pretty, shiny-looking nothing.

It may be a redundant and obvious nostalgia cash grab destined to capture little of what made the original music great, but at least it isn't a redundant and obvious nostalgia cash grab perpetrated by some nobody fan.

So who's gonna be the one to spoil everyone's fun by redundantly pointing out the lack of health benefits inherent in McDonald's food, and how they, in their incorruptible ubermensch wisdom, would never taint their body with such vile filth?

I remember what little I played of it as being hopelessly stuck in a no man's land encircled by SM64, Banjo, and Crash. Jack of all trades, master of none.

Always liked these as a kid. They hit the right balance between action and comedy to the point of making the workmanlike animated adaptations redundant at best. If Nintendo were to ever get back to the comics/animation scene, this--plus some pointers from the Paper and M&L series--should be their base inspiration. Could be good.

If it doesn't have Blast Processing, it isn't cool enough for me.

Overly quirky-looking and charmless.

Nothing for me this week because I, uh, don't live in Hamerica. But I'm not sorry...

Something about the colour choices and bonfire theme reminds me of THAT piece of Chrono Trigger art. You know the one.

"Rather short"

Oh, you Brits and your interminable politeness...

You'd think they'd be trying to get rid of Wii Us any way they can in accordance with their otherwise flawless execution of a scorched earth tactic. Thing is, a majority of people have never been aware of its existence in the first place...

Remember the last time a creator tried to make a new game in the style of an IP he longer had access to?

And yet I'd trade all of them for a good port of any Final Fantasy between IV and X.

Looks like they finally made a game that accurately reflects how boring and diluted dragons have become after a hard decade or two of overexposure.

...At least it's a canon Pokeyman?