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Re: Review: My Friend Pedro - Totally And Utterly Bananas

SquashyCat

Absolutely gobsmacked to find this reviewer on NintendoLife! I’ve followed him on twitter for quite a while after reading tales of windmills and high kicks in costa coffee (I think it came up because I follow Burns from his videogamer days). Hope the tweets aren’t tamed now, got a feeling they won’t be, and congratulations on the first (I think?) review for NintendoLife!

Re: Snake Pass Is Half Off on the North American eShop

SquashyCat

This has the potential to be a really fun little game but it gets repetitive after the first two worlds. A few different objectives rather than the same collecting of 20 orbs and five coins every level would have made a big difference. As it was, I stopped playing around half way through world three.

Re: Nintendo Switch Sales Remain Strong in Japan

SquashyCat

@Luna_110 Hello from South East Asia. Not a native but trust me - people love video games of all kinds here. It's only Sony that seems to have thought to sell their products 'officially' though. Completely baffles me, piracy or not. So many want the official console regardless.

Re: Poll: Are You Ready to Download More of Your Retail Games From the eShop?

SquashyCat

@erv

"Say goodbye to physical, it's needlessly costly"

I'd say you have that argument the wrong way around. FIFA 13 is still £49.99 on the E Shop as one example! I buy mainly downloadable due to living outside of Europe at the moment and the biggest thing that annoys me is price. It's a lot cheaper being able to shop around for physical editions.

That's unless you're talking from Nintendo's perspective.

Re: Ori and the Blind Forest Director Criticises Secrecy and Lack of Access to NX Devkits

SquashyCat

As much as I kind of agree with the sentiments of his post, there are clearly a number of reasons ALL the console manufacturers do this. For Nintendo, it is important they win back the major third parties first and foremost. By handing them - and only them - early dev kits, it means their early games will get the spotlight and, if they're any good, hopefully sell. Then they'll make more instead of run away. I seem to remember when the 3DS launched, Nintendo purposely didn't release any major first party games on it as third parties thought their launch games wouldn't sell otherwise. It's debatable how successful that strategy was but it is a similar principle to only allowing a few third parties NX dev kits.

Re: Site News: Welcome To The Brand New Nintendo Life!

SquashyCat

Looks great! After just a few minutes, I actually found the tiles view to be more convenient than the traditional list format (I'm browsing on a laptop). I changed to list mode to experiment but went right back to tiles. It is still a logical, chronicle order except you can see more articles on the page at once, making it easier to browse for the ones you want to read. You just read them like a book. Left to right, down for the next line.
As for those complaining about ad block... C'mon. Do you know how expensive Alex Olney is? Eye watering.