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Excellent news. Recently dusted off my 3DS to get back into this and it's so good. Sitting at around 125hrs now, and more than happy to sink a load of hours into a new entry!

@Patendo you…you could have just not opened the article?

On top of which, the surprise is exactly the same, just earlier instead of later.

@TheGamerKing it definitely isn't, the worldwide release date is 12 Feb 2021.

Meh, pay a bit more money and pick up a copy of Tactics A2. Dug mine out again recently for the first time in years, and it's still fantastic (although obviously still can't hold a candle to the original Tactics on PS1).

Wow, that AoT price. Especially when you consider the EUR price comes out as £21.19 when converted...

One thing that I've been wondering lately. What's with all the DS games being ported to the Wii U eShop but not the 3DS? 3DS plays physical DS titles, so surely it would be easy to do? There have been several games put on there recently I would happily pick up if they made them available on both, and it just seems a really strange decision not to!

Anybody know what the price is in GBP for Fire Emblem: Awakening? Might be tempted by that if it's around the £20 mark, as that's far cheaper than it is on most sites, new or pre-owned.

@SilentHunter382 definitely needs more FFXIV! Gotta disagree on the 1000 words dub though, pretty much every time SE have gotten rid of the original vocals and replaced with an English dub it just ruins the songs for me :/

@gurtifus @Faruko another unfortunate side effect of this is cost. I'm not sure exactly how much DLC has been released so far, but I reckon it's at least 40-50 songs, which all adds up pretty fast at 99p each!

But Faruko it's definitely worth a look if you're a fan of the Final Fantasy series (plus a few others thanks to DLC). I adore the music throughout the series, but even I was surprised at how much time I ended up putting into this (easily 60-70 hours and counting atm, and that's relatively little by some people's standards)!

So, in a bid to attempt to get enough stars for this, I went and searched for any of the little booklets I had with the codes, and the first one I find already had the code scratched off. Gave it a go anyway, just in case, and it was for a copy of Luigi's Mansion 2........a game I have never owned or even played. Weird.

Also, damn the fact that this has gone already.

I agree wholeheartedly with @Mommar about the selectiveness of people's problems. Bet nobody would have batted an eyelid if they'd sent Mario to Scotland and given him a kilt and bagpipes. And not everybody in England is a Beefeater, but I'm sure having him visit here dressed as one wouldn't have caused a stir either.

People need to chill, it's not like Nintendo were saying by doing this, "everyone in this country is represented by this one image". It's just that these are some of the things that can be associated with those parts of the world (ongoing tribal culture in parts of Africa, and snake charming in India are things that a lot of people would be able to associate with those places, without there being any negativity attached to that). It wouldn't have worked if they'd just stuck him in the same regular clothes in every section.

I'm all for peace, love and equality, but sometimes I think the "baa baa rainbow sheep" brigade could lighten up a bit. I know it's often used as a scapegoat phrase to gloss over some seriously wrong actions, but sometimes "just a bit of harmless fun" really is just a bit of harmless fun!

@PinkSpider code isn't working for me either unfortunately. Says I need to enter a valid code :/

Goddamit, I really want this but I only have 550 stars think I have at least 3 games at home unregistered though, so that will give me a bit of a boost! May have to buy the cheapest ones I can on amazon to get me the rest of the way!

@maceng you must mean this guy: http://www.ebay.com/itm/5700-Games-50-Systems-Complete-Nintendo-Sega-Sets-and-more-Huge-Collection-/221564569633 Now THAT is an impressive collection.

But to agree with earlier comments, size doesn't always come in to it - you can still have a lot of love, even if yours is tiny compared to someone else's.

EDIT: double entendre 100% intentional.

@MoonKnight7 I 100% agree on Princess and the Frog. What really sums it up best for me was that when I saw it a few years ago (probably not all that long after it came out), I just assumed that it was a "classic" Disney film that I had somehow not previously come across - it just felt genuinely "right" as a Disney movie in a way I don't think other recent ones have. It was only actually about a month ago that I found out it had come out within the last 5 years!

@rayquaza_master yeah I think time rather than difficulty is going to be the real clincher here. The early stages seem to go pretty quickly - I'm now sitting at around 200 on the national dex - but as I near the end I'm anticipating more of a struggle. So glad they included the old legendaries here though - I totally missed Gen V, and don't have my copy of Diamond anymore, so it would've been virtually impossible for me otherwise (that is, without spending money I don't have to burn on old games)!

@rayquaza_master I'm on about 130 so far, but definitely got my sights set on that shiny ribbon! If you have X or Y you should give completing the national dex a go though. Even if you only have one from ORAS and one from X/Y, that should make it doable to get most of them with a bit of time and effort - after that all you need is to find some decent people to trade with (plenty on Reddit, Serebii etc) and it should be plain sailing! (That's what I'm hoping anyway haha)

@antdickens hi ant, just trying to check if my entry has been received ok - it's showing that it has,but when I entered I saw a second brief notification that said not open to entrants outside the UK (happens when I'm using my work comp for this website, even though I'm in UK). If it's not gone through ok, is there another way I can submit it? Cheers

@Pokefanmum82 get up early and download on the morning of the 1st, before going to work?

Hope this fixes the slowdown in battles. Picking up OR on Friday, and that was the one thing that really annoyed me in X/Y, and it didn't seem to be improved on in the ORAS demo...

@AJWolfTill Last year he was in Bad Neighbors with Seth Rogen and Rose Byrne. Wasn't the best movie in the world but it was good for a giggle. Oh and he also did one called "That Awkward Moment" which I thought was actually pretty good. Never had any time for the guy previously, but he's not all that bad now and he seems to be doing what he can to break away from his early career in a good way.

Whoooooaaaaah whoah whoah whoah whoah what? There's more DLC on the horizon? I thought the currently released DLC tracks (50 of them) was all we were getting, and that was going to be painful enough on my wallet as it is! I love Square for treating us like this, but I have no idea how I'm going to afford all of this, my games shopping list is getting out of hand.......

@Inkling @MJKOP back in Feb I picked up a blue 3DS XL, Mario Kart 7, Super Mario 3DS Land, DK Country Returns, Street Fighter IV and a charging cable, all for £130. Was pre-owned from a guy in my office, but all in absolute mint condition as he'd only had it a month or two before he needed the funds to move house. Best bargain I've ever had for a console!

Before I say anything else here, I figure I should add that while PS4 is my main console of choice, I think both it and the Wii U are great for different reasons, and I fully intend to pick up a Wii U as soon as I can afford it. Simply put, I'm not here to bash one console or another. I agree with @Punished_Boss_84 's statement that the Wii U makes a better secondary console, and I wouldn't be looking to buy it yet if I didn't already own a PS4, but that is really for me just down to personal preference. I wanted a PS4 for the best MGS:GZ experience, nothing more to it really.

However, that being said, some of the comments thrown about in this thread are simply hilarious. I appreciate that you weren't calling them bad games, but saying that Uncharted, The Last of Us, Bloodborne and AC all play the same just because they have the same camera perspective? Man you must have been drunk or something when you wrote that one @Trikeboy. In terms of gameplay, mood, setting, plot, those 4 games are all about as different as they come. That's like saying Far Cry, Skyrim, Mirror's Edge and Bioshock are all the same because they're in 1st person...

I think a big point to be made here is that, although on a wider scale it is harmless, the fact can also be stated that a tiny minority of people will always exist who may be influenced in a negative way by violence in the media, and on very rare occasions this will result in a crime being committed. However, the thing to take from that is that without fail these will always be very vulnerable, likely isolated people, who almost certainly are already ill with some sort of psychiatric condition.

Yes, it is possible that they may be influenced by media such as violent films or games, but removing one source of influence does not remove the source of a problem on the whole, that person remains mentally unwell and still poses some form of risk to themselves or others, with or without violent games. The takeaway from any of these studies should always be that, in the cases where violent crime has occurred, the only truly effective way it could have been avoided would be to improve awareness of mental illness and availability of appropriate care for the people who need it.

Buuuuuuuuuuuuut the debate will continue to rage forever and ever, simply because the press know they can always have a field day with it when a new study comes out, and the researchers will keep looking into it just to keep themselves in work...

Whichever way you look at it though, while there will always be a point to be made about the minority, I would be surprised if I ever saw a study that genuinely claimed there was a widespread increase in crime due to violent media. That would just be ludicrous.

Ok, question time from me. Are these deals actually worth it? I only just found out the scope of the content on offer via the virtual console, and considering the great games I missed out on by never owning an original Wii, I am now seriously considering picking up a Wii U. However, many articles I've read have strongly advised against going for the 8GB model, due to the fact that system updates alone will use a huge chunk of that space. What's people's thoughts on this issue?

@Light man don't look at it like that. There's no reason this needs to be your last gen, this can simply be the generation in which you start playing with your children I used to play games like Sonic and Road Rash with my mum from the age of about 3 upwards. Use it as an opportunity to impart a love of gaming into your kids, as a fun activity to do together with them, and this could become your busiest gaming generation in a long time!

@S-Miyahon I know it's not exactly the same, but there is a decent fan translation out there somewhere. I'd love to be able to pay for a legit version one day, but until then it will have to do!

Does anybody have any idea why so much of the VC stuff comes to Wii U but not 3DS? Like, the 3DS is clearly more than powerful enough to handle these games, and there are some absolute classics out there (eg Earthbound) that I am desperate to get my hands on and would pay good money for on the 3DS.

I really don't understand the logic behind not just blanket porting all VC titles to both consoles.

Loved the article, and it is good to see (slowly but surely) video game music being increasingly recognised alongside more mainstream genres.

My personal favourite example of this developing appreciation actually comes via Classic FM who, as well as now having an entire section of their website dedicated to video game music, have featured video game music in their Hall of Fame (Top 300) for the last few years in a row, from series such as Final Fantasy and Elder Scrolls placing fairly near the top, to even less widely obvious choices such as Banjo Kazooie taking a spot in the top 50. I think it really is a shining example of how video game music is starting to reach a far more diverse audience than ever before, and is clearly leaving an impression on those it is reaching. It gives me a lot of hope for things to come!

I'm with the guy above me on this, people need to take a moment to chill. As far as piracy is concerned, the dev has clearly built in anti-piracy measures so people can stop getting their panties in a twist over that. Outside of that, if you don't like the idea then fine, that's your opinion and obviously you're entitled to that, but nobody is forcing you to utilise this and if you choose not to then it won't affect you in any way shape or form, so just settle down and move on.

TL;DR - If you like it, then use it, GREAT. If you don't, then ignore it, NO PROBLEM.

@Edwards damn you and your beginner's luck! now that I have the attention of someone with a code though - question time: they're releasing 250 codes per hour, so I'm just wondering what time did you get yours? I'm intrigued to know if they're sending the emails out actually on the hour each hour or if the email can come at any random time. Don't want to be constantly checking emails if I don't have to!

I'm in the "meh" camp here, I mean honestly what did people expect? On the subject of X/Y though, I haven't really kept up to date on any news, but I'm guessing they never ended up releasing any DLC etc like some predicted they would? Just seemed a bit weird with all those references to other areas within the game, like doors you couldn't open and the guy who talks about coming from a land that nobody has seen before (or something like that, I'd have to look it up to get the exact wording). Did nobody ever get to the bottom of these?

EDIT: never mind, 5 seconds on Google has indicated that nothing has been solved yet. Will be a major disappointment if they just leave it at that...

@Dragmire800 I had the same issue and I'm in England. Have you tried using a smartphone to register instead? As soon as I did that it accepted mine

I never played Earthbound, but there was a really lovingly created English fan-translation of Mother 3 which you could play using an emulator - hands down one of the best games I've played! With so much of the groundwork laid out, it's beyond me why they don't endeavour to bring this to Western audiences as a downloadable title, as I'm certain it'd sell fairly well.