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@BensonUii There isn't enough content to make it too tedious. I am done with the story, and all I have to do is battle, battle, and more battle. Many units are blurring together because it is getting dull. I have rolled 1 5 star unit, and if it wasn't for a 10k feather thing they gave players, I would only have around 3000 feathers out of 20k needed. I have no incentive to do anything if all im doing is farming feathers.

There is plenty of Switch interest from me but the reality of it is making sure I stay away for a few years until prices come down. I am interested, but that interest won't turn into a sale until such time as I can get the system and enough memory to make it functional like the other consoles, for the same price as the other consoles.

@Kalmaro Not really. Go play Final Fantasy Brave Exvius or another fun little game called Crusaders Quest. Both have a gacha system, but both feature a ton of extras to keep you busy, especially Crusaders Quest. Tons of examples of much better games out there nintendo could of checked, but doubt they did relying on DENA, was it, can't remember exactly. FE is not a good example of Nintendo's usually quality releases.

One thing not mentioned in the review is there is no progress other than grinding. No gear to find, no anything. The entire game is just go fight people, be it in story, fake pvp, or xp tower. There is nothing special, no catch, to keep you going once you have done your 40th fight and would like to do something else. This game is basically all graphics and very little substance, so unless they upgrade it fast, people will start deleting sooner rather than later.

@KiWiiU_Freek I think for everything the Switch lacks, it should be cheaper. Especially power, storage space, and no pack in games. They are going up against machines that are a lot more than just gaming machines, but that also do awesome with games, and they blow away the Switch in every way possible save portability. I think it is rather stupid to bank on portability with a console that serves experiences for tv's.

Plus, this console just makes me feel like Nintendo is trying to milk us. If they try to charge PS and Xbone prices for internet, while still not having an account system that saves your game purchases, that is just another nail in the coffin. Honestly, this is turning out to be the most unexcited I have ever been for a console. The only thing making me a bit excited is Xenoblade 2 and FE.

@VR32F1END Not sure I ever got into those. Iirc, those are more action than anything. Little Ninja Brothers is basically a pure rpg, but with action battles, meaning you walk around till you get into a random fight, and duke it out. Biggest reason I remember the game is because of this fight where you are duking it out with enemies on a sky train like thing that ran on tracks above a futuristic city. The game has more rpg focus than other ninja brother games, if I remember correctly that is.

@CaPPa I am not a digital person. But on my wii u, for instance, I have digital Shovel Knight and a copy of Pikmin 3, I think it was that I got before Club Nintendo went poof. Also got a few nes, gameboy advance, and snes games. When Xenoblade Chronicles X came out, I had to make room for the files you required, and that were optional to make the game run better, and that was a huge pain. Nintendo has to get with the times, and the longer they wait, they more customers they won't draw in, and the more customers they will lose.

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I also forgot, I now have a code for Shantae Half Genie Hero, and I have 0 space on the console. I never bought an external for the system, and I am not going to start now.

@Andrzej777 Thanks for pointing that out, that didn't occur to me. The more that is shared about this console, the easier it makes my decision to wait a number of years to get one. Too many post purchase prices to make me question its value.

Little Ninja Brothers is basically an rpg with action segments that pop up. It left an impression on me when I was a kid, to the point that I finally picked up the cart for it last year. Haven't played it yet and I think I may get it on Wii U instead to play for ease and off screen play. Plus, I am sure it has been optimized a little so it doesn't look like crap on an hd tv. I haven't been keeping up with gaming in general as much as I used to, so this game hit me out of left field, and I am happy to see it.

Pardon my french, but holy poop, I never saw Little Ninja Brothers coming. Just picked up the cart for this game last year, and was scared to play it without an appropriate tv.

I will be waiting a few years on this console. The entire reason is the price, with no worthwhile storage space. People are just taking it for granted, but a $300 system with 32 gb's is not something to clap about now a days. They already said part of that will be used by the console itself, so just for Zelda, you will use more than 35% to 40% of the space on the console. And those memory cards they want us to use are not cheap. They are cheaper than vita memory, but the vita doesn't have 13+ gigabyte games, and we all know for a fact that while Nintendo is a stickler for stuff like trying to optimize games, the third parties in the business are not. We will have 20+ gigabyte games on the system, so we can't get away with small memory cards. This effectively ups the price of the system to a minimum of $350 if you want to redownload all the time, to $400+. This for a system that is less powerful than the other systems on the market, and, just like the wii u, can be hamstrung by an extremely pricey gimmick.

So I am the type of gamer who will be waiting a few years hoping for both a price drop in the system, and for the sdxc, or whatever, cards to lower in price. I really enjoyed the Wii U, but I barely touched the digital portion of it, so had virtually no storage issues until Xenoblade Chronicles came out and even the physical version required you to download gigabyte of data if you wanted a smoother experience.

@UK-Nintendo Not really. It is pricier than both competitor's models when you factor in giving the system even half the storage space of the other two systems. That plus a less powerful system is leaving me, and likely a lot of other people, in the wait a few years category till either the machine or the memory price comes down a min of $50. The memory issue is exactly why I just got a Vita last month, and memory is going to be the exact issue why I wait a few years for a Switch.

@CaPPa Nm, confused myself there for a sec. My gripe is this, on ps4 and xbox, you get 500 gig hdd's, and for many people that isn't enough. The goal is to not have to redownload games over and over and over again. Zelda alone is 13 gb big, and Nintendo is pretty good about not going insane with file sizes. When Battlefield, CoD, and other games from developers who don't hold back, show up, you will learn that 64gb is nothing, and you will get frustrated trying to juggle which games to delete. You have to take into account that not everybody has great internet connection, so a 15+ gb download is a very annoying prospect to think you may have to do it multiple times.

@CaPPa I would like to know how you got that for $14. Hope you bought the right kind, because everywhere I look, 64 gb cards are basically 3x or more that price.

@Turbo857 It isn't necessarily the quality got better as the series went on, they just kept adding and adding things to do with each game. In the first one, you had the item world, and a bunch of post game bosses, then they added item world pirates and a reverse carnage world that is the main game hard mode, minus the story. Then they added ways to power up your characters move with character worlds that were like 10 floor versions of the item worlds. Part 1 is the simplest, and honestly, had the best characters. The future Disgaea's had an occasional awesome character, like one of my favorites, DESCO, from part 4, but pretty much the entire cast of part 1 is awesome.

I am curious how the whole online will work with Nintendo. Will we finally be able to redownload games since we are paying nintendo more money, or are games set to the hardware still? Haven't heard any info on that yet.

@kotag I feel the same way. I really enjoyed Awakening, and was hoping for more in Fates, but didn't get that. But Awakening and the GBA releases on the wii u built up enough good will to make me want to give this new one a try.

Noticed some folks were wondering if this was digital only in the US. The picture at the top is of the front of a 3ds case, with an ESRB rating pending on the bottom left, meaning the US rating system, so I assume that we are getting physical.

@Ralizah That still remains to be seen. Awakening and Fates were basically two different styles of game. I really enjoyed Awakening, and my enjoyment of that got me to buy Fates. Fates let me down a great deal. The question is how many other people did it let down. Fates sold off Awakening's fame, so how many people didn't like the way Fates took the series after Awakening? That is what will affect the future of the series.

I am willing to give FE another shot, because the game sounds interesting, but if it was more Fates, I would of passed. Though FE Warriors is a guaranteed buy from me, course that is nothing like the main line series =)

@Turbo857 Play part 1 first. Its a digital release on ps3 if you still have yours hooked up. The game is hilarious, and out of all the disgaea's released after, part 1 is still my favorite. I haven't gotten to part 5 yet, but I have it for ps4, just lack a ps4. Plus, in part one, you get horse wiener....... and yeah, I mean that.

The Switch is looking like the Vita to me. I am not buying it at launch, and will wait at least a year to snag one because I don't appreciate having to foot the bill....again.....for storage space on the system. Storage space is the ENTIRE reason I just finally broke down and got a vita last month. I didn't appreciate the price of memory cards for Vita, and I don't appreciate them for the Switch. People will say the memory is pretty cheap for the Switch, but the truth is, no it isn't. Sure, it is a lot easier to get a 64 gb card for switch than vita, but that card is a lot less useful on a Switch than the vita's was.

So ultimately, Nintendo is going to price out the non hardcore people interested in their system. They are showing Sony levels of hubris, and that seldom ends well. I will pick up the games I feel will go extinct before I get a switch, and other than that, just like I don't have a ps4 yet, I will get one before I get a switch.

If this is true, it would be a crap move on Nintendos part. I bought everything earthbound related on wii u and would hope it would end on wii u.

Easy answer, no. The entire idea behind this really let me down. I used to hunt for new copies of games just for the club nintendo codes, and now I just don't care anymore. I no longer buy games I wouldn't think of buying if it wasn't for a bonus nintendo code, and I seldom bother checking the eshop anymore as too many games are, to me, premium priced, especially Nintendo products, so discounts in the range offered above offer no lure to get me in there.

@impurekind I dont feel burned as I had a blast with my wii u. My biggest issue is how nintendo will handle tablet controller issues for people from here on out. I dont mind gimmick systems as long as they have legs, but the tablet controller is a huge weakness since the wii u is worthless without it. That focus on getting early buzz with gimmicks and making those gimmicks very weak to the test of time is making me have no hype about the next gimmick console.

@WilliamCalley That is my worry. I can still play my original NES but the tanlet controller being required for the system to work is a huge achilles heel for longevity in the wii u's case. Until I see how nintendo will fix this issue, im not touching the switch.

They need to make Miitomo an actual game, along with what it already does. If I had something actually, oh, I don't know, fun to do to make me want to log in to miitomo, then I would actually log in. Now a days all I do is look at the icon on my phone and think about how it is one of the top 3 biggest apps on my phone and I get an urge to uninstall.

It is never alright to go back on a kickstarter promise. He is being lazy and unfair to those who backed him. He wouldn't be making the game if all the folks didn't back him and as soon as something changes that doesn't change anything over all, he chooses to follow the cash instead of fulfill the contract he made with those who funded his game. No kickstarter person should be allowed to safely get away with this type of bait and switch.

The service sucks. Phasing out those of us who enjoy physical items, including getting points for physical games, is a really stupid thing to do. That has guaranteed that, other than Zelda Picross, I doubt I will ever get anything from that service ever again. I avoid only digital games because they are overpriced for being only digital, especially on a system that doesn't have a devoted system to carry digital game purchases between different hardware. At least club nintendo was fun for everybody, where as mynintendo is only good for those who are ok with an all digital future.

@hieveryone This game is the most hardcore story wise in the series, imo. It is my favorite game in the series, with DQ8 a close second. For perspective, I grew up on the original Dragon Warriors 1-4 on nes, so played all the old school versions prior to the ds releases.

@VR32F1END There have never been consequences in any DQ game I have ever played. Choices just give different flavor text basically.

Yep, forgot Baiten Katos, and more people really should play Skies Of Arcadia.

The fact that neither Lufia is on there is criminal.

To me the worst thing they did with the main line games was put part 4 on 3ds. It really took the atmosphere out of the game for me. To see real atmosphere, check out ps2's SMT Nocturne, in the US that is, has a different name in Europe, and SMT Digital Devil Saga, part 1. Part 2 is interesting, but personally, not as good as part 1.

@MetaRyan The main thing there is all the power could be in the handheld part of it, while the base just gives it extra juice to pump out quality needed for a tv. If all the major guts are in the handheld, it shouldn't be much of a problem. Basically the base would just be used to output a tv sized picture without quality loss. But who knows.

I haven't started the game yet, waiting for things to settle down as I have no patience for malfunctioning phone games. But just out of curiosity, why do folks want to level up so fast, especially after that digging that was done by folks showed that going up levels lowers your ability to catch pokemon?

Kid friendly Ted it seems to me.

@Player4 For that price I would love it if everybody bought a copy =p just in the hopes of getting the old ones over here if it looks like people are willing to pay for a good product.

@Player4 Physical and new, $12 on amazon.

@MGray $12 on Amazon.

@roy130390 Find a friend with Amazon Prime and go buy a new, physical copy for $12 with 2 day shipping.

@kiigu It is $12 for a new physical copy on amazon right now.

I bought it 5 minutes ago for $12 after tax on Amazon with free 2 day shipping thanks to prime. I collect rpg's of all kinds, and that price for a brand new, physical copy of the game is more than worth it to me.

Thanks for reminding me the game existed so I could go pick it up =)

I hope those of you who never played this game enjoy it. I personally think it has the best story in the series, and the adventure is pretty epic. DQ 8 is = to DQ/W 7 to me, but if I had to absolutely pick one over the other, 7 would inch above 8. I own the ps1 DW 7, so I hope this 3ds version does the game justice and doesn't water it down like most of the other 3ds DQ's did.

Bayonetta 2 was 1/5 of the reason I got a Wii U, so if Nintendo goes Bayonetta 3 on the NX, I may go for it as well, after a year. I give all hardware a year on the store shelves so kinks are worked out of the hardware and I don't have to be one of those fun beta testers who buy at release.

All I can tell folks is if this game is even remotely close to the run time of the playstation DW 7, enjoy cramping hands =P i will snag it at some point, not sure if it will be on release though. I don't quite have as much drive as I own the ps version.

@ThanosReXXX That wasn't the case when the Wii U started, but all the dev's jumped ship because they didn't want to get creative and learn how to make games, and instead just want power and more power. This has been the problem for a decade now.

@Evenmoresteven Games like this are the Wii U's bread and butter. If the developer puts in the effort to learn how the system works, it should run perfectly. The only reason people think the Wii U has issues is because too many of the big name dev's today are too lazy to learn different platforms so if a console isn't mostly like the other consoles, they complain that the console is underpowered or any other excuse you can think of.

@Offspring that's a bad way to think. The point is this game wouldn't be around if it wasn't for the Awakening fans. So you might as well realize that if you want your kind of games to stick around you're going to have to compromise with the people like me. I don't mind the three-game layout but I want one like Awakening, you can have one the way you like it and so on.

@Offspring Then be prepared to have many folks who were brought to the series by Awakening leave for the next game. Awakening brought in people who liked the way Awakening played. Removing many of the things that made awakening fun, including removing it from the one that was supposed to be more awakening than traditional, ruined the experience for me. For the record, what I didn't like was Birthright being touted as the grinding 1/3 of the total game, for us FE awakening folks, and then finding out that grinding is near worthless due to how they changed the leveling and class change structures.

@BulbasaurusRex What broke the game for me was how leveling was handled. I thoroughly disliked how you don't reset levels and it was annoying trying to get new class skills when you don't really have anything to xp on. Birthright was said to allow grinding, which I enjoy, but the change to how leveling works made grinding no fun, which then made me feel rather betrayed. The other things were more superficial and can take them or leave them.