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When was the last time we got a review for an untranslated game? (That wasn't a shmups game.)

I spotted two things about this review.
First, it says that the version reviewed was on the New 3ds. I don't think this game is available on the 3ds?

Second, this bit here confused me:
"One could argue, of course, that the first full run through the game is in fact the ‘tutorial’ for the next part, but if you're not prepared and willing to approach it on those terms, you'll likely feel that Labyrinth of Galleria is unwieldy and confusing at times."
What is the "next part" this paragraph referring to?

My only problem is that I was hoping to find less popular games, so I can get a game as a gift to a kid of relatives. I don't know what games they have already, and this list is mostly popular stuff that they have a good chance of having.

Hope there's going to be a review for this.

I remember when this came out on steam a lot of complaints was that they overbalanced the game. Though it's had a lot of tweaks since it came out so I'm curious how it is now.

Nintendo Life Review: Con - You do really have to care about rice to enjoy it.

Well apparently a lot of switch owners really care about rice then.

Either way it looks like another game to put on the top of my backlog.

After the 10/10 review Nintendo Life gave Subsurface Circular, I was surprised to not find a review for the sequel, Quarantine Circular, back when I was looking a little while ago.

I still haven't played it yet, but after how good the first game was, I'll be sure to get to the 2nd game, review or no review.

I don't know why they didn't post from where they got it the last few times, but here's 9.0 fighters changes: https://en-americas-support.nintendo.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/53118/session/L2F2LzEvdGltZS8xNjAyNjQwNTkxL2dlbi8xNjAyNjQwNTkxL3NpZC9mVURXUjdFSXlqRVpJQ19NWk5MVzRBYTdSQm5FeUs4N3ZHWnF5X1Bfd3V2ZlN6OHJ1UkNNejYyVkplJTdFV21QM2hfdlRubW9qcjRIejc1eUpNRGlkQVE1JTdFSm44OWRqc0l3am5kcUxwUGRnSXdpQ25UNm10cHF4RTF3JTIxJTIx

It's about time this got updated. I've been holding off from playing this after I got it since in-game they had a "roadmap", with a ton of it was completed on PC already.

Yet it went so long without an update that I had thought that we weren't going to be getting any of it.

Fun fact, the games (at least the newer ones like Wild World), only keeps track of how long you've been gone for a few months.

So that there so when you return to the game, your town won't have completely gone to ruin and most of your villagers won't have moved out on you.

Unless you're like me, reopening up New Leaf every few months with the intent of playing it again, only to leave it alone for several months again. By the time the amiibo update came around, I had 2 villagers that I kinda liked/knew, and everyone else where basically all strangers.

Just shows how effective people "going on strike" by not buying the games is doing.

Hey, we can finally get to our backlogs.

Hey look it's Temmie.

@Zanzox I second this. The number 1 thing I don't like is reviews for old games that is rated bad for stuff that new patches or new features have already fixed.

First, I want to nominate The Legend of Dark Witch on Switch as well, after I have seen other people post it.

Second, I didn't originally really have a game to mention, so instead I skimmed through Meacritic's list of top games with only 4-6 reviews (their main list otherwise only show games with 7 reviews or more).
Out of 76 games on the first 3 pages, 19 was never reviewed by Nintendo Life. Here's the list (plus the game's score and total number of reviews):

90 - 5 - Florence
85 - 5 - Cook, Serve, Delicious! 2!!
85 - 4 - Wilmot's Warehouse
83 - 4 - MouseCraft
82 - 5 - The Walking Dead: The Telltale Series - The Final Season Episode 4: Take Us Back
82 - 4 - Sega Ages: Phantasy Star
80 - 4 - La-Mulana 1 & 2: Hidden Treasures Edition
80 - 6 - The Bug Butcher
80 - 4 - Conduct TOGETHER!
80 - 4 - The Walking Dead: The Telltale Series - The Final Season Episode 3: Broken Toys
80 - 4 - FutureGrind
80 - 6 - Ultimate Chicken Horse
80 - 4 - Knights of Pen and Paper +1 Deluxier Edition
79 - 4 - Waking Violet
79 - 4 - Sagebrush
79 - 6 - Nelly Cootalot: The Fowl Fleet
79 - 4 - Mindball Play
79 - 4 - Warlock's Tower
78 - 5 - Depixtion

I had wanted to at least get to the 75 range of games, but I also want sleep, so I'll follow up with this post tomorrow.

@XanmanAR Same.

Darn, I thought it was going to be a composite list of changes for all of the fighters.

I wonder what reference the mom used to make it? Was it all online guides or was most of it from the child/mother playing the game?

I tried to check what they had to say on twitter, but the poster is Japanese, so that makes it hard to figure anything out.

@YANDMAN The n64 mode was, yes. But the update will change the models to the blocky low quality ones seen in the picture above, rather than just removing textures and having a filter added to everything.

My Joycons (left more than right) does the same thing that happens in the video (in-game and the calibration screen), and I'm running a switch I got back in Christmas before all of these new models came out.

So for me the new models doesn't appear any different from what I have now.

This is why you should avoid things with "Gotcha", or similar, in the name.

I don't know why this band was singled out for their remix album when there are lots and lots of other groups/individuals making remixes all the time, both for Pokemon and other things.

Still doesn't stop me from leaving this tab open to listen to their music while I'm working on other things. It just would be nice if there was more music articles in general.

When I play just a short match in smash, it's always going to be 3:00 - 3 Stock. I don't have a online subscription anyway, so this isn't a problem for me.

The Game Theory channel on Youtube have a video explaining how an older calculator works, and I imagine this is similar, if anyone wants to take a look.

@Mr_Persona the last update adding VR was not even 3 months ago. So while not likely, the game is definitely still in the time frame for another update.

@Snow-Dust (Sorry for the late reply) Cool, so it was him. Adventure Red is usually noted as one of the top 5 hacks of all time, both in quality and its size. Considering that's counting over a decade worth of other hacks out there, that's no small feat. Definitely makes me jealous.

Making a fan game for Pokemon is actually not that hard. It's easy to add new towns/routes and adding NPC around. It's getting to the more complex and skill involved stuff that makes it hard, like making new sprites (not inserting existing ones), or adding new mechanics like moves with new effects or new mechanics like mega evolution, and even then the community is aiming to make this as friendly as possible. (doing something completely new is the hardest thing you can do, and a lot of times you can get support to get it working).

This is especially true with the relatively new "Pokeemerald" and similar projects where the games have been reversed engineered from illegal binary code to open-souced computer language available on GitHub.

The hardest part of making a ROM hack is 1: The HUGE amount of time and often energy it takes, more so than any other reason, and 2. Making it actually GOOD, with the balancing, grammar, bug fixing and such that is needed.

@Snow-Dust I definitely would be interested in seeing which hack your brother is working on. Based on what you said and I'm correct, it might be one of the bigger hacks out in existence. If not, like I said above, time is the biggest difficulty involved in making a hack. I'm sure he would appreciate it if you can set a little bit of your time to check it out.

There are 2 common ways to make a fan Pokemon fan game. The first is taking a ROM of the game, making changes to the game that ends up in the hack, then using a program to extract the changed data as a patch and release that. Then other people will have to get the patch and base ROM separately (usually from online) and combine them to play the game.

Actually having the ROM is itself not illegal, it's distributing the ROM that is illegal, and therefore the only illegal part of of ROMs is all of the websites who hosts these ROMs, not the people downloading them.

The second way of making a fan game is usually done in a RPG maker setting. These are just as legal to make as ROMs, it's just a matter of how they are made and distributed in the end, and what platforms they can be played on.

There has been an extremely small amount of takedowns compared to games out there. Honestly if the creators remove every instance of the word "Pokemon" from their hacks as well as certain Pokemon who are licensed then they can no reason at all be able to release patches.

People make Pokemon ROM hacks over making their own game/ip because they want to make a POKEMON game, not just any old game. They do it for the same reason people make fanfiction stories or fan art of Pokemon. And the reality is that Nintendo have just the same right to take down a fan game as they have to take down fan art of a Pokemon. It's not any more illegal to do (again, it's getting the ROM separate from the patch that is illegal).

That was Yahper ability, not it's Pokédex entry...

Well the exploit was actually never fixed, all they did was a small tweak to make it not work. The person who made the original exploit released another one a few weeks later, but didn't make a lot of noise for it after to keep it from being taken down again.

I'm not bothered with the Wii u not receiving the update/dlc, but I am upset about the 3ds not getting the new stages. When you sell two versions of the game at the same time and say that you'll still be supporting the system, then leave 3ds users without the new stuff because they choose that version on launch day, that's upsetting and just rude.

We need Pokemon Snap 2: Even Snappier.

I wonder what held the record before? (If there was any before that is.)

How many people are going to point out the "that 1 is a coin, not movement"?

Donkey Kong looks good with both the "average" roll of the other characters AND the highest coin income. Almost everyone else that earns coins has a reduced average.

Waluigi is pretty bad though. While it does get a 3.5, so does Mario, Daisy and Dry Bones, but they don't have the coin penalty. I don't know if staying in place is good for the game, but Daisy is move or not with all 0 and 7. While Dry Bones at least move each time with all 1 and 6.

A great kickstarter run for the board game, and now a new addition to the game yet again. I've only played rebirth on the 3DS, but from what I've heard the final hardest challenge in the game wasn't that great, so now this game gets another chance to go out big.

@Nincompoop no, it's Bravely Circle Circle Circle Circle Circle!

Something that I would like to see is news articles for when Kickstarter campaign ends, as a "hay look at how well they did and all the goodies they added" thing.