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@Marce2240 As far as I know it's faithful to the original gameboy game. Perhaps try gamefaqs.com or something for an old guide to the gameboy original and see if that helps?

@shani It's not plagiarism it's parody. It's meant to make you think of something but just like the trumpet it's not quite right, something is a 'little off' with it's mimicry.

@AlexSora89 700+ kids to conceive 'em all!! Now ain't that a lofty goal.

No thanks if you ask me. I got 1 and that's already plenty of effort. Even just 700 kids would be insane and probably result in insanity (or be the result of having had insanity you never know.)

I even bought the bonus map pack and I can't join any games ever since the patch rolled out. I could play before the fix it patch.

@Zach777 Agreed. I was waiting to see NL mention it to confirm it was out and working but I gave up waiting and tried it myself. It's there and it works.

@Zombo I was able to play online with random players and someone from my friends list 3 hours ago.

@Moon Yeah it definitely hurts to have no multiplayer.

@alasdair91 exactly it's way too much space for such a casual app.

@StraTTtheRipper I feel you. I hadn't played Tomodachi Life yet when I first tried Miitomo. But when I wanted more content I went and got Tomodachi Life and I found that much more entertaining. I wish it was more like the 3ds game.

That and it just takes up too much file space on my 16gb phone at nearly 1gb to have just sitting on there without me using it frequently.

I really want to like this game because I really like Fire Emblem. But the Fire Emblem characters seem so changed to me that it's hard to recognize them. I had to look at pictures of them side by side to even tell on some.

I've never played Shin Megami Tensei or Persona so those aren't a selling point for me either.

It just looks so weird. I'd love a demo to try it first before buying.

@Maxz Have you checked the ignition of you car? Lol.

@Skunkfish "And let's be honest, discs are soooo 1990's, isn't it about time we moved on? And a handheld device was never going to use them..."

cough PSP cough cough

@bouncer0304 yeah it's 30 hours long! So cool!

@happylittlepigs Thank you for letting me know. That's so weird. But I get that it's what they do.

Do you have to beat the main game to play these levels? These totally seem like something I'd like to try.

The levels remind me of some of the mean things people do in Super Mario Maker.

@Shoyruken Wait what happened with the Fine Bros?

@Gold_Ranger just because ALttP and OoT both had sages and a 'light' and a 'dark' world (read as similarities) doesn't make OoT a ripoff/remake version of ALttP.

The narratives of the game are quite different. Not to mention different enemy types and npc races.

I love how Ocarina of time is their 'secret sauce'! Hahaha!

I have trouble believing that Nintendo couldn't do it.

@Frank90 but it's basically dlc with a free game. You could buy all the Wii U DLC characters (3 of them) in a bundle for $20. Yet Hyrule Warriors Legends comes with 5 bonus characters (6 if count Medli) for $40. That's like getting twice the number of characters for exactly twice the price AND you get a "free game" to go with the DLC.

How is that bad?

@Rei Thanks! I read through it all and it seems like it's still very work in progress. Either way it'd be cool if they could get it functional. But even if they could it wouldn't be as good as an official re-release of those games because of the scarcity of players playing hacked in copies of the game. Plus there definitely would be no Pokemon Bank support even if they got it working.

I always loved Gold and Silver as well. Honestly I hope that the re-release of the original R/B/Y games leads to playable Gold/Silver/Crystal games that work with Pokemon bank too.

Though I must admit I am enjoying my virtual console Pokemon Blue as well. The only thing that could make it better would be to have Blue and Red use the Super Gameboy Palettes but that isn't gonna happen so I'm just enjoying it on gameboy green mode.

@Rei Where did you see this I can't seem to find it with Google. Did trading work?

I want to catch it again I loved this back then.

I was playing when this randomly showed up. The courses mention 4 paths one for each of the characters shown in the thumbnails I'd guess. But sadly only one costume is all you can get.

So excited. So you get 3 mushrooms for one level?

I'm a sucker for Blastoise. Team Blue for me.

My I initial reaction was that I don't like it. No more tags for articles; no information about the author on the article pages; no recent forum posts; I liked the old chronological order timeline of articles the new one seems like it'll be easier to miss things now. Comments also don't load with the page instead you have to tell it to load them (with a slower connection it would help but I imagine it'd be a minor difference).
And overall it all seems too blue, and that's coming from a guy who's favorite color is blue.
Oh and the banner now scrolls with the page on articles thus filling up my possible reading/image viewing space.
All my opinions are from viewing it from an iPhine 5s. Haven't looked at the desktop yet.
I wish there was a preference setting under user profile for how I want to view the site while logged in.
I hope I can get used to this.

Wow that Toon Zelda, Link, and Zero Suit Samus all look really cool. I love how detailed Samus and Link look.

And I'm just gonna say, thank goodness names weren't used for those Pokémon figures. We don't need that whole disaster again.

@ThomasBW84 No news of any of these coming west to North America yet right?

@Adamant The tie in with the Mew give away event is a possibility. But as far as, "You're seeing connections where there are none." Your denying connections where there are some. Reread what I said. I said that the 'manga' characters as you call them aren't what they're based on. I said they're based on the 'game' characters which is the same source material for what the 'manga' characters were based on.

They're the same characters. That's like saying that Goku from the tv show isn't the same as the Goku in the manga because the tv show(anime) was made based off the manga to correspond with it.

Same characters. The game is the source material for both the figures and the manga.

TLDR: Same characters. One source.

@Maxz In Pokemon Black/White 2 you were also able to battle them in a tournament setting with the respective names of Red/Blue.

Ignoring all else the games make those their canonical names.

@Adamant to say they're based on a manga would be incorrect. They're based on game characters, the same game characters which the manga was directly based off of. It's not the same.

Besides the Mew alongside them would only make sense if it were a reference to the manga.

@Juampi It's sad that the author doesn't want to fix it because normally the authors in general here are more professional.

As @FRANKLIN_BADGE said, "The cap and hair are clearly based on Red's first appeareance on Red/Blue for the GB." These figures are clearly being released to further promote the rerelease of the game boy originals and they have the designs to match.

As many would seem to agree, "It's insulting that they don't acknowledge their mistake." After all this is a site for Nintendo gamers, and as such we're going to know our games.

Besides anyone who Actually wanted an Ash Nendoroid would be mislead and disappointed when it wasn't the 'Ash' from the show.

@Kylo_Ren thanks for sharing the link to reddit. I got a kick out of the fact that it's sparked debate here, Twitter and there as well. The debate is everywhere with the majority saying the title is wrong and yet @Damo wants to still disagree. Not the normal happy to fix an error attitude we usually see. But I guess it's getting this publicity so who cares right?

@The__Goomba Crazy right? It's the main reason people are even clicking the article. I guess that makes it click bait.

@EVERYONE In the end I really don't care. I only commented to attempt to be helpful, as did many others. I meant no harm. I hope no one feels I or anyone else saying the names are wrong are seen as being out of line.

@Damo It was in the original NES game. Naming your character ZELDA in all caps like that unlocked alternate rearranged dungeons or something like that.

@FlashBoomerang It seems nobody there thought that though. It seems like the people didn't pay much attention to them. But the mall looked kinda empty.

@Damo I don't really want to argue it. It's just a slight error. I even said lots of people played he game with the names Ash and Gary because they're supposed to be similar. But they're not the same.

See Octane's post for a perfect example.

I also checked on Twitter and every comment there is the same thing about the names.

https://twitter.com/nintendolife/status/695562524712964096

@Octane YES!! A thousand times yes! Its the perfect example.

http://sd.keepcalm-o-matic.co.uk/i/call-me-zelda-one-more-time.png

Haha if I was actually there I would have run behind them to watch.

@Damo We're excited about the figures and I appreciate the article. I'd love to her these if I can find them. I truly thank you for sharing this.

But it's just these are the protagonist from the game not the show. That's were the dissent comes from.

@Damo I see you edited your article's body text to say "Ash and Gary (or "Red" and "Blue" if you'd prefer)" But please swap the names here and in the title of the article or every comment on this page will be that the names are wrong. It should say Red and Blue (or "Ash" and "Gary" if you prefer).

We're Nintendo gamers so of course we're going to go with the game's canon names. Even if lots of people used the names of Ash and Gary for the characters that doesn't make it their names.

The Mew included comes from the Mew that both Red and Blue fight in the very first chapter of the official manga Pokemon Adventures that was based on the gameboy games. As seen here: http://www.goodmanga.net/images/manga/pokemon_adventures/1/10.jpg
http://www.goodmanga.net/images/manga/pokemon_adventures/1/11.jpg
http://www.goodmanga.net/images/manga/pokemon_adventures/1/13.jpg

That's why the Mew is included with them. If it was "Ash" he'd have a Pikachu included as seen in this Banpresto figure that is actually Ash: http://myfigurecollection.net/item/121521

Here's a picture: Also here's a picture of Ash and 'modern' Red as two separate characters from the same figure line: http://36.media.tumblr.com/3faa63489e572bb024e8bd71c5a1393f/tumblr_ncqijhfjry1tls927o6_1280.jpg

They're not the same.

In Pokemon Red the name select screens look like this:

Both Red and Blue were names that were higher on the list than Ash or Gary and as such were the more likely default option.

Also in Pokemon Gold/Silver when you return to the Kanto region you get the chance to fight these two and they are named Red and Blue without a chance to rename them.

Lastly and more recently there was the Pokemon Origins anime mini series that was 4 episodes long that covered the story of the original games. These characters were shown in this style of the first game and were named Red and Blue there as well. http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Pok%C3%A9mon_Origins

Please fix the naming of the article. Thanks!!

@EmmatheBest Thanks for pointing out the Kanto Region Extra to Gold/Silver I had forgotten about that. It's true that they are named Red/Blue there too. And in that case the player does not get to name them.

@Serebii As part of a set of 3(?) possible names for each. Anyway I edited my above comment to reflect that.

Still they look really cool. Perfect timing for these with the upcoming release of the virtual console games.

Ash? This is still Red and Blue according to the games these figures are based on. These specific character designs are also referred to in name as Red and Blue in the Manga and Anime OVA short.

Their designed as derivatives of Ash and Gary but they aren't actually the same.

The Red figure you linked to is just modernized Red.

In my opinion that looks soo much better. I loved that the gamecube comparison was done with the HDMI mod. This really helped me see the change. Thanks for painstakingly playing this 3 times.

Admirably though I'm jealous that you can play it already and that I can't. Haha!

@Ichiban I remember I used to believe I could wait for Ocarina of Time 3D to get cheaper before I bought my first 3DS. I waited a good 3 years for a larger game library and for price drops and I remember that even used I bought it for nearly the full price of the game new when it was first released. But it's a Zelda game so that's kinda expected.

Truthfully though $40 is a lot less than the $60 a new console game costs in my opinion. And if you have Amazon Prime, or Best Buy Gamer Pro Club you can get a new 3DS game for $32 without waiting for any price drop after release. At that price it sound pretty cheap to me.

I love the sound effects he makes. It really fits to play him on ghost levels. I can't hardly wait to try him.

@ConorMcMahon64 "and we you this darn polite" should be and 'were' you...

Great read. Heart warming.

@AlienX That sounds like the most intelligible answer I've heard so far on this subject. I guess that means that I would be most interested in the Yellow Version of the game.

Course that was already true for the ease of getting all the starters and to have Pikachu follow me around.

So that means that this video demonstrating Yellow Version in color supposedly on the Virtual Console might be actual footage and not just some random stuff recorded via another emulator. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAGr5ZZvPoI

In the announcement video there appears to be color for Yellow version at about 00:23 so maybe there's an option for it but all the gameplay I've seen is monochrome.

http://youtu.be/8DNf66hfywM

I don't want to play it monochrome I want the Gameboy Color palette.

It looks like Super Mario 64 or Banjo Kazooie. I'm keen to give it a shot.

Besides let's hear some applause for the basement developers!!

@faint Exactly. Other companies can be even less fair with DLC. What a good example.