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I already bought them all! It's called Amiiqo. -sarcasm over

The North American amiibo draught and exclusive retailer bullshite made sure I'm never buying another Amiibo and just downloading them instead.

PRAISE THE EMPEROR.

@JoshuaTemblett Of course, I understand the profound development, I've fiddled with my own game projects in the past, sadly none of which came to fruition. By the way, I sent you an e-mail, please take a look at it. ^^

@JoshuaTemblett I think you have a promising work here, but it needs some polish in my personal opinion. See my post above if you are interested in my criticisms, I'd love to see them addressed or a response about things that may have been intentional.

Edit: I also apologize if I seemed overly harsh.

EDIT: I retract my comment about the styling choice, as I read on their website that is what they were going for!

As for releasing the game on Wii U, it needs a lot of polishing. The character walking animation for going up and down is missing a frame, the colours are as mentioned, but the music is fantastic and fits in quite well with the game. The font is very out of place and feels MUCH too small and 'modern' for the art style they are trying to go with. The character's movement pattern has an issue where if you walk up while walking left or right you end up strafing in an awkward fashion, which seems out of place for an RPG.

I hope the developer sees this comment and can address some of these issues, and if they need another sprite artist to help them out I'd gladly do so, unpaid. I'm not a fantastic spriter but I do have several years of experience, especially in a retro scene like this.

Itagaki just settle down and accept your game sucks dude. It happens, now go make another one, this time a GOOD one.

@Carysian While I appreciate your good intentions and agree with what you've said, remember: Don't feed the trolls, they like it.

The name 'New' Nintendo 3DS still makes me cringe and facedesk...

I was a little too young around the time the original Game Boy rolled around, but I do remember such fond memories of my Game Boy Advance, and my first DS. Oh that beautiful, chunky thing... I still go back and play my old GBA titles on the Wii U using VBA GX just to relive the memories.

Also, can we just take a moment to appreciate the badarsery and genius of Gunpei Yokoi?

>Blocks
Oh for crying out loud Nintendo, get with the present day and just list megabytes/gigabytes. I don't go out and buy a "16000 Block" SD card now do I?

I will admit though, the very large file size hints at developer incompetence, that or something else fishy is about.

Woo! Nintendo of America finally brings us something cool.

The Nindie Amiibo are definitely on my download list for the Amiiqo, at least. I forsee them being made in small quantities and thus easily scalpable, so good luck to all those who still buy them.

Considering how painfully short Steamworld Dig was, it is nice to see this will have an acceptable amount of content genre change aside.

Can't wait for this! It's one of the few indie games I actually give a shite about.

I saw the thumbnail on the home page and thought Dark Souls was coming to the Wii U/NX. Nearly had a heart attack at Nintendo finally getting a quality third party title.
Disappointment was had.

Good news for everybody who still tries to buy Amiibos.

No Xenoblade. I promised myself if I didn't hit the e-shop by the end of this month I wasn't going to buy it and just continue playing it on my PC instead. Your loss, Nintendo.

Sweet! Can't wait to download that new content. And I can just do it with an Amiiqo, so suck it scalpers.

Oh, I'd love to have Shovel Knight in Smash! Downloading him to my Amiiqo and fighting him would be so fun.

Had a feeling this game would suck. When rumors persist and PR stinks, there's something going on.

Awesome! Can't wait to download them to my Amiiqo and play with them! ^^ Ever since I ordered one I actually look forward to new Amiibo for once.

Nintendo won't meet demand, so yo-ho-ho a pirates life for me. If they don't want money that's their issue. You refuse to allow me to buy your product or make certain things retailer exclusive? I pirate your shite, mate.

Edit: For anyone who brings up "Well if you import them you can get them easily" The point is we SHOULDN'T HAVE TO. I'm not going to jump through hoops just to give my money to you, Nintendo. I shouldn't have to do your job for you.

This is awesome news!

...For scalpers, that is.

In this thread: Typical gun arguments.

In all honesty, I'm just glad no one got hurt.

I considered Devil's Third but so far the official PR of the title and the critical reception of it has cooled me right off of the title.

You bet your arse it is.

FOR ONCE I'M ACTUALLY GLAD I BOUGHT MY WII U

@Miles_Edgeworth Pardon moi, I should have been more clear. The Wii U has plenty of quality games, my wasteland statement was meant to portray how almost every third party developer under the sun has abandoned the system. I agree with you sir on those titles and more being quality releases.

More shovelware slop, in my personal opinion. However in the wasteland that is the Wii U's library, you take what you get.

EDIT: I should have been more clear. The Wii U has plenty of quality games, my wasteland statement was meant to portray how almost every third party developer under the sun has abandoned the system.

@KeeperBvK They do that to entice more comments which makes their site more attractive to advertisers. Why do you think they do so little to stop arguments down here?

I don't want to collect the things, I just want to be able to unlock all the costumes in Mario Kart 8, the extra levels in Splatoon, and to actually have a good fighting partner in Smash Bros. But I'm not paying several hundred dollars to scalpers just to do all this.

@Uberchu I don't know where you live but consider yourself lucky. I'm not the only one complaining about stock here, in fact it's VERY wide spread. "It works fine for me" or "I could find them fine" isn't a valid excuse.

Considering how Nintendo isn't meeting demand with their supply (Quite foolishly, I might add) I think I'll employ this method. I've had it up to here with Amiibo scalping and such.

@Dave_Shay They call them Nintendrones for a reason. I don't often see them out in the wild, so I come here and boy do they crawl out of the woodwork.

I grew up with Nintendo systems, I love their games and franchises. But when the company is being arrogant and stupid, making terrible business decisions and just have the wrong of things, I'm going to call them out on it. I'm not going to blindly defend them. After all, if you really care about something you punish it as well as defend it.

@Miles_Edgeworth At this point it is very early on, but from the looks of it nothing can really damage it at this point. It is just essentially tricking the 3DS into running unofficial software developed for the system.

@Miles_Edgeworth It allows running fan-made and unofficial applications, such as emulators or tools. It's a very nice thing and can be a very healthy thing. After all, Project M is a result of Homebrew.

Some interesting option huh? I think you dropped an 'S' guys.

@SanderEvers Sorry if I don't consider emulating twenty year-old plus games without new physical releases 'piracy.' I highly doubt Nintendo makes much from the Virtual Console, seeing as they put so little effort into putting titles onto the service.

As for it being illegal, it varies depending on location, not that I overly give a toss. And as for importing being illegal as well, if you seriously think I'm going to import other systems just to play games from that region, I honestly think you need to take a reality check. Some of us just want to play games, and if we bought the system (Which is expensive enough already!) we should be able to without having to worry about one single line of code that says "For Japan Only" or some nonsense. After all, Xbox doesn't do it. PC doesn't do it. PlayStation doesn't do it. If Nintendo were smart they wouldn't do it either.

I'm sorry you feel the way you do about emulation, but you're really missing out. As for all of this being illegal, again it depends on jurisdiction. America isn't the world. And I for one am not afraid of someone knocking on my door at four in the morning to arrest me for playing Contra III on my 3DS.

@Gridatttack Will do! Cheers mate!

These guys are doing fantastic work, good on them. Not opening it to piracy, but just allowing emulation and region-free gaming. Nintendo is the only one who is still so far back in the past that they region lock, and with how terrible NoA is at releasing things I'll GLADLY hack my 3DS to play import titles.

After I buy those import titles used, of course. If Nintendo wanted the money they'd have region free systems and get with the twenty-first century.

@DarkEdi Not to be an armchair developer here, but it is far more complicated than that. Wii games run in a near 1:1 copy of the Wii's original Operating System, even limiting system specs down to what the Wii had. The Wii's OS nor its games are even aware the Wii U or its peripherals exist. If there is a way, it would require a LOT of time and effort.

No Xenoblade. For shame, NoA. Back to playing it on my PC, I guess.

@FLUX_CAPACITOR Excellent points, your previous post was not wasted, fear not aha! Though I must say to anybody that reads this, if you're on the fence, watch the seven minute overview video. It really swayed my opinion on this.

@ikki5 @FLUX_CAPACITOR I just watched the overview video. I was sorely mistaken. This is worth the price. My apologies.

@FLUX_CAPACITOR While it is true I haven't watched too much media on the title itself, it appears to be, for all intents and purposes, a game made from the hobby of ROM hacking, with some extra graphical bells and whistles.

Edit: I should also point out, what if you aren't interested in the book? Not to mention they aren't seeming to clearly disclose digital purchasers are getting that anyway. It seems to be a situation akin to Mario Party's lawsuit back in the day. Nintendo was ordered to supply special gloves, but didn't tell anyone about it so they didn't have to send many out.

@BooJoh Ah, fair enough then. Though the whole 'getting people to actually buy PC games' thing irks me a little. PC Gaming sales recently overtook console sales, it isn't 2006 anymore. =)

Perhaps if consoles adopted this they could sell more copies, but oh well. That's just looking into the what-ifs.

@BooJoh That is a pretty poor incentive in my honest opinion. Those who pre-load usually get a 10% discount or so. It's how Steam does it if I recall.

@Obito_Sigma Right? The price is insane. Just because it has Mario slapped on it doesn't mean it's worth dropping sixty dollars on.

$59.99?! Are you serious?! I figured it'd be a $20 e-shop title. Yeesh, too rich for my blood. I'll go back to romhacking Super Mario World until I can buy a used copy for a sensible price.

Must be a slow news day, but Super Mario Bros. is a landmark in gaming history for sure.