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@nessisonett you can't murder in society, so we should ban mortal Kombat too then?

Thanks Nintendo life, demo will be downloaded tonight!

Limited edition pre ordered, can't wait!

Looks pretty cute. Haven't played a tycoon style game for ages so might have a look at this as long as it's less than $20 AUD. There's so many games on my watchlist around the $20-30 price point it's getting tough to pick something each month or so. I can't buy them all unfortunately.

They lost me at "Arch Lion King".... WTF at least try to be original.

Nintendo really needs to just front up and call the improved switch the "Super Nintendo Switch".

We all want it, they want it, just make it happen.

Im holding out for one with snes coloured buttons or a pikachu or fire emblem version.

@xshinox except for all the scantily clad female characters and boobs so hugely disproportionate to the characters and the thong g strings visible outside of the clothing... Sure it's hardly sexualised imagery at all.

The singing is obnoxious and the animation is very angular as opposed to most shantae games. If the music/ singing wasn't so grating it might have been ok.

I was excited until I saw the chibi graphics... ugh!

The smartphone style character portrait above the dialogue box kills it for me even more. I t looks so cheap and nasty.

Oh man so disappointed.

Happy staff and money later for a high quality product makes sense to me. Good on em!

Gotta catch'em all... wait... I mean what?

This totally Octo-rocks!

Which is like Satan saying "Eternal damnation, it's possible to do it right".

I have always said it as mana, like Marna. The US accent pronounces it as man-nah. But I have never heard anyone say Mona, like moan-ah. That's a new one.

@Trajan Playasia bro! They ship whichever version you order to anywhere.

@Trajan yeah there's a steel book, it looks like a gameboy. Limited edition has it.

@HinakoSumo alliance alive on 3ds had no physical release in Aus and EU.

It appears you're correct there will be a physical release in aus for switch. I'm not sure if I will get it as there are too many good games coming out this year.

@EVIL-C can't preorder from best buy or eb from another country, at least not easily. Won't accept an Aus address or credit card. I use Video Games Plus in Canada.

@Silly_G they are now, cool. They weren't when last I looked. Already put a preorder down on links awakening LE.

@Silly_G I'm pre-ordering from Canada. It's a limited physical release, it may not get an AUS release.

But no way am I spending $60 AU without having the cartridge and gorgeous boxart!

How many things do they think people are actually gonna subscribe to in this amazing future? Microsoft thinks I'm going to sub for ms Office... Yeah get lost.

It's funny because as kids in our house playing Mario Bros 1,2 & 3 I'm sure the manual refers to him as king Koopa. We always called him Koopa as he was the biggest baddest of the Koopa troopers.

I do recall feeling confused during the n64 era as they started calling him Bowser on tv ads. Now I feel like I need to check the game manuals tonight after work to figure it out.

Woohoo! About time, yay!

Great. But now do I play Thracia, or the copy of radiant dawn, the Wii Fe, I scored for $28 yesterday?

YES! OMG YES! About time!!!!!

Woohoo!

This could be the game that my wife and I are looking for. She's a very novice gamer, as in doesn't really game at all but lover reading novels. I keep trying to explain that I love games and RPGs because of the story, and when it's done well it's an interactive novel. Hope this one bridges the gap for us.

@Rypopo Random Number Generator.

Everything in the game is based on chance, including whether or not every step you take results in an enemy spawning that will kill you. Its just not a fair playstyle and its not something I actually enjoy so I personally wish I didnt waste my money on it.

I get that its a tabletop like game, but the randomness of what you encounter is not moderated in any way at all to the point of being totally ridiculous. We had 2 enemies randomly spawn on our second move in a new game, supposed to be easiest difficulty, which obliterated us as they have more than 4 times our health and hit us fopr more than half our hp on the first hit and landed multiple status effects. You couldn't possibly beat that so early in the game, its just a random spawn to mess with you. So you respawn, lose 2 hearts (lives) and try to heal up, to find you have not got enough gold to heal up, so you walk out again, then get killed again on the first enemy encounter. Endless loop of being no health til you run out of lives... If that's fun to you, go for it.

Read more reviews though and see if you might like it. I didn't terribly mind it at first but after I worked out how random it really is I decided not worth my time.

I started playing this with my wife, and after about 6 hrs we've decided we don't like it. It's far too rng based. You could put in dozens of hours and have a few events go bad and wind up with no gold and healing herbs and then you're pretty much stuffed, game over.

The gameplay and graphics aren't good enough for the game to be replayed endlessly to try to win, it just falls short and turns into punishing battles with no resources to be fair to balance it out.

Also the article is BS, if you split up you're pretty much stuffed trying to solo combat a few hours in. You pretty much have to travel together which negates any point of playing coop. Might as well solo it instead of passing a controller back and forth to hit a button. It's not really a coop game. That aspect is just marketing in my view.

Poorly balanced and just frustrating, not really fun. That's my opinion anyway.
A solid 5/10.

EDIT: Sorry to be negative, read more reviews before you listen to me. Im pretty fussy nowadays as I have played so many games over the past nearly 30 years and I dont waste time playing something I dont enjoy anymore.

@PBandSmelly it's been 20th May for 11 hrs in South Australia pal!

I noticed a patch downloaded itself last night actually for ff7. Awesome, now please give me ff6 and ff8, and physical versions!

This looks totally bonkers .. consider me interested!

woah price is terribad, and the sega was the superior version/system for these games.

And since they aren't offering a Super Famicom or EU cart, I can't play this anyway. I don't have a US SNES, just the JP and AUS variants.

My kids spiller water in my dock, so I walked into ebgames 2km from my house in South Australia and picked one up off the shelf. It cost me $130 but it was there waiting for me to walk in and buy it.

@Pizzapasta I really enjoyed labyrinth of refrain too 😀

Wow I'm really not understanding the hateful comments... Oh yeah internet forum...

It's great that nes collectors and anyone who still owns a nes can play this if they grab hold of a copy. I love that people are still making awesome games for this system and othwrs. Tobu tobu girl for game boy is another good one recently.

@Vepra Nah we had our fun with that. I was looking at moon chasers though. Moon something anyway, can't remember I watch listed it though, top down co-op Diablo style but simpler graphics.

I'm going to pick this up this weekend and play it with the wife. We have not played a couch coop game together since castle crashers on 360 and Baldur's gate dark alliance. For the king looks like it could be fun for us.

Alsoight pick up bastion for $8 in the sale this weekend because why not!?

This sale is also live in Australia.

Kemco. Another hastily thrown together effort. Hard pass.

The legs shoes and eyes were all wrong.

Faxanadu, Captain Skyhawk and Double Dragon 3 please!!!!!!

Oh and Wizards and Warriors 3 and Solstice, so much goodness.

Wow! What an artist, I love them all Amazing. Daisy, Bayonetta and Captain Falcon are the best.

Eh roguelike is not my style of rpg. Just can't enjoy procedural generation.

It's a kids film though right? It's meant to be for you know, kids... Looks great.

Just glad I didn't preorder it. I was very close to it but my browser crashed as I was filling in payment details. I just said oh well I'll do it later, then the negative press hit and I was glad.

The game still interests me but it can wait until I see it now.

It's not banned they submitted through an automated process and it didn't like something. It will get through later probably

@Damo Damien, does it come with the screen built in etc. I re-read the article but apologies if I missed the reference.
Edit: and I just re-re-read. Sorry got it!

I always love your articles mate.

That is seriously cool

I won't pay more than $25 AUD for a digital only game. So won't be playing this then until it's heavily discounted.

Hahaha! ...Watchlisted.