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I'm kind of laughing out loud over entering a cheat code having a Guide video for it, heh.

I mean...what a strange way to gain some clicks with this article. Wii U wasn't going to fly off shelves with Star Fox, I'm pretty sure. We're also just off the heels of Super Mario Maker coming out, it used to be that kids would find out about something awesome like that and add it to their Christmas list so their parents could get it, even months later. SMM is far more likely to make the Wii U sell than Star Fox Zero releasing on time, IMO. Nintendo would be much better off continuing to advertise Super Mario Maker for the next few months.

@Vash_Visionz, it seems you made my point pretty much and I totally agree, Star Fox isn't a system seller. SMM is, though, and Nintendo has that already out so they need to advertise it until everyone is desperately trying to get their kids to be quiet by buying it and a Wii U for Christmas for them.

You don't have to beat the hackers, but you do have to keep the hackers busy enough that piracy doesn't ever become trivial, to where your mom knows how to run a rom on your system, lol.

I just bought this and, although I'm enjoying it, it is a big disappointment that the leaderboards aren't working anymore. I know my connection is fine but it never successfully connects to the Nintendo Network, so I guess I won't be enjoying the part that "really shines" as the review points out.

Finishing chapter 1 means I'm finally at a point where the game can really challenge me, which is great because some of the early levels are way too noob friendly.

Wonderful Mario game. I've 100%ed it multiple times and the 3D looks great.

This is why I waited for the regular size New 3DS

I'm glad Nintendo didn't buy Rare; it was a dying company, period.

I'm just really going nuts over their teases about the exclusive Nintendo stuff they're claiming for Shovel Knight. Xbox got Battletoads...I hope we get something really awesome like that.

They recently sold refurbished 2DS systems for a lot cheaper than this even on the nintendo store site. 2DS is a very cheap system with a bad build as far as I'm concerned, so I'd pay like $50 at most for one in good shape but picking one up $99 retail is not bad, I guess.

I waited for this to go on sale. It's on sale for $5 and I bought it, finally. So far, not bad. Based on the reviews, this version is much better than the original in terms of larger inventory, better dungeons, etc. Sure, it's a simple game but at a price that makes it akin to picking up a Nintendo made streetpass game, this gives you a pretty decent dungeon crawler at about the same quality and none of the annoyance of having to streetpass people to play. Had Nintendo made it, it would get more coverage and I'm sure you'd see a lot of praise for it proclaiming it a great value.

So far, I'm at the city section fighting rats and slugs. I have already found some cool weapon drops and exclusively playing the male warrior because I like his weapon types. The magic types in this game are well animated, not to mention the elemental system extends to your swords and bows, so you can hit weakness with or without focusing on magic if you would rather equip a shield.

I say give it a try. I'd love if it had a way to customize weapons; something like Dark Cloud 2's weapon customizing would be both familiar and addictive. Sadly, the blacksmith seems so far to only allow you to repair what you find in dungeons, not actually make a weapon to your liking.

EDIT: The Underworld Tower (unlocked upon completing the main game) really makes this game so much better. It ups the challenge considerably and forces you to rethink how you play the game even. You still do the basic mash A stuff but you have to switch weapons far more often to take advantage of elemental weaknesses, you have to manage your health with HP drain more, you have to shield effectively almost every step of the way, etc. It's a great mode if the main game seemed too simple in challenge. It also more than doubles the length of the game because you will progress pretty slowly through this extra mode (as you learn how to deal with the extra challenge). I just unlocked a sword called Earth Sword for getting 260 items in my Encyclopedia.

Part of me questions why you would make it play two different versions like this...but I'm too impressed by the results to care if it really makes any sense, lol.

This sounds a lot better. To be honest, I wanted to buy this at the introductory price but I wasn't confident if the updates would really come. I'm starting to think I will be buying this at the higher price now, but that's fine. Being wrong here is a good thing.

@MC808 That's bad? It's 30fps with 3D on, that's dang impressive, actually, and you just have to play for a bit and you'll be used to it. Yes, as soon as you enable it, you notice because you were just playing at a solid 60fps in 2D. Either way, it's a technical masterpiece that this runs at the rates it does.

How much was this pewdiepie tipped to shill it? LOL

Such a bizarre game...I...yeah, this is weird.
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My favorite handheld LEGO game.

I'm playing it, it was worth the wait!!!

I wanted this a week ago, I just can't stand the wait!!!!!
Also, give me Sonic 2 and Gunstar Heroes NOW

I'm buying stuff like Azada, that's how starved I am for eshop stuff. Doesn't help that Nintendo totally quit trying after 3D Urban Champion to scratch the 3D itch many gamers have.

Why can't I hold all of this stability?

Bought the first one. It's not bad, definitely a way to relax and make a nice picture, but these are so easy to complete. Anyone that expects a challenge to their puzzle games, you should only look at this for the chill factor, I think.

I'm laughing my ass off because I actually see her point. He should value his own wife enough to not lose her and not, at least according to her, treasure his video game collection instead. Of course, he said, she said, and all that. Maybe he's not the bad guy at all but she sounds especially vindictive here for it to be unjustified. I'm pretty upset reading the hate expressed towards her in such an immature way by the commenters, though. Those are her games now...and besides, at least she isn't burning them, people.

Better surf Greninja. Really, fun sport, might work for you.

So, apparently it's fixed, yay!!!!
https://twitter.com/JoolsWatsham/status/618556240541560832/photo/1

This is disappointing after the initial claim we would get a Wii copy for being early adopters...maybe just have Nintendo send out e-mails to those NNIDs with codes for the Wii U version? Honestly, despite any technical issue here, they could do that for sure. Even on miiverse it can auto detect which NNIDs actually bought the game vs. those that are just posting without having played it.

Is Jools deferring to someone else on this and just making a convenient excuse since he promised something they no longer feel he should deliver and it's their call? I hate to ask that at all but...any technical issue here sounds like a bad excuse when there are ways to do this.

I'm not surprised here. Maybe Nintendo will wake up and stop making bad mini-games they think will appeal to mobile crowd, until then I go back to play Virtual Console.

They clearly realized it wouldn't compete well with MK even with a great port, so why try? Just get it to run and play in 3D, we can all go home

Why was this taken off the shop when it's better than Ultimate? What the hell?

I hate it when they try it, history has shown it's not that good. I won't be buying any multi-player Metroid or Zelda from now on, I promise you that.

Gotta buy'em all!

This kind of confirms that it's still not the Metroid we want. Still sounds like they are using Metroid mostly in name here; honestly, most of what he talks about could be done without borrowing the Metroid brand to give it some hype and immediate sales. Nintendo is for sure transforming their IPs but they are being transformed into more casual experiences, this is just hitting home more than usual.

The ones I enjoyed pretty well:

Pictobits
Pinball Pulse: The Ancients Beckon
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Zelda Four Swords (wish the single player mode could be better)
I'll even throw in Aura-Aura Climber even though I haven't touched it beyond maybe an hour of time put into it.

I admit that peviously when it was 3DS only that $10 was asking a tad too much for it (I picked it up for 50% off as soon as I saw it have a sale). With cross buy, though, I think that's a really nice value. Had I seen the future, I would have been less concerned about the $10 price knowing that cross buy would come - maybe even some extra content added at some point?

Very fun game, just way too short!

I don't much see the point and I don't think it fits a big gaming company at all but hopefully they know how to implement in a good way and it amounts to nothing more than a little experiment. Also, what advantages would there even be to this? I don't think it would help Nintendo but we'll see.

I think they realized everyone would jump on it and say "4 swords Metroid, booooo" but what they didn't understand was that making it Samus 4 times would have meant far less backlash than no Samus.

I own both the 3DS and Wii U versions of Pure Chess thanks to the sales they offer on that game. Great value there on either platform, stay away from this one.

@andreoni79 I've never wanted so badly to be a metroid before seeing that pic, lol.

@RegalSin You win weirdest person on the internet, congrats. I've seen your posts on various topics...calling you eccentric wouldn't do justice to what I've seen

I pulled out my cartridge for this and played it on my GBA to get color instead of monochrome and that really helps (Nintendo won't let you add color on 3DS VC for these, wow, what a missed opportunity). I did it because I just bought Dr. Mario Miracle Cure and wanted to see how the old GB title held up

This sounds like one of the best values a Dr. Mario game has ever offered, costing not much more than buying it as a NES VC (but with lots of new content and online play). Since I usually never buy Dr. Mario games, this one is getting my attention as a great value.

This review really gets it right.

Despite the good parts (decent graphics with a nice frame rate, decent variety in cars and driving physics), this game is too much of a letdown to ever pay more than $10 for and if you only have the patience to do the story mode, it's not even worth that (story mode is awful...ugh).

As for career mode, it has some good qualities and a lot to do when it comes to setting records and unlocking new vehicles. However, one major complaint I have is that battling the AI in this game is a clunky, even broken feeling experience. You either end up with a car that explodes in the first 20 seconds or you win out and get into first place where it's ridiculously boring to be since the AI can't ever come close to catching up with you if your lead becomes comfortable (and it will).

So, as much as I would find it much more interesting if this driving game had a fun car battling system, instead I have to race by myself in a relatively empty feeling city with only the occasional random car or two that's out for a drive while you're racing bad guys that can't keep up. This game is lacking in some very important areas, ruining much of a chance that the player will have any fun.

Really glad that I got this through the Humble Bundle, as I might have ignored it otherwise. I'm having a lot of fun with it so far.

If the analog sticks are decent and so is the d-pad, I think I'd enjoy this controller just fine. Looks pretty good.

Quite used to this logo after playing a lot of Yumi lately on 3DS.

The next Nintendo machine...lol. That will be a pretty late release, I guess.

Wasn't interested much before this announcement, now there's no doubt, I'll never buy this version of the game. 3D was the only thing that could have saved it as a possible purchase for me.

Can't say I blame them, and Retro wasn't going to waste time making a fully functional emulator on their own time just as a bonus, so they tried using third party code but Nintendo didn't like that. Programming in support for NES Metroid without any third party code was a lot easier so they did that.

@sevignator
After playing Dark Cloud 2, a lot of other PS2 rpgs just don't matter to me anymore, heheh. Spheda was great, building the Ridepod was amazing, and the dungeons and town building are pretty neat (dungeons improved over the first game for sure, but I liked the town building more in the first Dark Cloud just because the pieces were custom to that town and so were the people).

@Kirk Thanks, I appreciate that you found my comments to be of value here. I could have been a tad over zealous in how I stated my difference of opinion but no offense was intended, just a show of support where I felt many would be left feeling unsure of ever trying this great game.

Piracy is a toxic form of gaming that hopefully the young ones will look back on after they've had their fun and realize it didn't benefit them. I guess the only potentially good thing here is that flashcard sales may take a hit and close up shop. Wishful thinking, though.