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"There was nothing that you could put in front of everybody that said, 'This is what the experience is"

Just put on a good game, dammit. All the demo stations I've seen run the same old demo pack from the launch. They could just put in Wind Waker or Pikmin 3.

@Pachterkid Funny, when I played Wind Waker HD, it reminded me of how good Nintendo (when at their best) are at game design, and how much I miss those 10 year old design philosophies.

Controlling the camera is a hassle, though.

Beautiful words, Mr. Aonuma.

@cookiex What kind of reasoning is that? You can still use the other controllers. Those 30% of games would be playable with just the GamePad, which is awesome.

@cookiex They could make the system recognize it as a classic controller.

No input on the GamePad is very disappointing, and makes it hard to appreciate the otherwise cool feature to output Wii games to the GamePad.

But I guess there's still hope of them announcing this afternoon that they've laid the groundwork for a unified account system in this update.

Fall update info? A unified account system would be great.

Will probably get the WW disc instead of digital. Or an external HDD.

Great! Now let's take it to a million.

@Kirk I agree with you regarding the art styles. I especially don't like the goofiness of the new style, with huge bracelets, etc. Anyway, I have two things I want to say to you:

1. Regardless of a slightly different art style, I would use my energy to encourage people to back this game. It's a once-in-a-decade chance to get a really well designed and expansive "Metroidvania", and I'd like them to get millions of dollars if possible.

2. A better place to voice these opinions would be on the Kickstarter board, or in e-mail to WayForward, where you could actually make a change.

He's a PR nightmare, but not sad and angry.

I like this game a lot. The level design is so good. Pretty underappreciated game, as far as I can tell.

I might get Mystara. And the Toki Tori 2 update I guess, even thought I feel pretty done with the game (which was great, btw).

A twin stick shooter with non-abstract graphics and seemingly interesting game design. Finally!

Mega Man X9

Very strange choice to not include the logo in the trailer. It looks amazing and it's great for recognition. It's not even clear what the game's title is from this.

The day Nintendo starts making cellphone games is the day I stop supporting Nintendo. But they care too much about games to do that. It won't happen with the current executives, at least.

Sounds great. Visually told story, challenging puzzles built around a few means of manipulation, and no disruptions all remind me of Toki Tori 2, which is my favorite Wii U eShop game right now.

Their next article should be about Kinect. An expensive, now obligatory piece of hardware with multiple cameras that is only ever used for voice commands.

What about the SMB2-like grabbing and throwing? Sounds like a cool new feature.

@Caramel Then it's not really cross-play, I guess? They did say it will have some form of connectivity.

@jedisquidward Yeah, over internet you mean? Didn't consider that. I'm almost expecting it not to have online multiplayer.

I've seen this all over Twitter. Can somebody explain to me: What would cross-platform play be good for in this game, anyway? If one of the players has a Wii U, they can all just play on that. Why look at your small 3DS display in a game that only requires one screen?

This shouldn't come as a surprise to anybody. Who comes up with such a crazy storyline for an action adventure like the original Zelda, which barely has a story to begin with.

A new Star Fox would certainly be awesome.

"Star Fox Universe"?

My Wii (and with it the save file) got stolen so I haven't beaten the first one, but I really liked it and will definitely be getting this one sooner or later.

@Gamer83

It's not mind blowing, but it looks like a tight and really fun game. More "gamey" than Galaxy with its grid layout, but that's not necessarily bad.

What is development group 1 of EAD Tokyo doing, though? Could it be a grander Mario game?

I wonder if this is a smaller "practice" project and they are also in pre-production of Super Mario Universe.

I love the isometric feel of this. Reminds me of games like Snake Rattle & Roll where every square seems to have a purpose.

I agree they should do more surprising and strange things, but they probably want to play their safe cards first.

Also, this one is really only very similar to one game: 3D Land. If this had come first, would you have liked it more?

Cool. I just they don't let the floodgates completely open and become like XBL Indie Games.

@Wiidsguy Exactly. As long as people with no NNID can only view posts, it's great. If they change that, spamming and trolling will ensue.

(If you share your own post)

@Greator I think it does. It doesn't reveal anything about your real self on Miiverse. Only possibly your Miiverse name on Twitter.

@Greator Sharing a Miiverse post to Twitter won't reveal your Twitter name on Miiverse, though?

Wii U will probably become a platform for Nintendo games + smaller scale/indie games. But that sounds exactly like something I want, so no problem.

I've almost lost interest in games driven by the graphics and story hysteria, but I can see why people who like that stuff and bought a Wii U for third party support feel betrayed.

Can't disagree with this. I think the thing is that most non-Nintendo AAA games focus so much on story and production, the way to make it fresh is to make a new story and a new world. For Nintendo, which is gameplay centric, the story is mostly unimportant (save the princess) and changing the gameplay is what matters to make it fresh. And I play games for gameplay most of the time, so, hats off to Miyamoto.

He's so right about graphics and gameplay. I hope Nintendo never stops being gameplay centric.

Microsoft, love you.

Mega Man X9, SNES style.

@Ernest_The_Crab Well, I never used a guide for Super Metroid. I got stuck a couple of times, but figured it out after a while. I think half the fun is trying out different things and figuring out the rules of the game.

I agree though that this problem may seem bigger now that we have the internet.

Have people lost the ability to try stuff out?

@Peach64 "Do people now understand why Ubisoft had to make Rayman multiplatform?"

I don't think the problem people had was Ubisoft going multiplatform, but them delaying the Wii U version until the ports are done.

@Luis_Gimpy Big difference. I have nothing against good old expansions or robust DLC. Microtransactions more often refer to buying a weapon or a new level for a dollar. That model has many problems, not least the annoyance of buying a game that feels incomplete.

I'm boycotting "all of our games will have microtransactions" EA, anyway.

@KnightRider666 I will. I've heard from other sources as well it is the best one next to the first X. PSX, right?

@Kevin Castlevania: Rebirth for Wii was pretty good of what I played. I wouldn't say no to more stuff like that.

@KnightRider666 The first X is my favorite by far, but I've only played the first three, and 7.

@KnightRider666

I agree. Or what I'd really like is a SNES-style Mega Man X9.

"It was appealing to only a very small hardcore base of fans. That's how franchises die."

Sad words. Why must every franchise appeal to the broadest possible audience, thereby losing the hardcore audience with the more specific needs? I think they could've kept the Metroidvania Castlevanias (and innovated within that formula) as a separate thread to the God of War clone Castlevania.

@NintendoPro64 Yeah, that'd be nice.