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@Bender I remember that looking more like a 2D God of War.

@CB85 Yeah, it's probably something like that.

ALBW, ALTTP, Zelda 2.

@CB85 It shouldn't have to be, as most people in Scandinavia play games in English, even when given the choice to select their native language. In fact, most games (including Nintendo games) are not translated for us at all, because they know no one cares.

If localization is the culprit, it must be an organizational or bureaucratic problem, not a resource one.

Edit: Miitomo is a different kind of product, though, so maybe they do want to thoroughly translate that. It still doesn't explain why My Nintendo won't be available in all countries at launch, though.

All of this smells a bit half-baked, in my opinion. Import your Mii from Wii U by scanning a QR code? It should just sync the Mii(s) once you've connected your NNID to the My Nintendo account. I really hope they don't mess up this chance to finally have a unified account system.

A Direct would be fun. I'd like to hear more about the new account system.

It sounds like they're lumping together non-competitive with "calm/stress-free", which doesn't sound accurate to me. For example, I play less multiplayer games nowadays, but I play a lot of Bloodborne, and other "stressful" single player games.

VR seems very non-Nintendo to me; isolating experience (unless used for social virtual worlds), expensive technology, and only useful for a few specific types of games (like sitting in a cockpit).

Here is another interesting take on this game: http://gamasutra.com/blogs/ChristianNutt/20160122/264111/The_secret_of_The_Legend_of_Legacy.php

This review and that article makes this game sound like a must-try for me.

"To that, we tried to add a fresh take by having the players choose specific roles like Attacker, Tank, and Healer."

Wow. Such a fresh take...

@Krisi I love the way the wall jump is a "hidden" ability in Super Metroid. The game is designed to not reveal the wall jump to the player until later, which wouldn't work if it was easily executed by mistake. Yes, it's a bit tricky to learn, but after some practice it's not too hard to pull off consistently. And it's so cool when you first learn it and realise you had that ability all the time, and the possibilities it unlocks when you play the game from the beginning again.

To the people saying it looks awful, keep in mind this is a prototype two people whipped together in a matter of days. It was meant as a proof of concept. Given a full development cycle, I'm sure they could've made it into a really solid SMB3 port.

Maybe it's finally time to pick up 3D Land.

I can see the similarity in a sense. Nintendo doesn't compete in terms of the biggest teams, the largest budgets, and the most realistic visuals. Instead, they focus on the mechanics of the game, sometimes leveraging new ideas by one person or a few people (Splatoon, Box Boy, A Link Between Worlds). If "indieness" is a scale, Nintendo would be somewhere in the middle.

I didn't really like the portrayal of Samus, but I've gotta give them credit for the CGI. The scenario was pretty cool, too. Like a mix of Alien and 2001.

There has to be something more to this. Sounds too thin of a concept.

@Ralizah Industry leading in mobile is still not at the same level as PS4. Mobile CPUs are more power efficient, and less capable (but not by much, really).

@wazlon Third party support is more about getting a decent install base, I think. If you mean getting ports of all the AAA games, I doubt that will happen on a Nintendo console. I just hope they have something with NX that is more easily "graspable", and has a much better online infrastructure.

If Nintendo drops physical buttons, I drop Nintendo. I don't want to have to look down to see whether or not my fingers are on the buttons.

But I would be very surprised if they did. This technology could be combined with any other, like buttons.

Elegant! I'm excited to see what NX brings.

"...Nintendo has posted a new trailer which shows off some of the best user-made stages..."

Only those didn't look like good levels. Some fun gimmicks, but not good levels that I would enjoy playing multiple times and discovering all the tricks. It's a shame even Nintendo are promoting only the gimmick aspect of the game.

@Steel76 I think it's inaccurate to compare software sales like you do between Wii and Wii U. There's a huge difference in the install base.

Also, Mario Maker is a creation kit. It won't sell to everyone who wants a new 2D Mario.

That said, now that they've kinda summed up 2D Mario in a fantastic (imo) package, I hope are ready to make some bigger changes in the series going forward.

@JakeOfAllTrades

Morals change all the time, and for good reason. A while back, women couldn't vote. Further back, Africans weren't considered people.

On the topic of the game itself, I liked the first one, but it felt a little too basic to really stand out, imo. Are there more interesting mechanics and things in the sequel?

I agree. Romance rarely works in games. In Gunman Clive, I doubt it's even meant to be a romance story that "works", though. He's just reusing a trope from basically every other game: rescue the girl. This time, he apparently put a twist on it. No problems there, in my opinion.

@Kalmaro

True about the bible. It's pretty clear on same-sex relationships. Not being christian myself, I can thankfully stay clear of the conflicts between the bible and modern, progressive society, and go on what seems right.

Regarding romance in action games, sure. But did you complain about Clive kissing the girl at the end, before?

@WarlockNem "Sure IGA's metroidvania games were great but some of the earlier strait forward linear classic Castlevanias are better"

True enough. But Mirror of Fate isn't a good linear Castlevania either, in my opinion.

@RonF

I'd love to see an in-house Metroid approached similarly to A Link Between Worlds; keep and refine the classic core gameplay of Super Metroid, but experiment with the progression structure and add new mechanics.

@Noelemahc Being a 2D Castlevania, I expected Mirror of Fate to have some of what I love about the Igarashi games, but it was much more like a 2D God of War. I guess that's fine if you're into that, but nothing I'd like from a Metroid game.

@KO-Cub I'm pretty picky with my Metroidvanias.

@Nomad What tells you Federation Force won't be pretty good, as well?

I hope they got turned down. Their 3D Castlevanias are OK, I guess, but Mirror of Fate was a pretty awful take on the 2D "Metroidvania" genre.

Her description of Jak and Daxter made me want to try it.

The Wii U is the least powerful of the current gen consoles, yet it's the only one that runs most of its games at 60 frames per second.

Specs isn't everything. Priorities are more important.

The fact that the big publishers have different priorities than Nintendo is a problem, but I don't know if the solution is to make a much more expensive console that the first party developers won't fully take advantage of, anyway.

@StarDust4Ever I thought Wii U was Nintendo's Dreamcast.

Nintendo has never successfully played the power game, so it's not surprising. Since NES, they've been applying modest technology in creative ways.

I just hope NX sells less on a gimmick and more on features that make it accessible and practical.

Nope. Please don't touch Zelda. I don't like the Xenoblade games at all.

@BXXL I'm sure they've taken their time to come up with ways to freshen up the formula. Sure, they could whip out a small 2D Metroid in a year or two, but it'd be another Fusion or Zero Mission, which honestly didn't add much to the template set by Super Metroid. Good games, especially Zero Mission, but I'd rather see a more progressive 2D Metroid at this point, and that's something you don't just slap together.

They have a really decent budget at this point, counting the $4.5 million they're getting from the publisher. I just hope they don't bite off more than they can chew in terms of development time with all those extra modes.

Pre-E3 drought?

I guess they wanted to make something fast after Toki Tori 2.

Yeah, lots of japanese players online. And surprisingly few problems with lag despite that.

Good to hear. Android seems like a bad choice for a game console.

@Nintendian And maybe they'll inspire the rest of the industry to not rehash, as well.

@OMC79

Don't worry. I never back a Kickstarter fully expecting the dev team will succeed. That's the nature of Kickstarter, after all. I back for the potential, and only projects involving people with a track record that proves they finish stuff, such as Iga and Inti Creates. I've backed several games and many have had a good end result. Some have not. At least they were given a shot at it. And yes I've played most Castlevanias, and the story was never the highlight for me.

@Yorumi

I can certainly see the problem you're highlighting with publishers abusing Kickstarter, but I'm honestly just happy we're getting an Iga metroidvania again. I don't know how much truth there is to other Kickstarters getting starved because of the big ones. I've backed both huge ones and smaller ones. The only thing I want is for the team to be known and have a track record that proves something. I'm usually not backing the really small games with completely unknown teams behind them. Kickstarter is full of risk and uncertainty, but even more so when I know nothing about the people and their capabilities.

@Yorumi I completely agree about your point that a Kickstarter seems to be a pretty strange method for a publisher to assess a market. It's very possible the publisher just saw a chance to increase the budget "for free". If that is the case, the publisher is to blame, but some people seem to be mad at the Kickstarter team.

@Windy $3 million dollars isn't nearly enough to pay for 100 employees for 2 years. Not even 50. Plus a big chunk of the Kickstarter money goes immediately to fees of different kinds.

The reason Wii U is a stretch goal, I'm guessing, is that they're making the game using Unreal Engine 5, and it doesn't support Wii U, so they will have to create separate technology just for Wii U.

@Yorumi I guess they could lying, but I'm not going to assume that. It could also be the publisher just wanting to get a bigger budget by telling them to Kickstart it first, but that would be on the publisher, eh?

@Yorumi If you're still talking about Bloodstained, the whole reason they took it to Kickstarter is no publisher wanted to fund the game, unless they could prove there was a market for the game. Iga and Ben Judd explained this in several interviews. They would get 4.5 million dollars from a publisher (now revealed, it seems) if they could make the 500k Kickstarter goal. Any extra money would go to extra features.

@OMC79

Kickstarters never were investments. It's donating money to an idea you like. In the case of many games, this including, ideas that wouldn't bear fruit without donations.

I think the gameplay makes a real Iga Castlevania more than the lore, but that's just me.

@CharlyDunst Understandable. I personally back Kickstarters for the potential alone, when something awesome enough shows up (with the right people behind it). I never 100% expect they will be able to pull it off. Like buying a lottery ticket with a high chance of winning something great.