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@WreckitRyan Xenogears (the original PS1 game that started it all) was seminal experience for me as a teenager. So much so that I named my first child after the character Elhaym. While I didn't get as heavily invested in Xenosaga, I have with Xenoblade. That daughter now plays them and finds them important to her. Full circle.

@Liam_Doolan US Preorder page is gone again. If you have the link you get the Wario page, and in search results/game lists the Special Edition for 3 doesn't even show. I'm not seeing anything on Twitter from Nintendo about it. Does Nintendolife have anything?

@Ryu_Niiyama thanks. Was wondering if I should pick this up. Sounds like I'd get the same outcome. Way to take one for the team.

@birdcat I don't have epilepsy. That trailer was the worst I've had flashing bother me.

@Oubie @aznable Time for me to play though it again. An excuse to enjoy it more, and have a decade+ of growing up to see how I feel about the story now. Likely love it even more.

@AlohaPizzaJack I have the CD for StarLancer, and just the case insert for FreeLancer sadly the disk is long gone.

@Oubie My favorite too. Ivalice was one of their most thought out settings. I just wish they were willing to stick to their original plan of a grown up team instead of shoe-horning in Vaan and Penelo.

I don't regret having picked up the Steam version on a whim years ago. It was a good romp that had some issues, but brought back some of the joy from playing space games in my youth during the 90s. I absolutely loved the music. Still have the game installed just for the tracks.

Young Link is available now in US from Best Buy. They have pages for the other two but they are not yet available to purchase
https://www.bestbuy.com/site/nintendo-amiibo-figure-super-smash-bros-series-young-link/6255171.p?skuId=6255171

Me: Is that the ColorWare switch? They do nice work. Go to verify:
https://www.colorware.com/p-1048-colorware-switch-8-bit.aspx?c=, umm yes it is with their screenshot PhotoShopped on.

@Fath Much better comparison.

@Nintendoforlife - Multiplayer community is the main reason I can see people swapping back and forth. If you have a group of friends with only one system you may only play on that. It sounds like local wireless is going to be separate without crossplay (online will) so I can see people swapping to play with different people.

@filterclay I'd never even heard this genre name before, but it is one I've been playing for years. Interesting looking game, but I wouldn't want to play it on PC, but could see playing it on 3DS

@RoomB31 Agreed! He has a bit, just not enough to make it over the top and wonderfully bad.

I've played all Paper Mario games, and preferred them over the Mario & Luigi series, so I'm not keen on the direction change. However, they've still been fun. Sticker Star was just above meh for me, and this looks to be shaping up better than it. However, not day 1. I'll be waiting on this one and picking it up it it becomes a "Select".

@allav866 Also has a bit of a Shatner to his voicing.

Might have to check out a few local pawn shops to see what old games they have lying around. My Library is long gone. I really, really, need to stop selling back my old games.

@Tops I also feel that way. I prefer to have my bottom screen zoomed out all the way so I can access folder and icons easier, plus use some badges to decorate where I want it.

I'm not as worried about the format of the initial reveal, but how they handle talking about it, marketing it, and supporting it afterwards. They are giving themselves a short window to build up excitement with a major holiday season in between then and now.

The only thing I wonder is what is the scale of the graph. Without a vertical scale it's meaningless. The cropping they use shows a 66% drop, but is that really 0 at the bottom and is each line a linear representation of data (as opposed to a log or exp scale). Say each bar represents 100k queries and the bottom of the graph is 10mil. That means a trivial amount of change.

Our daughter is Elhaym from Xenogears. Our son is Garion from the Eddings' book series. Figured names that were recognizable in a store or park when yelled were important.

Hmph, XL is waits up to 38"? Never going to fit that healthily- damn broad hips!

I love reading ratings review statements. It's a weird mixture of bias and unbias. They show bias in what they tend to focus on as being aspects of a game, but they describe it with almost a clinical detachment.

Personally, doesn't matter to me. I have a PS4 with one button sharing, and I never use that feature other than accidentally hitting the button and it jumping me out of the game unexpectedly. For those who share, big deal, for those who don't not so much

@Qun_Mang I'm glad they have implemented web buying and autodownloading like I could do on PSN.

As for the e series and Pokemon Picross: Pokemon Picross isn't horrible for a Free-to-Play title, but you'll definitely get bogged down by needing to earn Picrites to open new areas. If you play I recommend you think of it as an occasional play game with a once daily speed training session. Also- ignore what the lady tells you in game, don't expand your energy bar or your Pokemon slots, keep your Picrites for opening new areas. After a few you'll get more Picrites every day for the training and you can always pause the game while your energy recharges. You also expand how many you get by leveling up the training, and between that and unlocking levels you get at most 13 per day plus 2 for beating the time. Also don't unlock alt-world until end game: you don't earn Picrites for the puzzles so treat it as more of a prize for finishing up. Since a single Mega-Pencil to mega evolve a Pokemon costs 500 (!!!!) Picrites, expect to do those all at the end of the game as a longevity thing.

The e series isn't bad, but it has definite shelf life due to a limit in puzzles (I haven't gotten into the last few so that may have changed). That's what really turned me on about Pixlcross is the community puzzle aspect: lots more replay this way!

@MikeTV76 I agree. Their quantities of them tend to be really low, making it not them collector's editions, or fan's editions, but instead a scalper's editions all too often.

@blondeandy Thanks! From the outside it appears different, I appreciate the view from someone who interacts with them more.

Can I just say that that the UK Nintendo online store just totally kills the US Nintendo Online store? I wish ours would stop relying solely on other vendors and get something up. The UK store has lots of cool offerings. Yes NoA has the World Store, but since I live in nowhere Iowa, not going to affect me.

http://www.nintendo.com/games/detail/pixlcross-wii-u Is the link for the NoA eShop for it.

Purchased and downloading, fire it up when I get home from work.

@PixlBitStudios I'll be ordering this today. I've loved Nonograms and Picross for a couple decades now since I was introduce to them as a tween. Got my wife addicted to them too. Been wanting something we can create puzzles for each other with besides graph paper.

Really want this version, but I'm getting more and more nervous about Virtual Console releases being worth purchasing as they are device locked not account locked. Silly thing for many, but as my library has grown its a looming issue.

This is such bad news for my wife. Now she's going to have to be the one to bear the brunt of my need for poking and prodding females with my 3DS stylus to build relationship points.

Oh wait, I don't have such a strange need. Monster Monpiece killed that.

I'm biased towards 2 because of familiarity

Never played either, nor heard of them and the comments imply to me that as a kid growing up on Mega Man I'd like this game. Should I play the first then this one or just take this one as the game the first should have been?

Art book complaint is just art that is in the fold.

USB stick, easy to take care of, use a recovery tool, grab the files, format stick, replace with non drm files.

Hmm, it was missing the purposeful suit downgrade so she has to go get parts. The Space Pirates should've at least hit her once and knocked out all her subsystems before her ship picked her up.

@Kaze_Memaryu Agreed. I don't have an XB1, and I've honestly tended to avoid the XB consoles (only picked up a 360 because it was the R2-D2 edition, played one or two games on it, wife played a couple more). I figure between my Nintendo, Sony, and PC systems I have everything covered I care for. However there have been a few exceptions, namely involving dragons (Blue Dragon is why I played the 360, wife it was Fable). I'll wait to see if the ever cross-platform this later (such as to PS4 or PC) and if not it may be a reason I eventually get an XB1.

@TreonsRealm "like an afterthought" can be said about too many things in my opinion. I'll have to check when I get the game. Thanks for having the conversation

@TreonsRealm That's what I found too. A lot of articles that reference other articles that all point back to the Rely on Horror article, but nothing that points anywhere else. Seems strange that I can't find another original source to this statement.

@TreonsRealm Can you provide documentation of this? I'm not trying to be a jerk, I'm honestly curious. The earliest report of this I can find is http://www.relyonhorror.com/latest-news/several-new-project-zerofatal-frame-2-wii-edition-trailers-fatal-frame-ip-now-officially-co-owned-by-nintendo/ and a lot of people reference that, but it doesn't have original sources. I've searched the US copyright & trademark database (for Fatal Frame) and the EU OHIM database (for Project Zero) and the entries all have Koei Tecmo as the "owner" last updated in 2003. Had no luck searching the Japanese database.

@jahasnell This is exactly how I feel

@datamonkey If I don't count my PS+ free games, I haven't bought any PS4 games... ever. Nothing has leaped out at me even though I got the system at launch (bad idea). Although I have preordered (and paid for since it was digital) Dragon Quest Heroes, so I could say I have finally bought one. Different tastes! (on a side note, StarFox is one of those: someday games for me. I'm not super excited, I'll get it someday to try out).

@Iggly Ahh and yet so far away. Haven't gotten that one.

@Captain_Gonru A final full score breakdown owuld be really cool to see since that could allow you to know what Pokemon everyone was using. That's one of the things I do like about the competitions: they allow you to learn how others are playing and that a Pokemon you have passed off as useless might be useful if you used it differently.

@RupeeClock No wonder they get those scores.

@MrGawain
I've looked at the top scores an wondered how someone can get that high with those characters. Hadn't dawned on me until this article it was hacking not just plain old skills and loopholes. And now today it is painfully obvious its cheating since non standard pokemon are in the top. However, I'm ranked 699 as of right now (score of 50318, of course the hackers are over 600k in score, greater than 10x my score) and have not paid a cent to shuffle nor done anything but play the game. So it is entirely possible to get up to the top and win the megastones without cheating.

That being said, wow this is ridiculous. This one especially is cheat central in the last two days.