larry_koopa

" Why we're still playing Bayonetta 1 and 2..." Because you only own a Wii U and have nothing else to play?

We've known this information for years...?

That's a fair price. Looking forward to downloading this!!

Clearly a rush job just to have something with the word "Mario" in the title on store shelves for the holiday season.

Very fair and honest review.

The Wii version looked quite blurry by 2006 standards, let alone today's standards. And not to be a troll, but this supposed HD version looks like absolute garbage. Clearly not much effort has been put into improving the visuals. This is nothing more then a cheap cash grab, but I still bet Nintendo charges full price for this. Pathetic.

I know I'm going to be enjoying this game for a long time once I finally got my hands on it.

This all sounds fine to me. The mini games in past entries in the series were stuff that I'd play once and never return to again, so I have no issue whatsoever with there being a complete lack of mini games here. Second, being able to play "pure tennis" without all the chance shots sounds perfect to me. I was sold right then and there.

Great preview.

Just finish the damn game and actually release it on the Wii U.

So apparently everybody decided to write essays in the comment section for this article... chill people.

Yes, for families with young children the Wii U has always made sense. For everybody else and for those who care about third party games it makes sense to have a Wii U and one of the other two consoles.

I'd rather have this at Christmas than Star Fox Zero. I could not be more excited about this game.

Considering I haven't played as Diddy once since buying the game, nor have any of my friends, I honestly couldn't care less.

That is about the saddest list I have ever seen in my entire life. Fast Racing Neo (stupid title notwithstanding) is something I am really looking forward to, but other than that all this list does is highlight the point that the Wii U gave up once Smash Bros came out. Bring on the NX!

This looks amazing. Can't wait.

Too bad Ubisoft wouldn't take a hint from this. Delaying a game to add more polish as opposed to rushing a November release and shipping a game that simply isn't finished...

I'm hoping they're going to take this time to add Pro Controler support, but I sincerely doubt it. Still, if they can make this game any less awful than it was at E3 it'll be a massive improvement.

I love how literally nobody voted for any of the games in the New Super Mario Bros series.

Oh, and Super Mario World for me! Always glad when that beats Mario Bros 3 in any poll.

Meh. I would have preferred Mario Galaxy 3 as the 30th Anniversary celebration. I have zero interest in creating stages myself, or playing frustratingly difficult stages that other people create. That does not sound fun.

I hope this does well, it's just not for me in the slightest and I know I wouldn't enjoy it. I do find it hard to believe that this is the "definitive" Wii U game. Last time I checked Mario Kart 8 and Smash Bros exist. Those are definitive games. This is a rom hacking tool that Nintendo just happened to release themselves...

Could not care less. I upgraded from the original 3DS to the 3DS XL when the latter first launched and I've never had any interest in ever buying another one of their remodels.

Just make an actual "new" handheld and I might be interested.

To me this will always be the best/my favourite in the series, though the Wii U version is a pretty close second.

Still, the memories of playing Melee with my friends growing up is something that I'll never have with the Wii U game.

That's a great price for all the content you're getting.

Okay, somehow missed this game entirely at E3 this year. I could not be more excited about this title. Day 1 buy - I don't care what it costs.

Well this sounds like an awful piece of garbage.

@ThomasBW84

Great preview. You answered a lot of questions that I had about the game! That's too bad that Amiibo support is limited to the retro templates though... wonder why that is?

It doesn't matter how many Final Fantasies, Tales of whatever, or Mass Effects that I play. To me this will forever be my first, favourite, and best RPG that I've ever played.

You know, when you possess other consoles besides just Nintendo ones you don't have to hope beyond hope that every third-party game might somehow make it to the one console that you own. You can just play every game and not have to come here and complain how all these evil developers are being mean by not bringing their games to Nintendo systems.

Looks great!

I enjoyed the N64 Paper Mario and the first Mario & Luigi game (never played any other games in either series) but nothing, and I mean nothing, compares to Super Mario RPG in my eyes. That game is perfection.

Yeah sorry, this game sucks. It epitomizes everything that was wrong with the Wii/Nintendo's casual focus in general.

The Wii caused me to buy a PS3 when at that point I had always been a Nintendo-only gamer. I still play my PS3 more than my Wii U. To me the Wii will always be remembered as the system that made me embrace Sony, and to a lesser extent Microsoft. Garbage like Wii Music are a big part of that. Better luck with the NX, Nintendo.

Please let this come to North America!

Who cares. The rest of the world has already played these games on one of the dozen or so consoles that they've been available on for years now.

... Or, you could just buy the console in question and stop complaining about all the games that the Wii U can't give you. I'm sorry, unless you only care about "Nintendo" games, that's pretty much all you're going to get. Nintendo let Rare go in 2002 and they were purchased by Microsoft. Why exactly would this collection be on a Nintendo console?

I wonder if this will actually be readily available, unlike every single Amiibo that people are interested in owning...

Not interested. I've already put enough extra cash into Smash Bros by getting overpriced Roy and Ryu. Classic stages from 16 years ago? I'll pass.

They just look like stupid hipsters to me.

Maybe next time Nintendo will make a console that can actually handle third-party games.

I don't really feel sorry for fanboys who only own a Wii U and magically expect third-party games to arrive for the system. Just buy a PS4 like the rest of the world so you can actually play everything that comes out. Stop crying when your under powered Wii U can't handle an X1 or PS4 game.

The game looks absolutely terrible. There's plenty of other outstanding games available on Wii U, so why even bother with this? I know Wii U-only gamers are starved for third-party games, but don't settle on garbage like this just because nothing else is available on the console.

Another epic win for Nintendo and the Wii U...

The only issue with the Wii U launch was that they were launching a crappy product which didn't have any great software to speak of until several months after launch. It still only has a handful of great games, but that's a Nintendo home console for you. They support it for 3-5 years, and third parties support it for 0 years.

20 million in 1 year while the Wii U has failed to reached 10 million in 2.5 years... good luck with that.

Yeah... that would have been absolutely amazing. Criterion is responsible for some of my all-time favourite racing games. I can only imagine the type of F-Zero experience they would have made...

"Look, we know that the fans want a straight Samus Aran game"

Then make one, you idiot.

This is not a Wind Waker situation. Though he's right that people were not crazy about the graphical style in the beginning, the fans at least knew that Wind Waker was going to be an actual Zelda game. The same is not true about Federation Force.

@ThomasBW84

Great review!!

And now I play the waiting game until October...

Well I'm glad that he admitted that they were wrong from the outset. Usually Nintendo doesn't fall on their sword like this. I bet they still think that online gaming will never catch on, which was their company line during the GameCube era...

But seriously, "tablets stole the Wii U's thunder..." Umm, excuse me, by the time the Wii U came to market iPads and other tablets were everywhere. What exactly did they expect?

Great video, folks! Much appreciated.

Now, referring to the game itself: the fact that you simply can't play the game without the GamePad is a huge deal-breaker for me. Unless they somehow revamp everything so that you can play with the Pro Controller I doubt I will ever own this game. I just want to play a classic Star Fox game in HD with normal controls. Not too much to ask.

This is why I like Sony. When you're looking forward to a PlayStation game you know you're going to play it with a DualShock. You don't have to worry about them doing something absolutely idiotic with the control scheme.

Right, just like online gaming wasn't becoming a thing in the early to mid 2000s. Nintendo said that would never catch on; they'd rather you connect your Game Boy Advance to your Game Cube - that's the future! They ended up dugging themselves a hole that they're still trying to get out of.

Nice to know that Nintendo learns from their mistakes. Forever being left behind...

This was a pleasant surprise from Nintendo at E3 this year. I loved the Game Cube game in the series and look forward to picking this up day one.

Thank you for such an honest article here.

To me this game sounds like an absolute mess. Just make a normal Star Fox game with good graphics and Pro Controller support. That really is not asking too much... None of this two screen garbage.

Their biggest game of the show was probably Star Fox Zero, and yet I have no interest in it as I will not play a game where I have to divide my focus between my TV screen and the GamePad. I just want to play Star Fox, on an HD screen, and with a Pro Controller, but apparently that is too much to ask.

Nintendo's insistence on "changing the way we play games" is what drove me to the PS3 in the last generation: I don't care about your motion controls, I don't care about your tablet controllers. I just want to play games normally.

Well thanks for putting all of these trailers in one article! Very convenient

@NintendoFan64

Agreed. I'm going to wait a couple of days until things settle down.

Happy day, people!!!