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Corporations giving their creators the boot & shunning them is nothing new. The video game indestry is absolutely notorious for it. An industry where publishers retain ful rights to a francise, fire & replace the entire staff after completing a game, firing anyone who refuses to participate in overtime crunch, shelving completed games at the last minute that will never see the light of day, lobbying to discourage developers from unionizing, etc.

My grandmother played video games till the day she died, but her arthritis & bad vision would have made the tiny 3DS a bad console choice.

I've heard many stories about companies like SEGA, Nintendo, & Sony losing copyright battles to things like Game Genie that make me suspect there will be some kind of legal loopholes that make them lose this too. ROM hacks, for example, are transformative & probsbly fall under fair use. Then there's probably some statue of limitations on suing over franchises the company didn't bother renewing. If anything, the lawsuit would be on a game-by-game basis & going after host sites is pointless when it doesn't punish the ones actually making the emulators or the ports.

I'd be more sympathetic if it only applied to current gen games, but I'm on the side of preserving lost media of the far past, invlufing unfinished leaks of unreleased games. ::Jab at Konami::

I just wish we could get rid of the talking tutorial horse. He's more annoying than Clippy from Microsoft Office. He's unskipable, so the only way I could tolerate him was to read his lines with Christopher Walken's voice.

3Ds franchises, I've noticed, have this habit where each game is practically a remake with a new world layout & a small amount of changes, so it's not a huge loss if you don't happen to own an Apple or Android-based phone or tablet.

But does download-only software go down in price over the years? I got Fantasy Life for $25 on Amazon, on a nice secure cartridge on a Nintendo console with a very long life expectancy that I can surely play 10 years from now, while phones & tablets rarely last more than 3 years before they brick.

I don't see why it needs to be Console Exclusive. I think both Fantasy Life games should be Cross Platform.

I see totally different pros & cons here though.

One one hand, you can probably play FL2 on a much larger tablet, or emulate it if not.

On the other hand, your 3DS has a longer life expectancy & you have the security of owning a cartridge. If your tablet or phone brick 10 years from now, you can't count on the Android or iPhone stores letting you redownload it for free based on a record of purchase.

I will have to agree with everyone on Level 5 being backwards on who plays what though. It's the kids who are glued to their phones. Everyone I've friended for games on the 3DS is mostly in their 30s, folks who grew up with a Gameboy.

@the-madprofessor Think about a bucket of Legos that never run empty, & float in the air. I've heard there's also "gameplay" & "hostile mobs" but I've never bothered to leave Creative Mode. I've been building on the same map since 2011.

I've been playing this for months & haven't spent a single red cent on it.

Grind your Pokemon on lower leveled one's you've already caught to bring their levels up. I made my own game out of just trying to get every single Pokemon I caught up to level 6.

When their levels go up, so do their attack powers. It takes longer, but what the hell is the rush?

"Each time you play a new Pokémon will appear."

My experience is that it just goes back & forth between Cherubi & Spinda. I don't know if it will be like this for everyone, but I see that you have a very rare chance of seeing Carvanha, Cherrim, & Sharpedo, so rare that when you inevitably fail to catch them, you won't see them for quite awhile.

My first assumption is that the character design is already so over-the-top that adding anything else to it would make it tedious to draw/model. Pokemon like this already look out of place among the plethora of more simple looking ones.