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For those wanting Wonder spirits-
Spirits- Wonder Flower
Enemy - Piranha Plant x8 horde battle
Conditions- controls flip left to right. Fighter prefers down specials

Spirit- Prince Florian
Enemy- Ivysaur and Mario
Conditions- Main fighter is small, Mario wears bunny hood

Spirit- Popplin
Enemy- Daisy x4
Conditions- Fighter uses Lips Stick, prefers neutral special

I guess it's not too surprising. Sakurai has always one of those people who doesn't like being stuck with doing the same thing forever. He's often said one of his favourite things to do in development is work with all kinds of people. You can see that in how he left HAL to pursue other work. He's worked with Q for Meteos, SEGA for Mushiking, GameArts for Brawl, Project Sora* for Uprising and Bandai Namco for Smash Bros**. Add to fact that he did say he was paying out his pocket for the Youtube series so I can't blame him for putting it to an end. If anything, he's now got a good relationship with 8-4 from it.

I always try to keep in mind that Sakurai left HAL (amicably) because he was bored of sequelisation and people expecting 'the next game' so soon after the current one. I know he's mentioned his reluctance to go back to Kid Icarus and I honestly don't think we need a new Smash anytime soon. I hope he's working on something fun and interesting

*I am aware Project Sora was a temporary studio but it did consist of members of various Nintendo studios

** 'but he worked with the same studio for those games' I hear you cry. True but I think Smash is a special exception because it gives Sakurai an opportunity to be in contact with various studios and people eg. developers, composers, publishers etc.

Wasn't there a story about Miyamoto being made to come into Yamauchis office to apologise for having doubts about Mother 2? I swear I read that somewhere

Edit: i must have imagined it

@Anti-Guy

• The Pokémon Company doesn't own Pokémon.
• They literally mentioned they have charity foundation- Pokemon With You who lend support to children affected by disasters.
• Is Square-Enixs donation enough? They're 'aggressively applying AI' apparently so 'boooo' to them too
• As I stated in my comment, charity is a community effort. Any other company can donate too. PIL, Musk etc.
• Nintendo dont tend to self promote a lot of thier charity work. If TPC did that, they'd still get flack. Damned if you do, damned if you don't.
• I think people affected by disasters have bigger problems right now
• Pokémon With You was initiated in 2011. I'm assuming PWU was a good thing back then because Black and White were good games but now it sucks because Dunsparces evolution is a bit longer or something.

Good. I hope those kids regain those smiles. If Pokémon were real, they would be helping to rescue, rebuild and recover from such disasters because after all, charity is a community effort, not simply a one man (or 'mon) task.

What did the King of Hyrule get for Christmas?

Lynx Africa Awakening

Pfft... people complaining about spoilers for a DLC they had no intention of playing. Gamers amirite?

ABKs loss is also West Ham Uniteds loss if the rumours are true

(With sincere apologies to any Hammers fans out there)

@LeJuiceCup you'd be surprised

But is going to fix the fra..slams doors Yes, you've said that on every single article. Congratulations you've swallowed Digital Foundry and vomited it up as your own take.

One thing I will say about about the SV is they really went all in with the story for the DLC. I was expecting similar fare as IoA and CT but instead we got a nice narrative to accompany it. I look forward to seeing how this epilogue pans out.

Remember when the Nintendo Seal of Quali...door slams

That's not what it meant. The seal was there to assure the consumer the product was a legit copy and not a unauthorised game.

Haven't read all the comments but let's try address as many issues as I can

• 23% of the franchises income comes from the games. I think people really need to keep that mind. It would be like saying Marvel should stop making movies and focus on comics. It may be main source but it's not the thing making the most money
• No, it would take resources from Monolith Soft and the next thing people complain about how GF 'held back' the next Xenoblade
• Genius Soronity has 22 employees. Giving it to them would be silly. Also, Colleseum and XD reuse the models from Stadium.
• People have REALLY got to expect a new game every year. A lot of people say they want GF to take their time but maybe if content creators and fans can pack it in with BW3/BW Remakes/Legends 2/Let's Go Johto speculation every. dang. Pokemon Presents.
• People often encourage developers to have a healthy work environment but I don't think haranguing them constantly helps. Don't thinly veil it as 'constructive criticism'. It's not. it makes you look like a Karen. A TerraKaren as it were. No wonder Junichi Masuda and James Turner left the company because I'll tell you what, they got a lot of crap in the lead up to Sword/Shield.

Just a warning guys, PokePark Hisui is actually just a few fields, you get attacked regularly and in order to get to different parts of it, you have to leave and re-enter the Jubilife ticket office.

People will tell you it's the best one but I don't think it is.

Imagine pestering a developer to wrap up on something because you want to move on to the next thing. I think people should have more patience with creatives instead of expecting things to happen in a short space of time. Yes, we all anticipate a Switch 2 or Mario Kart 9 announcement but I think expecting Ninte...oh wait, sorry wrong topic! I mean Boooooo! Boo Keighley.

That SEGA trailer sounds promising but I can't help but think that one or two of those games might turn out underwhelming due to how highly regarded each of those IP are to fans. We'll see, hopefully I'll be proved wrong. As a fan of JSRF, i hope it turns out ok.

There's bound to be someone in the comments who was interested in Thank Goodness You're Here but is now scared of the Northern accents and won't buy it til theres subtitles confirmed 😏

Guys, if you want an evil counterpart for Peach, don't forget Grape is the antagonist in Princess Peach Showtime!

Cool. Been waiting for this. I look forward to playing the inevitable demo, buy the game and then hold off continuing it until a rainy day like the previous two games

Other alternative sub headings

• Is it a fair Klopp
• Still has its Wenger on the pulse
• A classic or pretty Fergie-table?
• A -2/10 for Everton fans

@majinx07 Yes, although each game is 8GB, 14GB and 14GB respectfully and I can't imagine any publisher opting to go for a 64GB cart without wanting jack up the games price

Take that, Laurence Fox! 😏 😛

Greasy, grumpy and makes obnoxious noises.

But enough about the fanbase, it's a free Revavroom

A fairly recent game too.
Fun fact: NoE pushed this game so much on social media that I sometimes mistake it as a Nintendo game despite not being developed or published by them

Honestly, #6 isnt too bad. I don't know where previous Mario RPGs have debuted in the charts previously but I can't imagine they've hit the #6 spot in thier first week. After a little research, the original SMRPG sold 2.1 million copies (whether that includes digital sales via VC, I don't know). Considering it looks like it's had good reviews and great word-of-mouth in the lead up, surely it'll beat that.

For a spin off series (yes, I'll clump SMRPG, M&L and PM together), #6 isnt too bad of a start. Granted, it was never going to do Mario Kart numbers but it looks promising

I'm playing a certain Mario RPG that I've heard is super....

I'm playing Mario and Luigi Superstar Saga

@HotGoomba Be careful, I hear they turn nasty the more strikes you make

@rjejr Well, strategy RPG. The RPG elements being skill tree, equipping stronger weaponry, being turn based etc

Well, their partnership has been pretty strong since Nintendo bought Monolith Soft. Sounds a bit daft saying the connection is stronger after one company bought the others subsidiary.
Considering Nintendo had no issue allowing MonoSoft to work on PxZ and both companies having thier Xeno characters appear in each other projects (PxZ2 and Xenoblade 2), I think its fair to say it's a very amicable relationship.

This is the fourth kart racing game that Bamtang have developed for GameMill in a six year period. I honestly wasn't expecting this to be the groundbreaking experience that would 🎶break the mooo-oold🎶

Never heard of Toad Madrid Drive. Is it like Madrid Drive but with more Toads?

I think they should hire unknown actors so people who want that can complain they haven't heard of them and demand they hire someone who they have heard of.

Matt Berry as Error (and Bagu)
Matt Berry as Tingle
Matt Berry as Tarin
Matt Berry as Malon

I'm going to defend this reviews opinion on Funky Kong. He always sounds like he's having manic phase with his screaming and yelling. Like, lay off the Red Bull and let's not encourage this erratic behaviour.

That thumbnail has been the greatest gift to games journalism

@TheMegaMarshtomp Considering we got 3 Nick racers now and a DreamWorks racer coming up all made by the same developer in a matter of six years alongside the news about GameMill treating the developers of that King Kong game questionably, I'm guessing GM are very keen on striking while the irons hot and pushing out a sequel

@Jireland92 To be fair, Rocksteady was considered for the original NASB but was replaced by Shredder. Likelihood he was a holdover concept. That said, if he was you'd think he'd be in the base roster...

IIRC, didn't Konami get Hayter back to do lines for Snakes appearence in Bomberman R? Or at least used his voice clips for it. I think he also took a pay cut for recording the Twin Snakes so that Konami/Nintendo/SK could bring back as many of the original voice cast too.
Taking that and the fact he has tried to pitch a MGS movie (he wrote/co-wrote the first two Xmen movies and Watchmen) and was annoyed over the EVO prank, it seems like he still has a lot of affection for the series and Kojima was the main force behind recasting Snake rather than Konami

🎶 Pop a poplin in your mouth when you go to Fishy Joe's
What they're made of is a mystery
Where they come from, no one knows🎶

Record company: 'Asiane is actually a huge Mario fan'
Fans: 'She is?! Typical Nintendo! Stifling fan creations. They clearly hate thier fans. Urgh...you know what. I'm going to buy 15 copies just to stick to them'

Naturally, I jest but you know someone will take that angle 😐

@Dm9982 You forgot Ghost Babel on GBC. Now that's a curio I'd like to try. (Also, if Konami would be kind enough to to allow it on GBC NSO, that would be neat. Ninja Cop too)

I would be playing Wonder if the delivery wasn't delayed til Monday. Not a great start...

This has been my issue with Gamemill. They seem to push out these licensed games much too frequently. Like in a span of 5 years , they've released three Nickelodeon kart racers. We have a Nickelodeon All Star Brawl game which is already getting sequel so soon after the original. Add King Kong and that DreamWorks racer and I have to wonder if, as a publisher, they rush these things out. Although I do wonder if Nickelodeon play a role in it too.

@tektite_captain To be fair, Warner Bros own the rights to King Kong these days.

@Burning_Spear
Wait a minute. This person is...
tears off mask
Gasp! Lucius6 from GoNintendo 😯

On a serious note, the best Pokémon game is your favourite Pokémon game. Telling people that thier favourite Pokémon game is bad doesn't make your favourite Pokémon game better.

I'm making a general, harmless comment about X&Y which some will like and some will dislike

That title just rolls off the tongue

Suprised no one on here went for the 'but EDGE gave Skyward Sword a ten...' argument. Well done, guys.

Sigh...another money grubbing scheme from capitalism charging you extortionate funds to build simple structures and put the poor consumer into debt. Of course, some will pay for it and blindly ignore the obvious flaws

But enough about Tom Nook. The Lego set looks cute

@Alckemy You mean like Wario Land?

Anyway, I hope Superstars reviews decently so Arzest no longer have to be known as the 'Balan WonderWorld people'

I have a question for anyone reading this. Should I watch a playthrough of the original game just so I'm all caught up with the story so far? I'd like to have some familiarity with the characters beforehand