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Geez! Glad I JUST stumbled upon this on my own while playing yesterday! Otherwise I would have hit the roof seeing a spoiler like this on the main page of Nintendolife.

I know at some point we have to talk Spoilers "in public," but it still seems too soon.

This one screenshot has made me more excited for BotW than any other media Nintendo has released for the game so far!

@Blastcorp64 Unfortunately it's not just about translating, but localizing as well. A lot of cultural norms need to be considered. The guys over at 8-4 Play Podcast - the team behind the localization of Fire Emblem: Awakening, amongst others - have mentioned how large of a task it is to localize games with a ton of text (e.g. Fire Emblem) from Japanese to English. And not just English, but to English-speaking countries like America, Great Britain, Australia, etc., and how to make text from Japan make sense, culturally, to another nation. It's weird, but interesting.

Maybe someone already said this, but I think it's a safe bet that they'll announce a few more New 3DS SNES games. What those would be, who knows.

The entire video montage made my the Tokyo Olympics Committee was impeccable. The parts with Mario were obviously great, but the focus on athletes before that was also awesome! Really nicely done. Can't wait for Tokyo 2020!

@Ed_Fairway Same X1000

Really loved BOXBOY!...! Looking forward to some fresh new challenges.

The Sears at our local mall had kiosks for Virtual Boy, the SNES, and a brand new N64 - with Mario 64 - in the Fall of 96. My brother and I asked Mom to take us to the mall three days in a row to play and she, somehow, agreed. I stood there watching a girl play the N64 and kept smelling something awful. I thought she must live on a farm or something because she smelled like a horse. But then, when she left, I started playing Mario 64 and kept smelling the farm. I sniffed around and realized I had stepped in dog crap sometime earlier and probably forced that girl to leave the N64 kiosk because, as she is probably writing on some other website somewhere right now, "I had to get away from this weird N64 kid who was watching me play because he smelled like a horse. He probably lived on a farm!"

I was 12 at the time in 96 and mom bought my brother and I an N64 for Christmas. We knew it was in the house a few weeks before Christmas and we asked if we could just feel the controller. So she opened it and brought out the controller for her creepy children to feeeeeeel. We loved it. My brother promptly made Mario run in a 360 the first time we played it Christmas morning, just like the promotional VHS tape from Nintendo Power told him to do!

Best thing about those two pictures is that the first shows the reflection of a window and then in the second the blinds are closed and the owner has had two or three cold drinks on that table and left water marks. Makes sense. Every good leaker makes sure they close the blinds and throw back a couple of glasses of ice cold lemonade before posting a football shaped controller to Reddit.

@Whopper744 Agreed. That fan showing up at the end blowing the enemies away made me concerned that it's going to be another one of those "you need these amazing one-off skills to defeat bosses," which I really did not like.

Takeaway is that Aonuma couldn't even tell his SON that he was making an HD version. That's some Zelda secrecy there.

@Jetset Totally agree. After Nintendo's poor showing at E3, and (in my opinion) Playstation's great one, I bought a PS4 in addition to my Nintendo systems - it's my first Playstation since the PS1! But while I enjoy games like Star Wars Battlefront and Shadow of Mordor, I definitely still play Nintendo games more. And I'm like Thomas - I'm just past 30 now and still can't do the "adult" gamer thing. I never really could. And I still can't. More power to those who can play games like Fallout 4 over and over, but it just isn't for me!

I spent part of this past fall playing Fallout 4 and felt SO OVERWHELMED I gave up. Plus, every time I booted it up I felt anxious and nervous roaming through the Wasteland. Nintendo is comfort. A company that can give the adventure of Zelda, the strategy of Fire Emblem, the hilarity of Animal Crossing, and the sheer joy of Super Mario is and always will be my one true love.

And thanks for the editorial! Nice work Thomas.

I have to say that since playing A Link Between Worlds a second time recently, it's cracked my top 3 along with Ocarina of Time and Wind Waker. The music in ALBW is SO GOOD. Wonderful arrangements.

Say what you want about Sticker Star, but it had some of my favorite music ever in a Mario game.

Really surprised by NL's score on the original BOXBOY! I could have sworn they ranked it higher. I really enjoyed the original and how it kept me interested per world to see what new mechanic they came up with. Didn't even consider a sequel would come out though! Great news!

Definitely my first go-to website for Nintendo news. Used to be IGN, but this site has eclipsed them in terms of swiftness of reporting Nintendo news, interesting Nintendo features, and general love of all things Nintendo. Hope you guys continue to grow in readership over the next 10 years!

No way am I playing this level. I appreciate the design, but just watching that video stole 2 years from my life.

@FLUX_CAPACITOR That is an amazing story! My childhood was almost exactly the same hahah being 30 myself. Also, awesome username.

There is NO way that they are going to put Bayonetta in that game. No way. If they try to, they're going to have to tone her down, but that's just not worth it at that point.

Wow that music is amazing!

After the Lucas announcement, I thought for SURE that Mother 3 was going to be announced for Virtual Console. Sigh...

@outburst Hahahaha! What a LOST ART. As a kid, my friend was convinced if you blew into the NES cartridges and then also LICKED them at the same time (trust me - it can be done), they'd get working. Amazingly, it always seemed to work for him. Real weird.

@TheAceofMystery I simply do NOT like the bedroom eyes of your DK avatar! It creeps me out!

Rune Factory 4 should definitely be on this list. Would probably make my #11.

I don't find Super Smash Bros. for 3DS to be "Must-Play" on 3DS because the WiiU version is superior. Don't get me wrong, it's still great. But, in my opinion, just not "must-play". I also feel that way about Ocarina of Time, but maybe less so about Majora's Mask given all the updates to that game. My top two choices are two franchises I had NEVER played before 3DS - Fire Emblem: Awakening and Animal Crossing: New Leaf. LOVE those games.

This sounds like the kind of announcement that's made during a Nintendo Direct! Fingers crossed for one next week, or at least before March 31st!

@earthboundlink Agree with everything you said. I think the Alien Turn wait time was intentional and I found it to be effective in the setting the tension for the game.

Maybe it's a patience thing. In his review of this game on IGN, Jose Otero mentioned that multiplayer is like "Speed Chess". Well, I think the regular story mode is like "Normal Chess" haha. I don't mind waiting while the aliens make their moves.

I really thought I wasn't going to like this, but after playing the demo I only wanted more. And I honestly didn't mind the enemy turn. It gave me a moment to collect my thoughts. Plus, the music is just freaking rad. I can't wait for Friday here in North America!

@audiobrainiac @JaxonH - Thanks so much for your replies! Makes me feel a lot less nervous to check out the online play. And I will check out the Nintendolife Forum for hunters! Thanks again to you both!

I've been loving this game, but I'm a little nervous to jump into online play. I'm about 20 hours in and feel I have a good grasp of the game, but I'm "afraid" I'll get egg on my face playing online as I don't know if there are certain expectations of online MH players. Any advice from anyone?

I'd pay for all of these.

I can't wait for Ness!

"A070NAG21T6JY86T" @Spoony thank you!

@MercyfulMisfit If you're offering, that is.

I will take one @MercyfulMisfit !

I'd take some codes! @Porky

God I love Jimmmy Fallon. This was hysterical. Kidman clearly is still in love with him haha.

Is anyone else noticing getting better items while in 1st, 2nd, or 3rd place? Got a red shell when in first, a piranha plant in 2nd, and three red shells in 3rd. That's NEVER happened to me before. Is it the DLC, the update to 3.0, or am I crazy?

Is it weird that I read through this entire list with the voice of the Smash Bros. announcer reading it in my mind? Hahaha I couldn't get it out of my brain.

Would love a US code! [email protected]

Given that Nintendo announced to the world about the "New" 3DS in a nearly random Japanese Direct that barely anyone in the West said they were planning to tune in for, I would not be surprised at ALL if they released some amazing/bizarre news via the Treehouse tomorrow.

You KNOW Tingle is in there somewhere just waiting to be an unlockable, playable character. It has to happen.

And I wouldn't be surprised that, decades down the road, Wind Waker takes over as #1 on a lot of future lists.

This made me want to play all the Zelda games all over again immediately. I'm surprised the two Oracle games weren't on this list though. My first Zelda was Ocarina and then Link's Awakening DX back in '98 or so. Those were the days!

@JakeOfAllTrades Mario Ballotelli? I know he's adopted, but still. Maybe you were being facetious?

I recently made a pact with myself to only play one game at a time and not jump around from title to title. This seemed like a good idea at the time, and I really enjoyed burning through Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon that way (with some occasional stops at Rusty's Real Deal Baseball along the way). But then I heard about Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft and became hopelessly addicted. Not a WOW fan at all, but this got me. I'll also be playing some Super Mario 3D World in addition to some tabletop games with family and friends!