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Thank you for saying so. Been waiting for a review of this. Tiny Barbarian is kinda wicked hard, wondering if this might be more my speed...

I think he's bluffing. The vita failed cause it failed. 3DS kicked butt all up and down town, so the cellphone argument is out the window. Personally I love the Switch and see its only drawback as that its not quite as powerful as competing systems. Otherwise, it would certainly be the king of all consoles. I mean its PORTABLE, a full console, THAT IS ALSO PORTABLE. I've been waiting for exactly that for YEARS. First cause its just awesome, second cause we deserve it and third cause I dont have alot of time to game at home.

No multiplayer? No map editor? NO PROBLEM!

Oh! If you can do that then it makes the system worthwhile! The incredibly short game list was why I originally had no interest in either of these. Hmmm

Tho I did like the music and the game over screen made me laugh out loud.

Wow, just wow. Also, six minutes of the exact same thing forever? Sheesh.

I tried the demo, and as this game is NOTHING like monster hunter, I wasn't interested. Personally I hated the rpg turn based battles. It felt extremely shallow and I was bored just playing the demo. Sorry but there it is.
Now if it were just monster hunter but not so punishing and with the inclusion of riding monsters, then THAT would be a good intro to the series but with a fun twist. Frankly, a game like that would be a pleasant romp through MH land. Which after 3 and 4 and Generations, I'd say we deserve...

Honestly I'd probably buy/play VVVVVV again, it was a really great game. 1001 Spikes was a ball of crap, no thanks and Code of Princess I dunno, probably pass on that as I never finished it on 3DS.
Would be really nice to see some sequels tho instead of so many re-releases...

It's not that big a deal, in this silly world of gaming today.
The mandatory hard drive for WiiU was far more inconvenient than needing a memory card which is relatively cheap and should pretty well last forever. I bought a card for the switch just for good measure and it should last me a good while as I buy retail when possible. And if I really need to buy another larger card, I'll gripe, but so be it. Im' sure Xenoblade is gonna need lots of download space but it'll be worth it, so we'll do it. Hopefully there won't be tons of games that require mandatory extra space, but then, if thats the cost of having more third party games, I'll happily pay it after the Nintendo-only zone that was the WiiU.

Yup, still waiting...

Sadly I kinda doubt it, but would love to see it.

Yes! Always wanted to play this game on a Nintendo console.

these all sound like great fixes for the most part but i wish that more of the 1.3 endgame content was going to be added like the martian invasion, lunatic cultist stuff and moon lord, minion staffs, world trees, etc. cause there is a crapton of stuff only for the pc version, for which the controls make it unplayable and the 3ds version is FAR superior for gameplay. like honest to god, better by a million years.

ok, what about the fact that there are no truffle worms so that you can fight duke fishron? and more importantly, what about the fact that biome key molds for everything except for the jungle NEVER EVER drop, even if you kill mobs for days on end.

not sure about this game, need more info. seemed like that one second at the very end was the only shot of actual gameplay.
if its turn based strategy rpg, is it sort of like steamworld heist then? cause that was awesome.

local gamestop wouldnt let me preorder one so i went over on friday at 1130am and bought one, they wouldnt let me buy a second one for my brother. they had about 10 of them left at this point. so i went home and called him and told him about it. he went over at about 230pm and got THE VERY LAST ONE. surprised that these went like hottcakes but geez, if you got one, you're one of the lucky ones too.

$100 but i do really want them

no 3d? wtf? lame

cripes, i would LOVE to play this game. it looks right up my alley. you know, it really wouldn't hurt for them to release a new 2D metroid every once in a while. especially if they've given up on making metroid prime games. ah well. same goes for castlevania. the 2D ones were always the best (no offense LoS).

weird. if nintendo does not release a fully portable console and crush the competition, they are idiots. seriously, fallout 4, the whole game, on the go on a giant gamepad system, which you can also connect to a tv at home, who wouldnt want that???
whatever this cloud biz is, i dont care. sadly nintendo is dumb and will most likely make something that no one actually ever wanted..

wont be using the co op, but am curious about this new items and abilities for single player biz..

you obvi dont get it man, shantae is tops bloobee

more shantae is always good

despite the forced use of the touchscreen for controls (i can hear the collective groan from people reading this), the game is STILL 100percent worth playing. and the ability to write on the maps and make notes (if a bit limited due to pen vs map size) is one of the best thing included in any game ever.
seriously nintendo, writable maps in every zelda, esp with the gamepad, duh.

uh, is there anything special about this gameboy? is it backlit? apparently its only a gameboy color, so thats totally lame. does it at least glow in the dark? dont get me wrong, i love me some weegee's mansion, but dont see the point here. would be cooler if it was a 3ds rearranged into the shape of a gb color, with like a slideaway cover for the bottom screen or somethin so it still looks kinda authentic.

they look kind of uncomfortable, or embarassed

was xenogears a related game? if so, i thoroughly enjoyed it back in the day but haven't played anything else xeno since... until now. looking forward to xenoblade for wii U. picked up the 3DS game but will have to get back to that at some point, I have quite the backlog of rpgs for 3DS at this point.

badge arcade is fun, if almost utterly pointless. but it does scratch the gotta-get-em-all icth. i fully intended to just take what i could get for free and call it done... but then there were pikmin badges, and so i had to have them all. now as it turns out, badges come and go, but they always come again. however, if you want that really hard to reach one, you gotta pony up the cash. its very tempting because it is cheap, and it is fun, and it is addictive. so in the end, i am okay with tossing nintendo a few bucks here and there, i just gotta try not to get carried away. but i dont do this sort of thing often, so its my guilty pleasure allowance for the time being, lol.

ah i remember the day that i got my first super nintendo, i had bought super mario world and a rare game called xardion separately ahead of the big purchase and then got the snes that came with zelda 3. whooo what a day. i remember playing zelda 3 for the first time on the big tv in the living room, mind blowing.

americans and our uptight weird body issue censorings, its mostly irrelevant but who doesnt like more options or some eye candy in a game? its not like kids are gonna play this game (now please explain bayonetta) so im kind of surprised anyone bothered to take it out. slap an M on it and just call it done. ive seen way more graphic stuff in other games and if anything the super kid friendly thing with nintendo is ultimately hurting them these days.

ok thanks, well good thing i finally set up an external hard drive for fatal frame anyway

so exactly how big are these data packs? and are there multiple packs? is there a set number of them, or just one, or will there be more?

@brewsky
THANK YOU for explaining the key points!

megaman! duh!

"collecting demons and adding them to your team"? oh, so its shin megami tensei iv for babies. and yea, all the poop/fart/pee joke names, im gonna pass on this.

makes me long for a metroid prime 4 on wii u that will obviously never happen

good article, i agree that downloads and physical media should co-exist. the option to download is great (if the system can unquestionably accommodate the file size natively and indefinitely) but people like myself will always admire hard copies and often purchase games just because it is a special edition that includes some sweet swag.

really a shame, i would really like to play this game. but with the eshop games, updates, and save files that i already have on my deluxe wii U, i can't even download the free-to-play copy of this game, let alone the full version. i am not going to buy an external drive just to download games and i would always rather have a physical copy. unfortunately you apparently cannot even use flash media for game storage either, which puts the easy option totally out. i have no intent to buy any other retail-priced games, so whats the point of an additional hard drive for one game? a hard drive that you supposedly cannot also use for data storage via your pc. such a shame.
also i really don't want to pay 50 bucks for a download, sorry but full game or no, thats ridiculous.
and it would take forever given my very slow internet connection. its all downside in the huge-file-size download-only arena.
now if the wii U actually had a reasonable sized hard drive, it might be a different story.

how about how totally different the mood is in the second, underground level? its all dark and ominous, i remember that goomba in between the pillars below the coin block being a particular challenge when i was just a wee sprat. how funny it is now to look back on that.

i want this so badly, NA never gets anything good

so its Yoshi Story/Yoshi Island, i'm sold. when the freak is this game going to get a release date for US???

pretty sure i dont care, i played the wiiu one to death and there were still entire maps left to do till like forever and ever.

well i can tell you one thing, i would die ALOT in this game, based on what i saw in the trailer.

you gotta be kidding me, it comes with like 3 figures and we dont get it? fudge, well i pretty much have to buy a ps4 for fallout 4 so whatever, guess ill make this a purchase for that too. well, if the reserves arent ALREADY all gone.

excellent, 8bit music was a staple of my childhood and i still find it to be particularly and surprisingly evocative considering what they had to work with back then. some of those game tracks are truly epic masterpieces.

was fun, got into a session right off and we won and i spilled the most ink, haha. go paintroller! then the server crashed or whatever and i couldnt get back in for like 30 or 40 min but then it worked again. pretty fun, though i could generally give less of a toot about multiplayer anything so what we were allowed to play for the demo would have very little replay value for me. but it was fun so i guess im somewhat interested in the full release now.

hey a new pushmo game, yay! here's the deets, its for 3DS this time, free to download, $10 if you just buy all the parts of the game at once, which i recommend if you've already played all the other games in the series and know what you're getting into. to buy the parts separately costs $14 so it's not a bad price or a bad deal. also, you can add funds directly while making the purchase in game, which you have to make the purchase in game, can't eshop that part.
most important, the US title is STRETCHMO. it takes about 630 blocks to download, in case you wanted to know.

klonoa, one of my fav games of all time. sadly the first one is the best one, however, i will always be happy if htey decide to make any kind of new klonoa game. i always skipped this one cause i thought that it was the volleyball one. who knew! guess i have a new adventure to enjoy after all.

man i wasnt going to bother with this one cause i never finished the first one, though i did enjoy playing about half ot it, but its got zero and strider? its foolish of me but im tempted.

as a big fan of themes, i like the steel empire ones, i could stand to have those