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I think whether this would be an appropriate memorial should be something that's up to the family and loved ones of Christina, rather than petitioners or Nintendo. If they expressed a desire for this to happen, then it might be worth petitioning Nintendo to try to make it happen. But we presumably have no idea how the family would take this, and it's just not ours--or Nintendo's--decision to make.

I've admired the Wii U game from afar for a while now, so this is almost certainly one I'll be picking up, but I was excited about getting to play it online when the 3DS version was leaked. Can't help but feel a little disappointed, even though I would have spent most of my time in single player.

Online multiplayer isn't integral to my enjoyment of games, but I always find myself wishing I had more than a few games that support it. Lately, online games for 3DS have been a bit disappointing for me, and I hoped this one might buck the trend. Wasn't to be.

I have to admit to being kind of amused by how most of the answers speak to how, broadly, they've been able to successfully leverage their games and achieve sales on the eShop. Except for all of Watsham's answers which sort of boil down to "nobody knows about the eShop or buys games from it". Maybe they're just not buying Renegade Kid games?

Yeah, as someone who has zero interest in actual fighting games based around boxing, this is actually significantly more interesting to me than I expected on first glance. I didn't expect to put a boxing game on my radar, but I hope this turns out well.

Yeah, @MrPuzzlez, it's Aisha Tyler. @ThomasBW84, any chance of a correction?

@Yasume And? I said it's not featured in the review, and it's not. It's information some people might like to see in a review, or failing that, mentioned in the comments. I'm sorry for whatever is bothering you about somebody mentioning a fact about a game beneath a review of said game.

Since it doesn't seem to be mentioned in the review at all, this appears to be an entirely single-player game. Bummer.

@ThomasBW84 Research, please. These don't come from "boards.fireden" in any meaningful sense. That's just one of about a billion 4chan archives on the web. All you're linking to is a snapshot of a 4chan discussion.

I know Snake games are kind of ... snake games, but is there a better option than this one on 3DS given it seems a bit sub-par? I mean, I'm sure somebody has built a browser-based version somewhere, but I'm thinking in terms of eShop games. I keep waiting for a Tron Light Cycle game to come out, but it's getting less likely year by year.

Can Super Meat Boy even compete with the current 3DS market? I'm pretty sure the entire market for SMB on 3DS evaporated with the release of Kung Fu Rabbit, so I don't know what the original can offer that a budget knock-off doesn't already provide.

NB: None of this is a serious comment.

The Kunio series are so confusing on 3DS. There are six (!) of them. For the benefit of anyone else struggling to follow, this game is not the "River City Ransom SP" that Nintendo Life has been covering lately. Instead, this is a game that saw Japanese release way back in 2013. Maybe we can hope to see more of the series making it west now that the license has changed hands?

As someone without a Wii U, I had no idea this game even existed, so my feelings aren't too hurt by having to wait "so long" for the 3DS release. It looks like it might be pretty good, will have to keep an eye on the game.

@Maxz Before you rush off to buy an out-of-region 3DS, it's not entirely impossible to play 3DS games (even digital-only releases) on a mismatched-region 3DS without resorting to piracy. That said, it is probably a fair bit of effort setting up access to the Japanese eShop and such, which you may or may not have the patience or confidence to deal with. If your 3DS is on current firmware, though, you're pretty much out of luck.

Yeah, it's as @MitchVogel says; Natsume own the rights to the name "Harvest Moon" and has started making their own (terrible) games and calling them Harvest Moon. The long-time developer of the Harvest Moon series, Marvelous, had their latest title in the series published independently of Natsume, as "Story of Seasons". Be extremely wary of any new games marketed as "Harvest Moon", they are quite literally Harvest Moon in name only.

Wow, that's some fairly obnoxious editing. I was actually really interested to see the series broken down, but not in this hyperactive kinetic style that's apparently what people enjoy now.

Not especially interested in this since by all accounts it came out pretty poorly, but maybe they can do some further work on it during localization. 3D support would be nice, for one. Maybe on the New 3DS only, if that's necessary?

@rob955: That's what Twilight Princess was supposed to be, a return to the Ocarina of Time world and style.

@Whopper744: Seeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeriously. That news has been around since E3 and I'm still bummed about it. I would play the hell out of this in two-player but I don't want to play it alone or with a third player, so I'm just skipping this entry, as disappointing as that is.

Nice of Paul Rudd to take some time out from promoting Ant-Man to share some Skylanders info.

There's an interesting thread on NeoGAF about this console and its difficulties in getting to market. Apparently a lot of missed release windows, and even failures to provide marketing that had been promised: things as simple as "video of these things actually existing and functioning". They also made the allegation that this was essentially stealth-crowdfunding: early orders were used to fund production, though they were presented as sales rather than crowd-funding investments.

I don't know the veracity of any of this, but it's potentially worth mentioning for anyone who's interested in ordering that many other buyers have significant problems with the way the company has comported itself in the years since the console's announcement. Regardless, good luck to anyone who picks one of these up and I hope it's everything it's cracked up to be.

EDIT: Latest thread title is "Analogue NT ($500 HDMI NES) gets 4th delay to April 2015, more shady broken promises". Not sure if linking is OK, but any search engine worth a damn should find it for you.

@Pokefanmum82: Just because the Amiibo comes with the game doesn't mean you're not paying for it, as you pretty much explained yourself. It's a premium paid for a gameplay feature which I'd say isn't worth actual cash money, and a pretty cool looking Amiibo which I would unreservedly agree is worth money. I don't object to the object itself, per se, just the unremarkable purpose it serves in the game it comes packaged with.

@Rockman55: The rest of the Chibi-Robo series is very close to nothing like Zip-Lash. I don't say that as a judgment of either this game or the ones that came before, but interest in this game is no guarantee you'll like the others. Skip Ltd. is a great developer, though, so most of their games are fun regardless of genre. Just don't go in expecting even a tenth of the action gameplay showcased in this entry.

I love Chibi-Robo and Skip Ltd., and I'm definitely looking forward to this game, but I'm a little disappointed about the Amiibo functionality. It's more of the same dull Amiibo usage where something that would have been a hidden secret in a game five years ago is now locked behind a special tax and a physical object which adds nothing to the play experience. Sure, it's optional and unnecessary, but there used to be optional, unnecessary features in games that you didn't need to pay a premium to experience.

I'm probably going to play the hell out of this game, it's just a shame it had to be the next victim of pointless Amiibo integration.

@noctowl That's the response users will get from their Internet Service Provider. I don't know where you live, but I don't think there's any countries where ISPs are law enforcement officers. Just because ISPs aren't enacting impractical punishments doesn't mean laws aren't being broken or that stiff penalties don't exist for breaking them.

To use your analogy, this would be like if it was suggested that General Motors suspend your license if they detect your car speeding. It's still illegal to speed, and if the cops catch you doing it, you're still going to get in trouble. But General Motors aren't the police, and it's not their job to ensure that their customers are upholding the law.

What happened here is a ridiculous system was put forward and found not to be sensible. It's 100% unrelated to the legality of copyright infringement. Nothing has gotten any more or less illegal. Nothing has been decriminalized. If you really need someone to spell it out, here's Merriam-Webster: "decriminalize; verb: to make (something that is illegal) legal by changing the law". Just to be clear, that hasn't happened.

Is that tip courtesy of John Pickford of Ste and John Pickford? If so, that's about as awesome as the article itself.

Yeah, that's an awful, click-baiting headline which Nintendo Life is usually above. Pretty disappointing, overall.

The game does seem all right (and not any more than all right). For those interested in something similar, you might want to try MySims SkyHeroes on Wii/PS3/360. Planes actually seems to have been built from that game: Behaviour Interactive was behind both.

SkyHeroes has less variety in its missions--they're basically all racing or combat--but it has a more appealing license than "the crap non-Pixar Pixar movie" and even (up to) ten-player online dogfights. It's a little less child-friendly, sure, but it's a fun game.

Andriasang is liveblogging the event (in English) if that will help anyone.

http://andriasang.com/con2fo/ndirect_live_blog/

@FonistofCruxis @battLeToaD
The European version only just came out; the patch was completed months ago. The PAL release had nunchuk controls at launch. It doesn't need to be updated.

@Matillion
Microforum are actually some sort of weird Canadian/Italian hybrid, but this one definitely seems to be going for a Japanese shooter feel; might have to try this one, after avoiding their previous titles.

A port is when you take the original code and you port it. Whatever definition you're using is made up, perhaps by you. Even if the WiiWare edition of Ghost Mania adds a bunch of features, odds are high it's originally built from the same codebase, and is, as they say, an "enhanced port". Which still has port in the name.

It can't be any worse than Taboo, right?

You know, I've been thinking about this game, and I agree that it's somewhat lacking in purpose, what with the whole "existence of pens and paper" thing to compete with, but I think all it really needs is Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection support. Clearly, it was never going to be a must-have of any sort, but the virtual paper concept seems to lend itself more to online play than local.

I have friends abroad who I wouldn't mind being able to play a few "pen and paper" timewasting games with, and virtual means are the only way that could happen short of a few plane tickets--unless we just played tic-tac-toe reeeeeeeeaaaaally slowly by mail. If you already have a Wii and a friend in the room with you, this game is obsolete, but if your friend is on the other side of the planet, then some "hand-drawn" hangman isn't actually such a bad prospect.

A decent game, except for being boring and tedious? What exactly is it you think is important in a Breakout clone? That it looks nice? That it's bugged in a way which makes it fail to play music? That the gimmick feature is mostly irrelevant and usually unachievable?

The Breakout concept is incredibly simple, to the point where, barring some minor gimmicks, the vast majority of them have the same items, the same goals, even the same visual style. All that's left is the level design/progression, and if they're not fun, neither is the game.

@Mange, while I don't have My Aquarium, I do have Zenquaria (AquaSpace), and I have to say it's provided far more enjoyment than it sounds like Fireplacing would. I was actually mildly interested in Fireplacing when I first heard about it, certainly not to the extent that I planned on buying it, but I thought if the presentation was good, it might be worth considering.

This is basically the main difference between FP and ZQ/AS: Fireplacing looks (and, according to this review, sounds) awful. They're both screensaver apps; they live and die on looking good. Graphics is the #1 concern because there's no gameplay to speak of. This is what made my choice of Zenquaria over My Aquarium, also--the Paon sim just looks better. Same deal here; Fireplacing looks like crap, so it is crap. It simply fails at being visually pleasing, its only goal.