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People will white knight for literally anything. $37...

Whoa, hello Mommy.

Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha.

FNoA

w00t w00t w00t w00t w00t w00t w00t w00t w00t w00t etc...

Why did this take so long?

They could charge a lot of money for a Fire Emblem translation and I'd pay for it. It's my favorite series. They'd probably do well, because those games aren't available anywhere else, but it'll never happen.

Looks like we have to Enduro another crappy week. Muwahahahahaahahahahahahaahagahghghhghglargbargle

@waxxy: Then those two games still need to be released in future crappy one game weeks.

M.U.S.H.A. M.U.S.H.A. M.U.S.H.A.
Hopefully this means Space Megaforce will come out at some point.

YES YES YES YES YES
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This and Thunder Force IV are the two best Genesis shmups, and two of the best shmups period.

@marktheshark: You're dreaming. They're re-releasing all those games as full priced DS ports. Why would they sell them for cheap on VC? They only put out Secret of Mana because that's a franchise they've run into the ground, and I guess they don't have any plans to port it.

This sounds like it plays very similar to Ogre Battle 64. I didn't even know about this game, I'd only heard of the SNES Tactics Ogre that didn't get translated until the Playstation release. Hope it comes to NA/EU.

Noice, Gate of Thunder takes the top spot. Good call. I'd say that, Sin & Punishment and SamSho II are my VC essentials.

Lol, the European announcements always fill the comments with North Americans being jealous and the North American announcements are filled with Europeans being jealous. I guess there's no winning.

@Kirk: something about PC Engine makes it hard to capture video from. You can watch Youtubes of a ton of different games and they all look like that. They don't when you're playing them. slangman is right about level 2 though, and it chugs a little in level 1 if you get too many dragons on screen at once.

No memory, no Tetris. Fix this Ninty.

Welp, my hard drive is officially cashed. Pretty much only games that I never want to delete left. I even had to delete a couple games I hadn't finished. But Gradius II is miiiiine.

Haha, nice to see people "putting their foot down" about their subjective opinion. I really enjoy both of the Art Style games, and Cubello has already sapped a ridiculous amount of my time. You can seriously zone out and plays this for hours at a time. I haven't even tried the Endless Mode yet.
@LAA: You made it sound like you had to point out that Alex was "wrong." That's why people are reacting the way they are.

@Starwolf_UK:
If you move quickly enough in Bonus Mode it's easy to finish a stage, cause it keeps giving you blocks of the same colour until your run out of that type, and then changes to one of the other colours you have left. Speed becomes really important. I'm liking this game more and more.

Hopefully there'll eventually be DLC for those of us who bought the WiiWare version. So good.

This isn't Coloris. Just bought it. Taking a little while to wrap my head around, but I've beaten two levels and I'm getting better. It reminds of a Puzzle League type thing except in multiple dimensions, but also less fast paced. Music is great. Another worthwhile Art Style game.

Got 1400 points... buying a points card as soon as EB Games is open. What a w00tage week.

They've finally figured out how to offload something like SF II Mega Drive without pissing everyone off.

In other news, the world's economy is collapsing...

I don't know, the original is so perfect. I'm more concerned about the changes in music than this, but I'll gladly pay Pixel by way of Nicalis.

Something tells me Capcom didn't spend a million dollars on this. That's what I call profit. Bitter tears for Ben Judd.

p.s. Noone listens to VG Chartz.

Game really needs leaderboards. I don't understand why you'd make a score based game without them anymore. Nintendo is dumb sometimes. Still, fantasic game, easily worth 600 points.

A nice little experience, but I really hope Frontier does something more interesting/challenging with the sequel.

I'm on speed 3, I only slow down when the circle thing closes around me.
My best 2-minute score was somewhere around 930,000. I had a run that would've gotten me 960,000, but I farked up the closing eyes bonus at the end. Arrrgghh. You have to be some sort of robot to clear a million.

I'd like a sequel to Astro Boy for the GBA. Fantastic game.

Too bad there's no plans for Dotstream, although I don't know if it would translate well outside of the 8-bit style.
I really wish Orbient had leaderboards.

Cam trailer from TGS:
http://www.gametrailers.com/player/41372.html

o_0
Makes me think of David Cronenberg. Apart from that, I have no clue.

@Marvel_Maniac: Truth. NES SMB3>>>>>>>>>All Stars SMB3. The music sounds way better in 8 bit, too.

So close to perfect, I wish they'd never included the "arena" levels.

One of the best games ever made. 2 is gonna own so hard.

I'd say my two favourite genres are shmups and SRPGs, but this game just doesn't do it for me. Dated interface, poor enemy AI and really short. Some of the towns are kind of cool, you add some interesting units to your party throughout the game and all of the character drawings and animations are really nice, so I wouldn't say it isn't worthwhile, but the genre has been improved on in so many ways. I'll probably still pick up SF 2.

@Mickeymac
" I do, however, miss calling the characters random hispanic names, eventhough I could never keep track of who's who(I think I had 3 Pacos)."
lol

I'm seriously considering getting a hori stick for this. Would be good for shmups, too. I'm hitting the wall for how good I can get with the Classic Controller.
Jubei owns.

I'm glad S&P2 isn't WiiWare. It would have to be tiny.

It might hold a special place in Maegawa's heart, but a lot of people think Dynamite Headdy is one of Treasure's weaker efforts.

A lot of people say the Shining Force games are really similar to the Fire Emblem, but I really don't think they are, apart from being in the same genre. I've only played a bit of 2, but the first one really isn't that strategic at all, plus you can just grind by letting everyone die and replaying a level. The fact that characters permanently die in FE makes you consider every move, and each level is almost like a puzzle. Plus, you can see ahead of time what your damage and % to hit are. There's a lot about the Shining Force interface that's really dated. I haven't played the Sega Saturn SFs, maybe they improve on a lot of that stuff. They're fun games, nice character designs and animations, and some of the towns have an almost Earthbound vibe, but I think the series are on entirely different levels.

Dang, another good week. I guess Gradius II is next week?

edit: This is starting to become a dilemma. I want to make room for Gradius II, Orbient and World of Goo, but I kind of want to download both of these.

Reggie never actually said "better than a hard drive," that was someone interpeting his comments. This is nothing, though. I don't see the advantage of storing games on SD rather than just deleting and re-downloading them. And I haven't re-downloaded anything, I'm just whittling my collection down to the bare essentials. If I get a whim that I want to play some Super Mario 64, too bad, cause I don't feel like going through the effort.

It's nice that they just sprung a Bit Generations remake on us. Totally didn't see it coming and it's gonna be GREAT for 600 points. W00T!
DotStream, DigiDrive, I'll take all em.

Finally Gradius II. Arguably the best Gradius prior to Gaiden. I would've bought Cho Aniki, but I've been saving points and fridge space for this.
edit: Whoa, why is Conker my Av? I hate Conker.

I certainly wouldn't mind paying 1500, but 1000 would be awesome. Maybe you guys don't realize how full featured this game is. Can't freakin wait.

I've only beat Galaxy Man and Splash Woman so far, I doubt I'll be getting many of these any time soon. Still, it's cool that they're there, something to work towards.

p.s. the DLC should've been unlockable for beating these instead of having to pay for it.

I remember seeing this box art in ads in comic books when I was a kid. I was like "Why does it say Mega Man when it's a woman the cover?" Well, the bottom half looks womanly and the way he holds his hand, there could be boobs. Nevermind.

If MM9 never got announced, this was pretty much guaranteed to be the best WiiWare title. If you don't understand this, you're just dumb. Sorry. Good luck with that.

I'll buy this, Bloodlines and Rondo. All your Castlevanias. I want all of them.

Gradius Rebirth looks a lot like a remake of the first Gradius, rather than an all new game. Can anyone confirm/deny this?