RedShell

I can confirm that this is very much the case. Outside of choosing when to make a substitution, the only thing you can do during a match is watch the game, switch between various pages of stats and alter player positions. And when playing team data online there's even less interaction, as even substitutions become automated. As boring as that sounds, for some reason I'm still enjoying it. @Mokong, just beat your team 2-0. Here's my ID: 2B4C66D88 Online profile pages are up now too, here's mine: http://microsite.nintendo-europe.com/NPFC/enGB/team.php?team_code=2B4C66D88 Seems to be a delay though. In-game my European Ranking is 207, and on the website it's 309.

Still a bit early to tell really.In some ways it does seem too simple, but in others it's pretty damn confusing. It's definitely going to take some time to properly get into this I reckon, things are moving at a pretty slow pace so far, and leveling up individual player attributes appears to be a very slow process indeed. I've found the games are getting increasingly enjoyable though the more I play. And I'm actually starting to celebrate goals and get annoyed with my players when they do stupid stuff. One of them got a direct red in a match once! I was livid.

Seems like it's only possible to make those changes at half time or during a substitution, yeah. Nope. The only way you can play more in less time is to do the "45 min" practice games.It's a shame they didn't add the fast forward feature of the video replay mode to the live matches.

My team is RedShell FC (couldn't come up with anything creative ) didn't make a note of my ID either but will grab it next time I go online. This game is pretty confusing. Loving the presentation though, the player sprites are so cute. One of my strikers tried to hit the ball on the volley earlier, but missed completely. The way he spun around was hilarious!

... Great minds.

You're forgiven. And cheers for reminding me of this classic:

Coins as a usable item (i.e. obtainable from a [?] on the racetrack) have only been in SMK and now MK8, trust me.

Interesting, that's the first one I've noticed.Probably killed the other ones before even realising they were 'different'.

Ooh... A 14 page booklet with gorgeous artwork, descriptions for every single track and a few words from Mahito Yokota & Koji Kondo is included.

I reckon it will be, yeah. Seems like a lot of peeps on Gaf got it today as well.

Wowzers! SM3DW soundtrack GET! Gone are the days when stuff would take months to arrive from the Stars Catalogue. Nice one, Nintendo!

Some off-screen pics of the UI appeared, one from the character select screen and another of the cup selection screen. Have added them to the first post. Gonna be interesting to see if 30 characters will actually be the final amount, or if we can expect even more! If it does end up being 30 though, the likelihood is that only 2 will be from the Mario universe, and the remaining character slot is to select your Mii. Who are people expecting/wanting to be included? I'm hoping Birdo is back, purely to torment people when playing online.

Nope: Nintendogs + cats and New Style Boutique got demos too.

A demo for this is hitting the eShop on Thursday.

Spaaaaaaace Channel 5! :awesome:

LOL @ that Fuzzy-Felt tunic.

@Dcubed, you definitely don't need to type before and after. *EDIT* I think it's a bit unfair how the original DS versions are so blownup. If you scale these down to 256 × 192 (the actual resolution of the NDS screens) the difference is a little less insane:

Absolutely. Plus he's clearly clued-up when it comes to game development, due to his background. And even though a lot of his ideas aren't popular, I appreciate the direction that he's trying to take. His heart is very much in the right place I reckon.

Yeah, I did briefly try that tactic. But then I'd get jumped by those other things that hide under the water while in 1st person view. Guess I should be taking them out first. Will give it a another go tonight though. Might see about changing some of my gear or actually use some items for a change. I've not used many items at all since I started playing this game. My inventory is full of stuff that I have never even used once/have no idea what it's for. *EDIT* The bow tactic paid off, finally made it through the swamp! Am now in the...

Actually, it's looking a lot less likely. I made it through the castle without much trouble at all, but now I'm in an area which completely takes the piss. It's a swamp full of these bastards that fire ridiculously fast homing magic attacks at you, literally every second! Yet it's difficult to move because of the water, and these beams mess you up, even if you block 'em. Must have died at least 10 times in this area, just trying to get from one end to the other. No kidding. Not sure if I'll even make it through the swamp of doom at this rate.

I'm still a big fan of Iwata as well (despite the current situation at Nintendo), he's just such a likable chap.

Hardly. Pretty sure there's more than 1 person that wants Iwata to step down.

Guess I should probably dig out my copy of Jam with the Band and download some more tunes before it's too late...