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Before you all start whining about your girlfriends, period, at least you have girlfriends. I don't actually want a girlfriend. I was just feeling left out.

Gamers overreacting about something? Unheard of! I'm still angry about the 3DS being region locked. But at least that's justified and not premature. ... They had no intention of ever localizing the games. The damage would have been done anyway. It's not like they would have been able to keep it a secret.

That doesn't even make any sense. Nintendo of America decides not to bring over Xenoblade Chronicles, and then tries to get revenge for... something? I'm not following your paranoid delusions at all. :p Anyway, I've been importing every Professor Layton game so far, so I'm fine either way. I'm more worried about what I'll do with the region-locked 3DS. I'm not too keen on Luke's European voice.

Peppers are technically fruits, so that's cheating. Fruits are always better than vegetables. Except tomatoes. I hate those.

Oh, man. I had no idea Diageo was London Girl. Sooo... is he good in bed, Dyson?

Don't start a war you're not ready for.

That's just the game being true to the series' roots! Once you made it past the second mission in the first game, it stopped differentiating between dead and unconscious enemies. Kind of made my close-to-non-lethal run pretty pointless in retrospect.

As someone who checks every thread anyway, I don't look forward to getting a ton of notifications every time I say something wise. Which, let's face it, is pretty much all the time.

What's ridiculous is that it took nearly seventeen years to release the game outside Japan. You can't really blame IGN for not including a game that they likely never played on the SNES.

999 is about nine people with wacky personality quirks who hang out on a boat and get into a bunch of silly misadventures. It actually has a really dark story and doesn't have the humor of the Ace Attorney series, but has a similarly well-written and twisty plot. Don't tell anyone that, though.

I still haven't played Final Fantasy VII. No one had better tell me if Cloud and Aerith get together in the end!

Everyone always seems to date crazy people. Or there's something in the act of breaking up with someone that makes people crazy. They're probably telling their online friends about their crazy exes who refuse to talk to them even though they've tried calling them fifty times a day, and then their exes had the nerve to tell their friends - leave their friends out of this! - that they shouldn't lend them their cellphones. I once left an online community after nearly seven years, but I guess that's not really the same thing as cutting all ties with someone in real life. I used to have nightmares about posting on the forums again. I was once the severee when an online friend of several years suddenly blocked me from reading his blog, and then a few weeks later blocked me on MSN as well. When I emailed him about it, he said that he didn't like talking to me anymore. It was very upsetting at the time, but when I was thinking about it the other day after seeing this thread, I realized that we've been ex-friends longer than we were friends. Kind of put the whole thing into perspective.

They look nice. I like how rainbow-y they are.

BAN SOUTHPAW CONTROLS. You know, just to mess with you lefties. I'm normal, but I do hate it when games have inverted camera controls and don't let you change them. Yes, fine, eventually you adjust, but you spend the first several hours panning the camera in the wrong direction and later on, when you play a game that wasn't developed by idiots, you have to spend some time getting used to the proper camera controls again. Basically, I sympathize. A little. But inverted cameras are a bigger issue because it affects me. You'd think so, but then I remember one of the Call of Duty games only having red/green teams, despite red-green color blindness being fairly common among males. I guess they were aiming for the female demographic with that game.

999 is awesome. You're not going to regret it - provided you like plot-heavy games. The game is essentially a visual novel with puzzle segments. The characters spend a lot of time talking to each other. You get to decide which doors to go through and when you enter a new room you get to look around, search for clues and solve puzzles. The game has (I think) seven different endings, including a 'true ending' that needs to be unlocked. The only downside is that you need to replay the puzzle rooms when you replay the game, but it's worth it because the story is so good.

Yes, but there are import copies available on Amazon.co.uk, so there's really no excuse not to get it. Everyone's always going on about Another Code and Hotel Dusk, but 999 has a much more interesting plot. I'm sure this game will be yet another reason to hate on Nintendo for region-locking the 3DS.

It wouldn't Little King's Story if it didn't take five minutes to make it up a ramp!

If this had been a completely original game I think I would have liked the look a lot more, but it's a definite downgrade compared to the unique look of the Wii game.

I hate how no one else is excited about this. Judging by the trailer, the game seems to be at least somewhat related to 999. You've got the door with a number, similar watches and a quick flash of the same bad guy (or someone wearing the same disguise). Some of the characters also look eerily similar to characters in 999, but that could just be because they have the same designer. There were no talking animals in 999, though, so that's a bit strange. I guess it could be a genetic experiment/robot/dwarf in a suit, though.

Maybe it is a remake, but 1Up seems to assume it's a remake solely because of the name, which doesn't make any sense to me. "Hey, it's called New King's Story, this is obviously a remake."

Fair enough. It was just that when you said that Little King's Story wouldn't work on a handheld you said that the reasons it wouldn't work were that it was complicated and required a significant time investment, which I didn't agree with. If you want to argue that Little King's Story in particular (and not longer/more complicated games in general) wouldn't work on a handheld, I'm not going to disagree with you. I see your point about Metroid Prime: Hunters. Usually this happens when a publisher gets a second-rate developer to make a handheld game in a home console series. You end up getting a game that plays the same as the other games in the series, but worse, and looks the same, but worse. Metroid Prime om the DS could have worked (just like Fusion worked, despite being similar to Super Metroid), but Hunters just wasn't a good game, period. As for the sequel to Little King's Story, I really do think it's just being developed for the Vita because it's cheaper. Looking at the scan, it's clear that no one involved with the sequel has played the first game. :p

Quick, Flink - flash her someone else's penis!

For gaming on the go? :p I still say there's no reason we can't have both kinds of games. You can play Electroplankton for five minutes while you're waiting for the bus, and some other time when you're on a long train ride, you can play something deeper. Just like how some days you're just in the mood for a few Smash Bros. matches, while other days you want to spend six hours playing Xenoblade. But yeah, maybe this particular game isn't the best example. It looks... different. Could be good, I guess. Doesn't really look a lot like Little King's Story so far, though. Oh no! Quick, Flink - flash her your penis!

GUYS PLAY 999 IT'S AWESOME I SWEAR GUYS YOU'RE GONNA LOVE IT. I love how every game he writes is about a group of people having to escape from somewhere. This had better be translated.

Handheld gaming is by its very definition portable. Not everyone wants bite-sized gaming. Games like Persona 3 Portable, Radiant Historia, Trails in the Sky (really, most RPGs), Zelda, Ace Attorney and so on are all games that require a certain time investment, and people seem to like them anyway. Not every handheld game has to be Angry Birds. As for the scan, I wouldn't have known that was a sequel to Little King's Story if it hadn't been posted in this thread.