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Looks absolutely fantastic! An honest to goodness original IP, with an honest to goodness original game concept!? (The scissors I mean, the head mechanic is ripped straight out of Dynamite Headdy - which is a good thing BTW!) SIGN ME THE FUCK UP! The art style is incredible too. Looks like truly authentic vintage theatre with a slight Japanese flair to it (the witch's design looks like it was cut straight out of Spirited Away!) Best game of the show for sure!

Same here. Had to force myself to stop at world 4 yesterday for fear of beating the game too quickly! (Along with my usual practice of restarting 2D Mario games on my first time round by erasing the file when I get to World 3) Coin Rush is hellishly addictive BTW! It's the 2D Mario equivalent of Theathrythm's Chaos Shrine

And so it should be. 2D Mario games are always short and very sweet; it's just good pacing. This game is roughly the same length as SMB3/SMW/NSMB/NSMB Wii: Were they too short now? Besides, this is a game that you're gonna come back to time and time again (especially with the Coin Rush mode. It's the perfect way to just pick up and play some Mario when you're out and about!)

Wow! World 2-2 feels almost like a DKC2 level! So much vertical platforming

HA HA! LOL! Toad kicks you out of the Toad House if you hit him with a fireball

Ditto, word for word. The Yellow box is SO PRETTY!!! Edit: Impressions after 2 levels. Right off the bat, the level design is quite a bit different from the first levels you'd see in other 2D Marios. There's more complexity in the first level than you'd normally see and it doesn't seem to follow the usual rule of starting off with a really simple and base mechanic, that is built upon with extra challenge as you progress. It's clearly designed for people who've played Mario games before. Level 2 pulls some neat tricks with mechanics that you already know and love, rather than introducing many new things (though there are a couple) and offers some interesting opportunities for making MONEYMONEY!!! (already at 500 coins BTW!) Overall, liking it quite a bit so far. It feels similar on the surface, but the nitty gritty is quite different. The use of the 3D slider is also quite interesting and probably the coolest use of it since Excitebike 3D Classics (though I think the bokeh depth of field is a bit overdone on the highest setting)

Holy shit! He even goes as far as to use NOA's last line regarding the Op Rainfall games!

A solid showing for us perhaps, but I reckon that the Vita might actually be looking even deader right now than it was before. Its Great White Knight (COD) has, as I suspected, turned out to be a pile of cheap, nihilistic (in more ways than one!) outsourced garbage that no COD addict is gonna want to touch. It'll have about as much impact as the COD games on DS; while its calvary consists of a spinoff of a middling franchise that started poorly in terms of sales and since has gone downhill from there and a new IP from Media Molecule that has the potential to be an interesting, quality game, but very little chance of storming the sales charts. But hey! At least it's becoming the best PS3 accessory ever made, thanks to the Buy One Get Both initiative and the PS1 compatibility. That'll really expand their audience beyond the diehards! (truth be told, I'm actually quite happy about this, despite being snarky about it) At this point, why not just release a slimline PS3, bundle the two consoles together and take on the Wii U? You'd probably make more money on Vita that way!

And we could be curing diseases or world hunger instead of playing games... Let the guy have his fun. It's a great mockup!

A hilarious gimmick though! Though that's not to say that all yelling/blowing mechanics are a gimmick (Yoshi's Touch N' Go is a great example of an excellent use of it!) I actually think it looks quite fun. I'm not prepared to write its control mechanics off as gimmicks yet; I'm willing to give MM the benefit of the doubt for now (though I thought that they might've made a full game out of the rear touch controls in Little Deviants and look how that ended up...). They've at least got their hearts in the right place with this game (the gameplay is clearly the first thing they focused on, with the art/Brit humour being secondary)

GET IN THERE SHOPTO! My one has shipped! Fucking love these guys! Just wish I could go with a UK WiiU so I could buy off of them (but I'm stuck with a US one. Need that BC with Wii retail and VC - plus how else could I play Trauma Team?!)

So it's basically Assassin's Creed meets Uncharted meets Heavy Rain... (automatic platforming/cutscene choices and all) No thanks.

It's yet another quasi interactive movie masquerading as a 3rd person shooter game? (like what every AAA budget western game is turning into?)

Whelp, time to import 2 3DSs and 2 2nd hand copies of MH3G then. FUCK YOU AGAIN CAPCPOM! (PS: Thanks for destroying all of your other franchises. Now I don't have to support you anymore )

An Uncharted/Heavy Rain clone that was rejected by Sony... That's a greeeeaaatttt substitute for Monster Hunter 3G...

The download cards are supposed to be available on the day of release. Right now, there are no Point of Sale materials for the eShop version in retail stores at all, and no online retailer is listing the DD cards for purchase. Contrast that with Japan, where you were able to actually buy the cards several days before the actual release of the game (you could redeem it, but the game wasn't available to download until 00:00 on the day of release) Fucking failures they are The whole idea behind this initiative is that retailers are given download cards/codes along with boxed copies that they can set for any price they want. Since the cards are cheaper for them to stock, retailers would offer the DD cards at a lower price than the RRP as well as the boxed copies. That way, retailers aren't cut out of DD sales, consumers get the DD version for a cheaper price and Nintendo maintain good relations with the retailers; everybody wins!

Actually it's a pretty clever idea that, in theory, should make the DD versions of games much cheaper to buy than they'd otherwise be; and all without pissing off retailers. The issue at hand of course comes down to NOE/NOA actually getting these cards into stores (which thus far, all signs point to them failing miserably in this respect)

Oh fucking hell! Now Castlevania Mirror of Fate has been delayed till 2013! Least spooky Halloween ever

This is now a Q1 2013 release in the US (expect everywhere else to follow suit ) http://blog.fancensus.com/luigis-mansion-dark-moon-delayed-to-first-half-of-2013/

NOA just dated a load of 3DS games... http://mynintendonews.com/2012/08/13/nintendo-america-dates-paper-mario-3ds-and-professor-layton-miracle-mask/ ( ) Bolded are the ones not yet available in Europe... No Luigi's Mansion DM? Not a good sign for a 2012 release... (Especially as it seems that NOA are pushing Paper Mario and Layton MoM as their big Xmas releases...) Nice to see that Style Savvi is getting a western release (and this year to boot!) The first one was a solid title for what it is. Edit: Yeah it's official. Luigi's Mansion is now a Q1 2013 release http://blog.fancensus.com/luigis-mansion-dark-moon-delayed-to-first-half-of-2013/

It's the RRP, we all knew it would be sold for that price and that any discounts on either the physical version or the digital version are entirely up to 3rd party retailers. It's funny seeing people getting riled up about this stuff which we all knew about months ago It shouldn't be a surprise to anyone, but of course most people online are riddled with ADD and have the memory spans of goldfishes so go figure TBH though, it is NOE/NOA's fault really. They've done a poor job of explaining how the discount system works to those who don't follow Nintendo Direct/Iwata Asks (and I still see no sign of the download cards in stores either... get it together NOE!!!)

No way! That thing is super comfy! Love that chair Yeah I'd just use one of those, but I'd have to reach round the back of my entertainment cabinet each time I want to play (no way am I leaving that cable on the floor for people to trip over!), so it's just too much of a hassle to bother with really. Mind you though, I'm planning on getting a new Reciever and Speaker setup for when the Wii U comes out, so I'm gonna try and get one that has a line-in/phono in on the front for easy access with handhelds

Not seen any yet... Maybe they're only gonna be in B&M stores for launch? Or maybe NOE are just late with these things as usual... (Remembers how long it took for them to get eShop cards into stores ) Edit: Fluidity is getting a 3DS sequel on eShop http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=486669 No other details... Other games of note... Also, Unchained Blades is getting a retail release as well as a download one now!

This week's treasure trove... Just a helpful reminder, retail download codes should be cheaper than buying it physically or straight from the eShop!

Pffft, who needs headphones when you've got this The only way to game! (Other than with a surround sound setup, which I have in a different room and is too much of a hassle to hook up a handheld to anyway!)