The Nintendo Thread

GuetaMinute

Nintendo Defense Force going hard as a motherfucker. Damn.

Shuhan

Having a blast with Harmoknights~

I've always loved rhythm games and I love how each character has their own set of powers. So far I've beaten the second world an trudging along pretty well~

Crossword

Beaten Luigi's Mansion. Overall a very fun game that never lost it's charm, though I won't lie: I did get more and more aggravated by the end of the game. The bosses are this game's big weak point for me. The spider in the beginning was great, and the final boss was pretty good once I figured out what you're supposed to be, but many of the others were uninspired (the clock tower one and the armor one, for example) or more aggravating than they needed to be (the ice one and that friggin' Boo train).

Put in just over fifteen hours and I still have a bunch of Boos and gems left to find, and I haven't unlocked any of the bonus missions yet. Definitely a great ride with a couple bumps along the way.

MarcelloF

I'm only on the second boss fight so far (Haven't done it yet). I'm loving the game so far.

Hattori

@Crossword:

The spider in the beginning was great, and the final boss was pretty good once I figured out what you're supposed to be, but many of the others were uninspired (the clock tower one and the armor one, for example) or more aggravating than they needed to be (the ice one and that friggin' Boo train).

Whaaat? The armor boss was friggin' awesome. Well, the final phase of that fight, at least. The first boss was definitely the best though, so agreed there.

Put in just over fifteen hours and I still have a bunch of Boos and gems left to find, and I haven't unlocked any of the bonus missions yet. Definitely a great ride with a couple bumps along the way.

Same here: Beat the main quest in 15 hours with roughly two thirds of the collectibles (Boos + gems). Went on to finish the game 100% in about 22. Some of the gems were insane…

Crossword

I didn't particularly like how the armor boss was basically exactly the same as the regular armor enemy. Literally the only thing that distinguished the two was that for the first few phases of the boss you had to knock them all down at once.

Noqanky

Having just gone through the ice thing, I really get the impression all great ideas went into the Spider, because the other bosses have been drastically easier/more boring. Hoping that changes onwards.

black-leg jex

Man i need to catch up. I'm only in the clock tower. Stupid harmoknight and xcom and life distracting me. I need to d them all before fire emblem is out

KaizokuFan22

the 3DS epic mickey seems more cooler than the wiiU ver due to the multiple quests and levels.

Also..just bought Kirby Pinball of the club nintendo.. nice game ..I miss the old Pokemon and disney pinball games on the old GB

Noqanky

Ok, finally finished Luigi's Mansion 2.

Overall, I enjoyed the first one a lot more, although this one had some moments of brilliance. The first two mansions were ok, the third and fourth were remarkably boring for me, and then the last one truly impressed me. Easily the most fun one.
However, the boss battles never stopped being unremarkable and choppy, with only the first one really making me think and feel the tension I should get from a boss battle.
Also,

! what was the point of adding Mario in there? That didn't do anything. It's like midway they decided they should give Luigi more of a reason to go through this, but it just feels tacked on. There was barely an emotional reaction from Luigi about the fact that Mario had been captured, and when he was rescued it was like "oh, hey, what's up?"
Very disappointing. Especially considering the very emotional ending of the first Luigi's Mansion, with Luigi crying and laughing at the same time upon seeing Mario.

All in all, it was fun, but now I really really just want to play the first one again.

Aaronrules380

3DS Nintendo direct on wednesday http://gonintendo.com/?mode=viewstory&id=200286

labmate

@Aaronrules380:

3DS Nintendo direct on wednesday http://gonintendo.com/?mode=viewstory&id=200286

Thanks man, I always forget to check.

Kaboom

If we don't get some sort of news from NoA on these 3DS Dragon Quest titles soon, I'm going to break something. Or someone.

GetsugaZoro

Hope the new Nintendo direct announces Fantasy Life, Bravely Default and Soul Hackers/Shin Megami Tensei 4 for Europe.

Cyber-Robin

If they're announced for US then they will. Maybe not Soul Hackers since Atlus is terrible for releasing over here.

GetsugaZoro

Man I really want Yokai Watch, my Level 5 fanboism makes me like the game due to the visuals as usual but the game looks fun as heck.

Basicly the kid has a watch that makes him be able to controls demons and capture them and he goes around helping people that are being tormented by those demons I believe(probably not just that), its coming out in Summer for Japanese people, its kinda like a Shin Megami Tensei for kids.

Pochipochi

I got a Wii U

I was not prepared for how cute the gamepad was

I want to protect it.

edit; oh yeah more importantly I got it to play MH3U. Gonna monster hunt the shit out of my life.

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Okay my ID is Gigglepuffy

Crossword

Bwaha, I'm playing Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner: Soul Hackers and there's a part where an NPC asks for your gender, and if you reply female you're asked if people "want to protect you."

Cyber-Robin

So apparently Japan is getting a Wii U and 3DS Direct in the next few days. And their Wii U update is next week. So we should have a confirmation of ours soon too

GetsugaZoro

Good even though I don't have a Wii U I'm hoping Nintendo turns it around and starts releasing some games, I see more and more developers shying away from it in news.

Cyber-Robin

Really? I think the only ones I've seen confirm nothing are the ones doing Dead Island + Saints Row 4 and EA. And new games are being announced daily (they just aint AAA releases that people only seem to care about.) looks like it's gonna be an Indie Developer's dream.

Cyber-Robin

Why is nobody talking? Yoshi's Island 3-DS. Mario Party….

EARTHBOUND RE-RELEASE.

Hinscher

@Cyber-Robin:

Why is nobody talking? Yoshi's Island 3-DS. Mario Party….

EARTHBOUND RE-RELEASE.

Busy watching, no time to talk

Crossword

Mario and Luigi Dream Team coming out in Europe a month before America is strange, but at least it's not landing on practically the exact same day that Shin Megami Tensei 4 is. Great to see Bravely Default finally get confirmation, even if it's gonna be a while. Eh that's fine, there's already more than enough software still coming out this year to occupy me.

Link to the Past outta friggin' nowhere.

GetsugaZoro

Yay Bravely Default and Shin Megami Tensei 4 are coming out here, thanks Nintendo for publishing it, fuck off Atlus and Squenix and even thoguh I love Level 5, fuck them for publishing this shitty Guild 01 and 02 games(I actually bough two) and not their actual good games released…I'm hoping Nintendo eventually publishes the game...

@Cyber-Robin:

Why is nobody talking? Yoshi's Island 3-DS. Mario Party….

EARTHBOUND RE-RELEASE.

I don't realy care about those games when better games are being announced(atleat to my taste), they looked fine but I don't really get hyped for them, only the Mario and Luigi RPG game sparked my interest.

Kaboom

I am a HUGE Zelda fan, but right now I don't even care about the OoA/OoS release dates or Link to the Past sequel because none of them are Dragon Quest. So this was yet another failure of a North America Nintendo Direct, at least as far as it concerns me.

Call me ungrateful if you want, but I'm sick of this ONE series that I crave news of above all else getting ignored. That late tidbit of "two 3DS games that fans overseas have been enjoying and we know you've been wanting" leading into Bravely Default and Layton felt like a kick in the balls. The DQM: Terry's Wonderland 3D remake has been out in Japan a full half a year longer than fucking Bravely Default.

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Hinscher

Well the games I think lookt he best are

1. New Zelda on 3DS (a link to the past sequel)
2. Bravely Default Flying Fairies
3. Mario and Donkey Kong Minis game.

Cyber-Robin

Zelda is a must have. All three. Especially if it's gonna be an awesome new 2D one. When I heard the music I was expecting Majora remake since it appeared on shop listings again.

America got release date for Game And Wario tho :/ Surprised we didn't get that. Bravely Default out later this year too. And Shin Megami (wasn't expecting it to actually come considering we only just got the other 3DS one.

Darkstorm

alttp2 directly into my veins

Hinscher

@Cyber-Robin:

Zelda is a must have. All three. Especially if it's gonna be an awesome new 2D one. When I heard the music I was expecting Majora remake since it appeared on shop listings again.

America got release date for Game And Wario tho :/ Surprised we didn't get that. Bravely Default out later this year too. And Shin Megami (wasn't expecting it to actually come considering we only just got the other 3DS one.

Your getting bravely default this year?

:( America don't get till 2014

AkumaMiltos

I am utterly dissapointed from this Nintendo Direct.For some reason they keep giving us Mario games and other games the feel more like mini-games than actual games.And they do this years now.To be honest,I was happy to see Earthbound and the Zelda games coming to the Virual Console.As for the other non-Mario and non-Virual Console stuff nothing seemed attaractive-except Pikmin 3,maybe.Most of the games looked boring and unoriginal.The game that saved this Nintendo Direct was the Link to the Past 2 game,it looked great.
I love Nintendo but if they continue to pump more unoriginal Mario games and fill them with DLCs it's not going to be nice.Let's hope they will step their game up soon enough.

Gaiyae

New Zelda and Bravely default <3 Need those now.

The rest was pretty meh.
Kind of great if you're love the same classic Nintendo franchises, i guess.

GetsugaZoro

@Kaboom:

Call me ungrateful if you want, but I'm sick of this ONE series that I crave news of above all else getting ignored. That late tidbit of "two 3DS games that fans overseas have been enjoying and we know you've been wanting" leading into Bravely Default and Layton felt like a kick in the balls. The DQM: Terry's Wonderland 3D remake has been out in Japan a full half a year longer than fucking Bravely Default.

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Squenix wants nothing to do with non japanese.

Kaboom

@GetsugaZoro:

Squenix wants nothing to do with non japanese.

Yeah, which is why Nintendo of America has localized and published the last couple Dragon Quest games, just like they're apparently doing now for Bravely Default, which like I said has been out in Japan only half as long as the new DQM, which is why the kick in the balls is EXTRA painful.

Aaronrules380

@Kaboom:

Yeah, which is why Nintendo of America has localized and published the last couple Dragon Quest games, just like they're apparently doing now for Bravely Default, which like I said has been out in Japan only half as long as the new DQM, which is why the kick in the balls is EXTRA painful.

Honestly, from what I've heard, Bravely Default sounds like the better game anyways, and I think there was more demand for it

Kaboom

@Aaronrules380:

Honestly, from what I've heard, Bravely Default sounds like the better game anyways, and I think there was more demand for it

Well then maybe Dragon Quest needs MORE demand. It's a great series and it would be absolutely inexcusable for it to be abandoned in the West. I wish Nintendo of America would at least just acknowledge the existence of these last few games. They've both been very successful in Japan, and other regions deserve to experience them too, no buts about it.

KaizokuJinbei

Alright this is without a doubt Nintendo's year they are pulling all the stops this year. This is a great year for Nintendo fans.

Zelda ALTP sequal? all of my yes.

Urouge

alttp2? Seriously?

I need new pants. There's no Zelda game I have fonder memories of.

Aaronrules380

@Kaboom:

Well then maybe Dragon Quest needs MORE demand. It's a great series and it would be absolutely inexcusable for it to be abandoned in the West. I wish Nintendo of America would at least just acknowledge the existence of these last few games. They've both been very successful in Japan, and other regions deserve to experience them too, no buts about it.

Nintendo and Square can't control demand, and being successful in Japan is far from a guarantee of success in the west. I like DQ, but it's popularity in the west is pretty miniscule compared to Japanese popularity, and Nintendo and Square are ultimately businesses

Hinscher

What I found amazing is that I feel like I don't have enough money for all the 3DS games I want this year.

I completely forgot about games already anounced that they didn't talk about such as POKEMON also coming out this year. Seriously wtf 3DS, your too good.

Kaboom

@Aaronrules380:

Nintendo and Square can't control demand, and being successful in Japan is far from a guarantee of success in the west. I like DQ, but it's popularity in the west is pretty miniscule compared to Japanese popularity, and Nintendo and Square are ultimately businesses

Well, I'll keep on being a pest about it to both of them at every opportunity, and if I'm lucky, others will join me.

Hinscher

Square needs to do what they do best, not try and follow others.

To many times they ruin a series by trying to fit it to some new audience or new genre, ect. cause they want to make money. All they end up doing is lose money.

People scream for a new DQ game, they give us an MMO. NO one buys it and square is confused and pissed at its fans.

Cyber-Robin

Dragon Quest 9 sold remarkably well in the west compared to the others. Maybe because Nintendo actually pushed it instead of releasing it with a prayer like Square did. Although I'm wondering if they're deciding on DQM or DQX.

KaizokuFan22

were getting the old Oracles GB series back? Cant wait ( I missed the Nintendo news direct this morning)
also.. is the Earthbound release only for Japan?

Kaboom

@Hinscher:

Square needs to do what they do best, not try and follow others.

To many times they ruin a series by trying to fit it to some new audience or new genre, ect. cause they want to make money. All they end up doing is lose money.

People scream for a new DQ game, they give us an MMO. NO one buys it and square is confused and pissed at its fans.

So skip the relative failure of a MMO and bring us the amazing and successful 3DS remakes instead. Or test the waters with something smaller. Or poll people to gauge overseas interest in the series before putting in the effort of localization.

Obviously they should play it smart, but like I said, both 3DS games have each been out for a long time and Nintendo of America has yet to even admit that they exist. THAT is was has me worried and annoyed.

@Cyber-Robin:

Dragon Quest 9 sold remarkably well in the west compared to the others. Maybe because Nintendo actually pushed it instead of releasing it with a prayer like Square did. Although I'm wondering if they're deciding on DQM or DQX.

Exactly. The last DQ game Nintendo of America took charge of themselves did really well because they properly promoted it. I STILL pick it up and play it, along with working on the series' DS remakes I also own. I'm just hoping that it's taking them some time to make progress on (especially the lengthy behemoth that is DQ7) and they're planning to announce both of them for next year in an E3 double-whammy or something.

But nothing else I can do about it for now, I guess. So… yay, Zelda. I dunno.

Aaronrules380

@Kaboom:

So skip the relative failure of a MMO and bring us the amazing and successful 3DS remakes instead. Or test the waters with something smaller. Or poll people to gauge overseas interest in the series before putting in the effort of localization.

Obviously they should play it smart, but like I said, both 3DS games have each been out for a long time and Nintendo of America has yet to even admit that they exist. THAT is was has me worried and annoyed.

But nothing else I can do about it for now, I guess. So… yay, Zelda. I dunno.

Bravely Default is way more exciting than either of the remakes IMO. Have an open mind and try omething new instead of just clinging to a franchise

Kaboom

@Aaronrules380:

Bravely Default is way more exciting than either of the remakes IMO. Have an open mind and try something new instead of just clinging to a franchise

Dragon Quest is worth clinging to. I would buy a hundred copies of Flying Fairy if it meant I'd get these DQ games.

Aaronrules380

@Kaboom:

Dragon Quest is worth clinging to. I would buy a hundred copies of Friggin' Fairy if it meant I'd get these DQ games.

And this is why originality is dieing in the game industry. Why try something new and different if people onlly really care about franchises they've played many times before

Hinscher

@Kaboom:

So skip the relative failure of a MMO and bring us the amazing and successful 3DS remakes instead. Or test the waters with something smaller. Or poll people to gauge overseas interest in the series before putting in the effort of localization.

Obviously they should play it smart, but like I said, both 3DS games have each been out for a long time and Nintendo of America has yet to even admit that they exist. THAT is was has me worried and annoyed.

It's not Nintendo's job to bring games over.

Square should. If Nintendo is bringing a game over it means that the original company "SQUARE" was not going to ever and the demand "FANS" are screaming so much that Nintendo is like "ok we'll do it since Square dosen't seem to be doing it"

Thus why is this in this thread. Go in a final fantasy or square thread and bitch. I'm not going to get mad at nintendo for FINALLY bringing over games that square shoudl ahve brought to us months ago.

Kaboom

@Aaronrules380:

And this is why originality is dieing in the game industry. Why try something new and different if people onlly really care about franchises they've played many times before

Don't give me that bullcrap. I do try out and support tons of good new games. That's why Xenoblade is on my shelf of Wii games, and I cram my SD card with and sing the praises of original stuff on the 3DS like Mutant Mudds, Cave Story, Sakura Samurai, Gunman Clive, VVVVVV, Pushmo/Crashmo, WayForward's stuff, etc…

But some long-running series are long-running because they're consistently good and deserve the prestige they've amassed. Dragon Quest is one of these, and it'd be a crime for it to not continue being enjoyed by its fans in the West. continues to get every automated

I admit that I'm probably overreacting a little, and still hope that localizations have already been underway behind the scenes for some time.