They're doing a pretty good job of making this hard to avoid. I predict quite impressive sales!

I don't even think I'll bother creating much but it seems like there'll be so much to play through that it's worth owning for that.

 

They claim it will preserve all the physics and abilities of each Mario game, including kicking a shell upwards in SMW and wall jumping NSMB games.

Cool. Well we've already seen evidence of wall jumping and ground pounding in NSMB levels. I don't think we've seen upward shell throwing yet though. I hope it's added though. It adds one extra possibility for gameplay challenges.

One other thing I didn't mention for SMW was also the ability to run up walls, which I'm fairly sure was missing from all recent games. I'm guessing that one will be less likely to have survived than the upwards shell.

I have a really specific question if anyone knows the answer. Have ALL of the abillites of the respective generations been preserved? The one I'm thinking of in particular is the SMW ability to throw shells upwards. If I remember rightly, that only existed in that generation. They removed it for the more recent games and you could only throw shells left or right.

 

 

7:25

Throwing shell upwards confirmed.

Yep, I saw that too. Excellent news. Now lets look out for wall running. I'm somewhat less optimistic about that!

Anyone see that Metroid imitation level that gamexplain did a video on the other day? It looked genuinely decent.

Is there multiplayer?

I'm not buying this rumour. I doubt they'll do any more Zelda in the near future. Nintendo don't tend to oversaturate a genre. I'd much rather see another 3D Mario. The sunshine remake would be birlliant. 

Well they've well and truly jumped on the DLC bandwagon at this point. Hope we'll get some for this. A new visual style would be cool DLC. 

It's only at 81 on metacritic. Fairly good, although based on the extreme hype some people were generating, I was kinda expecting high 80s.

Still worth buying though.

Who cares about metacritic? Just unqualified morons who don't know how to review seriously most of them know nothing of gaming and are just as qualified as a Gamestop Clerk. Numbered reviews are a joke and worthless just as Metacritic. Famitsu has been crap for years now. Never undertsand how people let a worthless number from someone they don't know decide their opinion for them.

What exactly would qualified mean in that context? Of course they're unqualified. They're just average people writing their opinions down. I like numbered averages though (as most people do according to nintendolife's recent poll). Whilst it's obviously not a perfect way to represent a game, it is the quickest when you need to sift through hundreds of games. And when you can take an average, at least you can even out the various idiosyncrasies of individual reviewers. So for me either a user average of a critic average is very practical. Even if it ends up occasionally pointing you at the wrong games, at least it's A process to eliminate a majority. I don't have the time or money to look through them all.

It's more like NiGHTS than Sonic

Yeah, I realised that. Although I never played that game. I just meant the kind of thrill of fast-paced smooth-flowing action mixed with cool music. That's what always defined sonic for me. Or at least the good parts of Sonic.

I'd definitely buy it. This is one of those things that usually never makes it out of Japan so I sure hope it does!

Cool, thanks. Can't see it on the UK amazon yet. 

I think this is something I'll definitely be waiting for reviews on. It strikes me as something that it's very easy to mess up! Especially a smaller developer.

Hopefully they can capture that Sonic Adventure vibe though.

This just got reviewed in Famitsu. Not the best scores:

Rodea: The Sky Soldier (Wii U/3DS) – 8/7/8/7

Bear in mind, they do tend to score quite highly. I'm guessing this'll translate to around 70% on metacritic, but we'll have to see.

Does the XBONE not have a Bluray player too? It's a bit ridiculous that the Wii U doesn't to be honest.

honestly no its not.

 

think about how many people have dvd players or blu ray player. Why would you need your system to also play it.

In all of my life i have only play 1 movie on a system. It was long time ago i play a DVD on a ps2. Then i got a dvd player when i started to get more movies.

Got a blu ray player when i upgraded from then. I was never into wanting a system to play movies. Its meant for games.

Lol that is exactly the same for myself too. DVD with PS2 was a big deal. I still don't have a Bluray player though so I would've welcomed it.

Haha, I still buy DVDs!

And I still have a VCR.

Yeah, but still, the character models in OOT 3D/ MM 3D looked better than that of this game in my opinion, Shulk's face just looks really flat is all...

Agree. But think how much bigger the Xenoblade world is than any of the Zelda worlds. They've got an awful lot of stuff to render after the characters.

If these guys could do gameplay as well as they graphics, they'd be damn awesome.

No, he means screen resolution.

The wii is 480p, thats 400x800

The 3ds 240x800 in 3d, and 240x400 in 2d.

Oh yeah, right you are. I forgot what 480p meant.

Although based on the images I've seen, I think the texture resolution is a bit lower too. 

Yeah I realised the original had pretty muddy textures too. It still looks lower res to me though. I played the Wii version fairly recently and there was definitely a noticeable difference in the texturing of the buildings in Colony 9. Not as much with the landscapes though, I guess the tiled textures make that stand out less.

Take an example scene with a predetermined camera. Like where Shulk and Reyn leave Colony 9 and it zooms out backwards from Dunban's window so that you see the side of his house. Compare that on the Wii and 3DS. Looks different to me!

It kinda looks like they took the parts of both series that people dislike the most and brought them together. It's almost the exact opposite of what I was expecting. Graphically quite impressive though. I'd probably only go near something like this if it gets outstanding reviews though cos there's only so much anime I can take.