To be honest, they could end the 3DS today and it'd still have enough awesome games to last another few years. There're also a ton of DS games I haven't got round to.

As for up and coming games. Fire Emblem is the main one. Then I'll be waiting for localization announcements for Bravely Second, Final Fantasy Explorers and the recently announced Dragon Quest 8. Especially Dragon Quest, I never played that and have repeatedly read it's the best in the series. Hope they add C-stick camera controls.

Weird coincidence with the toy story bedroom track. He can't have known Nintendo were doing something similar.

I don't care about Amiibos either. But apparently they've sold more than they have WiiUs....

So is this battle mode then?

Genitals are offensive because children do not yet know they have them.

My favourite ever complaint of that variety was someone who wrote in to a TV show on the BBC at one point complaining about nudity with the reason being "breasts are not suitable for children". Brilliant.

Lol so I look back at the kickstarter page for the first time considering pledging.....

No need at all. Already smashed every record in the book. I think maybe I'll just buy when it comes out. Good job 3D platformer fans, we need to revive this genre.

Oh bloody hell, I just spent half the week unlocking the damn thing. 

I look forward to the sequel Pea and Anno.

This might be my first kickstarter pledge actually. How do they tend to do the different platforms in terms of pledges cos I only really wanna play it on Wii U? I guess it depends on how they set their milestones but does anyone ever have platform specific pledges?

It also means that an awful lot of people bought a New3DS just for the sake of the shiny new hardware (as I think they'd said over a million had been sold already). Which you might argue is a bit of a sad fact.

It's pretty minor when compared to some of the lies we get about games pre-release. But it's still a lie. People can reasonably expect games shown on the Xbox channel are running on the Xbox. Plenty of people only game in a fairly casual way and really don't keep up to date with all of the info. They'll be coming from the position of just assuming what they see is genuine. I wouldn't care about the 900p to 1080p jump but the 30fps to 60fps is one I definitely care about.

Haha one game per month. Good old Nintendo.

I'm def getting Splatoon. Maybe Legend of Kay too actually, it's quite cheap.

Liberal Democrats probably. Oh wait......I sense I've confused the context here.

Mario Galaxy would work quite well actually. A lot of the previews did point out there are similarities! Although I guess you couldn't necessarily shoot as many places you planned on going with the whole curvature issue. The paint shots would have to get caught in the gravity.

Sure, you might be responsible enough and I don't disagree but call me cynical, I don't have faith in mass population having a proper sense of reason and voting responsibly with their wallets, at least when it comes to gaming 

Haha well you've hit upon the dilemna at the heart of mine, and many people's, entire political worldviews! Which is worse? Mob stupidity or state corruption? To be honest, I'm not even sure. It seems to switch from year to year. Look at censorship nowadays. Until quite recently, that was hugely a worry about the government. Now it's a worry about whatever twitter mob happens to arise out of the scum pits.

I would say the main difference is that state legislation is very hard to remove once it's in place. Mob zeitgeist can easily change quickly. For better or worse.

How about Mario Kart drive by splatoon'ing haha

The only potential flaw in that would be what would difference would there be between squid-carting and non-squid carting? Given that the usual differences is about speed, it would seem.

They've added another update that seems to keep the possibility open. Probably best to forget about though!

If they did the same thing as they have with Mario Kart DLC, that'd be awesome: bring in other Nintendo series! I want Link with a squid mask sliming up the walls of Hyrule castle.

Works fine my end. Although having to unlock 200cc is a bit annoying. Maybe try deleted all of your system data for the game and start over?

Lots of people on the gaming site comment sections is complaining about the graphics. Do they bother you?

Not at all. It's perfectly playable and the original game feels completely intact. There are just a few moments when you think it looks a bit rough, Colonies 6 and 9 buildings all look a bit muddy for example. In contrast though, some of the wide-open natural parts don't feel like they've suffered at all. The fact that areas like the Bionis' Leg run without any framerate dips is pretty incredible to witness on a handheld. The only performance hit I've noticed so far is in parts of Sword Valley. 

As ports go, it's better than average.

I've just got to the Mechonis (actual body, not the sword).

Such an incredible game. This probably has to be my favourite video game world ever created. I don't think I've ever really stopped to take in the view in games before.

Can anyone comb through all of the thousands of bits of info we have on this game to answer the question:  "Will you level up by exploring the world, like in the prequel?"

I also want to add my voice to the "stop moaning about supposed visual downgrades" position. Most of the in-game visuals have improved hugely from the first footage we saw. Having 1 cutscene look slightly worse is hardly a problem and really shouldn't be categorised along with the Watch Dogs fiasco which was a huge across-the-board lie about the visuals.

Yeah, kinda sucks only one v one. My best guess is the hard deadline didn't give them the chance, thus DLC. 

I got the sense from reading various interviews that it was restricted by the hardware.The whole inky-ness being, I assume, a lot harder to render 4 times than a Mario Kart track.

They better advertise the hell out of this on TV

I dunno about TV but it's been pretty much the most common Ad I've seen on gaming websites this week!