Wind Waker edition Wii U and price cut

The price cut will come in handy but Wind Waker won't be on disc—it'll be a downloadable version.

I really don't want downloadable versions of anything that's on a physical disc.

I like the look of the red and white 2DS; some stuff it reminds me of

Here are a couple of things the red and white 2DS reminds me of:

-Cork football team colours
-Polish flag

Stuff I want for a possible 2DS XL

Might as well start thinking about it!

-Bigger buttons
-Faster loading
-Big quality d-pad like on console controllers
-Comfortable enough to hold and use every input instead of "pinching" the corner to use d-pad.


I'm thinking of another point to do with the camera; maybe a lens cap or something.

Nintendo 2DS revealed! It's going to be great!

Oh man, this was quite a surprise! I really want to hold and play one of these things!

I've taken every opportunity to say how much I don't like the 3D effect in Nintendo's customer surveys and now they have this thing that doesn't have it. They can go on about younger audiences and Pokémon fans all they like; this new hardware is also intended for the likes of ME!

I'm making a "Nintendo 2DS" label for this post and ones to follow; I may even phase out the "nintendo 3ds" label completely! Happy days!

Suzy finally joining the Game Grumps... need to catch up again!

I see the latest thumbnails for the videos and I sigh because I'm still aaaaaaaall the way back to the first Trine 2 episode. My Internet has been so bad lately I can hardly watch a thing. I wanna see the fun!

I'd love to play the Wonderful 101 demo...

I can't though as I don't have a Wii U yet. The game came out here last Friday. For now I might as well shop around and see how much it costs. *sigh* ._.

Got all of Redd's Cookie items

It's the last fireworks night of the Summer in New Leaf and I just managed to get all the items you can possibly win from Redd's stall. You can get weird Nintendo toy memorabilia like the Ultra Hand this way.

It was a bit painful to go through the same dialogue just to get a new fortune raffle cookie over and over, but there was a bright side to this process: The Re-Tail was offering extra money for furniture, so in the process of doing all this I actually made a profit!

Only 5 items can be ordered from StreetPassers catalogues per day

Discovered this as I was panic ordering. You see, I'm getting a LOT of StreetPassers in Animal Crossing New Leaf and new houses will soon replace the older ones so I'm trying to get as many of the items I like as I can and now I discover you can only order 5 a day! Yikes! Make sure you look out for this as you play.

Animal Crossing described as the Seinfeld of video games - genius!

I forget what site it was but it was genius! A game about nothing! It's a really good way to describe this game and the rest of the review is one of my favourites in recent memory: They said that the game was "too perfect" whereas games are normally about fixing a scenario that isn't perfect.

Nintendo PR fun - Luigi records voice message

http://www.gonintendo.com/?mode=viewstory&id=210485

GoNintendo posted this press release from Nintendo which has a link to a recording of Charles Martinet in Luigi mode talking about the retail release of New Super Luigi U.

It's still a bit weird to hear these characters speak more than a phrase but this a nice fun little extra. Have a listen!

Puffy is going to be in Sonic Lost World!

I had no idea who she was until I saw her in the new trailer. Those large smiling lips, breasts, shoulders and eyes... she looks so beautiful!

She comes from the NiGHTS series and I never even noticed her until now.

New Leaf: Other players with different languages

I often StreetPass people from other countries, especially these days when there are a lot of tourists around. I like the way that notifications of them come up in their native language. I also like the way that other static messages you get from New Leaf StreetPassers are in English whereas their personal greeting/quip/etc  might be in their language.

This goes the same for the Dream Suite. I visited a couple of Japanese players' towns and it's cool to see what's in English and what's in Japanese.

I'm getting many more StreetPass hits lately... relay in action?

From the last Nintendo Direct or so they announced special access points where StreetPass signals can rest until someone else comes along. I'm just wondering if this is what's happening on my daily commute as I am getting a lot more hits...

Steamworld Dig - Everyone seems to be going nuts over it

Reviewers are loving this 3DS eShop game, saying it's like Metroid and Minecraft. Seriously I don't think I've ever seen them get this excited about a downloadable game. Might try it out myself at some stage.

You can buy songs in New Leaf

I like this new feature. You have to upgrade the shop to T.I.Y. to do it.

Before, I'd be limited to getting one new song a week. I haven't managed to do that with any version of Animal Crossing except for the Wii one; mainly because it takes well over a year.

Not any more though! Not if we can buy them now handily. The album cover art for each song is a very nice touch too!

Gravity changing Luigi is awesome!

Came across another Luiginary power thingy in Dream Team Bros! This time it's a gravity altering mechanic where you can rotate the gravity in the room so you can walk on the walls and ceilings. Love it!

Interesting items in Dream Team Bros like Hiking Boots

Just came across this cool, weird item in the game where its strength depends on the amount of steps in your 3DS pedometer. If you have a lot then you can do a LOT of damage! Careful though, after midnight the step counter resets to zero so watch out for that.

There are some other cool items too that give you bonus increases if it's your birthday.

Animal Crossing New Leaf becomes my most played game!

I checked the activity log on the 3DS menu and New Leaf is way up at the top.

I kind of knew anyway because my villagers often tell me to take breaks and that I look exhausted!

When you find something you like doing in the game, a single session can last well over an hour. It's just something that happens!

WayForward's Smurfs 2 game seems to be generally described as lacklustre

This is something I was kind of expecting. Thing is, WayForward makes good stuff, so how come stuff like this and Hotel Transylvania end up not being critically acclaimed?

Do they have some kind of set rules for making licensed games?

Clock Luigi is SUPER COOL

Just came across this new mechanic in Dream Team Bros. where Luigi can make time go in slow motion or at high speed. I really like this as I only have to tap the buttons on Luigi's face for slow-mo, normal and high speed. This is great for jumping over big spikes (slow-mo) and running the opposite way on a conveyor belt (high speed).

Really fun effect and it's just tapping, no scrawling! Love it!

Gear grinding Luigi isn't so cool

This is because I don't like scrawling the touch screen and this makes me draw circles for ages on it. It makes me nervous and I feel like I'm scrawling the crap out of the touch screen.

Giant Luigi is coooool

In Dream Team Bros. I just completed the first sequence where Luigi turns GIANT! It was really cool and the 3DS XL gave me so much scope of the landscape and everything... It was like a kaiju battle or something! Pacific Rim, eat your heart out!

The well-dressed Kamiya presents Wonderful 101 on Nintendo Direct

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YfsjehNoJQ

The man is lookin' dapper; bet he'll attract lots of cute babes.

The game is explained in great depth and it would make anyone somewhat curious about it. Have a look.

I like the way he advertises his Twitter account as well.

Dream Team (Bros) in America

This latest installment of the Mario & Luigi RPG series is finally arriving in America. I wonder how they'll react to it?

Actually I'm pretty sure that the gamers themselves will love the game. The weirdo journalists though, I'm not so sure about them. You see, this game comes from a long running and high-quality series. Since the last installment, app culture gained a lot more acceptance among game journalists and they simply may not be used to playing such a good game anymore.

They're delicate, you see, and they might find it upsetting.

Satoru Shibata: Ace Attorney!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ctvuh2laNcM

In today's Nintendo Direct, Satoru Shibata is dressed up as Phoenix Wright for an enjoyably amusing moment! The Nintendo Direct presentation itself is just new bits and pieces of info on stuff that we know is coming out. Animal Crossing on Miiverse sounds kind of cool and again, that whole dress-up thing was a nice way to deliver news on the Wright vs Layton game. It's worth watching for that alone! Go watch if you haven't already!

Nintendo Direct August 2013 tomorrow!

Yeah yeah! This is gonna be cool. I'd like some kind of Wii U bundle with Mario or Luigi (on disc of course).

It'll be 3DS news and Wii U news.

Paid off mortgage quickly thanks to beetles

Today in my Animal Crossing town, Reese was paying double for Horned Elephants so I went to the island this evening and hunted out a bunch. I got loads of money for them all and paid off the debt on my house! It might even be better than investing in turnips.

Might be something to think about and tot up the amount of work involved in both activities to see which is better...

Dreamy Luigi vs Bowser from the last game

Yeah, this is kind of a comparable thing: in this game you go into Luigi's dreams, in the last game you go into Bowser. Dreamy Luigi can do all these fantastical things which is cool but I've really yet to see how he could top Bowser as a character from the last game.

Dream Team Bros lives up to the series!

This game is pretty great! I mean, it just oozes with that quality that I love about the others in the series. If you don't have it yet, consider buying!

Sad Hoshi got animated! and in 3D!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWcCLdmkN08

Stop reading this and go watch this right away! It only does a bit of Sad Hoshi but it's good, especially the part where he hopelessly looks out the window at Godzilla.

I've been watching the Sad Hoshi and Mickey Mousecapade episodes over and over during the past few days. It'll be another while before I get tired of them!

Arin thanks Game Grumps fans for accepting the recent changes(Jon leaving etc)

Yeah he wrote a nice message of thanks to us, the fans for continuing to enjoy the show and accepting the changes. You can see it on Reddit.

Here's my opinion!

...Well you know from reading my posts here that I really warmed to Danny and I still love Jon.

Danny and Jon are quality performers on this show and that just goes to show how strong the Game Grumps brand is; there's nobody involved who isn't amazing.