Cranky Kong in Donkey Kong Country Tropical Freeze!

We've seen boxart already but he was just now featured in a gameplay demonstration at the um... event... that uh... I forget but it's not important.

But we get to play as Cranky Kong! He has a pogo stick jump move too like Scrooge McDuck.

He was always known for talking in the games so I have no idea what his personality is going to be like this time round. I do know that he's less cranky in Jungle Climber and DKC Returns so we'll just wait and see if it follows that pattern or not.

21st of February for North America release, now to listen for the Irish release!

Bravely Default is out in Ireland today

I still have to play more of the demo but I did watch a 2 hour footage video from "nintendomination".

I felt discouraged at the start of the video because I felt like it was trying to make me feel feelings that I didn't feel like feeling and that led to me feeling like it was made for angsty teenagers. There was a stage where tears welled up in my eyes when I came across a man who was grieving for a family member he lost, so it worked on me eventually.

Then they obsess a lot about crystals so hey it's one of those games by Square-Enix that survives the original legacy of Final Fantasy.

I got more appreciative of the music when they went into one of the dungeons. It could be a nice enough game to get into.

So I'll try to play the demo myself again to see if I'd like to buy it.

Captain Toad levels are great

These levels in Mario...uh...3D...uh....World(titles are getting confusing) remind me of those old Tomy ball bearing labyrinth games and they're just lovely. I see plenty of comments on Miiverse asking for a standalone game with these.

Reggie Fils-Aime is having a live Q&A Twitter session but you VOTE for questions

I thought for a moment it was about answering everyone's individual questions and I was even thinking up some of my own, but then I noticed every question is previously prepared with its own hashtag identifier and they're coupled into different categories where Tweeters do not ask their own questions but they have to vote by noisily responding with their preferred hashtags.

Why not just answer all the questions then?!

Urgh... of course... it's because it's a social media event.

Instead of a Q&A session, it's a democratic vote...

More like DUMBocratic. lol

ANYWAY... maybe something nice will come out of this noisy bit of noise.

USK rating strikes again, Bravely Default Collector's Edition is latest victim

Have you seen the collector's edition of Bravely Default? The boxart has the HIDEOUS German USK rating on it. Why does it have to be so big and ugly? The PEGI rating is nice and tidy, so what the hell?

Luckily the normal retail version of the game doesn't have that big disgusting snot green USK monstrosity.

Link Between Worlds doesn't force you to re-read what a gathered ingredient is when you restore from a save!

You just collect it like it's an ordinary item! This was another major thing that was wrong with Skyward Sword and it also affected Twilight Princess. They repeated the same message at you when you switched the game back on after a save.

In fact, the text in Link Between Worlds really doesn't interrupt the flow of the game and that's a really nice thing.

Miiverse loves the stamps from Super Mario 3D Land

Most of the posts on this game are either just a mess of stamps in the shape of Mario characters or saying how great the game is.

That's ok of course, because the game is quite lovely! It even has the option to reverse camera controls which means a lot to me, but then, the viewpoint is usually fixed so it's no biggie in this case.