TYP hops in to talk up lots of games and help us pick apart the Nintendo Direct event where 3DS XL was announced.
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Jon is on vacation this week, but our good friend Michael "TYP" Cole stepped in and even brought some New Business with him. Mike catches up with the brilliant Portal 2 and a classic portable jam, Game & Watch Gallery 2. Jonny reports on the Kingdom Hearts 3D (awful subtitle omitted) demo, gets really angry at a late boss in Xenoblade Chronicles, and gives quick impressions of the bizarre Tomba as referenced last week. James is still deep into Pandora's Tower and evaluates the game's chances of an American release. Finally, our faithful editor Guillaume packs in more Infamous 2, the retail-to-eShop game Order Up!, and the overlooked party masterpiece that is WarioWare: Smooth Moves for Wii.
After a quick break, we look back at last week's post-E3 Nintendo Direct event. Why did it happen so soon after the last one and all those E3 media briefings? Where was the 3DS XL at gaming's biggest showcase, anyway? Are we planning to buy the new mega-sized system? How does the extra heft jive with our StreetPass obsessions? What's the deal with Namco-Bandai helping Masahiro Sakurai on the new Smash Bros. games? What can we expect from the New Super Mario Bros. 2 downloadable levels, and how much should they cost? Most importantly, do the full-game purchases, Virtual Console promotions, weekend sales, and a new Vice-President mean that Nintendo is finally realizing the dream of eShop? We cover all this and more -- it's a very interesting time to be a Nintendo fan!
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Another great episode (what else is new?) !!
Just wanted to say that James and Gui are spot on about the DSi XL being the holy grail of handhelds. I'm sure I have shared that opinion before... but it still hasn't become any less true. I don't play DS games on my 3DS just so that I can still use my beautiful and comfortable and blissful DSi XL.
Can't wait for the 3DS XL............. even though I AM going to wait until more colors are available for NA. *fingers crossed* for the all-white one JP is getting or one with this shade of green: http://i47.tinypic.com/qs2zuv.jpg
As it's been noted on here, when in combat just hold the Z button and a menu pops up on the right-hand side of the screen with different command options. I utilized these quite often during the game, particularly the 'focus' command as I found picking off enemies one at a time usually went much more quickly (and easily) than each character taking on whatever monster was nearest to them.
As it's been noted on here, when in combat just hold the Z button and a menu pops up on the right-hand side of the screen with different command options. I utilized these quite often during the game, particularly the 'focus' command as I found picking off enemies one at a time usually went much more quickly (and easily) than each character taking on whatever monster was nearest to them.
Wait! Some people weren't using that?
