Trust Nintendo to pull out all the stops for the otherwise-humble advent calendar. A simple, old-fashioned, chocolate-filled calendar was obviously too pass for Iwata and gang (well...his European posse, at least); in a deliciously clich d move, they've taken it into 2006 and turned the humble advent calendar into...what else...a 2D platformer. No chocolate, but it's free, so that more than makes up for it.

There are a ton of games you have to pay for that aren't this good. I think the agonizing countdown to Christmas just got a little bit more bearable. Luke Plunkett

Mission In Snowdriftland [Nintendo Europe]

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