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excel_excel
11/23/09

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Mario Calculator, and Mario Clock.

OMG. Sold.
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bluemarcell
11/23/09

@excel_excel: lol
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Slagathorian
11/23/09

@excel_excel: I wonder how well it would look sans Mario.

DSi: With clock and calculator.
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KevTehNev
11/23/09

@excel_excel: That sexy blue color would sell me. :P Too bad I already got a DSi. D:
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excel_excel
11/23/09

@Slagathorian: Ugh, DS with clock and calculator, fuck that.

MARIO CLOCK AND CALCULATOR YOU SAY??? That changes things!
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excel_excel
11/23/09

@KevTehNev: its nice alright, very subdued.

But who the fuck cares when it comes WITH THE MARIO CLOCK AND CALCULATOR!

having trouble figuring out how many coins you have? the DSi's booooring system clock not interesting enough to bother looking at?
THEN HAVE I GOT THE DSi FOR YOU
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Malice Blackhart
11/23/09

@excel_excel: Gotta say, sir, you had me LoL'ing with those last few comments, but I was unsure if you were gonna earn that heart. But in the last one, you brought it down hard, and here I am with an extra heart in hand. And it is for you.

<3
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Demosthenes
11/23/09

@excel_excel: I regret buying the Mario Clock with my 200 free points from getting it within that sale, I also sorta regret March of the Mini's. I should have held out, some more attractive (Read:To me) titles are coming. But they still haven't given us Tetris D:
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N●Gage Croal is grabbin' peels
11/20/09

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Despite not having beaten Phantom Hourglass and not really liking The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker (yeah, I said it – you wanna fight?!)

Yes, yes I do.

GADOUKEN!
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linkthe2nd
11/21/09

@N●Gage Croal: So you can shoot things out of your hands, big whoop, wanna fight about it?
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N●Gage Croal is grabbin' peels
11/21/09

@linkthe2nd:
Well, yes, that's kinda the point I'm making here.
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linkthe2nd
11/21/09

@N●Gage Croal:
WHOOOOOSH.
#speakup
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Knoxximus ver. 5.66
11/20/09

In reply to The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks Snow Temple Preview: Ditching Zelda
Just throw Four Swords on it. Point, end, period.
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WhiteMåge
11/20/09

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You know Four Swords isn't Zelda Spirit Tracks, right? Just checking. Misleading-ass picture not appreciated. It got my hopes up for a second.
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fearing
11/20/09

@WhiteMåge: The link up there in the article that says "multiplayer" leads to a previous article about Spirit Tracks multiplayer mode where you play as one of each of the four colored Links from Four Swords.... sure it wasn't really the topic of this particular article, but it's in the game somewhere anyway. :)
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Atomsk88
11/20/09

@fearing: Yeah, not to mention the image features a Phantom. You know, an enemy that first appeared in Phantom Hourglass.
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WhiteMåge
11/20/09

@fearing: Still misleading as hell. Those links are referencing four swords, I don't think a single personw ould see that and think "Oh, Zelda spirit tracks!"
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WhiteMåge
11/20/09

@Atomsk88: Much like how any picture of an octorok is obviously a picture of the original zelda, right? :\

It looks exactly like a damn darknut on top of that.
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fearing
11/20/09

@WhiteMåge: No, the link within the article, in the second paragraph, leads directly to an article about Spirit Tracks multiplayer mode, which I believe the picture in this article is from, which plays similar to Four Swords multiplayer. Not too big a deal, just sayin, I think it DOES have that style multiplayer in it judging by the linked article.
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Atomsk88
11/20/09

@WhiteMåge: Except for the trademark sword and shield. :P

Though I'll admit, they're pretty similar. Still, there was just an article today that revealed multiplayer, which is one of the links.

You can always check out Gametrailers for some multiplayer videos too.
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WhiteMåge
11/20/09

@fearing: I know that, I mean the picture itself is misleading regardless, as those links drawn in that style with those colors are the four swords links. The multiplayer mode is referencing four swords, so that art looks like four swords art.
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Bokusatsu_Tenshi
11/20/09

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Gah. The one game I really wanted to play on the Gamecube but couldn't was Four Swords.
It was rare enough to find people that had GameBoy advance, let alone 4 with cables and all.

Now that I do know some people who has DSs, they replaced the cooperative mode?

Sometimes I think the world is just trying to fuck with me.

But oh well, beggars can't be choosers.
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Nitrokart knows CPR and took that guy's wallet
11/20/09

@Bokusatsu_Tenshi: Four Swords Adventures for the GameCube can be played by one person.
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Bokusatsu_Tenshi
11/21/09

@Nitrokart knows CPR and took that guy's wallet: I know... but it'd be no fun that way, right?
Well, at least for me. :P
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mintycrys is HOT for Bayonetta
11/20/09

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God I hope this game is as close to perfect as possible. Phantom Hourglass turned me off so much that my actual DS puchasing slowed down considerably after trying to play through it.
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ledzep177
11/20/09

@mintycrys is HOT for Bayonetta: I was enjoying Phantom Hourglass until about the 4th time through the Ocean temple (or whatever it was called). I was just so tired of that dungeon I just sort of put the game away and never picked it up again. As long as this game doesn't have anything like that, I'm sold.
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mintycrys is HOT for Bayonetta
11/20/09

@ledzep177: This. EXACTLY this.

4th time and everything.

It didn't help that the game's dungeon design was less than inspiring.

Wind Waker sailing was more fun than Temple of the Ocean King visits.
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Slagathorian
11/20/09

@mintycrys is HOT for Bayonetta: I couldn't stomach Phantom Hourglass, using perhaps the worst example of touch screen gaming I've ever seen.
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mintycrys is HOT for Bayonetta
11/20/09

@Slagathorian: Nintendo developed the hardware for the DS and still can't make game engines that utilize it as well as developers like iNiS and Jupiter (Jupiter? Chain of Memories Jupiter? THAT Jupiter? Shame on you, Nintendo).
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Slagathorian
11/20/09

@mintycrys is HOT for Bayonetta: my biggest issue was having to use the stylus to move link around. Every time I wanted link to go up or to the left, my hand blocked most of my screen.

I thought it was absolutely ridiculous.
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mintycrys is HOT for Bayonetta
11/20/09

@Slagathorian: Rolling. I could never do it properly. The edges of the DS touch screen are tighter than the center, and not the best place to assign a stylus motion for a necessary movement.

And yeah, playing the game felt like playing Killer 7 on PS2. I was using every digit and muscle in both of my goddamned hands just to PLAY THE GAME. And then I had to use the stylus on top of that.
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Slagathorian
11/20/09

@mintycrys is HOT for Bayonetta: I also thought it was cheap to just "tap on an enemy" and linked attacked it. Especially where they're were a bunch of enemies on screen at once.

And lets face it, the DS is uncomfortable as hell when being held with only one hand.
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mintycrys is HOT for Bayonetta
11/20/09

@Slagathorian: The only stylus hevy games I can stand to play are Canvas Curse, Ouendan/EBA, and The World Ends With You (fucking monstrous, that one).

If Spirit Tracks turns out to be more of the same, I'll be placing some unrealistically high hopes on the new Wii Zelda game...
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D-K, stubbed his toe..*swears*
11/20/09

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Ahh... pseudo-3D... that'll turn some heads..

...the other way

dohohoho...
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WhiteMåge
11/20/09

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Wait, the existence of zelda, and one that already knows link, means that this is STILL wind waker link? Still in wind waker land? :|
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electroshockwave
11/20/09

@WhiteMåge: Apparently it's a hundred years after Wind Waker/Phantom Hourglass.

What's that you say, how is a hundred years enough time for the Great Sea to recede and a rail network to be built? Well, it can be explained quite simply actually. You see *throws smoke bomb and runs off*
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GohanGVO
11/20/09

@WhiteMåge: It takes place 100 years after Phantom Hourglass, but it is the second sequel to Wind Waker. ST's Link and Zelda are descendants of PH's.

I suppose that means that WW, PH and ST consist of the first Zelda trilogy in series history.
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WhiteMåge
11/20/09

@GohanGVO: So...

If this time they're ACTUAL DIRECT DESCENDANTS FOR REAL CONFIRMED...does that mean WW Link and Zelda shacked up on the seas?

Or did they for some stupid reason part ways and have different kids who eventually 100 years later had kids who were buddies and those are the kids in this game UGH I am confsued

#speakup
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Scotsfan - GOTY Edition
11/20/09

@WhiteMåge: If you look here, this is how many Zelda fans see the timeline: [img10.imageshack.us]

Also if you look at this next one, this explains that Termina is in fact the Twilight world: [img97.imageshack.us]

May seems confusing at first, but they make sense...in a way. Haha. :D
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SewerShark: LOOK BEHIND YOU, A THREE HEADED MONKEY!!!
11/20/09

@electroshockwave: You can't explain Zelda's time line. James already tried, with no success.
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WhiteMåge
11/20/09

@Scotsfan - GOTY Edition: Not a fan of fan ideas of the timeline, I only care about confirmed and absolute connections.

There aer a few sets of asbolute connections:

* OoT/MM - TP
* OoT - TWW/PH
* TMC - FS/FSA
* ALttP - LA
* OoS/OoA (in either order)
* LoZ - AoL

And that's all that matters to me. Except most evidence points to OOT being teh very first, and LTTP references the events of OOT int he opening so it definitely comes later. Minish cap being where THAT link got a hat does not mean it's the first :|

But my confusion lies in the relation between this link and this zelda. Are they cousins? Are they brother and sister? Do they even know each other before the game starts? D:

Btw, here's a good read about the "principles" of the timeline- factual data about connections and sets of games.

[www.zeldawiki.org]
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GohanGVO
11/20/09

@WhiteMåge: Perhaps I should clarify that they are descendants in a loose sense.

I imagine that, as so much time has passed, a variety of people populated the new land established by Tetra and Link (WW).

So while there may be some vague genetic relation between Link (ST) and Zelda (ST) akin to what all humans in reality share, I doubt they are directly related as siblings.

It's best just to think of them as "the next generation/incarnation" and not worry so much about the muddled, incoherent timeline.
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Torokun
10/27/09

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GAH~! I just got my DSi!!!

-_- #nintendodsi
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Jesse in Japan
10/26/09

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Coming soon, the new DS flavored Tic Tics with butter!

...as if anyone recognizes that reference... #nintendodsi
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gatsuuga
10/26/09

@Jesse in Japan: I wish it had root beer on the inside! #nintendodsi
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MrBionic
10/26/09

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My grandmother wanted to get a DSi, but she said that seeing what was on the screen wasn't the issue, it was the fact that it didn't vibrate like the Wiimote does. Apparently old people need that force-feedback sensitivity to let them know they're still holding onto something.

Well, that's her excuse anyway. #nintendodsi
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AOClaus
10/26/09

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I love how people are getting up in arms about this new DSi. People like their systems to be smaller, more portable, yet when one comes out that's bigger, and clearly meant for people with BAD EYESIGHT, they moan and complain . . . like old people who can't read the "gosh dern labels on cans of food because the print is too gosh dern small!" . . .

Of course maybe these are the same people reading Kotaku and they're having trouble reading the article to begin with. That might explain why the missed the crucial bit about it being "aimed at an older market, the type who likes big buttons on their telephones and large print books."

And you know what, I like this because some day I'm going to be old and this gives me hope for my ability to game in later years when reading a book means getting a book on tape.
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Ryuuenjin
10/26/09

@AOClaus: well i dunno about you, but while i dont care all that much about the dsi and im up in arms about quite a few other things with it... what we all need to be asking our selves is... Really?? do we really need this? I mean correct me if im wrong how long was the original dsi out? shouldn't they have just made it this big in the first place? I mean maybe its just me, but the sheer audacity of this makes me want to start a siege on nintendo's hq with my potato canon #nintendodsi
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AOClaus
10/26/09

@Ryuuenjin: No they shouldn't have made it this big in the first place because young people wouldn't want it because it's too big. What part of "for old people" doesn't make sense? This isn't FOR you, unless you're 70+, do you really consider a larger, slightly more cumbersome to carry around DS an advantage? A reason to upgrade again? Are you daft? #nintendodsi
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Torusan
10/26/09

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I think this is a good idea. My mom has been thinking about getting a DSi. If there's any confirmation about the larger screens coming to the Americas anytime soon I think she might wait for it. #nintendodsi
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Brian D. - currently stalking Mike.M for stars
10/26/09

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At first I was "Oh come on!" and then I read the benefit of the larger screen and I was all "Ahh, cool Nintendo!"

I'll most likely import / purchase so I can give it to my Dad. He likes the DS, but a bigger screen is what he really needs. #nintendodsi
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Showmeyomoves!
10/26/09

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@all: This is not an upgrade. The specs are exactly the same as the original DSi. This one is just designed for old people with bad eye-sight.

So before you start complaining, ask yourself this: Are you an old person with bad eye-sight? #nintendodsi
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Slagathorian
10/26/09

@Showmeyomoves!: :( Sorry you lost your star bro, you are still one of my favorite commentators though.

Another interesting point that was pointed out, is that with an increase in screen size, the visual quality dips. Like putting a picture you took with a cell phone as your desktop background, the size wrecks the image clarity.

Not that any of that matters either way, the DSi2 will sell like crazy. #nintendodsi
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Showmeyomoves!
10/26/09

@Slagathorian: ":( Sorry you lost your star bro, you are still one of my favorite commentators though."

Why, thank you! Never before have I received so many compliments as when I lost my star. I should definitely do this more often.

The decrease in visual quality is a good point, by the way. Another indication that this DSi XL is clearly not aimed at us "hardcore" gamers. #nintendodsi
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Cptn.PaxtonAstypalaea(Corsair)
10/26/09

@Slagathorian: ..... Good points people... I'll just get a DSi Norm ASAP... I think the red ones are out in the UK now?

Or I would if I hadn't spent all my cash on Transformers, Gundam Models, Figmas, and Revoltechs...

... I mean Porn, I spent all my money on porn. #nintendodsi
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