It's also possible that each dungeon will have its own miniboss item. So you need the hookshot to get into Hookshot Temple, but halfway through you get the Longshot or the Double Hookshot or even some unrelated but cool item to progress through the rest of the dungeon and beat the boss. So you can complete the game in…

It looks like each dungeon will still be item-specific. So if you go into the Hookshot Temple and see a bunch of hookshot points, you'll know you'll need to go back and buy the hookshot before you can beat it. If you buy the Hammer instead, Hookshot Temple will be unbeatable.

Ah yes. "Reapers." The immortal race of sentient starships allegedly waiting in dark space. We have dismissed this claim.

I think I read that you can store multiple fingerprint profiles, so you actually could register your finger, toe, and nipple. Whichever you happen to have at hand! (Or at, well, you know)

Re: The "Nobody knows that the Wii U is a new console, they think it's an accessory" argument.

This is ranked 1-50 with 28 being the highest, right? Because Gyarados is Best Pokemon.

Walt will finally be killed by Mike's granddaughter Kaylee and her best pal Robot Half Gus.

Brilliant. And it's the same for movies. I saw a CNN interview with a woman who wrote a book about Hollywood's current creative slump, and she said something along the lines of "Think back to how original things were in 1991."

So sales peaked in 2008 before crashing and then slowly declining through to the present? You mean, like literally everything in the entire world?

Whoa. I don't even know what to say. News this good just doesn't happen.

I made it through the Steam summer sale without spending a dime, but Nintendo is going to completely ransack me from now until March. Starting with Rayman Legends in THREE DAYS. Wonderful 101, Wind Waker HD, Pokemon X/Y, all guaranteed purchases. And then Mario 3D World and Zelda: Link Between Worlds hit on the SAME…

Not to mention that between the $0.30 VC games and that 10% back on digital purchases program with the Deluxe, Wii U early adopters already got a sort of ambassador program built in. No complaints here.

That's exactly what "console war" types seem to keep missing about Nintendo: there's nothing wrong with catering to a different market. They don't have to defeat Sony and Microsoft and leave shattered XB1s unbought across store shelves to be successful. They just have to make a product and enough good games to be…

I got Super Metroid and beat it for the first time on Wii U a month or two ago, and it made me retroactively think less of Fusion and Zero Mission, and even Prime a little bit. SM must have completely blown people's entire minds in 1994.

If we took turns, you naming an adventure/puzzle game starring a woman and me naming one starring a man, I bet you would run out days before I did.

Definitely. As cool as my version is (of course I think it's cool, my own brain thought of it, after all...), I would have been disappointed if I totally saw it coming. An ending that completely takes me by surprise is always welcome.

The Songbird is definitely my pick for coolest thing in that game. Going into the end, I was thinking/hoping that...

Mega Bidoof only used 1% of its true power!

Yeah, I guess we'll see what happens/never know what might have been. Whatever happens, we'll get a couple good games out of the deal, so the world will be better for it.

Right, that's my point. A lot of people criticized Nintendo for not going directly after Apple by either making a souped up multipurpose handheld or by just making a bunch of Nintendo franchise iPhone games. Nintendo didn't do that, they just made a quality reasonably priced (eventually) dedicated gaming handheld, and…