I agree that the music doesn't compare with the masterpieces of the metroidvania games, but as far as 3D Castlevania games or GoW/DMC style games go, I thought it was damn good. Maybe I'm letting the overall experience influence me more than the actual music, but I just enjoyed the atmosphere so much, I thought the…

Remember, this isn't the traditional Castlevania canon, so who is "Dracula" in this new world anyway?

To everyone who expressed distaste for this game:

The intro gets even better if you imagine this is Captain Picard talking with Rumplestiltskin/Mr Gold from Once Upon a Time.

For everyone complaining that the cities are not big enough or close enough to major population centers, keep in mind that they need to have both the right size and the right store setup for this to work correctly. Some layouts just wouldn't work for something like this, and even if your city is large enough, maybe…

Fair enough. I have heard those games are quite good, but they're not the kind of games I usually personally play so I have a difficult time judging their quality. I guess I can also add Theatrhtym and Dissidia to the list of games that I enjoyed.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't most of those games from…

Job loss is never a good thing, so perhaps not to the point they were at in the 80's... but something has to be done to shake the company up. The current path is apparently not the way to go. I think a new man in charge is just what's needed. The internal talent is there, but the direction the company is taking…

Remember back in the 80s when Squaresoft was about to fail? They put out a pretty great little game that was supposed to be their last, and for this reason called it "Final Fantasy".

Square-Enix needs to fall and fall hard. The only games that I have enjoyed from them in the past 5 years (probably more) have been…

Excellent! College athletes are treated miserably when it comes to their image, license, and brand, and I can't think of a better company than EA to have to pay out a bit.

My personal hatred for EA might have something to do with my joy. I admit that.

I don't... what?! If you don't want to have backwards compatibility, that sucks, but I get it. Maybe it's an expense you can't justify. Whatever. But that quote makes no sense. It's not backwards. It's a GREAT selling point! If either of these systems had full backwards compatibility with their predecessors,…

No, I am fully speaking of software. It had a great lineup of games. It just didn't have a great third party lineup of games. That lineup appealed to a certain group of people, again, they may not be the games that you or many people on sites like this enjoy, but plenty of people did.

I don't think that Nintendo…

Was just about to write that. How the mighty have fallen.

Except they did win plenty of fans in gaming circles... just presumably not people like you. Which is fine. They won younger kids, casual games, fans of non-hardcore gaming, and they maintained triple-A titles for fans of Nintendo franchises. It doesn't have to be your favorite console or company for you to admit…

There's really nothing we are disagreeing about. I agree that the Wii has comparatively worse third party support and sales are horrible for them in that department. The only thing we differ on is that I also feel that this doesn't matter when the company overall made the most profit and still had many superior…

"Lets just assume for a second that the Wii U never really picks up all that much and doesn't sell many more units than the extremely pitiful GameCube:"

Wow. We have very different groups of friends. I play both Mario Party and Smash Bros on a regular basis (in fact have dedicated nights to each at least once every few months). Mario Party IS random, just like every other board game is random. Roll a die, get a random number, see where it takes you. You can use…

But all we are talking about is sales. I'm not talking about who had "the best third party games" or the "the best sports titles" or "the best shooter". In those departments, the Wii was absolutely destroyed. And of course, subjectively, there were people who preferred the games for other consoles more than Wii. …

Okay, that is pretty clearly Morgana, Ursula's sister, from the Little Mermaid sequel. Seems like someone at Disney got their wires crossed and used her character model with Ursula's name. And to address those who already mentioned it, Morgana is based on the unused concept art of the ultra-skinny Ursula.

I... am referring hardware sales. Isn't that what we're talking about? Everyone has their preferences, but the Wii was an unmitigated success. It was the best selling console of the generation, so it "won". Software sales in general are one thing, software sales of first party titles are another, profits due to…

I think that goes without saying. What were it's competition? Game Gear? Lynx? N-gage? Nomad? There's finally been SOMETHING in the past few years with the PSP and now the Vita, but nothing has come close to Nintendo in handhelds.