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Zelda game says I should take a break... so I'll take a break. To play Mario 3D World, that is!

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god damn it i will never stop imagining that now

It's always funny to picture it during cutscenes. Everything normal, people saying their normal things, but everyone's bending like that.

New Nintendo Direct! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OS_gYzv02SQ

Highlights:

• DYNASTY WARRIORS GAME STARRING LINK - Wii U, 2014
  
• New Kirby Triple Deluxe footage - 3DS, 2014
  
• Yoshi's *New* Island footage - 3DS, Spring 2014
  
• New Chibi Robo with a wacky gimmick that uses the 3DS camera - 3DS, January 9
  
• Pokemon Bank/Poke Transport confirmed for December 27. Free trial and event pokemon Celebi offered as well.
• Bravely Default - This is the stupidest possible thing he could have talked about here, but BD is supposed to be fucking rad. Demo coming on January 2nd, full game in February 11th.
  
• Donkey Kong Tropical Freeze footage - Cranky's playable and he is literally Scrooge McDuck from the NES games. Wii U, February 21.
  
• Really wacky Sonic Lost Worlds DLC
  
• NES Remix - Downloadable title that "remixes" parts of old NES games? I. I don't know. Available now.
  
• Click here to listen to Iwata saying "Dr. Luigi is in the house" - Wii U, December 31.
  
• New Smash Trailer, New Character
  
• Mario Kart 8 trailer - Spring 2014

Emo Peach is really moving up in the world lately! First 3D World, and now Smash.

also

Crazy fucking shit, yo.

Oh boy in game purchases for Bravery Default that I'll never use. Other than that Nintendo Direct was pretty hype.

I finally got around to finishing SMT IV this week... beat the game today. The game has its flaws but overall it's definitely Good Stuff.

So I got around to finishing Pokemon X the other day. God damn the E4 were pushovers.

so I picked up ALBW but I haven't really started playing it yet because I can't fucking put down Fire Emblem.

I've also been playing around with the idea of picking up Skyward Sword and finally playing that but I'm afraid once I break out the Wii I'm going to put in Radiant Dawn and never ever stop.

hatelove you fire emblem series 

Should probably get around to playing FE. Any particular ones I should start with or is it more of a "jump in and play" dealie?

yeah jump in anywhere, the plots mostly have very little relation to each other (with the exception of Radiant Dawn, which Path of Radiance is a prerequisite for) and all of the ones released in the last decade (everything since the GBA game that was just called Fire Emblem) are pretty newbie-friendly.

exception: there is a DS game called Shadow Dragon, which is a remake of the very first game in the series. it is ugly as shit and not very much fun because it stays too faithful to the original. don't start there.

Awakening is really something of a "greatest hits" version of Fire Emblem. It's like they decided to take all the coolest things in past games and stuff them all into the same game. It worked spendidly.

If you only play one FE game, I recommend Awakening just for all the random cool stuff in it and the multiple difficulty levels. Also, the other games won't suddenly look dated because you played Awakening... they aged quite well. Especially the GBA ones with the wikkid sikk sprite animations!

As for me, I'm wrapping up my 1.5th playthrough (reloaded from an old save instead of starting over) of SMTIV. All I have left to do is beat the fuckoff hard postgame DLC bosses.

big big sale

Code of Princess (3DS) - "More than 30% off" until January 20
Etrian Odyssey 4 (3DS) - "More than 30% off" until January 20
Shin Megami Tensei Devil Summoner: Soul Hackers (3DS) - "More than 30% off" until January 20
Etrian Odyssey Untold: The Millennium Girl (3DS) - $20 off from January 20-27
EDGE (3DS eShop) - $1.99 until January 23
Aqua Moto Racing 3D (3DS eShop) - 25% off until January 23
Darts Up 3D (3DS eShop) - "More than 50% off" until January 30
Harvest Moon: Tale of Two Towns (3DS) - $19.99 until January 31
Hometown Story (3DS) - $29.99 until January 31

I'mma get EO Untold