"Viewed through one lens of the great telescope"

How can you only view through one lens of a telescope? :P

I do sort of want this. Now if I only could explain why.

A Moldy Peaches?

Played this game on import and what bollocks it was too. Avoid, Avoid, Avoid. Spend your cash on something else.

Wait for Mario Brothers DS then?

*sings* Moving to the country, gonna eat a lot of Peaches... *sings*

Peach deserves her own game. Poor Peach has been kidnapped and held to ransom enough that she deserves some main-lead love. But I don't think this is it...

Oh well.

*starts singing "Peaches" again*

Just to stick up for the designers here.. Treasure do multi-stage bosses all the time and Zelda does the "all the bosses again thing" at the end of at least two of its various iterations...

both are hailed as unique works of geniuses, held up as examples for other games to follow... We can only give you what you tell us you like!

I dunno man, I haven't personally heard a single person say that the final dungeon of Wind Waker was anything but complete arse.

Agree with the multi-stage boss though, seems like the reviewers beef was with the difficulty and not the actual concept of a multi-stage boss. What I don't like is having to go back to the start of the boss and do the by-now-annoying early stages over again. Pain in the buttocks.

I like the idea of controlling mood in a game. Could even do with getting rid of the direct control of your character - just use a more refined way of setting how they might respond to situations and let the AI do the rest. Would let you watch the action from different angles and free the camera up to be more "artistic".

I also sort of want it but...it's a bit girly, isn't it?

Not the sort of thing you'd want your non-gaming mates to catch you playing.

'dunno man, I haven't personally heard a single person say that the final dungeon of Wind Waker was anything but complete arse.'

Wasn't that because they had about 3 more dungeons planned, but had to cut the game short to release it by the deadline?

"smelly rock of astronaut poop"

Funniest thing I've ever read!

Two lensed telescope? Microscope?

As bad as some of these mario games are, imagine a world without mario. Racing games would be all simulators, platforming would still be exactly like frogger, videogaming as we know it would have collapsed forever in the 80s!

Or maybe someone else would have invented a company and characters to drive the industry if mario and nintendo weren't around. But before you grab your shotgun, map of Japan and time machine... is that a risk you are willing to take?

Is it me, or have Eurogamer gone on a 6/10 spree the last few days?

Even Kirby is less gay than this.

Is it me, or have Eurogamer gone on a 6/10 spree the last few days?

It seems so, but only because of the quality of games being published at the moment, rather than anything else.

I confess to predicting a 6 before the review page loaded, but only from what information I've gathered about the game beforehand.

Teeth - but did you see any reviews of Wind Waker that criticised it... If everyone hated it fair enough...

This is why I don't like reviews that single out sections of a games staff for criticism like this one... People act in good faith based on the information that is available and then get accused of not doing their job, and its just so unneccesary. Especially when most of the time its just because a reviewer was trying to show off that they know a little something about development (even when they don't).

the mouldy peaches rock :P

downloading pron with jack_klugman!

@Frod: Girls are gay?

BLOODY PSP FANBOYS!!!

if this was on the psp, they'd have given it 15/10.

'Even Kirby is less gay than this.'

Have you played Canvas Curse?

Have you played Canvas Curse?

If he had, he'd realise what a stupidly stupid comment that was. Canvas curse is the BEST ds game there is.

I'll 2nd that.

DS Kirby alone justifies the use of the touch screen/stylus.

I'll 3rd it - with the proviso that I would insert 'one of the' in front of 'best' as my dogmatism gene has faded across the years

Yupi. All I wanted was A-N-O-T-H-E-R game based on Mario characters. Can't wait for Revolution to play Super Princess Peach 2, 3, 4 and 5! :-)

Nintendo in dud game shocker!

Are there actually any games that use the microphone for, you know, voice recognition? Rather than a measurement of just how hard you blow?

"Nintendogs"... heard of it? :)

MMUK - Yes, I agree with that. It's all too often that reviewers across the world think they know about development. Take as an example Douglass C. Perry, Editor In Chief of IGN as he proudly likes to tell us at the start of every video review he does before prattling on about "clipping" when there are collision errors... weak.

As for this game, it's clearly the kind of rampantly ignorant sexist-stereotype-reinforcement that ought to be banned more than any amount of Grand Theft Autos.

I'll second Nintendogs voice recognition. That really shut the doubters up about the microphone. Well, nearly all the doubters.

"Are there actually any games that use the microphone for, you know, voice recognition? Rather than a measurement of just how hard you blow?"

Phoenix Wright does, but only two words. "Hold it!" and of course "objection!".

Princess Peach feels like a step backwards, because we've seen most of these platforming ideas 10 years ago. Back then it was sold in dense packages of intense reflex-training, one awesome conditioning exercise after another. Now that Nintendo wants another try at 2D gaming, they have upgraded a GBA style platformer to teach new DS owners some gaming history. Most casual gamers will love the way the game eases the discomfort of failure with the freedom to use power-ups and coins to compensate for inexperience, or 10 year old gray matter.

That's the business strategy, but the game's legacy will surpass its role as a buffer for the new Mario (now that you've scored Princess Peach, Mario will knock the top off your scoring system- Eurogamer has seen through that trap.) Princess Peach will be remembered for the story. It's another muffled cry by the Japanese giant. "America, Europe, look! We've been making mature games from the beginning, but we let some slick marketing guys outsmart us. Now you think that killing brainless shiny mannequins is the adult thing to do, and you should be ashamed of yourself. Remember when we were in your head, hitting bricks, sliding beneath enemies, soaring like superheroes. We want it back."

I've gone too far, but Princess Peach should remind everyone that games, like Anime, can use childhood symbols to appeal to people of all ages. Here, the “Vibe Scepter” is an overt reference to “vibrator”, with some graphic references (check out the idle animation) and an epilogue that sets it in stone. Kids will love the game without having a clue. I will remember the day when Mario’s transformations took on a whole new meaning.

As bad as some of these mario games are, imagine a world without mario. Racing games would be all simulators, platforming would still be exactly like frogger, videogaming as we know it would have collapsed forever in the 80s!

Somebody really needs to remove those blinkers. Most racing games weren't simulators until revs and most arcade racers weren't for many years after. Can you say "outrun?"

Frogger a platformer?

Nintendo was a big influence on turning round the videogame slump however I seem to remember Sega having an influence. I also remember that many people were perfectly happy with Sinclairs, commodores etc.

my name is Jorge Regula

I'm just your average Thundercats ho.

Phoenix Wright does, but only two words. "Hold it!" and of course "objection!".

You realise that's THREE words?

...Okay, i take my trite comment back. I'm obviously just an under-informed cynic. Move along!

Hows about a game which measures how hard you suck?

That'll surely make all the psp owners win!

+1 smelly

/dons flameproof suit

+1 smelly too.

/Demands that Furbs, Blerk and the rest are flung off the board of Regulards.
/Demands that smelly is installed as CEO.

OR

Down the the regulards!
Hooray for the Nintentards!

ED: AAANNNDD smelly for most improved poster of the year, while I'm in the mood.

Looking at the Gamespot rankings, I just noticed that the PSP now has 27 games ranking 8 or higher.

The DS has ... 16. (That includes, by the way, all three versions of Nintendogs.)

In the last three months, the only 8+ game for the DS was:

- Age of Empires.

The PSP in the same period:

- Daxter
- Syphon Filter
- Mega Man Powered Up
- Pursuit Force
- MLB The Show
- Exit
- Pro Evo 5
- Street Figther
- Mega Man Maverick Hunter
- WWE Smackdown

Touché?