The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword (Wii) – 10/10/10/10
Batman: Arkham City (PS3/360) – 10/9/9/9
Fab Style (3DS) – 9/9/10/8
7th Dragon 2020 (PSP) – 9/9/9/8
Metal Gear Solid HD Collection (PS3) – 8/9/9/8
Metal Gear Solid HD Collection (360) – 8/9/8/8
Halo Combat Evolved Anniversary (360) – 9/8/8/8
Little Battlers eXperience Boost (PSP) – 8/8/8/9
Fab Style (NDS) – 8/8/9/8
Saint Seiya Senki (PS3) – 8/8/8/8
Pop’n Music Portable 2 (PSP) – 8/8/8/8
Taiko Drum Master Wii Ultimate Version (Wii) – 8/8/7/8
Machi-ing Maker 4 (PS3/360) – 7/8/7/7
Weiss Schwarz Portable: Boost Schwarz (PSP) – 7/7/7/7
Uta no * Prince-Sama: Music (PSP) – 7/7/6/6
Tanteibu: The Detective Club – Shissou to Hangegi to Daidanen (PSP) – 7/7/7/5
Suto*Mani: Strobe * Mania (PSP) – 7/7/7/6
PachiPara 3D (3DS) – 6/7/5/6

Details on Mario Kart 7’s online features have emerged. We have a bit of additional insight into the Community functionality, as well as information on the two Battle Modes.

– Download Play support
– Local/online matches
– Create custom communities with specific parameters
– Share communities with others
– Can’t electively turn on/off whatever item you choose and adjust their frequency
– Start with one long list of different items, characters, kart paths
– Then choose one of these as a specification
– Can have a green shell only race or a Luigi only race or a standard kart frame race
– Can’t specify more than one option at a time (making matches such as a no Blue Shell, mushroom wheel race impossible)
– Balloon Battle: pop as many opponent balloons as possible within the time limit
– How many balloons you lose has little impact
– Coins Battles are timed as well
– Collect as many coins as possible while hitting your opponents’ vehicles to get them to lose their coins
– Six Battle Mode courses: Battle Course 1 from Mario Kart Super Circuit, Big Donut from Mario Kart 64 and Palm Shore from Mario Kart DS, Honeybee Hive, Sherbet Rink and WuHu Town as well
– Mirror Flip races and other community settings included
– Mirror Flip flips the course you’re racing on

Hmm… I’m a little bit concerned about Balloon Battle and Communities. I kind of liked how Balloon Battle was before… and the Community aspect sounds somewhat limiting in terms of setting up options. Guess we’ll see what happens.

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Much like the European debut trailer for Xenoblade, this video is comprised of all Japanese footage. Hopefully we’ll see a trailer for the localized game soon.

Thanks to Matt for the tip!

Would you look at that! Seems that Nintendo of America has come through on 3D Classics: Kirby’s Adventure.

This week’s Nintendo Download includes the following featured content:

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3D Classics: Kirby’s Adventure™ – 3D Classics: Kirby’s Adventure invites you to explore the world of Dream Land in a whole new way. The landscape comes to life as Kirby crosses land, sea and sky in his quest to restore the Star Rod. (For Nintendo 3DS™)

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For those that missed it, today was Shigeru Miyamoto’s 59th birthday, and as the aging game creator doesn’t really show any signs of slowing down, it got me thinking: What would Nintendo be if he suddenly died? I don’t think he will, but I really worry about how much of what they make comes from his genius in game development, and how much is from other people. Similar to the feeling I had when Steve Jobs passed away in October, I like to think that he has taught his “underlings” well enough where they could pick up the slack and keep making just as high of quality games, but I’m not 100% sure.

Now, that being said, I think it’s fair to say that I’m probably wrong. I felt the same way about Koji Kondo’s music skills, and when I learned that he only actually composed one song for Skyward Sword, I was ecstatic because the music was so great despite him not being the main composer. It gave me hope for the future of the music in Zelda games, but whether the same can be said about the gameplay and story elements is yet to be shown.

Do any of you worry about this as I occasionally do?

~Austin

Surely some of you remember this game. It was one of the few announcements made during the Nintendo Direct presentation last month. Namco Bandai is developing this dungeon RPG, with a launch date planned for 2012.

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Next month, Nintendo will offer a couple of SDHC cards in Japan. The cards will come in two sizes: 8GB and 16GB.

The 3DS system itself comes with a 2GB SD card, so these new ones are for consumers who take a lot of photos and download a large amount of content from the eShop.

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