currently registering everybody
(why doesn't nintendo network do this(

mine is0318 8943 6467

since the gba and ds were so much improved after 1,5 year, i'll wait

The year of Luigi lives on... Seriously, buy Kid Icarus.

Xenoblade Chronicles

I was going to get a 3DS XL for my birthday in October. Looks like I'd best hang on.

Been playing Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds, which I got for Christmas but haven't opened until last week(!).

Oh my. Easily one of the best single-player-orientated games I've played during the last decade, and instantly in my top 10, or top 5, games ever. So I strongly recommend that to anyone with a 3DS, particularly if you liked A Link to the Past, as it's a ALTTP on steroids. Good steroids. Best Zelda adventure since Majora's Mask.

Everything Interesting From Today's Nintendo Direct
by Patrick Klepek on November 5, 2014

Majora's Mask 3DS is finally coming, and a bunch of games have both specific and vague release dates.

Once a moon, Nintendo president Satoru Iwata must find the nearest camera and beginning talking into it. The result is published as a Nintendo Direct. There was one today, and lo, it came with some news.

Nintendo's publishing a long rumored remake (update?) of The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask on 3DS. It's coming next spring, and the company alluded to some gameplay changes to make it more accessible but didn't outline them.

Codename S.T.E.A.M., the latest strategy game from the developers of Advance Wars, is headed to 3DS next spring, as well.

In terms of Wii U, it was mostly trailers and vague release dates. Nintendo did promise Kirby and the Rainbow Curse for next February, but Splatoon's coming sometime in the "second quarter," and Xenoblade Chronicles X is "2015." Both Splatoon and Xenoblade Chronicles X sound like prime candidates for games to be delayed much later into 2015, but we'll have to wait and see.

On Wii U's Virtual Console, Duck Hunt's coming with Wii remote support.

The company briefly touched on its new Amibo initiative, promising Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker, Kirby and the Rainbow Curse, Yoshi's Woolly World, and Mario Party 10 would all receive support for Amibo.

At the end, Shigeru Miyamoto appeared to announce his Pikmin animated shorts are available on both the 3DS and Wii U eShops. He teased some new games he's working on for Wii U, but nothing was shown.

The entire Nintendo Direct is below:

I have started three different Zelda games and not got very far before giving up. I am obviously doing something wrong - please help!

couldn't find the way to go...

Yeah, it's not an uncommon problem. I typically go off exploring before returning to it.

Sometimes that causes me to find the way, othertimes it just gives me a fresh pair of eyes.

The most recent one I was playing was A Link Between Worlds on the 3DS, so I'll probably give it another go.

One of the most frequent criticisms lobbed at the Zelda series is that it’s always just the same game, over and over again - that people who love it were indoctrinated as children and are incapable of seeing it for what it is. I have heard this not just from people on the Internet, who are always ready with their reductive criticisms, but from friends, family, a couple of lovers (related: heated arguments about Zelda in bed are deeply unsexy). It always makes me ball my fists and breathe deeply.

Like most criticism that strikes a nerve, there is an element of truth to it. Zelda is a myth endlessly retold. The same basic story - the pursuit of the Triforce, the vanquishing of evil, the disappearance of a princess - guides them all, shepherding you gently between dungeons, towns and the open road. The same well-worn and well-loved toys are brought out of the attic every time: boomerang, bow, hookshot. The same locations, transformed by time and reinterpretation and technical advancement, keep reappearing. All Zelda games, alongside their many technical and creative innovations (revolutions, even), conform to this template. Except when they don’t.

The most recent one I was playing was A Link Between Worlds on the 3DS, so I'll probably give it another go.

I have started three different Zelda games and not got very far before giving up. I am obviously doing something wrong - please help!

So what about these Amiibos then? Has anyone thought about collecting them? I think they have the potential to be worth a bit of money in the future.