by Lucas M. Thomas:
Columns III: Revenge of Columns is a capable puzzler in many respects, but falls well short of the appeal of its own predecessor. You'd be better off spending your 800 Wii Points on a download of the original Columns, which is already available on the Virtual Console and has been since the Wii launched in 2006. It's a better version of the Columns design, as this retooling into a constant one-on-one versus puzzler just isn't as much fun as taking on the stack by yourself. But don't feel bad, Columns III. Nobody remembers Tetris 2 either.
Psy from Bit Cultures writes: "This week I run down the best of the so-called casual puzzle genre spawned by, but not including, Tetris! Be it competitive or relaxed, will your favourite make the list?"
Chalgyr's Game Room writes:
This week's collection of games comes from a variety of genres and systems. Some of the titles you might expect, coming from one of the most beloved franchises in all of video gaming. Some of the others? Probably somewhat more of a surprise.
Columns (SNES) - Clotho
Named after one of the Three Sisters of Fate from Greek Mythology, Clotho is one of the most recognizable tune from the 32-bit era of video gaming. Ask anyone and watch their face contort into one that of filled with nostalgia.
This week’s headline release on the Nintendo eShop is surely Animal Crossing: New Leaf. As this title won’t be available til midnight tonight however, it’s SEGA’s retro feast that steals the frontpage. Sonic the Hedgehog, Dr. Robotnik’s Mean Bean Machine, Shining Force: Sword of Haiya and Columns are all available to download for the Nintendo 3DS now.
Those Genesis games are EXPENSIVE.
You can buy Sonic's Ultimate Genesis Collection new for around $10-$15 on PS3 or 360, which contains around 40 games including all the Genesis games listed here, plus tons of extra content and achievements/trophies.
The "Nintendo Tax" is ridiculous on these versions.
Those are Game Gear games, not Genesis games. Only digital versions of these games in existence is the eShop
Good catch! That makes the deal even worse. Is there really a good reason that the 3DS cannot run the far superior Genesis versions of those games?
Nintendo have a track-record of pulling this kind of crap on the Wii VC. They had bad NES conversions of arcade games instead of original arcade versions (e.g. Bubble Bobble), NES versions of the Mario games despite them being remade in much better SNES version in Super Mario All-Stars and Commodore 64 games that were completely broken with poor emulation (Mayhem in Monsterland) and even one VC game that just crashed after the first level (Last Ninja III).
I own both Wii and Wii U and I don't buy anything on VC because it's such a bad service and poor value for money. I'll just stick with emulators until Nintendo decide to get their act together.
This Animal Crossing game is taking sooooo long to download. 25% in 4 hours with zero other downloads on the network and a 10mb bandwidth. I know the game has just been released and the servers are probably getting hammered but this kind of thing would potentially drive new digital customers away.
