GBA Ambassador games out in UK and Japan this Friday, full list revealed

@Trogdorwhore that just cracked me up and brightened my day :) oh, and I COMPLETELY AGREE!

@Trogdorwhore

Perfect video. That was my exact reaction.

@Trogdorwhore
LOF'nL man! I SWEAR to you I said that out loud and EXACTLY like that when I read that list! I totally forot where that came from, thanks for the reminder. :)

@A Sandwich
yeah but thats the japan and eu. what about the US?

@Suichimo

How would they do the linkup in Golden Sun, anyway?

@Gibbeynator Password linkup.

@Gibbeynator

Seeing as I'd hate to use the horrible password system, maybe they could alter the link cable transfer to just check for save data on the system.

@Suichimo

Are you saying that Sacred Stones wasn't the best thing ever? Because I'm pretty sure that Sacred Stones was the BEST THING EVER.

@ClownyDaggers

Yeah. :)

It was a good game, just way too easy. Even its hard difficulty was easy. It was actually my first FE, so it does hold a spot in my heart, but I would've liked to see one of the more difficult games.

@JohnDM

Throw yourself into traffic please.

@Co

Now now don't be mean.

Simply dying in a fire will suffice.

@JohnDM
*(or Totally Jealous for those of you who don't use abbreviated words that make other people want to bludgeon you with a spiked baseball bat)

Fixed.

@Co Haha, wow that's the first time I've been downvoted this much. Don't worry it's not like I go around saying that to people's faces. Actually the only time I say crap like that is to my Californian friends, and we all realize how dumb it is.

I don't know why, but this made my morning.

@JohnDM

Save your inside jokes for you and your little gay buddies next time.

@cantwait2bhome
After the original NES Zelda turned me off the franchise, it was Minish Cap who brought me back. The Kinstone mechanic was pure stupidity, but otherwise it's an amazing game.

@Vic Fontaine ...wait...the original NES Zelda turned you OFF to the series?

@Vic Fontaine
You have no taste or are possibly an idiot. Maybe both.

@Grimbear13
You have to think about people that weren't around when the original first came out. The NES Zelda was hard, impossible to tell where you were going, and overall just not as good. If you still play it today you're playing it more for the nostalgia than anything else.

@MEMgrizzlies7
Yeah, no joke. I started playing my ambassador version on the 3DS recently. I only played it a few times as a kid on my grandparents NES, so I didn't really know what I was getting myself into. It is insanely hard! But, nonetheless, I will persevere since Zelda is my favorite series.

@Vic Fontaine

Don't listen to them. LOZ is a classic, but it doesn't hold up at all so many years later. It's borderline unplayable in 2011, as much charm as it may have for those of us that grew up with it.

It's just not cool to say so.

@MEMgrizzlies7 I severely disagree with the fact that it's a bad game. It's a hard game and it doesn't lead you by the nose, you actually have to do exploring... so it helps that I've done it a few times and know of it's secrets. But the whole idea is that it's an "adventure" game not a rail experience you were supposed to find where to go.

@greyseal I couldn't disagree more the game is still exceptional. "Modern standards" mean that the game holds you hand and your practically on rails. Even games that claim to be open world are usually not truly open world. Try Dark Souls I loved Demon's Souls and knew that one of the hooks was dying by suprise so I specifically didn't watch anything for it. Then when I started playing I was completely shocked at how there is no sense of direction. You are dropped in the world and pretty much just told "Hey go ring these two bells." Begin quest, you have to actually explore and discover where to go where the secrets are etc etc. You can look it all up now I'm sure but imo that ruins part of the experience. Gamers today have fallen into this scenario where if everything isn't explicitly laid out for them where to go what to do the game is considered bad. I will admit it is a nice feature to have sometimes but it's gone too far to where we're playing mostly slightly interactive movies.

@Vic Fontaine Sp00ky that you?

@Oddgirl

So far they've claimed they are exclusive to ambassadors.

@Oddgirl

I think the GBA games will be on the VC but the NES ones won't be. I can't confirm that, but I remember reading that somewhere.

@SpiderPrime The other way around. The NES games are confirmed to be up for sale eventually, they have "no plan at this time" to release the GBA ones to the unwashed masses.

@Acosta02
You know these games are exclusive to those who bought the system and connected it to the 3DS Store BEFORE the price drop right?

@Catalyst691

Some places dropped the price early so I'm an ambassador regardless.

@Catalyst691 some stores dropped the price prematurly allowing people to get the 3ds at a lower price and still be eligibe for the ambassador progra,

@Acosta02 It doesn't seem like the games will have multiplayer, unfortunately.

@TCJJ

Arguably the gamecube is the best - if you include the promo disc and the GBA player you can have basically any zelda you could ever want (except SS obviously).

@Acosta02 And the two DS games.

@Oddgirl
That's why he said "...any zelda you could ever *want* "
Obviously the CDi and DS games are left out.

@sparkster

The last thing I want to do is start this debate, but I personally enjoyed Phantom Hourglass more than Twilight Princess.

Can't speak for Spirit Tracks. Still haven't touched it yet.

@sparkster How any Zelda fan could lump Phantom Hourglass and Spirit Tracks with the CDi games is beyond me. Spirit Tracks, with all of its problems, is at least as good if not better than Zelda II.

@Alexisonfire

It still makes me sad all the hate that's directed at Twilight Princess. Not only is it a fantastic game, I think it's far superior to Skyward Sword. Begin the downvotes.

@The Pork
I agree, but only because of the shitty controls thrown down our throats in SS. Swordplay, and arrows/slingshot worked great, but flying, swimming, and skydiving...... oh god the skydiving................

And to make matters worse all of this could have been handled with a joystick no problem, but they choose shitty, brokem MC instead? It's such a damn shame, because otherwise it's one of, if not the best Zelda ever, but these segments make it my least favorite 3D Zelda.

And the DS Zelda's were awesome, especially Spirit Tracks.

@The Pork

I didn't say I hated Twilight Princess, I just said that I enjoyed Phantom Hourglass better.

Yes, I think Twilight Princess is probably the... least good 3D zelda, but its better than most games in the past decade.

@Vic Fontaine
I agree that motion controls in SS were horrible in alot of situations, but that game had so much more to offer. The general flow of the game was great. There are fun puzzles everywhere. The world is dense with adventure. Even collecting these tears didn't seem to drag on as much as it did in TP (to be clear: I *love* TP).
@Oddgirl
Which brings me back to the DS titles. They just didn't feature *anything* worthwhile other than an "innovative" control scheme. I can't stress this enough: Hitting a number of switches in a certain order that you have to read somewhere is *not* a puzzle. Putting that in a game once in a while is fine, but PH and especially ST outside the tower seemed to be made up entirely of switch sequences.

@The Pork eeeek no no no no no no no

just, no.

@Vic Fontaine
Also, I really do think the controls in Skyward Sword for the most part were excellent.

The flying wasn't great (I think the limited scope of the sky was a bigger problem), and ok, the swimming could get pretty frustrating at some points, but those were relatively minor elements. The sword fighting was 99.99% of what mattered, and in my opinion they were perfect.