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I seem to remember there being an option to skip a level if it's too hard. You build up the number of passes you have as you play, so by world 3 you should have a bunch of them.

You realise that the developer is still okay, right?
They will almost certainly find a publisher for their next game, given the response and reviews that World of Goo got.

Too true. That and DrumMania; Love that game and the crappy PS2 controller thing I got with it.

Did Engadget just make an Oasis reference in the title of this post?

I'll second the call for Secret of Mana. I frickin' love that game. The sequel was pretty good as well, but the orignal was played through so many times that it's a bit more special to me. What they need to do is add wireless multiplayer for it to tuly rock.

It might also be interesting to use the bottom screen for selecting magic in a way that doesn't interrupt the flow of the game. Might mess up the balance of the game though - there were many times when going into the ring menus was a way to stop and think about strategy - especially when playing in multiplayer mode.

While we're on the subject of SNES games, I'll throw in Rock n Roll racing. Probably alone on that one though!

Anyone else notice that the music seems to be a remix of a track from A Link to the Past?

Some hi-res links for the JavaScript challenged (or just plain lazy).

http://www.newswire.co.kr/nwboard/img_sub_view.php?id=113193&mem_id=123456+&picsize=big

http://www.newswire.co.kr/nwboard/img_sub_view.php?id=113194&mem_id=123456+&picsize=big

My first post to Engadget is a useful one, I feel.

I find it amazing that some people still refer to the DS's touch screen input as "gimmickry". The input mechanisms is a new and interesting way to play games. Not every DS title uses it and some only use it sparingly. The thing to note is that most of the highly rated DS games rely heavily on the touch screen.

As niels (#3) has already said, if you don't want touch screen games - maybe using a stylus is too close to actually writing and puts of the online, e-mailing elite? - then you can always get a PSP.

The bottom line is that the DS is outselling the PSP BECAUSE of the touch screen now rather than despite it. Do people really think that in light of this, developers are going to pass up using it?

If they could combine this with one of my favourite games at the moment for PS2, DrumMania - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DrumMania - then I'd be set.

Also worth noting is that along with DrumMania, the PS game discs have a game called Guitar Freaks which pre-dates Guitar Hero by quite a margin. I seem to remember that some people were getting into hot legal water for selling guitar hero controllers... surely harmonix (or whoever) should be getting rapped on the knuckles for stealing a controller idea AND a whole game?

Sorry.... another physics "lesson" from me.

"(he can just smuggle units in the same way he got his uranium and plutonium)"

Uranium exists naturally in the ground, but the dangerous stuff is in very small quantities - 0.3%, or so, of natural uranium is the highly volatile uranium-235 . It is quite possible to enrich the Uranium to make it "useful", in the nuclear sense, and plutonium itself (which doesn't occur naturally at all) can be a by-product of enrichment or even use of uranium in something like a power station.

The point is this - If joystiq are really suggesting that I can get HD television and gaming goodness by digging up some old, buried electronics and bombarding it with neutrons, then I am a very happy bunny! Now... where did I put my neutron gun?