Super Mario Maker Review

Ah, Super Mario Maker. Fans always knew that Nintendo was holding a few trump cards for their Wii U system, and this is the easiest Nintendo has ever made money.
Super Mario Maker opens up the 2D Mario World to your imagination, creating levels from four different art styles and dozens of tools at your disposal. Additionally, the online features are outstanding, as you can see popular levels worldwide, and within your own country. I loved seeing the feedback from the Miiverse community on my levels. The replayability is out of this world and it's obviously a lot of fun. And there really isn't much else I can say about it. It's easily a must-have for any Wii U owner who is looking for some great fun. And if you had to choose just one Wii U game over any other, this just might beat out Mario Kart 8 and Super Smash Bros.

Super Mario Maker

9.5 - Terrific

The only problem holding back Super Mario maker is the pace at which you unlock the tools, but once you have them all, there is no limit to your genius or cruelty in level design.

Super Mario Maker Review Inbound

I had the pleasure of picking up Super Mario Maker on its release date last Friday, and have been playing it a good amount since then. You can all look forward to a review in the coming days. Also, if you want to play my courses, my Miiverse is under the user "kcduckling". Until next time, kcduckling out.

PIKMIN 4

YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH

http://www.gamespot.com/articles/pikmin-4-in-development-and-very-close-to-completi/1100-6430362/

Rocket League Stream!

Hello all, its kcduckling here.
Recently, I had the pleasure of playing Rocket League for the first time, and it was a blast. It has quickly become one of my favorite games to play with friends. So, this upcoming Monday, September 7 at 11:30 am CST, if you wanna see some hot 2v2 Rocket League action, head on over to twitch.tv/thegoldengubbin and watch me and my pal take on some other friends in a best of 7 series.
It'd be pretty fucking rad if we could become the most watched Rocket League stream, so make sure you tune in! Also, give my buddy thegoldengubbin a follow while you're at it.
Until next time, kcducking out.

I'm not dead!

Great news! I'm not dead!
Other great news is that Super Mario Maker is less than a month from release and Halo 5: Guardians is kind of back on my good side.

Super Mario Maker doesn't need explaining. You build Mario levels in your choice of a few different art styles from Mario games past. It's really cool and everyone should get it. Here's the website: http://supermariomaker.nintendo.com/#/home

And Halo 5 has kind of but not really redeemed itself for the whole not having local functionality thing. First, let me say that Warzone and Arena both look absolutely fantastic. The game is shaping up to be a hell of a lot of fun. Except. Except that 343 was like "splitscreen? Not an important part of Halo, for sure." and removed it entirely. Which was probably one of the dumbest things anyone has ever done in the history of mankind. But life will move on. And so will I. Until next time, kcduckling out.

Splatoon Review

Splatoon has been out for about a month now, and as Nintendo has just stated, Splatoon has managed to sell 1 million copies, an impressive feat for a Wii U game. But how did Nintendo handle its brand new series?

Frickin well. Splatoon is a near perfect game that effectively introduces a new franchise into the Nintendo family while keeping all of the old Nintendo charm that its fans are used to.

To begin with Splatoon's single player mode: The collection of over twenty levels offers little challenge and a good portion of the levels represent the same style of level played over and over again. The only redeeming quality is the epic boss battle that you get to play through at the end. It requires much more skill than any of the prior levels and it's also a lot of fun to play.

The Battle Dojo is lame. Plain and simple. It's not fun and it would have been better if it had been left out. It's the only filler that the game offers for local multiplayer, so if you really want to play against your friends locally, this is the only way to do it.

And now multiplayer: it seriously rocks. Both Turf War (the game's main for of multiplayer in which two teams of four fight to see who can cover more land with their color) and Splat Zones (another form of multiplayer in which two teams of four fight over either one or two zones on the map for a select amount of time) are a lot of fun and offer good times game after game. Turf War is always fun whereas Splat Zones has one huge issue. The ranking system.

The ranking system in Splat Zones is the one downfall of the online multiplayer. The ranking system is not individually based, but rather falls completely onto your team as a whole. The teamwork is a nice thought but only proves frustrating. I've had games where I've gone 20:2 for a kill-death ratio, or rather a splat-splatted ratio, and ended up losing points in my ranking because my team under performed and we lost. This is a hugely annoying part of Splatoon that has turned me away from playing more hours of the game.

My other main gripe is that the map selection is severely limited. At a given time, only two maps are in the rotation for being selected, which means that, and this has happened to me, you can get the same map fifteen times in a row. Really annoying.

Overall, the game has the magic of any Nintendo game but a few big annoyances hold it back from being perfect.

Splatoon

9.0 - great

Splatoon is an imaginative and pleasant game to play, whether it be single player or multiplayer, but a few big problems hold it back.

Best of E3

HE LIVES!

But seriously, I'm here. And I just watched all of E3 as I hope you all did as well, and it was phenomenal. I'm here to tell you who won the show, why they won the show and then go over some of the general awesomeness of E3.

Who won? Xbox. Plain and simple. Seriously. I, the writer for a Nintendo blog thinks that Xbox won. Because they showed a lot of games and, AND, HOLOLENS MINECRAFT. But anyway, Nintendo's presentation seemed short and there wasn't much focus on the focus-deserving Wii U. But hey, 3DS owners like myself are feeling damn good right now. So yes, Xbox won. Easily. Side note: Sony sucked dick as usual. Classic Sony, really.

THE GREATEST GAMES? Ooh, good question. Well from all companies, here they are:

Super Mario Maker (Wii U)
Tom Clancy's The Division (XB1, PS4)
Star Wars Battlefront (XB1, PS4)
Mario and Luigi: Paper Jam (3DS)

BUT THE GREATEST GAME? Obviously,

Halo 5: Guardians (XB1)

But Mario and Luigi: Paper Jam is a close second. I mean, look at this!

Gold. Pure gold. Great E3, I can't help but look forward to next year as a whole. Legend of Zelda, Nintendo NX. What a great year it will be. See you soon for a Splatoon Review. Spoiler Alert: It's really really good.