Nintendo Direct Airs January 14th, With Focus on Spring 2015 Games

[SassySnivy]

No offense, but Pokemon Shuffle looks like a totally unneeded rehash of Battle Trozei. I see nothing different minus a few changes. And oh boy, they've fallen into the "DIS IS FREE BUT NO WAIT DERES MOAR U GOTTA PAY FOR **** IN THE GAME TO REALLY GET ANYWHERE AT ALL" pitfall. Let's hope this is the only freaking game that they do this for for a while. Christ.

Though it looks like the gameplay is more based around Puzzle League and Puzzle Challenge where you can't just freely move Trozei pieces around (and you aren't forced to move them all rows at a time either). I...don't have very high hopes for it because the in-game purchases thing is a REALLY BIG turnoff for me, but hopefully it doesn't disappoint. :|

No cost? Bull****.

Edit: But I DID just now see IGN's review on the NEW Nintendo 3DS. I'm a little bummed that only the XL version is available in the US--even though that was the version I was gonna get anyway--but the pros definitely outweigh the cons. IGN had the same grievances as I do with the regular 3DS, ESPECIALLY the stereoscopic 3D not quite being what it's cracked up to be in the original 3DS models. I know it's just a marketing trick, but...you know, $200 really doesn't sound like a bad price to pay.