Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer for the 3DS

Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer was released on Sept. 25th, 2015 by Nintendo for the Nintendo 3DS.

FUN: In this version of Animal Crossing, all you do is Design Houses, Lot, Buildings, and add as many pieces of Furniture you want without worrying about Bells to buy the items you are using. However, that's all you do. No Bug, Fish, Fossil, or Painting Collecting. Just Designing. FUN - 1.5.

REPLAY: This is one of those Neverending type games. It doesn't have an end. You just keep making designs until you drop. REPLAY - 1.

STORY: You are the new employee at Tom Nook's Homes. And apparently, the only pro when it comes to designing. Everyday, you do a designing job, write a report (aka Saving), and go to the next day while a run-on gag of Tom Nook's meetings and business is just playing Golf. STORY - 1.

DIFFERENCE/ORIGINAL: Not much Original content for this game. It's like any other Animal Crossing Game except that they only have you do one thing, design rooms and lots. Besides that Difference, you don't have to worry about Bells and you can design and add things to your heart contents. DIFFERENCE/ORIGINAL - 1.

DIFFICULTY: This is an Animal Crossing Game... there is no Difficulty in this series. DIFFICULTY - 2.

TOTAL - 6.5.

There you have it. Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer. Until next review, I have been Nostalgic Gamer 89. Hope you continue to read my reviews!

Super Mario Maker for the Wii U

Super Mario Maker is a Create & Share your own levels game for the Nintendo Wii U. Released on Sept. 11th, 2015 for North America by Nintendo.

FUN: Super Mario Maker (or SMM for short for the rest of the review) is what I call Neverending. All you do in this game is Create new Levels, Upload your Levels, and play Mario Challenges that uses other gamers Levels. There are 2 Mario Challenge Modes; 10 Mario Challenge & 100 Mario Challenge both with an Easy and Hard Mode. Besides that, there is not much else. FUN - 1.

REPLAY: As I said before, this game is Neverending. There are unlimited number of Stages to play from other Players. There is an ID Number featured on every uploaded Level for easy share. And it's always different each time you play the Mario Challenges. As for the Creating Part, that only ends when your imagination ends. REPLAY - 2.

STORY: There's is no story. None at all. STORY - 0.

DIFFERENCE/ORIGINAL: This whole game is Original when is comes to Create-A-Level stand point. Unless you are a Hacker and made Bootleg Mario Games, this is the 1st Mario game where you Create the 8 World Levels. DIFFERENCE/ORIGINAL - 2.

DIFFICULTY: This one is hard to pin-point... Every Level is different due to actual Players like yourself Creating them. Some are hard, some are balanced, and some are easy. I guess it can be said that this game is balanced due to the ability to skip hard levels in the Mario Challenges. The main difficulty is to actually get people to give a star to your levels. The More Stars you get, the more Medals you Profile has. The More Medals you have, the More Levels you can Upload. Only Problem is that you need real players to play, beat, and star your levels in order to get medals. DIFFICULTY - 1.5.

Total - 6.5.

There you have it. Super Mario Maker for the Nintendo Wii U. Until Next Time, This has been Nostalgic Gamer 89. Keep On Gaming!

Splatoon for Nintendo Wii U

Splatoon is a game made by the company Nintendo and released on May 29th, 2015 at Midnight. It's a 3rd-Person Shooter involving creatures called Inklings who love battling in turf wars.

FUN: This game can be quite addicting. It's mostly a Multiplayer Online game, but it also has a Single Player part to it as well. Only downfall is that the game does not balance high leveled players with new low leveled player very well, thus leaving some battles unfair and one sided. However, even if that is the case, the game is so addicting that you will just try and win the next battle. Single Player mode is pretty much just a bunch of missions to save the Great Zapfish that apparently alien Octos stole. FUN - 1.5

REPLAY: This game, which is easy to say, is just an Online Shooter. However, the way they set it up, it never gets boring. When you join your friends sometimes they will be your teammates and other times your foes. Also, they set up a set of arenas to battle on and after a while they change the arenas to different one, allowing us to play different areas without giving them to us all at once. REPLAY - 2.

Story: There is none or very little. Sure the Single Player mode tells a story in missions, but not by much. This game is more of an Online Shooter. STORY - 0.5

DIFFERENCE/ORIGINAL: This whole game is more or less unique. The only thing I saw that is not unique is the fact that it is a Online Shooter. There are a lot out there. DIFFERENCE/ORIGINAL - 1.5

DIFFICULTY: Now for difficulty, it has to do with your foes' skills vs yours and your teammates' skills. Other then that, nothing. No choice of difficulty. No added difficulty. It's all skills. DIFFICULTY - 2.

TOTAL - 7.5

There you have it. Splatoon for the Wii U. Not much to the game, but addicting and fun nonetheless. This has been Benjamin P. Parker aka NostalgicGamer89 & Nintendo Rater. Until next time. Keep on Gaming!

Ducktales Remastered for the Wii U (PS3, XBOX360, & PC too)

Ducktales Remastered is a remake of a old classic NES title "Ducktales" made by CAPCOM in Sept. 1989. With the help of WayForward, CAPCOM released this version for 4 systems in Nov. 12, 2013. I played it on the Wii U, so this game will be reviewed under that system.

FUN: If you remember the classic NES game as well as the Saturday Morning Cartoons, then this game will bring Nostalgia overload. When they Remastered the game, they change little to nothing about it. The controls are still great, the music is still memorable, and they even added Voice Acting that bring childhood memories of the cartoons back. FUN - 2.

REPLAY: This game doesn't have much replay value. However, it is so simple ad enjoyable for many players that replaying the levels for the humor and music is still fun. On top of that, on your first playthrough, you are not able to find enough money to be able to buy all the gallery items to unlock everything. The good news still, one the game is beaten the first time, all the stages are unlocked for you to pick and play. REPLAY - 1.

STORY: It all starts off with the Beagle Boys breaking into Scrooge McDuck's Money Vault. You play as Mr. McDuck as you are going through your Vault battling the Beagle Boys with your only weapon, your cane. Within the Vault, you find you Nephews Huey, Dewey, & Louie trapped by the Beagle Boys.

After rescuing your Nephews and saving your Vault, Scrooge McDuck finds a Treasure Map leading to 5 different places with 5 highly valued treasures. It up to you as Scrooge McDuck to find these treasures to make yourself even richer! STORY - 2.

DIFFERENCE/ORIGINAL: There's not much differences in this game nor are there any original content. This is a remastered version of the classic NES title. However, there are a few changes. The most major change in this version is the last level.

In the classic NES title, they had you replay one of the past levels as the final level. In this game, they added 2 new levels, The Vault as a opening level & another one just for it to be used as the final level. Another change is that the game actually has Voice Acting. The NES version had it's limitations, so they couldn't do any voice acting. The comedy between Scrooge McDuck and LaunchPad will have you laugh time to time. With the Wii U tablet, You are able to keep the map displayed as you play the game on the TV. The last add-on is the Gallery. The Gallery can only be unlocked when you spend your founded new cash on the items. DIFFERENCE/ORIGINAL - 2

DIFFICULTY: This game actually has 4 different difficulty settings; Easy, Medium, Hard, & Extreme (only unlocked by beating the game on Hard). Each difficulty setting has it's own set of rules. There's also a mode called Hard Pogo (for your cane, since you use it as a pogo stick). The controls are simple and easy to use. However, a newbie can have trouble at times with the jumping from rope to rope and jump distances. All these issues can be annoy, but you soon get a hang of knowing how soon enough, so you will learn fast. DIFFICULTY - 2.

TOTAL - 9.

There you have it! Ducktales Remastered for the Wii U! I highly recommend this Nostalgic Trip for anyone who wants a cheap, simple, but fun game. Until next time, this has been Benjamin P. Parker aka The Nintendo Rater.