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I didn't know Eurogamer has perimssion to use that word in their reviews:

The moment you get to play with the squirrel suit in Pilotwings Resort is magical. For a handful of early challenges, Nintendo's latest will have lulled you with pleasant, untaxing familiarity. The skies are blue, Wuhu Island is a pallet of neatly-mown greens and rugged browns, and all the 3DS' inaugural star seems to really want you to do is practise landing, thread yourself unhurriedly into spinning hoops, and mess around with lazy, lofting thermals. The usual stuff.

Then the suit comes out, and suddenly you're diving straight towards the centre of Wuhu's volcano while the game snaps into keen focus around you. The scenery suddenly seems sharper, the playfully-used 3D is transformed into the perfect tool for judging your descent, and the rings no longer represent a gentle muddle of objectives, but rather a micro-surgically precise arrangement of targets for you to lance through. Within seconds, the series' dreamy disposition blows away as bizarre techno fizzes up over the soundtrack and – what's this? – a racing line seems to emerge.

Pilotwings has the room to be both a pretty knockabout timewaster for a lazy Sunday afternoon and a surprisingly demanding arcade game: a launch title built from simple pieces that plays out in dozens of satisfying little moments. And guess what? Even when the squirrel suit is gone and you're back to the standard aircraft, that invisible racing line remains.

8/10



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Hmm, not 100% sold on this game right now. 



 

Squirrel-Girl! The unstoppable force that makes even Thanos quake in his boots, of course volcano-diving would be second nature for her

Though seriously, this promises that i will enjoy my purchase



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I am not surprised. It seems to me that flight sims and 3D platformers stand to gain more from 3D than any other genres. I would love to play SMG 3D.



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A.... squirrel suit.......

.....this actually made me happy for some reason.



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Wuhu volcano-- it was pretty fun the first time, but I'm not sure if the 2nd time around adds to the experience.

I'm still waiting for a review that addresses whether this game significantly adds to what Wii Sports Resort already did.



 

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Modern Warfare 3, Super Mario 3D

 

Gojimaster said:

Wuhu volcano-- it was pretty fun the first time, but I'm not sure if the 2nd time around adds to the experience.

I'm still waiting for a review that addresses whether this game significantly adds to what Wii Sports Resort already did.

More options at the very least, it seems, though i too would like to know if there is more or new terrain



Monster Hunter: pissing me off since 2010.

I'm still a little bitter that pilotwings isn't on the wii. With motion plus.



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Aww, now I really want it. Damn you Nintendo of Australia (or whoever is to blame) for not releasing this as a launch title >_> . 



  

This is still on my 'possibly buy' list.  Though my hype has increased for it as of late