[Mefustae]

Yeah, Quadraxis was pretty easy compared to the Speed Guardian. I dare say that the latter was even more difficult than the Omega Pirate from MP1.

You obviously don't know the "secret" to make the Omega Pirate stupidly easy...

Spoiler:

Get as many super-bomb expansions available, and hit him with those, right between his feet. They annihilate all the things on his limbs at once, and just make it damn easy to beat.

On my second run through the game on 'Hard mode', I worked that out on my second attempt at him, and he was down inside of 3 minutes.

[Mongoose]

I'm surprised to hear that the Gamecube is of limited availability in the UK and Australia.  Over here, it's got a good-sized section in every gaming-related store.  Granted, it may not have quite as big a section as the PS2 or XBox, mostly because it doesn't have as large of a game library, but all three consoles are pretty much on equal footing as far as exposure is concerned.  As far as next-gen systems go, the only one that really has any interest for me is the Revolution; besides the extreme desire to use that funky-looking controller, I can't wait to try out the library of classic games.  Here's hoping that they're able to get permission from Rare to use their games; no classic Nintendo library could be complete without the Donkey Kong Country series.

I think it's somewhat funny, since I don't think I can really be considered a Nintendo fanboy; the first Nintendo system I owned was the Game Boy Color (and then an Advance SP), I only picked up an N64 a little more than a year ago, and I just got a Gamecube three months ago.  However, I always seemed to love Nintendo's games the most; I'd spend hours at my neighbor's house playing DKC2 and Super Mario Kart on the SNES, and whenever I had the chance, I'd try to get some playing time in on SMB and Duck Hunt.  I very much enjoyed Oracle of Ages/Seasons for the GBC.  When I finally did get the N64, OoT absolutely blew me away; I'd heard that it was good, but I just couldn't believe how epic and alive it felt (that final boss battle kicked every amount of ass possible).  To top it all off, I pretty much got a Gamecube for the sole purpose of owning SSBM, a purchase which was worth every penny in my opinion; I've never found a game with more replay value than Melee.  So who knows, maybe I am a Nintendo fanboy, but if that's the truth, I'll gladly wear that title.

(To be fair, the first game I can remember playing was Sonic the Hedgehog; I loved all of the Genesis Sonic games and played them for hours.  The PS1 was the first console I ever owned, so I do have love for Sony as well.  However, I have absolutely no attachment to the XBox. )

[Roanoke]

It was that bloody jump on quadraxis head bit at the end. Could never pull it off and it got so tedious redoing the super easy earlier bits. like i said, pain in the ass.

[Ulala]

[Lazy] Someone know the US release date for the DS Lite? [/Lazy]

Looks pretty sexy.

[Fenrir]

Nintendo has a pretty good profile in the UK IMO, although it's focused on the DS for obvious reasons.  It's sadly rather hard to find Gamecube stuff nowadays.

It's true. I went to an EB to get a fresh controller (SSBM eats 'em after a while <_<) and managed to grab the last 1st party one in stock, while there were plenty of accessories for the other systems.

[Mefustae]

There's virtually nothing GCN in Australia. Went into Game's Wizards the other day, they've got a 5 metre wall devoted to PC Games, a 3 metre wall devoted to Xbox, a 3 metre wall devoted PS2 games, and a ****ing shelf on one of the displays devoted to GCN, which is usually empty save for the bad ports. Same with hardware, everywhere I look there's Xbox controllers, PS2 memory cards, and yet not a single gorramn GCN Memory card to replace the embarassingly small 1st-party version.