Semi45a posted...maybe we should take this as a clear sign that miyamoto has finally gone senile.....
Maybe you should probably give it a chance before writing it off completely. Honestly, the 3DS doesn't have a lot of 2-3 coop. There's Code of Princess, both of the REs, NSMB2, though it works off of a single view which is weird, and... I might be missing a few. But parts of the joys of playing small coop games lie in actually interacting with them face to face while playing. Games like Mario Kart and Kid Icarus? Online is necessary. Games like this? Not so much. Online may be cost inefficient. It's not cheap to set up a constantly running server.
Then again, this may be a more than 2 player multiplayer, then the conversation would go in a much more different way. Like Code of Princess. Online is pretty dang necessary.
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