Yesterday, Casey Baker shared his impressions on WayForward's upcoming 3DS eShop title Mighty Switch Force. What made me extremely curious was that only a European release date had been set, which is odd for a game from a small company that is based in the US. According to Nintendo's latest North American release schedule, all we know is that it is a Q1 2012 title. At least, that's what we thought.
The Mighty Switch Force Twitter page has announced that the game will be arriving in the US and Australia on the same day as in Europe: Thusday, December 22. That means in less than a week, I can get my robo-girl action on and so can you. I can't wait for this baby, "Ugly Checkpoint Dog" and all! No price has been announced, but it will supposedly be well under $10.
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1:00 PM on 12.16.2011 | 
Indeed, one of the last good ones before cartoons became cheap and humorless. Now we got a bunch of terrible cartoons that are about as deep as a puddle and others that are great but get canned after one season(symbiotic titan). Oh well, at least we still have the internet... for now...
Adventure Time, Regular Show, and The Amazing World of Gumball on Cartoon Network say otherwise. The new ThunderCats is also pretty decent. Batman: The Brave and the Bold just finished its run a few weeks back, but it was a great spoof / homage to the weird world of comics. And if you dare to brave the Disney Channel, Phineas & Ferb is perhaps the best show Disney has put out in well over a decade.
I can agree with a few of those(minus Adventure time, but I do like where it is going with the third season and all.) I will always fail to see why people found Brave and the Bold good, but then again I hated the art style and voice acting so it was hard for me to even get into the first episode. Mind you that for each good show you listed there are three bad shows to take its place. The golden age of cartoons have been dead for awhile, and I will forever be butthurt over Symbiotic Titan getting the boot for, wait for it, not being marketable enough... it had tons of viewers... and yet they claimed they had to cancel it because they couldn't make TOYS off of a show with GIANT ROBOTS!!!!! FUUUUUUUUUUUU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! *huff, huff* but I digress, I still think cartoons are dead. They are uncreative, lazy, and just plain awful now of days... minus the ones you listed... *cough*also mlp *cough* man this cold is killing me.
Phineas & Ferb is great (what else can you expect from cartoon genious Dan Povenmire?), but the rest you listed, I feel, are niche.
Shows like Adventure Time, Regular Show, and Metalocalypse are a little too out there sometimes, and don't appeal to everyone, compared to say, the golden age of CN, where even my Dad was watching Johnny Bravo, and my Mom was watching Powerpuff Girls.
Brave the Bold is "alright", but doesn't come close to the greatness that is Batman:TES - same with pretty much every other comic-bookey current TV show (The Spectacular Spider-Man was cool, but was cancelled prematurely in favor of other garbage, as was Tartakovsky's latest, as Levi mentioned).
I most agree with Levi that cartoons are nowhere near what they used to be, and are mostly lazy. I am interested in Joe Murray's new project, though - but it'll probably be cancelled.
Hell no!
I'm afraid great art style and animation can't make up for terrible character/story/voice acting!
The only decent character on there is Aqualad and that is only because he isn't as derpy as his team. "HELLO MEGAN!?" I want to break my screen. That show had a ton of potential. I was hoping it would be a more mature version of the Teen Titans(Loved that show, hated the art style) but it ended up being another forgettable experience with some great art.
To be honest, at the rate cartoons are going lately, I'm actually worried that Legend of Kora will get ignored and be cancelled after three seasons, which terrifies me seeing as that cartoon looks gorgeous.
My take on that show: It's sad that a cartoon meant for little girls can get so much right humor wise when most shows can't. The show is generally entertaining, and the staffs communication with the fans is remarkable rivaled only by Adventure Times. All in all I'm impressed with it. It's a fun watch and is generally very entertaining... I just with it was a tad more accepted so I could watch it with a few pals, but oh well. I hear that Lauren Faust is actually going to work with CN on a new super hero related project which fills me with a lot of hope, but the fact that it's going to be on CN scares me quite a bit. We'll see what happens.
As someone who almost exclusively watches cartoons, I think you may be more than a little bit jaded. Trust me: a lot of the cartoons from the "Golden Age" weren't as good as you remember.
The Legend of Korra is only scheduled for two seasons, but still, The Last Airbender was only three seasons long. It told the story it needed to tell and didn't need to run any longer. The show will do fine, thought. The Last Airbender was one of Nickelodeon's most popular shows ever.
And Regular Show isn't going anywhere. It recently got renewed and should have, like, at least 30 more episodes.
At least Regular Show got renewed for another season, and here's to hoping that Legend of Korra gets an ending. Two seasons is fine with me as long as they are able to accomplish everything they set out to.
You'd be right though... I do sound a tad jaded... oh well, better then getting my hopes up I suppose.
I know the HUB has new Transformers and GI Joe series, but I haven't really watched much of either to really pass judgment.
Nickelodeon will have a new TMNT series premiering next year. I wonder what direction it'll go. I feel like the 2k3 series was able to do what the original series could not, but I don't know how that could be built upon. Should be entertaining at least.
As much as I hated the art style, Fairly Oddparents is probably the most creative show that has come out in a long time, it had a wonderfully simple premise that has brought a lot of unique episodes.
T.U.F.F. Puppy is pretty meh, and very forgetable.
I might get attacked by G1 Transformers fans but I really enjoyed that new Transformers series, they really didn't pull to many punches when it came to the first episode... and I had no idea they were making a new TMNT series, know if it's old school animation by any chance?
The shows you just listed a great, no doubt about that. The problem is that they didn't all come out at the same time. DuckTales came out in the late 80s, Batman, Spider-Man, and X-Men in the early 90s, and the CN cartoons gradually over subsequent years. That's a grand net as opposed to the snapshot of just the shows on TV right at this moment.
Of course, there were other shows in between those that didn't fare so well. Thankfully, no one really remembers or cares. I'm sure in a few years, no one will remember stuff like Johnny Test or MadTV (fucking hate both). We'll filter the crap and just remember the highlights.
I think I've seen promo art for the new TMNT once, but no footage has surfaced to my knowledge. Could be wrong.
yeah, i totally agree with this. when i started to really get back into cartoons a couple of years ago.. i went back and watched a lot of the classics. man, it really saddened me. x-men, tiny toon adventures, and doug are some of the small amount of shows from my youth that i still like.
lately though, the new thundercats, g.i. joe, and wolverine and the x-men have been great. the legend of korra is going to be amazing as well.
i do agree with levi about how lame it was that sym-bionic titan was cut because it couldnt sell toys (?!?!). that was a great show, and it should not have been left without an ending. i do have to completely disagree with levi about x-men evolution though.. that show was garbage when it came out, and its still garbage today.
but yeah, there has been a lot of stuff ive liked over the last few years.. besides what i mentioned earlier, phineas and ferb, fairly odds, spongebob, adventure time, looney tunes show (hit or miss), danny phantom, shuriken school, my life as a teenage robot, the batman, spectacular spider-man, and el tigre have all been pretty good to me. i dont know if i could name that many shows from the 90s that i still consider quality.