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08/14/09
I've always wanted to play the game, but unfortunately I lack a current gen console. The manga seems very "to the point", and I feel as though the story might be expanded on, for the better, in the game version. The manga ending, especially, was rather abrupt.
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You said the word. You know what that means, don't you?
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And I agree with the original comic. Anyone who says that word should be beaten. Trying to be Japanese. Give me a freaking break.
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Sadly, those of us with the 360 version are never to see these added scenes in any way outside of youtube (ugh, I'm certainly not ruining the game that way) or other video services.
I'd say there are very very few RPGs that need any paring down at all. I WOULD say that western RPGs need a LOT more story. I was extremely disappointed that I had finished very nearly every sidequest and finished Mass Effect in a little over 22 hours. There was nothing to it. And I was even more disappointed to find that Fallout 3's "story" was only around 4-5 hours long with little to no characterization of any kind outside of "hohoho this character is a bastard" or "this guy is crazy and wants me to shoot someone."
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I would say that ES needed about 4 hours more at least worth of just back story for Jazz/Claves/Falsetto to really drive home their section of the story. And also more time for Viola's back story as her scenes later on are so endearing but could use a few more scenes I guess. The game had almost zero down time so I guess that's what I think it needs.
Nah, what I totally meant was that Eternal Sonata needs pairing with another game in a relationship. It needs loving. I hear Captain Rainbow is lonely and looking these days.
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The pirate part was just a way to get them to a new section of the world without having the player walk all the way there. It pretty much IS the only actual down time the game gives aside from Viola's extremely endearing scene about being number three.
08/14/09
I love Chopin's work, but I didn't need his Wikipedia article sliced up and shoved in at random when they could have told the same story with the extra character models they already had.
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Then again, some people just need stories spelled out for them.
08/14/09
But I didn't like the way they presented the plot, I didn't like the protagonists, I didn't like the villians, I didn't like the game!
Believe it or not, there are persons that don't enjoy the same things you do...
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That's alright. It came out of nowhere and made absolutely no sense anyway. :)
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I just did. So there.
08/15/09
It's okay bro, I hated the game too...I had no reason to hate the game but as it wore on....I just kinda didn't want to complete the game.
The plot was a mess, the characters were disjointed mismashes, the villains were...yeah. (I'm biased because I like Fugue and that's solely for fangirl reasons on my undying love of Johnny Young Bosch...ahem.)
I think they tried to cram too much into a already full game, like Chopin's stuff was wonderful but I already knew about him...it was very interesting. Everything else was so much fluff and clutter. I got through with Jazz and Falsetto, but everything kinda languished.
Hate is such a harsh word for this game, let's say I was sorely disappointed with it. I only hate one RPG in my life and that was Timestalker for the Dreamcast.
08/15/09
Well, JYB is pretty damn adorable.
I did actually enjoy the game...up until that completely nonsensical ending.
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Sweet, sweet JYB...he's so nice...and cute.
I never made to the ending, was it really that bad?
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this list hereby ceases to exist :-/
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In Cooking Mama 2: Dinner With Friends, you cook meals for "Grandpa," "Grandma," and "Papa," Cooking Mama's dad, mom, and husband respectively. You also cook for a variety of children, but two of them (Ayaka and Takuya) look like a combination of Mama and Papa, leading me to believe that Cooking Mama is a married mother of two.
Now I'm REALLY sad for knowing this.
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2. Everyone knows the King of All Cosmos would win every award for every genre.
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