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11/06/09
Oh well, I have plenty of time to wait and find out which version is best, I can't afford to buy anything for a while now... #drawntolifethenextchapter
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With all the big console games coming out right now plus M&L: BIS to finish up, this game may have to stay on my "To Get" list for a bit :( #drawntolifethenextchapter
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The sprites and animations are awesome, the story has more depth than I would have thought (a lot of plot twists, too), and the gameplay can be fun.
But, I reached a point about halfway through the game where ONE battle configuration could win nearly every battle. There are a handful of points that will trip you up if previous battles in a set are not planned out correctly, but they can be overcome as well.
Also, I am not much of a fan of the main character art used in dialogue sequences. I really wish they had simply blown up his sprite instead of featuring those ugly images.
Overall, though, it was worth the $20 I paid for it.
(P.S. - This gives me a chance to show off the hidden "demo room" from the game. SPOILERS!)
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I've been surprised how much I'm enjoying BIS. I didn't like Partners in Time much, thought Superstar Saga was ok, but Bowser is hilarious and it really is mostly about him. That's its biggest advantage, I think. Mario and Luigi's fake italian is funny, yeah, but playing as them all the time gets boring. Bowser constantly insults everyone he comes across and gloats about how great he is.
Basically, he gives the Mario RPG series what it needed: personality in the protagonist, whereas the rest always focused on the antagonists. #drawntolifethenextchapter
11/06/09
Some of my fav lines in the game are not in the Developer room, but towards the end of the game, and include references to Cthulhu and Gremlins I think... #drawntolifethenextchapter
11/06/09
I did fail to capture it on camera, though, and I forget where it takes place in the game.
And, technically, I did not miss the Chrono Trigger reference seeing as how I have never played the game (but I do own the DS version)! ;)
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That fourth picture has at least two game references in it. Bonus points to the person who can point it out.
The fifth picture reminds me of the recent story about Scribblenauts' original name. #drawntolifethenextchapter
11/05/09
DELETE DELETE DELETE
I mean... Empty Trash! Empty Trash! #shinmegamitenseistrangejourney
11/05/09
Now you can never unsee it. #shinmegamitenseistrangejourney
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(Maybe it's time for a vision check.) #shinmegamitenseistrangejourney
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Sold (^o^)/ #shinmegamitenseistrangejourney
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Or you just use Battle Crown formation and kill everything in two rounds. #shinmegamitenseistrangejourney
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No opinion whatsoever on the actual game though (it's a DS RPG, so I'm just going to shut up), just think the box art is really ugly. #shinmegamitenseistrangejourney
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@Archaotic: I blame it on that helmet. It looks like it was built out of the scraps off an old muscle car. #shinmegamitenseistrangejourney
11/05/09
The logo just looks VERY lazily done. #shinmegamitenseistrangejourney
11/05/09
If you really don't want to argue with people, don't drop obvious flamebait. Just skip the thread and move on. #shinmegamitenseistrangejourney
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Archaotic has made very valid arguments against the glut of JRPGs on the DS in the past. Personally I wouldn't take anything he's said as flamebait and nothing he said was argumentative. Maybe you need to chill out? #shinmegamitenseistrangejourney
11/05/09
Without fanboying, of course. #shinmegamitenseistrangejourney
11/05/09
And as a sci fi junkie, I love this cover so much I want to take it behind the middle school and get it pregnant. #shinmegamitenseistrangejourney
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Which is, quite frankly, awesome. #shinmegamitenseistrangejourney
11/05/09
You don't have to be a fanboy to be against something on a certain console. I love my DS, I play it all the time. I am sick of seeing some of my favorite devs dump so much of their time and resources into making portable RPGs with weak stories and shitty graphics instead of throwing the fans a god damn bone and giving us the epic experiences we've grown accustomed to playing on more powerful hardware on a TV.
Damn, I just elaborated way more than intended to =P
11/05/09
I'd love more console games, but right now, nobody's buying them. This is a business, not a charity. Maybe if FFXIII sells really well, there might be some interest in more console JRPGs. #shinmegamitenseistrangejourney
11/05/09
I don't understand this. You claim others are looking to start an argument when they're trying to avoid one. Then you poke and prod and act annoying and start one yourself. When the other party explains their opinions you explain why they're not valid complaints.
No shit this industry isn't a charity. That doesn't mean I can't be annoyed by the lack of great titles in my favorite genre. The people of my state repealed the gay marriage law, that was passed last year, yesterday. I can't do shit about it right now but that doesn't mean I'm not entitled to be upset about it.
The complaint is not about bad games. I just don't like DS RPGs. RPGs have always been epic experiences for me that draw me into their world with cutting edge graphics, moving soundtracks, and believable worlds and characters. That is rarely delivered on the DS. Even when it is it isn't delivered in the same capacity that it could be on a home console.
It's like this: watching something like Star Wars or Lord of the Rings in a movie theater is an experience. Watching the same movie on my PSP's 4.3" screen with a set of low-end earbuds is a time killer. Playing the newest Final Fantasy, that took years of hard work and love to make, on my TV with surround sound is an experience. Playing a port of FFIV remade in terrible 3D graphics on my DS's 2.5" screen with it's shitty stereo speakers is not going to come close to matching that experience.
Last generation awesome RPGs were in overabundance on the PS2. It was an all you can eat buffet of fantastic games with pretty graphics, awesome soundtracks, well-told stories, and worlds that I wanted to wrap myself up in and no matter how hard you tried you could never get your fill. This generation we're still waiting for FFXIII and in the meantime the only worthwhile JRPG we've seen was Lost Odyssey.
I don't care if the DS is popular and makes companies boatloads of money. An RPG on the DS can never go toe to toe with an RPG on a home console. I'm not being a fanboy, I'm not being elitist. I just have high standards. #shinmegamitenseistrangejourney
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RPGs are not limited to just pretty graphics. Refusing to play any game because it's not on a console is the definition of elitism and is extremely typical of the "core" right now.
To further your analogy, it would be like complaining that Firefly is terrible compared to Star Wars because the former is on television and not a film (and ignore Serenity for a second, okay?). Or that Doctor Horrible is incapable of telling a moving story about superheroes because it's distributed on the internet and cannot be "epic" like Spider-Man 3.
And my original point was that if anyone here didn't want to start an argument, you don't do it by saying "DS RPGs are terrible. But don't argue with me!" I mean, if I marched into another thread here and said "Sucky like all PS3 games, but I don't feel ike arguing," would I be anything *but* a troll? It's just being passive aggressive, while trying to divest oneself of responsibility.
11/05/09
Again for someone claiming others are trying to be argumentative I find it ironic that you're the only one that actually is being argumentative. I have stated my opinion and backed it up, that is all. You're trying to tell me my opinion is either invalid or flawed, thus arguing.
This is fruitless and it's a conversation that's been beaten to death in the past and never gets anywhere. So with that I'm leaving this conversation. Good day sir.
Addendum: Just for the record I've enjoyed numerous DS RPGs (keyword: ENJOYED). That doesn't change the fact that none of them were very engrossing or high quality experiences.
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... #nintendods
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11/02/09
dont be like sony and release a new DL based handheld that uses b wireless...
then again. the way nintendo went with the wii makes me think twice about them adopting new standards. not that i hate them or sony. i just dont like some of their decisions. like everyone else. #nintendods
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yeah i forgot what i was trying to say. but when N finally got finalized and G routers are basically free these days, why b? #nintendods
11/02/09
I guess I have more shit to do than watch downloads, or maybe I remember the 90s (i.e. dialup) better than most. #nintendods
11/02/09
Nintendo Ponders Foreman-Style Grill DS
Could a future version of the Nintendo DS be used to cook your dinner? Speaking at a analyst briefing following last week's lowered financial outlook, Nintendo's president called the Foreman Grill's delicious recipes an "option for the future."
"Only people who can cook really well can be oven owners. That doesn't fit Nintendo customers because we can't cook worth a damn," Mr Iwata said. The Foreman Grill's quick ability to grill a cheese sandwich would better suit Nintendo's customer base, he said. "In reality, if we did this it would increase the amount of food our customers would eat, and customers would complain about Nintendo making them fatter, but it is one option for the future."
I don't see any problem with the handheld's current inability to cook a hamburger, but then again I rarely eat anything other than powerbars these days. I supposed if you want to be able to eat a hot sandwich while training your Pokemons, having a Foreman Grill is certainly one way to do it. Would you pay more for a grilling enabled DS? #nintendods
11/02/09
Comes with free copy of Cooking Mama. #nintendods
11/02/09
peace
ak #nintendods
11/02/09
Clearly you'll be given a free copy of Grill Papa and a 25% off discount coupon for fertilizer. #nintendods
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Thats an indoor grill. Made by a Japanese company.
If you're putting your steaks onto that thing while chomping cigars and shooting wild game with the gun in your left hand, then I'm more yank than you are. ;) #nintendods
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@phnord: He had to have *some* way to cook his cat. #nintendods
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peace
deannbmmv ( despite it saying my name to the left, I thought I'd add this little footer that actually really annoys people, its a few pixels of wasted space. you know you doing that all the time is probably using up several trees worth of energy to have typed, downloaded and displayed on the screen of everyone who reads this article? I know the irony that this little bit is doing the same, but I'll only be doing this once, you've put it on the end of nearly every single one of your comments) #nintendods
11/02/09
11/02/09
Google:
"Did you mean: serial "
or
urban dictionary :
"a person who is dorkier than a dork"
pick your poison. #nintendods
11/02/09
Too early in the morning for you guys? #nintendods
11/02/09
fail #nintendods
11/02/09
But if its a nickname at least capitalize the thing. #nintendods
11/02/09
it's the web who cares about capitalization. #nintendods
11/02/09
If you're going to call "fail" on my posts, you better have all your ducks in order.
Otherwise you just look like an idiot who can't spell, or capitalize, or make any sort of coherent post that adds anything at all to the conversation.
Or is too early in the morning for you to post anything meaningful or witty? #nintendods
11/02/09
I'm just used to doing that in mails/forums/blogs/whatever and it being that short kind of negates your environmental argument since many people just have longer nicknames.
Anyway, as a mark of respect to you (even though you kind of talk to me like dirt when you don't even know me), I'll place it on my last line of text instead of adding a few lines which - I'll agree to that - aren't of a big interest. Hope you can find it in your heart to forgive me. [peace.ak] #nintendods
11/02/09
Just with the silly layout of narrow comment section adding an extra 3 lines on the end just for a signature is a bit pointless. I'm not being too serious with the comment, especially the environmental thing :P
So yes, I do forgive you, and the [peace.ak] is a nice improvement. Even if in 20 redwoods will die from it :D
(Though I am being a dick with sereal. "fail" is even worse than three lines for a sig) #nintendods
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Seriously, you can do more things with your life apart from buying things. #nintendods
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But wait! Feel like going traditional? Dual analog nubs, d-pad, and face buttons plus L1/L2 and R1/R2! Just slide the gorgeous screen up and take hold of your gaming!
3G support, ad-hoc, bluetooth, the works!
Except that'd be smart and Sony doesn't do smart with handhelds, only Nintendo does. #nintendods
11/02/09