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| Dietaku's VG Revue!; Some place to me to toot my horn! | |
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| Topic Started: May 1 2009, 08:02 PM (48 Views) | |
| Dietaku | May 1 2009, 08:02 PM Post #1 |
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Well, I'll be blunt with you. I made this topic so I could showcase SRW OG Saga: Endless Frontier. But, I want to give my DS a rest, and I'm only an hour in on Endless Frotnier, so I'll review the games I traded in first, and do EF tomorrow. Anyways..........The World Ends With You. This one surprised me, honestly. After years of "Meh" from Squenix. I mean, how many times can you release angsty, emo pretty boy titles before I lose all interest I held in Final Fantasy/Kingdom Hearts,/Those other distinctive games Square made once upon a day? As opposed to an angsty kid, here, you get an angry one, and he's piseed at just about EVERYONE. It's cool ,though, he gets better. In addition to Neku, the main, you get Shiki, the token girl, Joshua, the token genius, and Beat the token.....Yankee? I dunno, he's all over the place, there. Anyways. What blew me away with this one was the FRESHNESS of it. As opposed to just taping down you A button, you use the stylus for damn near everything here, and battles? Amazing. Instead of "fight, magic" and the like, you attack using ESP gained from pins(Which you use the stylus' movements to activate), and as opposed to armors and shields, you can wear fashionable clothes and eat foodstuffs to gain stat bonuses. Surprisingly, fashion plays a big part of TWEWY, as your stats are affected in certain places by the trends of those areas, but if you win a few battles, you can shift those to your favor, and believe me, its a good feeling when your actions make most of Shibuya into gothlolis or preppy snobs. As for plot, I'll only say its a combo of Gantz and Bleach, with a commitee of gods pitting monstrous ghosts against the heros for their own amusement. However, it has its share of faults. Tin Pin, the game within a game here, which parodies similar collectible games, is kind of obtuse in its rock-paper-scissors powers and stats for each of the seven hundred odd pins in the game. I never got good at it, and while you can opt out of it in the story, in order to get a complete game, you need to win a few championships to get other pins. Also, this game WILL TEAR A NEW ONE in your touchscreen, literaly, so if this game tickles your fancy, be sure to get protection first (rimshot.) Hope that helped! Edited by Dietaku, May 1 2009, 08:16 PM.
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| Jeff | May 1 2009, 08:11 PM Post #2 |
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Good review, my good man and never lacking the Dan wit, charm and perversion. I look forward to more. |
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Come visit me and my thought processes at my website: http://www.publishedauthors.net/tdotdw/news.html "In the cold light, justice and morality always look corny and you can't wave the flag and look cool. But like it or not, society needs its heroes." - John Hart; actor who played The Lone Ranger. | |
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| Dietaku | May 1 2009, 08:53 PM Post #3 |
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NEXY GAME will be a double revue! SNK Vs Capcom Card Fighter, and Yugioh Spirit Caller. Both are card game titles, so it makes sens to put them together. SnK Vs Capcom: Card Fighters Anyone at ALL involved in fighting games will know these two as giants of the 2D fighter genre. As such, this is kind of an odd turn for them, but an interesting one. It has a LOT of cards. Like over a thousand, which is more than I would have given them credit for, initially. The game itself is a cross between magic and yugioh, having a fixed number of spots for your fighter characters, and has trap-like counter cards. However, you earn mana akin to Magic, and your characters suffer summoning sickness, so its a slower game than Yugioh. The main appeal I saw was the many,many references to obsucre as hell games, like Star Gladiators, or Art of Fighting. The art on the cards is amazing, and while the story is trite and cliche, it brought a number of smiles to my face for the sheer dumbness of the main character. However, this game has a number of issues. Namely that fights take a LONG time, as each character HAS to unleash their attack animation, having no skip option. Also, the AI, especially in the first area is incredibly dumb, letting you hit it. Later, the AI realizes that its supposed to be "Artificial Intelligence" rather than "Artificial Roll Over and Die" but its not that much better. Also, the card effects are often vague, and most are overpriced, making it easy to run a deck full of low-cost mid power guys, and watch as you hit the enemies twice while they gain enough mana to pull out their Geese Howard or Mega Man X cards. If you REALLY like SNK or Capcom? Play soemthing else. The references, at least to me, are not worth it in the long run. Yugioh: Spirit Caller Waaaaaaaaaaaaaay back in 2004, Jeff and I broke Yugioh World Championship 2004, using a deck made almsot entirely out of Japanese-only cards which broke what little balance the game had, and the game, in self-defense, broke the rules like mad to stop us. I picked this up years later, and I'm glad to see some things never change. The game is still woefully unprepared for metagaming hax that even a child can do, and even with some dick characters out there (I see you, sunnuvabitch Hiroto with your burn lockdown, you bastard, you) and even with most of the good cards in the first 4 years or so of the american release being banned, the game itself is too easy. In fact, I never beat it, as the plot moves slower than a snail on ice, but I gather that being Yugioh, it would involve card games to save the world. But, in any case, this one is up to you honestly. Do you like card games? If so, this is a title for you. If not? Find soemthing else. Edited by Dietaku, May 2 2009, 12:19 AM.
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| Jeff | May 1 2009, 09:44 PM Post #4 |
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Honestly, I had almost forgotten that deck! That was major overkill. Good times... good times... |
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Come visit me and my thought processes at my website: http://www.publishedauthors.net/tdotdw/news.html "In the cold light, justice and morality always look corny and you can't wave the flag and look cool. But like it or not, society needs its heroes." - John Hart; actor who played The Lone Ranger. | |
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| Dietaku | May 6 2009, 11:16 PM Post #5 |
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Okay! After a couple of days, and about twenty hours in, I think I'm ready to review Super Robot Taisen: OG Saga: Endless Frontier. (Breathes) Well, they say that pictures are worth a thousand words. So, I'll give you a few thousand words worth of pics, which may explain some things which must be said.     Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeah. As Monty Python put it, this game is centered on three things: robots, juggling, and HUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGE TRACTS OF LAND! If you don't like those things, then you're probably going to be dissappointed here, so go play soemthing more kid-friendly, junior....Like Mario Golf. Anyways, with all the minors out of the room, I cannot stress how much boobs and boob jokes (And ass jokes, too, with quite a few aimed at the two male heroes) there are in this game. So, is this game PC? HELL NO! Is it fun? I think it is. Unlike in other RPGs, the battle system is more akin to fighting games, with your character using a number of attack skills to juggle their targetted enemies until they run out of HP. THe trick here is to keep them in the air not only so that you can fill your overdrive meter and dish som truly wicked moves on your enemies, but also because without it, you'll honestly get your butt kicked, especially later in the game. Thus, you have to be alert in EVERY fight, lest you drop your foe at a critical time, and they nail your healer, leaving you stuck without support (Haha!) Also, while this may not be a "proper" SRW title, it does have quite a few references to the OG games which made it stateside, such as the main hero and heroine, Harken Browning and Kaguya Nanbu, being transgendered versions of the heros of the OG Games, Kyosuke Nanbu and Excellen Browning. Also, a number of mecha make appearances, from the insane (Arkgain from OG2) to the funky (Suzuka's disco-funk Jyaki GUN-Oh.) That said, this game is not perfect. The main weakenss it has is that it is HARD. Especially in the second half, where the boss frequency is turned up to 11, and with a number of earlier bosses pulling Ultros moves, appearing a number of times (And sometimes even teaming up on you!) Also, the game has no save on the overworld feature, forcing you to rely on save circles and towns to keep your data recent. This is annoying, but later dungeons are forgiving in their number of save spots. I just find it annoying, personally, though. Thus, if you want an original, if in-jokey, and irreverent RPG, this is the game for you. I hope you enjoyed this, as much I'm enjoying playing it, and I'll leave with a final CHESSSSSSSSSSSUUUUUUUTOOOO! 
Edited by Dietaku, May 6 2009, 11:20 PM.
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| Jeff | May 6 2009, 11:21 PM Post #6 |
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Hah! Nice. I'm glad I asked for this game, then, what with the fighting/RPG genre being so oft-neglected as is the case with my beloved Legaia. Good stuff. Also, you're not breaking any rules, so no one can bring forth any action against you for this review. |
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Come visit me and my thought processes at my website: http://www.publishedauthors.net/tdotdw/news.html "In the cold light, justice and morality always look corny and you can't wave the flag and look cool. But like it or not, society needs its heroes." - John Hart; actor who played The Lone Ranger. | |
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