SMT: Devil Survivor (which I lost patience with)I know what you're talking about. Had to cheat at
Final Fantasy Tactics A2 is pretty good, even though the first game was better. Still worth a play though.
Professor Layton (1 and 2)I do intend to play the PL games, and I should get the Mario ones. EO1 was even less polished than the rage-inducing EOII, or so I've heard, but maybe I'll check it out.
Mario and Luigi RPG (PiTBowser's Inside Story)
Megaman Starforce
Etrian Odyessy 1
Trauma Center Series
Just some of my recommendations, though.
Professor Layton is a pretty great game however!
Final Fantasy Tactics A2 is pretty good, even though the first game was better. Still worth a play though.Denied. It was a piece of utter crap. The game was ungodly slow, had terrible gameplay and randomness issues, and the most pathetic excuse for plot and characters I've ever come across. I cannot believe I ever finished it.
I'd suggest some great games except they're in moonrunes.I'm working on that. But I'm basically starting from scratch, so unless it's easy to figure out and/or has a walkthrough and script translation...
Poke me if you don't mind tussling with the Japanese language or if you already are familiar with it.
Yeah I had to cheat there too >_>SMT: Devil Survivor (which I lost patience with)I know what you're talking about. Had to cheat atBeldrandpretty much everything after 6th day afternoonuntil it just didn't feel rewarding enough.
On topic, how about the Dragon Quest V remake?
Despite that you're an RPG/strategy junkie, play Rhythm Tengoku Gold.
Fucking addicting.
I would give Mario and Luigi: Partners in Time a major NO. Superstar Saga (GBA) makes it look like a dual-screened waste of money.
I would give Mario and Luigi: Partners in Time a major NO. Superstar Saga (GBA) makes it look like a dual-screened waste of money.
Superstar Saga was much better, yeah.
I'll second Megaman Starforce.
I really hope you're just trying to screw with the guy.Final Fantasy Tactics A2 is pretty good, even though the first game was better. Still worth a play though.
You spout lies and blasphemy. I'm sure a whole slew of people will agree with me here. FFTA2 blows FFTA out of the water in terms of quality.
I really hope you're just trying to screw with the guy.
3 is great, 1 is good, avoid 2.I'll second Megaman Starforce.Keep in mind that the general reception seems to be that 3 is the best.
Trauma Center 2, don't get the first one since the missions are rather bland and suffer from bad controls. The sequel fixed all those problems- it has some of the greatest video game music too.
Advance Wars: Days of Ruin (protip: DON'T recommend Dual Strike, DoR is the only remotely good game in the series if you ask me)
ContactContact bored the hell out of me very quickly.
Megaman Zx
Spore (kinda easy but addicting)
Rhapsody: A Musical Adventure (Lot of singing)
Puzzle quest (Don't get the galactic version)
Rune Factory 1, 2, and 3 (coming soon)
Suikoden
Super Robot Taisen OG Saga - Endless Frontier
Final Fantasy Tactics A2 is not quite as deep as the original, but still really addicting and satisfying. I liked the art in A2 better than the original, and Gria are incredibly cute and fun to use.
QuoteFinal Fantasy Tactics A2 is not quite as deep as the original, but still really addicting and satisfying. I liked the art in A2 better than the original, and Gria are incredibly cute and fun to use.Hey, yeah, it's a shame it TOOK ME CLOSE TO TWENTY HOURS OF GAMEPLAY TO GET A GRIA
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Go play TC2, that will make the difference evident.Trauma Center 2, don't get the first one since the missions are rather bland and suffer from bad controls. The sequel fixed all those problems- it has some of the greatest video game music too.
Really? I never really noticed any bad controls in Trauma Center 1, and I've S-Ranked almost every operation. =<
Go play TC2, that will make the difference evident.Trauma Center 2, don't get the first one since the missions are rather bland and suffer from bad controls. The sequel fixed all those problems- it has some of the greatest video game music too.
Really? I never really noticed any bad controls in Trauma Center 1, and I've S-Ranked almost every operation. =<
Trauma Center 2, don't get the first one since the missions are rather bland and suffer from bad controls. The sequel fixed all those problems- it has some of the greatest video game music too.
Really? I never really noticed any bad controls in Trauma Center 1, and I've S-Ranked almost every operation. =<
Trauma Center 2, don't get the first one since the missions are rather bland and suffer from bad controls. The sequel fixed all those problems- it has some of the greatest video game music too.
Really? I never really noticed any bad controls in Trauma Center 1, and I've S-Ranked almost every operation. =<
From what I've experienced, the first Trauma Center required to you be very precise to suture any wounds and the missions weren't that fun to to me.
As for Trauma Center 2- I've beaten Alethia on XS, but I have yet to get any rank higher than an A on that mission because of that GUILT that goes into the body, spawns a tumor and then comes back up. I can't cut shit fast enough!
SMT: Devil Survivor (which I lost patience with)Tad off-topic, but am I really the only one who had absolutely no problem with this game? Sure, it has a couple challenging parts, but nothing THAT bad... Even the tough fights just took me 1 or 2 additional tries before I got the way to complete them down (including the final mission).
Go play TC2, that will make the difference evident.
Tad off-topic, but am I really the only one who had absolutely no problem with this game? Sure, it has a couple challenging parts, but nothing THAT bad... Even the tough fights just took me 1 or 2 additional tries before I got the way to complete them down (including the final mission).TBH I wasted all my macca fusing demons back and forth and collecting every Elemental, so I might have done a bit better if it weren't for that :V
Tad off-topic, but am I really the only one who had absolutely no problem with this game? Sure, it has a couple challenging parts, but nothing THAT bad... Even the tough fights just took me 1 or 2 additional tries before I got the way to complete them down (including the final mission).It wasn't difficulty. The game simply felt slow and a bit blocky, and I felt no particular compulsion to keep playing. The music certainly wasn't helping; other than Beldr and Reset, they feel forgettable and have an air of...sullen despair is the best way I can think of phrasing it. Not the kind of music that keeps you going...
It wasn't difficulty. The game simply felt slow and a bit blocky, and I felt no particular compulsion to keep playing. The music certainly wasn't helping; other than Beldr and Reset, they feel forgettable and have an air of...sullen despair is the best way I can think of phrasing it. Not the kind of music that keeps you going...Not sure why you say the game feels slow... Maybe you're just used to recent FE games and the fact they seem to trivialize gametime? =p I know skipping enemy turns in Shadow Dragon can be that way
Dragon Quest IV was pretty much the best NES RPG. That you have not gotten Dragon Quest IV DS suggests ill things about your character.
DQ5 DS is also pretty neat, but I like DQ4 betterer.
Go play TC2, that will make the difference evident.
(the Mystery Dungeon series is crap)
I honestly cannot see what is so great about the Pokemon games. They're some of the easiest and most boring games I have ever played.Blame the fact you con create a team of superpowered creatures to pwn people in versus matches. That, I think, is the biggest draw.
It wasn't difficulty. The game simply felt slow and a bit blocky, and I felt no particular compulsion to keep playing. The music certainly wasn't helping; other than Beldr and Reset, they feel forgettable and have an air of...sullen despair is the best way I can think of phrasing it. Not the kind of music that keeps you going...Not sure why you say the game feels slow... Maybe you're just used to recent FE games and the fact they seem to trivialize gametime? =p I know skipping enemy turns in Shadow Dragon can be that wayand I get angry when I don't realize someone died until the end of the mission because of abusing it.
Soundtrack does feel limited, I admit... It doesn't get good (or even really change) until the tail-end. I think it was done that way to make it feel more like you're trapped and forced to fight for your life each and every day, but honestly, I just ignored the music on my New Game+'s and experimented to see stuff like... how many people I could let die, and how many playable characters I could unlock a single playthrough. I always pay attention for the final boss area and battle themes though, as Garuda and Last Decision are awesome any day of the week (but I don't think I'll be beating the EX boss anytime soon... Honestly, I'm not even sure if the reward for winning is even worth it considering what I'll have to go through just to survive his first form*).
To be honest, I'm probably the only person that had these problems with Devil Survivor:Hm?
- Story only being entertaining for the first time you play, and it stops after a couple of days because
- the story is very shallow. I doubt things would go as smooth as they went in the game.
- Demon levels growing slower as their level go up and damage input stagnating, the consequence being us having to hire or fuse new ones. Problem: incredibly uninteresting higher demons.
- Battles are the huge obstacles of the game. I always finished a fight just to see what would happen next, not to prepare for another battle.*
That pretty much sums my grips with the game. Maybe it would've been better had it been a tactics game?It is a tactics game, technically. o.0 It has RPG elements, but placement on the map is at least as important (if not moreso).
Maybe they should have made the choices affect much more the game than just the last day... As far as I can see, someone who finishes Gin's path in the first playthrough (like me) already beat the game in the most beautiful way possible, so even going back to see the other endings you didn't choose feels awkward even after you get to see them.Gin's path is bittersweet because once you complete it the lesson is lost. The government sweeps everything under the rug and nothing changes, which means more ordeals will come since people did not learn from the previous one. Neutral routes have always been comparatively better in SMT games, but here even Atsuro's route, argued to be the best one, has its drawbacks (in his ending Japan uses the demons to take over the world).
*For all the people having trouble: use Recarm, Media, and try to go for dance moves or high damage input for only one foe. That's pretty much the general rule to never lose.Media and Recarm lose their usefulness after a short while. However, Samirecarm and Mediarahan cost a lot of MP to cast in a game without items to restore MP with (or any items at all, for that matter). Also, while single-target works on bosses, some bosses have minions and random enemies late in the game tend to mix parties so that you have one minion weak to physical and one healed by physical, one weak to wind and another reflects it. Dances hit randomly (as do the better physical attacks like Deathbound), so your best bet is probably to just Megido/loan them.
Blame the fact you con create a team of superpowered creatures to pwn people in versus matches. That, I think, is the biggest draw.
I honestly cannot see what is so great about the Pokemon games. They're some of the easiest and most boring games I have ever played.
I honestly cannot see what is so great about the Pokemon games. They're some of the easiest and most boring games I have ever played.
Do you both not know what Competitive Pokemon is? There is an entire division dedicated to "uber Pokemon."Well, if you wanna get even more specific there's multiple tiers of competative play (uber tier, overused tier, never used tier, etc.), and what pokemon you can use is based on the teir you're playing in. Things get even more interesting if you wanna try 2-on-2 fights, too.
(If Triti made you throw the DS, Terrible Person, then Paraskevi would make you snap it in half xD)That was actually where I stopped playing, said "This is bloody STUPID" and that was that.
(though I've played FE5 (Thracia 776) before, so I don't think I have any right to complain about weird RNG actions... I think you know what I mean, but I can't remember if you said you played it before and I haven't been at FESS's archives in forever to check).It is you! How ya been, Neofox? We've now got what, three FESSers here? And you couldn't possibly be referring to fun stuff like the 99%/1% garbage, or the fact that clerics missed, or...yeah, I think I know.
That was actually where I stopped playing, said "This is bloody STUPID" and that was that.
Wait until X1: Kyriaki. I finished that one at 00:00:03 left and I am never playing it again. It is the only one I'll never, ever S-Rank because finishing it with three tenths of a second was just so cool that I don't want to change it.X3: Triti is when I threw the towel. I felt like the game was laughing at me.
Do you both not know what Competitive Pokemon is? There is an entire division dedicated to "uber Pokemon."Of course I know, I just never got into it yet. Let's not turn this intro a flame war, now!
Would I be killed if I said I actually liked the Mystery Dungeon spinoffs? They're a totally different experience from regular Pokemon games of course, but that's a given. I found it strangely addictive and I actually baww'd at the story a bit, believe it or not. It was cute :<I played and beat PMD1, it's all right, but there's so much that can go wrong it feels like a dumbed-down version of Nethack. It's more or less the reason I never want back to PMD1 for a long time, and the reason why I never picked up PMD2 (any of its versions). I never played the other games in the Mystery dungeon series, though I heard Shiren the Wanderer was great.
I played and beat PMD1, it's all right, but there's so much that can go wrong it feels like a dumbed-down version of Nethack.Basically this.
Dude...Walk over to eBay, there's a sealed copy for 21.95 with free shipping. Also, if you haven't played it yet, GET THE HELL OUT OF THE TOPIC AND COME BACK WHEN YOU HAVE, thankee kindly :P
WHERE DID YOU GET THE WORLD ENDS WITH YOU ;-;-;-;-;-;-;-;-;-;
X3: Triti is when I threw the towel. I felt like the game was laughing at me.
Triti in any operation isn't so bad when you properly corner it. Deftera and Paraskevi were always the worst for me, though, with the exception of X1, which is just awful.Until Triti is all like "OH LOL THREE MIST NEEDLES IN A ROW AT THE SAME TIME AS FIVE EDGE NEEDLES SPAWN GOOD LUCK LOLOL", which it does almost every friggin' time.
I can't imagine how you can play TWEWY via emulator. You can barely control it on a DS.
TWEWY gets better after the first six days, and not just because the soundtrack doubles in size.
Everyone always compares those two... but Starfy is, in fact, WAY different than Kirby if you actually played it....and in fact, no Starfy is not by the same people as Kirby. It's just that they are both Nintendo games, but then again Metroid is also a Nintendo game, but no one compares it and Kirby.*checks*
If people could just get past the concept of "Oh, it looks similar to Kirby", then they would come to appreciate Starfy for what it is, instead of constantly calling it a copy of something it isn't.
*checks*
I blame Nintendo Power for any and all misinformation I may have received on the subject.
In any event, could you describe it for me? I'm interested, but I'm tired of paying $30 for games I can beat in 30 hours. (Not 30 gameplay hours, but 30 hours after buying it on a school day)
Get a cycloDS- 60 bucks, all the games you'll ever want.The ca$h value of all the DS games I want in a year is roughly 60 bucks.
Wait until X1: Kyriaki. I finished that one at 00:00:03 left and I am never playing it again. It is the only one I'll never, ever S-Rank because finishing it with three tenths of a second was just so cool that I don't want to change it.
Hey, I've heard of that before... wasn't it a poorly made rom hack of Mario aimed towards girls that was made waaaay back in the atari days or something?(http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a354/allac/947852-613tyy5wtbl_large.jpg) (http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a354/allac/giana_sisters_screenshot_double.gif)
Kirby Canvas CurseEhh... Maybe not.
Hey, I've heard of that before... wasn't it a poorly made rom hack of Mario aimed towards girls that was made waaaay back in the atari days or something?
Ehh... Maybe not.Well... Yeah, Amazing Mirror is definitely better. I'll have to agree. Still, both are fun, and have nice, big chunks of replay value. Of course, KatAM's not really a DS game.
Swap for Kirby and the Amazing Mirror.
Does theshim even pay attention to this thread anymore? He hasn't posted in it for some time. =VThat doesn't mean WE should stop posting here. Maybe someone else searches new DS games.
PS, Alex, could it be that you have written a review on one of my fanfics?Sorry, I don't review fanfics I just write 'em (though I don't have any posted here since I feel I have a long way to go in my skill... well, that and they're (at best) only tangentally related to touhou).
Sorry, I don't review fanfics I just write 'em (though I don't have any posted here since I feel I have a long way to go in my skill... well, that and they're (at best) only tangentally related to touhou).Just asking because:
Does theshim even pay attention to this thread anymore? He hasn't posted in it for some time. =VgrrrrrrrrrreeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeTTTIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINNNNNNNNNNNNNNGGGSsssssssssss mortal