Revned Said:
JonLeung Said:
Given that it's Mother's Day, I probably should've finished Mother 3 (J) (Translated) on the GBA instead.
That's an odd thing to do for Mother's Day. I usually give my mother flowers and such...
Well, I'm paying for her upcoming trip to visit family in California...if I had finished the game, it would have been a neat coincidence, as it wasn't planned, though, yes, it doesn't really do anything for my mom. (Maybe completing Disaster: Day Of Crisis might have been implying something else? It mostly takes course over a single day...)
I'd only just started Chapter 8 (the final chapter, I believe) of Mother 3, and though I'm guessing it's not as long as Chapter 7 was, a glance at a walkthrough suggested it was still a good size and might be kind of tight so I opted to finish Disaster: Day Of Crisis instead. The last natural disaster is a hurricane, and a scene in the ending showing people in a stadium is reminiscient of Hurricane Katrina. I wonder if that's one concern for possibly not bringing the game over to North America? Mother 3 has a few oddities that I think Nintendo Of America would rather not deal with - it's only speculation but there are a group of seven "Magypsies" who are either gender-confused or transvestites, and they are major characters. There's another major character who may be racially negative and early on a character dies a brutal death. But NoA should try to do something, or rather they should have earlier. Though it felt a bit more linear than EarthBound, and there was an awful lot of experience building/grinding (though I did that while watching movies), it's still pretty enjoyable. I'm not done with it yet, though.
I know I played some games between Oct. 14, 2008 and May 11 this year - that's seven months, after all - though very few between and including December and March because I was working on Metroid Dread, obviously. I did replay
Metroid: Zero Mission during that time, though, to remind myself of the Metroidian physics.
I recommend
Retro Game Challenge on the DS. It's based on a Japanese show about a guy who plays old Famicom (NES) games (though I'm guessing the show doesn't involve time travel). In Retro Game Challenge, "Game Master Arino" sends you back in time to the 1980s, and you play NES-like games with his younger self. You have to complete challenges in each game to move on, some as simple as doing a "start boost" in a racing game or as challenging as finishing a whole RPG. The games aren't real classics, but look like they could have been, which makes it neat. There are also (fake) magazines, with previews and cheat codes (like in the good old Classified Information section in Nintendo Power) to collect that are humourous to read and very helpful for the games that you just want to blaze through. Like in the early NES era, the first few games are arcade-style games, but towards the end of the era, you get more deeper games. The last two games here, Gaudia Quest (an RPG
very clearly modeled on Dragon Warrior) and Haggleman 3 (a platformer that looks like Ninja Gaiden but more item-centric) are the really cool ones. (I believe I mentioned in another topic that those two especially would be good to have mapped, if anyone wants NES-like games to map that aren't actually on the NES.)
I'm still behind on my games, though. Started some
Dokapon Kingdom and
Tales Of Symphonia: Dawn Of The New World, both that I play with my brother, but I still haven't touched
No More Heroes and
Prince Of Persia. I probably shouldn't have started
Klonoa, which came out only last week. Speaking of the new Prince Of Persia and the new Klonoa, are game developers just giving up on subtitles now, or what? I didn't get into
Tatsunoko Vs. Capcom (J) all that much because it turns out it's another fighting game where my brother kicks my butt a little too much. Also, the character selection felt rather limited compared to previous "Vs." games, and the lack of familiarity with the Tatsunoko characters hurt that limited selection even more. Why only three attack buttons instead of six?
Since I own a PS2 now (don't remember if I mentioned it in this topic but the guy who lent me his PS2 decided shortly after to just give it to me),
Final Fantasy X and
Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater are still on my to-borrow-and-play queue. I think he gave up his PS2 because he has a backwards-compatible PS3, doesn't really play PS2 games anymore, has gotten married and has been busy with a new job, and came to the realization that video games aren't a priority in his life.
I think someone's going to tell me soon that I should realize that as well... >_>
