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Pandar · Posted: Sun Oct 17, 2010 8:15 am Post subject:

I have it on my R4 but I've been occupied with Etrian Odyssey 3 and FF: 4 Heroes of Light and Super Scribblenauts and Minecraft and League of Legends. I'll get to it eventually though.
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Jackal · Joined: 27 Apr 2006 Posts: 337 Location: Carthage, TX

I love all kinds of DS games but after I buy them I never play them. I'm sure it's got something to do with getting used to handheld gaming, which I've never done.

Maybe what I should do is play a Mario game on the DS and calibrate my senses in a way closest to my original NES experience.
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thecraponahat · Posted: Mon Oct 18, 2010 1:25 pm Post subject:

but R4 is the best card out with the new wood OS that someone made :/

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LiQuid! · fasta dan a muddafucka! Joined: 07 Oct 2005 Posts: 8944

AKAIO 1.8 is amazing. Built in anti-anti piracy? Effing yes! I still have my R4 mucking about someplace. I should try out Wood, or would you say it's not worth bothering Pip?

I can't believe Nintendo Power's review is the only one for this game. I'm dying to see how it will be received by gaming press, but nobody is playing it! After 7 plus hours I'm ready to commit and say that it is DAMN fun to play. Easily my favorite Japanese ARPG in years. I highly recommend you all check it out. I can't wait to get my copy. It sounds like it's gonna be pretty rare!
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LiQuid! · fasta dan a muddafucka! Joined: 07 Oct 2005 Posts: 8944

I am at a dungeon now where a path forms under you from out of nowhere, like the junkyard level in Mario Galaxy. I've honestly never seen a DS chug this hard. It's like playing in slow motion. Poor design choice. I really really wish this game was on consoles. I would love to play this with more power behind it. Maybe with AI control for your party so you're not constantly swapping between one member at a time.
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LiQuid! · fasta dan a muddafucka! Joined: 07 Oct 2005 Posts: 8944

Posted at the Disco, so this is just a cross post. Thought I would share cause I like this thread and you all.

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LiQuid! · fasta dan a muddafucka! Joined: 07 Oct 2005 Posts: 8944

AKAIO is pro. Did you play Lufia?
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LiQuid! · fasta dan a muddafucka! Joined: 07 Oct 2005 Posts: 8944

Bottlenecked on the Gades fight today where it was just Max and Selan against him so I made a couple uses of the +5 level feature. What a genius feature. I'm sure they're counting on 90% of the Lufia fanbase being completely uncoordinated mongoloids, so the ability to just get 5 levels for sucking is so unjapanese. Of course it'd be super easy to exploit it, but if you really just wanted to breeze through the game to see the story changes, sure why the hell not?

Of course if they had just let me carry more than 9 potions/miracles I wouldn't have been in that predicament in the first place. Gades is such a cheap ass bastard. I can't wait to see how they handle the fights with the other 3 sinistrals.
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LiQuid! · fasta dan a muddafucka! Joined: 07 Oct 2005 Posts: 8944

WTF?! Artea can fly! And he uses gunkata! Best remake of all time!!!
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thecraponahat · Posted: Wed Oct 20, 2010 11:59 am Post subject:

So far no problems with wood I still have to get the latest version but my DS is very dusty now (Literally) I tried to play a bit yesterday but jumped back on my chair and played on my PC all day Very Happy

LiQuid! · fasta dan a muddafucka! Joined: 07 Oct 2005 Posts: 8944

Beat it at just under 20 hours. The final few hours were kind of a mess. The pacing of the rest of the game was really blown. There was a big, 3 story dungeon full of the same repetitive puzzle of varying degrees of difficulty, and while none of them took me more than a handful of tries to finish, it was still really tedious and repetitive. Then there was about 4 or 5 different times during the course of the final events of the game where you had to backtrack to all 5 of the games' towns and make the jog through them to talk to that town's leader just for a quick dialog scene. It was completely unnecessary.

The ending itself was also kind of a disaster, two of the four sinistral fights were repeats of fights that you'd already done before (in the case of Gades, it was already your half dozenth time doing the same exact fight) and one of the fights was unwinnable, nay unfightable. You just had to sit there and take damage until the fight stopped. Then in the final fight against Daos, you get the Dual Blade, which you can literally use to stop time for about 10 seconds while you rack up free hits to the tune of 9,999 damage a use. It's completely broken and pointless.

The ending cinematic was kind of lame too. They don't really explain how or why Maxim and Selan die, they just kind of pass out after they sink Doom Island and turn into the energy balls and then fly around showing everyone oblivious to the fact that they just croaked. Overall the first dozen hours of the game were really great though. It's a shame the pacing took away from what was supposed to be a really epic, touching finale. By the end you could just tell they were looking for any way to artificially extend the game a couple more hours.
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Solice Kirsk · Posted: Thu Oct 21, 2010 10:26 pm Post subject:

I have been missing Wein Cruz lately so thanks for this thread Liquid, but you really should have done it with a game that came out 10 years ago and not just a remake.
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LiQuid! · fasta dan a muddafucka! Joined: 07 Oct 2005 Posts: 8944

Sry, I'll try harder next time. Sad

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