Tanukitsune

Hmm, I wonder if they'll cell-shade the game? If the just cell shaded that test video I'd be... more or less content?

Yeah, as much as I love the project, paying 20$ just for a soundtrack sounds like too much... Although it seems it might reach the Vita goal after all! Is it me or did it beat Double Fine's record?

Like I just said, I convinced myself it was 2D despite all the information provided.

I only remembered seeing this and convincing myself it was 2D:

So it's no longer 2D? Dang! Well, I guess then I don't really care if I get it on the Vita or not anymore. :|

Even in the disquette days? Sure a CD-Rom could fit a 20+ hour game, but how much content could you fit into a disquette?

Hmm, I guess I might trade in my Animal Crossing for Pokémon X/Y... I still have no idea which version to choose though. Last time I choose black because all my friends had White... and we never traded. :| EDIT: Wait... The game is out in two week and they won't tell which version has which exclusive Pokémons yet? How am I supposed to choose!

I was more of a console gamer as a kid, so I wouldn't know if cRPGs were that long, but still less than 20 hours is still shorter than a modern game today. Gamers today would throw a hissy fit if their RPGs weren't at least 60-80 hours long minimum. And like you just said, a 10 hour game became a 20 hour game because it was harder, but now a 20 hour game is 20 hours plus maybe a few more if you died and 40 more hours if you're a cheevo fanatic or do sidequests.

Damn, it looks like it won't reach the Vita stretch goal... Which is the version I want the most, 2D games look gorgeous on the Vita.

Oh, I forgot got my Shadow Warriors mixed up? One is the European name for Ninja Gaiden and has the cheap hawks and the other one is the one is the FPS game? I'm sorry, but introducing new elements in the final segments isn't new, the Dragon boss in Mega Man 2, how am I supposed to be prepared for fighting a boss while the level scrolls and I can fall to my death? And the bad games did it all the time. I'm no expect in level design, I practically skipped from Doom-like games to Half-Life, but in the Doom era? Many of the Doom clones had TERRIBLE levels that might have been creative in looks and design, but in flow and figuring out where to go? Ick... And.. Umm.. No... Games ARE getting longer, early JRPGs rarely were over 10 hours long, normal games were rarely over 2 hours longs, shooters were about 3 hours long. And I'm talking really early games. Yeah, Demon Souls punishes you, but you can always play it safe and grind, you only lose the unspent XP if you die before recovering it. Isn't a "meat circus" situation a bad design choice more than anything? They either think we can handle it or don't realize how broken the situation they are creating is.

Difficulty is such a strange subject, many games were difficult back in the day because... there weren't well made. I don't care what people will say, the random spawning hawk in Shadow Warriors is BS. People weren't sure of what they were doing, they were challenging not by choice, but by bad design, as in bad level design, bad enemy patterns, etc, etc... There is a reason a certain angry nerds likes to shout about how badly made old games were. The thing is, many of the challenging but fair games did baby us a bit, but it wasn't as obvious, Mega Man would introduce a new element to the game in a more safer environment before truly testing your skills with it. Like the "blinking" platforms, sure they are hard, but the first time you see them, there is a floor under you to practice a little. World 1-1 is a very subtle tutorial in its own way since it does the same thing I just explained. But if there is one thing I hate about older FPS games is their level design, I would find every secret in the level, but not the exit and then I'd get frustrated or either cheat or quit. As games get longer and longer, and have actual plots, they have to be "baby" games. How many of you would play a 50 hour game if it had limited lives or continues and you died in one hit? If a game lets you learn from your mistakes, it's tough but fair in my book. If it's something where you can't learn from your mistakes because the game doesn't tell you you've made one (un-winnable situations) or because there is no logic, pattern or strategy to learn, it's probably not that well made. Not to mention that challenge is subjective, a game can claim Demon's Souls is easy because despite dying a hundred times, the game let's them continue... and he'd be right in his own way. What I said is my personal interpretation of a truly difficult game. I can't remember having meat circus situations in games lately, just stupid padding with turret sections and escort missions and that sort of broken and forced gameplay. The closest thing would be the "lazy lockdown arena" which is more of a "meat grinder", because you're forced to fighting until the boredom and tediousness makes you mess up.

Yeah, the early PS3 ones are some of my favorite and I'm glad to hear we are finally getting a "normal" R&C game, although it's weird to see that the title lacks an innuendo pun. Speaking of which the HD-ness of this one was OK-ish, since I didn't play the original version, I don't know if the graphical issues I encountered from from the port or new.

I finally played Ratchet: Gladiator / Deadlocked, the only Ratchet & Clank game I never played before and wasn't a part of the trilogy collection for some reason. If the name didn't give it away, it's about Ratchet getting captured and forced into fighting for his freedom, the weapons are simple variations on weapons from other series and instead of Mr. Zurkon you get two robot companions who fight by your side at all times... but aren't Mr. Zurkon, they barely say a thing, so you'll miss Mr. Zurkon. The game seems to be the first to have weapon mods, you can give any weapon ice, electric, or similar powers, so instead of the "morph gun", you know have a "morph mod" so you can turn your enemies into barnyard animals with any weapon you like. Comedy wise, there isn't much dialogue in game or in cutscenes compared to the other games, but the game is oh-so much fun. Another big downside is that once again they ditch the RYNO for a very limited airstrike gun. The game feels a little lacking compared to the other Ratchet games, but I'd still recommend it, and certainly don't understand why it wasn't added in the R&C collection, it's far from "Jak X" if you know what I mean.

I think I'm officially quitting the game for "reals" this time, after waiting for ages to get a visit from Redd, the only thing he had that I didn't own yet, (which is ridiculous, since I barely have anything) was a fake... For the last few days I haven't even spoken to my villagers... They seem so robotic now. I've had a good run, I got a golden watering to show how beautiful my town looks, I got all the fossils, I got all the Happy Room Academy awards and my house looks nice except for the attic which I don't know what to do with... The diving is ridiculously tedious, I'm never getting all the bugs and fish I'm missing without time travelling... I just can't think of a reason to go on playing. A part of me is torn and sad, but at the same time, I'm not sure why, is it because I'm quitting or because the game isn't engaging me anymore? I won't miss the villagers seems they have "personalities" in the end they are all the same, they say the same things only a little different depending on their personality. I dunno, maybe I'll fish a little every once in a while since it's a bit relaxing, but I really think I'm done with the game. I also felt bad since it seems I'm the only one who doesn't seem to enjoy it as much anymore, but playing it just because the rest are is just silly.

I beat two games this weekend: Way of the Samurai 4 It's an open world Samurai game with a LOT of branching paths. The small town you are visiting has it's own "Little Britain" were the English are trying to introduce Japan to their culture and commerce, enter the xenophobe faction, who wants them dead and gone, you can help the xenophobes or the English, or the Shogunate, time only passes once you do a mission for each faction, but you can leave whenever you want or just sleep until the end. The game is "short", but it's all about uncovering all the paths, and what you did in your previous playthrough carries over into the next, did you protect the English teacher? Then you can understand the British. I managed to get one very gruesome bad ending and one relatively good ending, but it's almost like 999 in the sense that want you learn in one path makes you want to take the others. The game also scores your "samurai-ness", so the more you loot corpses or kick them while they are down, the worse rating you get. Dynasty Warriors 7 Empires: Normal Dynasty Warriors games has a minimum of strategy in them, the Empires ones are much more strategic. You can start off as a ruler, officer or free agent and either aid your lord in their conquests, create your own banner and try to rule China. The main feature this game has over the others is that your characters has different types of "fame" to level up by actions in or out of battle, a kind ruler will heal their troops more quickly, an affluent one will have more money and so on. As you gain fame you will gain new strategies for use in and out of battle. Since I had a kind ruler, I could summon tigers or wolfs to help us in battle or heal my troops, and out of battle I could find a region that was doing badly offer them some food an money so they would join us. And for once you can actually give commands to your officers, you could tell them to defend a base, attack a base, attack an enemy officer and such. The strategies that you can choose in battle are very useful if you know how to use them, but you carry a limited amount of them and can only use them once per battle. I don't know if this was on purpose or a coincidence, but in my playthrough it somehow followed the start of the Romace of the Three Kingdoms wars, the Yellow Turban rebellion were constantly expanding until I took them out and then... Dong Zhuo took advantage of that chaos to start to take over China and he was constantly on the offensive until the end. He barely let me any time to develop my kingdom, thank God I had a kind ruler so my troops where ready quicker than his or else I would have been in trouble.

Since powering up the generator is her main goal, I can guarantee it won't easy. Also, don't forget to use certain items like the invisible ink on everyone on every time period for humorous results! I think there was another items you could use on everybody for funny results, but I can't remember which one it is now...

It gets worse better!

Today is the final bug-off... and I just found out that the bug-off chameleon is the only one who gives out the golden net, which means there is no way to get a golden net without time traveling or waiting a whole year... yikes!

I bought my Vita because of all the free Vita games I had and I think I've heard others in these forums who did it too for the same reason.

Not to mention that they are giving away free Vita games compelling people to buy a Vita. And even if you have the game for free, you still might spend money on their DLC.

You will get a special prize from her if you pass the test "perfectly" as in having ALL clothes items in the same category. By the way, perfect fruits only grow in their native town, if your town has apples, you can have perfect apples and they should only grow as perfect fruits in towns where apples are native... Hmm, I don't think I have pears, but I just got my first persimmon and bamboo, so I'll be able to share them soon!

I have very vague memories of it being just a normal family and one of them was turned into a fly? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CutaNxxS8N8 I don't even dare to watch more than this intro...

Oops, I got AGS and Game Maker mixed up, it's still impressive though. ¬_¬U

Isn't this Gunpoint made with AGS? Man, that's kinda crazy when you think of it. Well, I just beat One Piece: Pirate Warriors, which is Dynasty Warriors with One Piece characters and it was pure joy! Sure the combat is more suited for crowd control and the camera and controls aren't that perfect for fighting bosses, but the game has the option to auto aim for bosses with helps a bit. Luffy D. Monkey suits this style of game perfectly, most of these musou games have warriors with large, long or long ranged weapons to deal with the "minions", so Luffy's rubber limbs are perfect for crowd control. They also spice the game up with "action" scenes where Luffy uses his power to traverse obstacles instead of enemies, which are rather QTE-ish and only one of them is actually kinda annoying. Surprisingly you spend 90% of the game playing as Luffy and only once in a blue moon do you get to play as the rest of the crew (which have their own short story modes) and yet it never felt tedious. I haven't seen the show in ages, but it seems to end at a perfect point to do so, but this also means I can't really say how accurate it is compared to the show or manga. It was more or less as I remembered it until the point they stopped airing the show on TV over here. *shrugs*

Well, I think I just figured out Gracie's store, the items are VERY expensive, but they are in the same style for the whole month? I was lucky that the first month I got seems to be only the sweets set... which has cost half of what I had in the bank. I really don't know what else I can do... Tegan, are you still playing? I feel like I'm the only who's still playing from day one. :|