paper mario part 2!
Ok its been a while but now I've finally played the thousand year door.
what can i say about this game? well i like the fact that it has bulk, which the previous game lacked some what. i think what really adds the extra fun in this game is the interactivity with the stars. you remember the old game? you summon a star and he does something for you right? not as easy this time, now you have to do a small mini game of sorts, and the effectiveness of the special completely relies on how well you do. now when you use one to attack all enemies, like in the first where you get this ok graphic of stars falling from no where, now you play a mini version of parapa-the-rappa. and when you use one to increase your attack and defense you get a small shooting gallery of laughs.
i have to say though.... still no laughs...thats strange... and like before there were some besmirches of inner humblies of desential laughter, i.e. something a four year, MIGHT laugh at, but there wasn't really any show stopping cacklers. the game over all was fantastic! i really liked the fact that peach wasnt captured by bowser for once (i still cant believe she was stolen by aliens) and i really liked the story line over all. one thing i would have changed in the plot though... i can buy a computer falling in love, but i cant buy him disobeying grodus... sorry it doesnt work, i know what i said was really weird but sue me. the way i would have done it is, in the end TEC asks peach of something to do with love, like... oh i dont know, something nintendo cliched like peach should stay with her forever, i dont know SOMETHING like that, and peach says no and tells TEC that she hates him or maybe she thinks hes evil or something and he malfunctions, and since hes connected to groduses base, everything goes haywire. its a little more adult and little less cliched, and ITS A LOT MORE INTERESTING!!!!
but besides that... i was disappointed at the fact that bowser was in this game. i know they wanted it to be fun to...control him and all but for like 5 seconds? boorrrrrring, bowsers a side note, and theres no need for him at ALL! the only reason i though they had him was maybe he would eventually play a huge bit in the end, which i would not have minded but they didn't do that... hes just there to make things awkward.
other then that, good game, i like the ending boss, i wont ruin anything for the 1 percent of people who haven't played this game...
heres a throw in video, thanks for reading
btw ive rented super paper mario, and plan to beat it by friday... wish me luck, its good so far!
Sunday, April 29, 2007
Tuesday, April 17, 2007
WHOA almost missed this!
http://www.guildwars.com/press/releases/eyeofthenorthgw2/eyeofthenorth.php
scroll down to the bottom....
guild wars 2!?
UPDATE!
man i didnt have to dig far for this (thank you wiki)
apparently the new guildwars eye of the north will come face to face with three of of four of the new playable characters in guild wars 2
asuras - a weird mouse/mole thing
norns - neato shapeshifting giants
and chars! the cool beatdown walking lion things!
guild wars 2 will also have some weird spirit type thing as its fourth new playable character...
cool
http://www.guildwars.com/press/releases/eyeofthenorthgw2/eyeofthenorth.php
scroll down to the bottom....
guild wars 2!?
UPDATE!
man i didnt have to dig far for this (thank you wiki)
apparently the new guildwars eye of the north will come face to face with three of of four of the new playable characters in guild wars 2
asuras - a weird mouse/mole thing
norns - neato shapeshifting giants
and chars! the cool beatdown walking lion things!
guild wars 2 will also have some weird spirit type thing as its fourth new playable character...
cool
hey hey
and now a word from our sponsors
please take a brief look at this review featured in the wiire ---> http://www.thewiire.com/review/115/3/Kororinpa_Marble_Mania
C?!?
I'm surprised wiire, that is very harsh.
Ok i agree this game could really use some more bulk, BUT let us take a small trip for a sec and take a look at some comparisons. lets agree for instance that we have a LOT of marble games. why is that? we've marble madness, a classic yes, we've get super monkey ball, we've got sticky balls, we've got like 50 flash games, and we've even got a new mini game in guild wars called roller beetle racing, what the hell is that?! Ok so we can agree we've got a lot of marble games. lets look at some of the most popular ones. marble madness is really fun, i have to say, but it is really frustrating. the biggest problem is that when you eventually die, you have to start all over again. granted usually you will want to start over, and is just as much fun the second time, but maybe not the twenty second time. now lets look at the inappropriately titled super monkey balls <-- on purpose. i sold my copy, sorry to say, it was so frigging annoying i had to get it away from myself. not only do you have to start all over when you die, but you have to wrestle your way through so many REALLY annoying levels. why? so you can unlock their mini games. thats just stupid. so unless you play the game to death and are good enough to play hard mode, you have to replay medium over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and YOU DO SEE HOW BORING THIS IS?!?! now let have a look in my *cough* archives, oh yes, please direct your attention to this! -----> http://www.gamespot.com/gamecube/action/supermonkeyball/review.html
what the hell? original? didn't we just see this game like one bajillion times? thank you gamespot for proving my point.
ok now look at this -------> http://www.gamespot.com/wii/action/kororinpa/review.html
MEDIOCRE!? grrr your really cheesing me off
now for the actual review, this game was really good i got to say. i played it all the way through to the end and i never ONCE got frustrated with it. it felt really natural with the wiimote. instead of mastering some joystick, or a combination of buttons you have to tilt the wii controller which tilts the word for your ball to roll. aaahhhh it feels sooo good! <3 (thats the only time i will do that)
the game was really fun and just plain entertaining, and you know what? multiplayer was fun too! i played it with my cousin and we had a lot of fun, although she was not as good as was, it was fun just watching it (although just a bit painful). the fun concept of a marble combined with the ingenuity of turning the world around makes for an amazing experience. it does things like having a platform twist sideways so you have to tilt your wiimote. its hard to explain so i thought id give you a neato video.
as you can see, this game is not for the weak of hearted. also id like to mention that some of you might find that the music resembles that found in a common sonic and hedgehog game. the music played in the above video is not the music played in that level, the person playing the game unlocked that piece of music. good eh?
the only music i could'nt stand was played during levels 1-10 and I'm sure you'll agree. it was WAY to melancholy. anyways, i think everyone is is too hard on this game. no it isn't all that hard with practice, ill agree and yes it could use some fleshing out but you know what, i would sell super monkey ball to buy this game, ANY day.
thanks for reading, my verdict is 8/10
and now a word from our sponsors
please take a brief look at this review featured in the wiire ---> http://www.thewiire.com/review/115/3/Kororinpa_Marble_Mania
C?!?
I'm surprised wiire, that is very harsh.
Ok i agree this game could really use some more bulk, BUT let us take a small trip for a sec and take a look at some comparisons. lets agree for instance that we have a LOT of marble games. why is that? we've marble madness, a classic yes, we've get super monkey ball, we've got sticky balls, we've got like 50 flash games, and we've even got a new mini game in guild wars called roller beetle racing, what the hell is that?! Ok so we can agree we've got a lot of marble games. lets look at some of the most popular ones. marble madness is really fun, i have to say, but it is really frustrating. the biggest problem is that when you eventually die, you have to start all over again. granted usually you will want to start over, and is just as much fun the second time, but maybe not the twenty second time. now lets look at the inappropriately titled super monkey balls <-- on purpose. i sold my copy, sorry to say, it was so frigging annoying i had to get it away from myself. not only do you have to start all over when you die, but you have to wrestle your way through so many REALLY annoying levels. why? so you can unlock their mini games. thats just stupid. so unless you play the game to death and are good enough to play hard mode, you have to replay medium over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and YOU DO SEE HOW BORING THIS IS?!?! now let have a look in my *cough* archives, oh yes, please direct your attention to this! -----> http://www.gamespot.com/gamecube/action/supermonkeyball/review.html
what the hell? original? didn't we just see this game like one bajillion times? thank you gamespot for proving my point.
ok now look at this -------> http://www.gamespot.com/wii/action/kororinpa/review.html
MEDIOCRE!? grrr your really cheesing me off
now for the actual review, this game was really good i got to say. i played it all the way through to the end and i never ONCE got frustrated with it. it felt really natural with the wiimote. instead of mastering some joystick, or a combination of buttons you have to tilt the wii controller which tilts the word for your ball to roll. aaahhhh it feels sooo good! <3 (thats the only time i will do that)
the game was really fun and just plain entertaining, and you know what? multiplayer was fun too! i played it with my cousin and we had a lot of fun, although she was not as good as was, it was fun just watching it (although just a bit painful). the fun concept of a marble combined with the ingenuity of turning the world around makes for an amazing experience. it does things like having a platform twist sideways so you have to tilt your wiimote. its hard to explain so i thought id give you a neato video.
as you can see, this game is not for the weak of hearted. also id like to mention that some of you might find that the music resembles that found in a common sonic and hedgehog game. the music played in the above video is not the music played in that level, the person playing the game unlocked that piece of music. good eh?
the only music i could'nt stand was played during levels 1-10 and I'm sure you'll agree. it was WAY to melancholy. anyways, i think everyone is is too hard on this game. no it isn't all that hard with practice, ill agree and yes it could use some fleshing out but you know what, i would sell super monkey ball to buy this game, ANY day.
thanks for reading, my verdict is 8/10
Friday, April 13, 2007
paper Mario part I
Ok fans here it is, the new paper Mario was released recently (without me having knowledge of it, how do they DO that?) and people are getting pretty excited. i will do super paper Mario, but first a trip through time.
having just replayed paper Mario on my bearable emulator i can give a pretty estimate review (i know you don't care but I'm doing it anyway)
of course bowser has kidnapped peach again, and we roll through the same shtick, of course when this game came out it was'nt nearly as boring. hey i like the whole princess in dire need cliche and all, but some traditions should be forgotten. just as with the new Zelda game, lets PLEEAAASE find a new enemy besides Ganondorf? for Christ sake.
Ok so I've got to say, my favorite mission, is the haunted forest one with Tubba Blubba. the forest is really neat, i love Tubba, he's like kinda funny looking, but when hes chasing you, HOLY SHIT. Run the heck out of there, i hope they bring him back, but they never do :(
also i should mention after about the fourth fortress i was getting pretty tired of the game. fighting bad guys is fun, but it's not the kind of thing you want to do all the time, they need some more jokes and interaction to fill in the blanks.
also i really resent the fact that they treat you like a child. the best example is when you go to a store, and they have little pictures of the items, not cool. give me a nice clean interface any old day, don't worry the kiddies are smart, they'll figure it out.
now i have a confession. I've never played the thousand year door. *shock*. have no fear I've bought a copy from Ebay for twenty dollars :D
the reason i bring this up. i was reading a review abut the new paper Mario, and i hear that the paper Mario series was... funny? comical even? am i hearing this right? no no no. i was complexed when i heard this astonishing trinket of gaming knowledge. paper Mario is funny huh? and what was more strange is it was worded, "is comical like its predecessors".
wow, man i don't know what they've been smoking, but the paper Mario i just played for n64, was not funny. i know because i actually played it after i heard this quote, JUST to make sure. its not even worth a chuckle. its like sort of reaching for a cough of a dying laugh, but thats it. the reason i brought up the fact that i will be playing the thousand year door, is because i want to make sure this quote is not completely driveling and drooley as it sounds. i enjoy a good laugh in games, its called entertainment, people generally like entertainment. and as for the new paper Mario, I've seen some pictures (such as this one here ----> Link: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v169/Epy0n/100_2622.jpg
which proves its humor, it looks like it has a few good laughs.
so to reiterate, over paper Mario (lets call it paper mario64)... id give it 7/10
it's good, i like it, which is more then i can say for most RPGs, but hey, theres room for improvement.
UPDATE! check this out... (also testing embedded videos)
Ok fans here it is, the new paper Mario was released recently (without me having knowledge of it, how do they DO that?) and people are getting pretty excited. i will do super paper Mario, but first a trip through time.
having just replayed paper Mario on my bearable emulator i can give a pretty estimate review (i know you don't care but I'm doing it anyway)
of course bowser has kidnapped peach again, and we roll through the same shtick, of course when this game came out it was'nt nearly as boring. hey i like the whole princess in dire need cliche and all, but some traditions should be forgotten. just as with the new Zelda game, lets PLEEAAASE find a new enemy besides Ganondorf? for Christ sake.
Ok so I've got to say, my favorite mission, is the haunted forest one with Tubba Blubba. the forest is really neat, i love Tubba, he's like kinda funny looking, but when hes chasing you, HOLY SHIT. Run the heck out of there, i hope they bring him back, but they never do :(
also i should mention after about the fourth fortress i was getting pretty tired of the game. fighting bad guys is fun, but it's not the kind of thing you want to do all the time, they need some more jokes and interaction to fill in the blanks.
also i really resent the fact that they treat you like a child. the best example is when you go to a store, and they have little pictures of the items, not cool. give me a nice clean interface any old day, don't worry the kiddies are smart, they'll figure it out.
now i have a confession. I've never played the thousand year door. *shock*. have no fear I've bought a copy from Ebay for twenty dollars :D
the reason i bring this up. i was reading a review abut the new paper Mario, and i hear that the paper Mario series was... funny? comical even? am i hearing this right? no no no. i was complexed when i heard this astonishing trinket of gaming knowledge. paper Mario is funny huh? and what was more strange is it was worded, "is comical like its predecessors".
wow, man i don't know what they've been smoking, but the paper Mario i just played for n64, was not funny. i know because i actually played it after i heard this quote, JUST to make sure. its not even worth a chuckle. its like sort of reaching for a cough of a dying laugh, but thats it. the reason i brought up the fact that i will be playing the thousand year door, is because i want to make sure this quote is not completely driveling and drooley as it sounds. i enjoy a good laugh in games, its called entertainment, people generally like entertainment. and as for the new paper Mario, I've seen some pictures (such as this one here ----> Link: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v169/Epy0n/100_2622.jpg
which proves its humor, it looks like it has a few good laughs.
so to reiterate, over paper Mario (lets call it paper mario64)... id give it 7/10
it's good, i like it, which is more then i can say for most RPGs, but hey, theres room for improvement.
UPDATE! check this out... (also testing embedded videos)
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