For game club this month, Gibbon suggested this overlooked Sega title. Like other off-topic Sonic Team games like Ristar or Nights, the Sonic influence can be felt but it builds heavily around a central gameplay gimmick, to create an experience quite unlike anything else.
It’s a treat for a game world I’ve become fond of (Rayman 2′s, that is) to have a spin-off centred around it. Rayman M/Arena/Rush has a complicated release history; but first, what is it? It’s a multiplayer-focused game (although the single-player modes are fairly robust) that’s split in two. One half of the game is the battle mode where the opponents’ health bars are depleted by your attacks, there’s random weapon pickups, and you’re in a small enclosed arena. The other is the race mode, where you run through an obstacle course, trying to get the optimal path to beat your opponents to the goal. Both modes are based on Rayman 2′s 3D platformer engine and controls.
So about the different releases: Rayman M was released on PS2 in Europe with lots of modes. Rayman Rush followed in Europe and NA on the PS1, with a big downgrade in visuals and physics (it seems based on the PS1 version of Rayman 2 while the lead version is most likely built off the PS2′s Rayman Revolution) and the battle mode completely removed. I didn’t mind that, the race mode is clearly much more fun to me. The content of the race mode is mostly the same but with simplified course layouts and one or two unique courses. The main NA release was titled Rayman Arena, on PC, PS2, Gamecube, and Xbox. From what I’ve read, while the PS2 and PC versions were similar to Rayman M, the GCN and Xbox version was significantly rejiggered with different menus, new characters and costumes (good), and crucially two whole sub-modes removed from Race mode. Unfortunate.
I played the versions that were available to me on useable emulators: GCN and PS1. I feel I got a good overview of the game from this (although not comprehensive) but the loss of Lums and Target mode from Race hurts. It can’t be overstated how superior Arena’s engine is to Rush: analog control, much smoother momentum, more options in race courses; it also just looks and feels so much nicer. It’s probably better to go for the PS2 or PC version though for the extra modes; Dark Globox and Dark Rayman are the only outright additions (and the latter is only a costume).
So what about playing the game? Well, I found the Race mode very addictive. Learning the best way through a level is reminiscent of speedrunning and traversing these obstacle courses on foot with tuned 3D platformer controls is just great fun, and the courses are well designed with multiple routes. Each character has their own personality in their animations even though their abilities are identical, a trait shared by the Origins games (and comparing, say, Globox’s balloon-like inflation as a hover to his corresponding Origins action is, well, it’s interesting to me…).
The Battle mode on the other hand just felt boring and slow. Combat was never the best part of Rayman 2 and it’s still true here, even with the bells and whistles. I didn’t bother much with this mode and as I said, Rush totally eliminates it, no great loss. The most interesting thing about it to me was having a look around the arenas and enjoying how they’re plucked straight from Rayman 2′s world; forests, beaches, pirate ships, graveyards, sanctuaries, etc.
The characters too are drawn from that game: Rayman, Globox, a Teensie duo, the pirate robot Henchman 800, and Razorbeard are here. Strangely Ly (who appears on Rush’s loading screens) is not in the game, seemingly replaced at some point by a smaller fairy, Tily. Other new faces are the Henchman 1000, Razorbeard’s wife, and Dark Globox who in this instance is a bigger, uglier, Glute. Also in the PS1 version a female Glute named Globette replaces the Teensie team. I’m not familiar enough to identify if there were musical references/remixes, but the music is funky and upbeat, a great accompaniment to the action.
This game doesn’t have a story as far as I can tell (no manual scans online either) so let’s make one up. The pirates and Razorbeard are still around after Rayman 2, as shown by Rayman 3 GBA and Rayman Kart, so this is probably just after Rayman 2. Polokus has woken up and decides to deal with the remaining pirates by challenging them to a contest with his Glade of Dreams champions, being the mischievous god he is. All through the land he sets up courses for his people to race and battle the pirates (and each other). The results? Inconclusive. As we’ll see the pirates aren’t finished after this, but Polokus may not have the absolute authority or inclination to outright get rid of them.
So this game is a strong concept in all its incarnations (well, the race half anyway); it’s just too bad that the later release had to remove features while adding others. I enjoyed Race mode very much, and it comes highly recommended if you’re interested in 3D obstacle course foot races (don’t worry, it’s much more fun than Donkey Kong 64′s race segments) or the world of Rayman 2. Those new characters are also nice to flesh it out a bit (it also introduced the enemy Cullcut, who starred in a Flash-based typing tutor). Finally, I’d recommend Haruka Tavares’s gameplay videos to check out the different versions if you can’t play them.
So having played Adventures, I could finally continue the Star Fox saga in order. The current canon anyway, which goes Lylat Wars-> Adventures-> Assault-> Command. The original Star Wing was retconned by 64, and Star Fox 2 was never canon anyway but I still intend to play them as well, as Command’s multiple endings gives a good excuse to explore the other non-canon corners of that universe.
My friend Scraps helpfully lent me his copy of Assault, another borrowing for which I’m glad, as it doesn’t feel like Assault has quite the staying power of other Star Fox games. It’s another experiment you might say and like Metroid Prime Hunters seems to have been built around the multiplayer, with the campaign added afterwards with the existing mechanics. This may be related to the never-released arcade adaptation, much like F-Zero GX/AX.
This one’s a Namco production, and its strengths, especially as a fan of the series, are its adherence to the lore and continuity and how it builds on them. It does a great job expressing this cool world in an impressive way, with developed settings, characters, and sci-fi concepts. It also manages to ccapture a very epic feeling to the events of the game. It adds explicit FTL travel by warp gates, new characters Panther as a member of Star Wolf and Slippy’s dad Beltino, as well as the game’s major antagonists, the hivelike Aparoids. No new planets aside from the Aparoid homeworld but it gives a new level of realism to many established locations such as Corneria and Fichina.
The characters are a strength of the series, and Assault gives them lots of chances to converse between and during missions. They even bring back Tricky, which made me very happy so soon after Adventures. The relationship between Fox and Krystal is developed a little clumsily though. There’s also a little problem with Fox in that his voice actor and model don’t convey much emotion, so as the protagonist he didn’t hold up too well.
Let’s talk about the gameplay though. As I alluded to the missions are mainly in multiplayer maps, with objectives to do. You can hop in and out of the Arwing or Landmaster when you need to, and there’s a lot of on-foot running and gunning. The controls for this mode can be customised but are generally a bit awkward, which sucks because you spend so much time like that. The maps are often a little small for proper Arwing All-Range action too. The first mission fools you into thinking this game will be a scrolling shooter like everyone wants after Lylat Wars, which makes all the pilot stuff a rude shock. They do try to mix up the pilot gameplay though. There’s lots of weapons to use in different situations, and terrain varies from mission to mission.
So you have three different control schemes to master that need to be switched between in many missions, and things like laser upgrades for the Arwing or a pilot’s weapons don’t affect the other mode. It feels a little bolted together.
On balance the game doesn’t top the Star Fox charts, but it remains the most modern-looking and with an in-depth plot, which definitely counts for something. It’s just a shame that the campaign (which is uniquely linear for the series) pushes the roaming on-foot structure so much, because the few Arwing scrolling stages were good fun and work better, for my tastes anyway. It also has lots of impact plotwise on Command, which I’m now playing, which makes me appreciate the continuity the whole series has kept up with (since 64 anyway). As for whether you should play it? Trust your instincts.
I tracked down a copy of this for a similar reason to Viva Pinata DS, as it is held in high esteem in the DKVine community. It’s the final game that Rareware made for a Nintendo home console, the final one while before they were sadly bought out by Microsoft. Like many Rare games, especially later ones, it had something of a troubled development. It started as a new IP that, while a spinoff of Diddy Kong Racing through Tricky the Triceratops, was much more loosely connected than Banjo or Conker. The tone is very different, a more serious adventure story. After finishing the game I had a great time looking through an archive of prerelease material relating to the original story and game of Dinosaur Planet. You can check some of that out here.
But Miyamoto intervened, as he so often does, and suggested changing one of the protagonists to Fox McCloud, as they bore a resemblance. Now hardcore Rare fans and Star Fox fans both will see this as a mistake, the Rare fans because it caused delays and cuts to the N64 game, resulting in a more content-light Gamecube final product, as well as undermining Rare’s original vision. Star Fox fans see it as a big anomaly in the series and a disappointing change of pace compared to the SNES original and N64 classic. Me, well, I don’t mind so much. I like seeing a different kind of adventure in the Star Fox universe, and what we got is what we got. You can’t complain too much, it’s not too different to what DP was intended to be and it sure looks nicer.
I knew not to expect a Star Fox game proper, but what I didn’t expect were segments of Lylat Wars-style scrolling shooter gameplay shoehorned in between areas of the 3D adventure action platformer. The comparison is not nice: the structure, design, sound effects, control, all are pale shadows of what the N64 game accomplished.
Thankfully, the original Dinosaur Planet-style stages are more well-developed. While the world is a little small, it’s populated by fun characters, mostly dinosaurs, with outrageous British accents of all stripes. This is fun and I dare say part of the “Rare charm”. I had flashbacks to their previous fully-voiced game, Conker’s Bad Fur Day, in a good way. The more affected accents of the principal Star Fox team are more grating, though. David Wise’s soundtrack on the other hand, fantastic as always.
Oh I was talking about the gameplay. It’s a bit like Zelda, a bit like Beyond Good and Evil. You get lots of consumable items mostly, as well as magic staff powers. The C-stick menu is a great way of sifting through all these actions and objects while still running around. Lumping some actions onto your sidekick Tricky is also cool because you develop a bond with the little guy. He’s so cute following you around, and he’s so integral that it’s only natural he feel a part of the team. It’s good to see Rare finally deliver on the partner gameplay they’ve been toying with since Conker’s Quest 64. Just a shame that the proposed Krystal half of the game was cut or reworked, in the end she’s a very underwhelming character.
Knowing about what was cut does undermine my retrospective view of the game, although you can tell while playing it that it’s a little lacking some areas. Parts of the world and gameplay feel bolted together and there’s not always a consistent feeling of progression. The plot is a little barebones too. It’s all about what goes on in your head though, so if possible I’d recommend reading a bit of Dinosaur Planet info and supplementing your experience of this game with that, to build it up a little more. That’s helped my view of the DP-SFA thing as a whole.
I’ve heard lots of criticisms of SFA: disappointing final chapter, tedious backtracking, dumb minigame-type sections, mediocre combat. I’d agree with all of them. However, I still look back on my playing of it fondly, and had a good time. It has got the Rare spirit, despite what some people may think. It also adds a lot to the Star Fox universe, especially in terms of Krystal who is very important to the next two games. I’m just playing Assault now and going back to Sauria briefly is just so joyous. I guess you could say it’s not easy to enjoy, but I’m glad to like some controversial games if they have some redeeming elements, and I think this does.
Hrm. Well, I played it. I’m going to have to be a Negative Nancy again.
I like Super Mario World. I just want to get that out there, although I admit it’s probably mostly nostalgia. But it seems every Mario platformer I play leaves me stone cold. (Yoshi’s Island is not a Mario game. It’s a Yoshi game. A spin-off with distinct art style and mechanics. Ahem) The Galaxies were fun but didn’t have lasting appeal for me and in retrospect seemed flawed. Mario 64 is of course a glorified tech demo™. The 2D platformers are uniformly lacking in imagination, from the NES ones to the “New” ones. (I know everyone likes to suck up to Mario 24/7, so please read “solely in the opinion of a jaded gamer” after my every declaration. Thank you, Mario fans.)
I thought Sunshine would be the one to turn it around. Everything I’ve heard is that it’s the black sheep of the family, it’s divisive, it stands out too much. This seemed like a good idea to me. People have praised the world and atmosphere, qualities I value. I also like the extra interaction with the environment that FLUDD, the new core mechanic, affords.
Unfortunately I have to say that in terms of structure and design it’s way too similar to the ironclad blueprint that SM64 apparently laid down. I was expecting a world, but each level is segregated by magic portals. Why make the theme so homogenous when everything is so cut off? I expected a bit of plot focus, but there’s pretty much three cutscenes with atrocious voice acting (Bowser sounds like a Muppet). Peach was standing around talking to me for the first ten minutes: what a boon! But no, she got kidnapped again. Sigh.
I just couldn’t see past the obvious similarities, the mission structure. Sure, there’s lots of NPCs but they don’t really have anything to say and actually talking to them is stupidly awkward (too many functions mapped to the same buttons, and it’s very finicky for certain things like talking). I guess you could say I had expectations, but it fell short on all of them. However, at least it tried these things like plot and making a world, unlike other Mario games. The execution was just poor, and everything else is just the same as always.
So these elements that make it stand out to some degree were so flawed as to become drawbacks: the plot is dumb and the voices ear-bleeding. The world doesn’t have the variety that Galaxy or even 64 manages to achieve. It also has so many other missteps that I began to see why it was so widely disliked. The camera’s bad, many mechanics are poorly introduced and barely used, like Yoshi and fruits, and the different FLUDD nozzles. Swimming sucks. The enemies are both ugly and not effectively used. They removed the long jump, while making the slide slow you down more often than speed you up (due to collisions), and the camera focus button makes you ground pound in the air, which I inadvertently activated too often. The levels are too small and repetitive with many missions in the same area, doing similar things.
One of the few good points that stuck with me while playing was the dynamic that having FLUDD around enabled. Traversal was fun, using the hover nozzle to get some hang time or maneuever. Sideflipping then hovering was extensively used in my playthrough and felt good. It’s too bad the other nozzles were so bad and replaced the good one. And then many of the secret stages take away FLUDD altogether, negating the advantage this game has and replacing it with basic wonky platforming in very unforgiving stages. They also negated the ambition of world-building. You can’t have it both ways.
It seems the game has a lot of ideas jammed into it, but very few of them are followed through on and they just aren’t done well. Some do work, like having Bowser Jr. recur as Shadow Mario or having you clean up an area (I found pleasure in that, although I found aiming the normal nozzle awkward).
I dunno, my expectations were too high here and although Sunshine tried a few nice things, like a greater character focus and a consistent setting, those baby steps didn’t make it to the level that other 3D platformers already had such as Banjo-Kazooie, while the flaws make it not reach the gameplay level of other 3D Mario games. So it’s stuck between the two extremes, not quite as good as either. And subjectively, I simply didn’t have fun with it overall, and that’s the most damning thing. I’m proud to be a Mario hater (trololol) and this didn’t turn me around, but if you like Mario I don’t know if you would like this (assuming you haven’t played it and made up your mind already). It’s probably worth a go, especially for the bargain basement price I found it at.
Halfway through this review I found that my favourite Australian Nintendo site, Vooks.net, had done a podcast critique of Sunshine. I’m only halfway through it, but I agree with what they say so far. Check it out too, why not?
So I’m playing through some games at the moment, haven’t finished any in a while. Loving the Rayman Legends Challenges App too. But I did recently finish watching a Let’s Play of Zelda Four Swords Adventures, or Four Swords+. I can’t decide which title is less generic. I don’t watch Let’s Plays that often, usually just small parts, but sometimes it’s fascinating to go through the complete experience and get someone else’s take on it at the same time.
I had to choose between two here, and ended up going with Goron50’s one—it had the best quality video, he didn’t talk too much and his voice was ok, and he was doing single player so it was easier to follow when he did everything. In single player mode a GBA connection is not required, and anything that would normally be displayed there is but up on screen in a GBA border. It’s an interesting accomadating technique, and made it very easy to follow in Youtube video format, unlike the other LP I considered which had four players and was confusing, especially as only the main screen was shown and not the GBAs. I did, however, switch to ShadowMarioXLI’s 4-player one afterwards, for a look at the Tingle Tower minigames and Shadow Battle deathmatch mode.
As for the game itself, it was actually very interesting to me. It’s often overlooked, not least because of its peripheral-heavy and exclusionist control scheme. It feels like a game not worth getting unless you have 3 friends with GBA connection cables. Goron50 taught me though that the game is perfectly playable with 1, and in that mode it’s pretty similar to other 2D Zelda games, but with a very different stage-based structure. You can’t help but feel that you’re missing out on all that the game is trying for, though. Seeing parts of ShadowMarioXLI’s run showcased a lot of shenanigans and fun co-op/competitive tension—not to mention those two whole modes that require multiplayer.
Speaking of missing modes, the Japanese version included, in addition to Hyrulean Adventure (the main mode, in which a post-TP Child Timeline Hyrule has to deal with the scheming of a reincarnated Ganondorf releasing Vaati and numerous “Shadow Links”) and Shadow Battle (a multiplayer competition, with coloured Shadow Links fighting amongst themselves), a third mode called Navi Trackers (originally intended as a standalone game called Tetra’s Trackers). As the beta title suggests, this mode is set after Wind Waker with Tetra and her pirate crew playing a treasure-hunting game with Link, who apparently and without explanation has split into four (even he seems confused about it in the intro). This mode supported multiplayer and single player against Tingle, and featured voice acting, including Tetra and other NPCs voicing a customisable substitute name made up phonetically of two morae (ie characters). This is speculated to be the reason for its removal from international releases of the game, as it would be hard to do outside of Japanese. Pretty lazy, huh? Could’ve just removed that feature, instead of cutting 1/3rd of the game modes out entirely.
This makes the Japanese release, the original intent, seem more like a “Kirby Super Star”-type game, with sub-games that are smaller in scope and more variety. Having that Wind Waker setting included also adds to the feel of the game being a total Zelda mashup—this is one of the most fascinating aspects to me. The menus, some sound effects, some visual effects (eg explosions), some enemies, and the bosses in the main mode are taken from Wind Waker. Many environments, sprites, enemies, and plot details are from Link to the Past. The appearance of the Links and the GBA-displayed graphics (not to mention the gameplay) are from the original Four Swords, and these graphics were repurposed for Minish Cap. The plot involves Shadow (Dark) Links (Zelda 2, Ocarina of Time), Vaati (Four Swords), and Ganondorf (Ocarina of Time, Twilight Princess) who transforms into pig Ganon with trident (Link to the Past, Zelda 1). This game, much more than others in the series, takes elements from other Zelda games in a good way.
Also the NPCs. As an actiony arcadey stage-based game, they did well incorporating dungeons and towns. You find such people as Deku Scrubs (Majora’s Mask), Gerudos (Ocarina of Time), and Gorons. More important NPCs include the Six Maidens (Link to the Past), Kaepora Gaebora the owl (Ocarina of Time), Great Fairies in their Wind Waker appearance, and Tingle (Wind Waker). It just seems that it has a larger amount of reused or repurposed elements and characters from other titles, rather than making its own. In this case, I really liked that as a Zelda fan. Sure, they can’t do that all the time but for this game to have that role makes it totally sweet.
After talking about that, the best part to me, I’ve lost enthusiasm for the rest of the game. If I get bored and stop, sorry! I’ll try. So the game obviously relies heavily on the difference between the TV screen (the main area you’re in) and the GBA screen (for sub-areas such as a cave or building). It’s based around the four people in the same area but doing different acitivities. Now it might seem obvious to ask why this wouldn’t work on the WiiU, but each person needs their own screen to be equal, so they can all be in sub-areas or have information the others don’t to encourage co-operative sharing (or competitive taking all the loot). So a single Gamepad is good for asymmetric stuff as they’ve shown and talked about, but this experience is very symmetrical.
It’s a rather inventive use for the GBA-GCN connectivity, but one of the big problems with this stuff is Nintendo has these wacky ideas that never really go anywhere. So you’ve got maybe 2 or 3 games that use this cable in a really cool way, but man that’s not worth buying four of them! So it’s a good idea, but there wasn’t a widespread use of it and it was optional. But now there’s all this stuff built into the WiiU, and you know they’re not going to use it when everyone has it! Ok, now I’m stereotyping Nintendo.
My point is, this is a very niche game. Which is a shame because it’s got cool ideas, it just has so many requirements to get into it—including being a big Zelda nerd to get all the references and stuff, just another requirement kinda. But having acquired all the necessities, is there really enough game here to justify it all, especially with Navi Trackers missing? I mean, maybe there’s not enough content given all the hoops you have to jump through for it. It is a different kind of content to your standard Zelda game, with menus into stages and minigames rather than exploring a world. But what is Hyrule Field but a big menu anyway?
I digress. The fact that there are two ways to play this game is cool. Many gameplay aspects are unique and interesting. The sheer amount of Zelda stuff mashed together is a total delight, even when they don’t mesh together perfectly (eg the Wind Waker boss art style clashes with other sprites). I regret not having the hardware/friends to be able to play the game myself, but the amount of conditions makes it impractical. The way the game feels so much like Link to the Past but with upgraded graphics and sound, and cool zooming effects makes me wish Nintendo or others would try a 2D revival-type thing like this with more polish and utilising modern stuff to expand on that experience, instead of going whole-hog into 3D or new control schemes or whatever. People like retro games, you could make some great stuff by shooting for that feel but enhancing it in other ways. Not like Megaman 9 and 10, though.
Ugh, I’m not getting my point across. I guess stuff like Donkey Kong Country Returns is kinda like that, but this game is all (mostly) 2D sprite art, but more high-fidelity, with zooming out in large areas and sweet water effects and stuff. I feel like you could take some great ideas from this game, and I haven’t seen them done that much elsewhere. Or maybe I have I don’t know. I guess the really specific instance of explicitly Link to the Past-style graphics but enhanced without overblowing them into 3D or something is what I’m talking about. The new 3DS Zelda is an example of that, not that I’m saying it’s bad, it’s just another way to do it.
Sigh. Anyway I should end this rambly, incoherent post before it gets, uh, too ranty. This game is cool, watch a Let’s Play some time. You don’t have to watch all of it. Sorry I went off the rails there. I’ll get this writing stuff down some day. Until next time, may your sword always be filled with the power to repel evil.
A while ago, out of the blue, a friend presented me with the original Animal Crossing (ok, it’s not actually the original, as it’s the third of four versions of Animal Forest for the Japanese N64… long story). She’d found it in the course of her work at the op shop (that’s the thrift store for you Yanks) and set it aside for me, as a renowned game nerd. I was pleasantly surprised but actually had no interest in the game really.
Seems callous to say that, but it seemed a little pointless to me. I finally booted it up this year, for one reason: to unlock the playable NES games that you could buy for your house. This was partly to stick it to Nintendo’s overpriced and under-featured Virtual Console, as I had essentially got this game for free (my friend paid $5), scoring more than 10 NES games which would cost quite a lot if I lost my mind and bought them for my Wii.
But then, as I’ve mentioned before, a funny thing happened. I named my town and myself, I moved in. I took on a debt to Tom Nook and set about paying it off. I endeavoured to earn more money to upgrade my house, to make room for all the NES games (the basic house can’t contain them all), by doing jobs for villagers and finding things to sell. And somewhere along the way, I became hooked.
I found myself playing the game every day, and forgetting all about the NES games. Eventually I remembered them and, as I’ve chronicled, was disappointed. But for over a month, I played almost every day and got a lot out of it. I found the game charming and compelling. The simplicity of it made it very accessible to me, it was just easy to boot it up after work and mooch around the village for a bit.
For those who don’t know, Animal Crossing is a kind of “life simulation” game, where you directly control a single avatar and do various tasks in an environment with no specific goal. Like the Sims, but with cute cartoon animals and stuff. There’s a lot of calendar and time-based events too (it’s all real-time).
Getting to know each villager, discovering new ones moving in, witnessing some random events, fishing and digging up fossils. It was fun just living in this simple community, and I developed a routine for each day. The goals of upgrading my house and Tom Nook’s store kept me motivated.
After a while, I began to lose that motivation, especially after I learned that the store couldn’t be further upgraded without another player visiting. This kind of mechanic in games is very frustrating for a “Forever Alone” such as myself. I also got all the NES games (all the Universal Code ones, anyway), and fit them in my house, so that motivation was gone too. Collecting stuff was fun, but the general lack of Nintendo-related memoribilia compared to later games left me with little desire for continuing that (I fortunately got Kafei’s shirt very early and loved it, got the Master Sword too).
I also felt that I was reaching the limits of what the game had to offer me. Perpetual winter was getting me down, and the way the villagers seemed to not have any sort of continous relationship to me made the social interactions seem hollow. I’d found almost all the fossils, and bugs weren’t showing up for another few months. I unlocked the extra bridge, and experienced New Years. I felt like I wasn’t getting much further, so I stopped.
I feel that the game was too simplistic, a little barebones. I feel that the sequels may have the added features to keep it compelling longer, to get me to the next holidays, but there wasn’t much to this. However, those later games don’t have the killer feature of NES games (which I think is genuinely cool, aside from the emulation video output issues I had). Even the later Animal Forest e+ release Japan got had some extra features that sounded cool, and playing a game with e-Reader support always makes me feel like I’m getting a compromised experience. Not to mention the Island, reachable via GCN-GBA link cable (cursed peripherals I don’t have!). Oh and the whole not having friends thing (at least not ones who own this game).
Having said all that though, for that one month I had heaps of fun with this. Plus now I know about the series, it helps me get stuff other people say and references in Smash Bros or NIntendo Land. I hope to play games from every Nintendo series eventually, a very nebulous goal at this stage that I may act on more purposefully one day. Yeah so it was fun but a little simplistic. I’m not planning on getting New Leaf or whatever it’ll be called here (can’t count on NOE) but I think the evolutions developed between then and now could make it a much more compelling game (although I don’t like the less chibi body shapes).
I give this game 1 month out of 12. Oh yeah and it got annoying running around trying to find villagers for errands, sometimes I swear they were hiding from me. Thanks much for reading, chimp!
Wife’s comment: It was ok for a while but got very repetitive. Finding the balls, ah!
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