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Post by Captain Hygiene on Apr 21, 2009 13:22:26 GMT -5
How about The World Ends With You on DS? I've heard good things about it, and the Nintendo magazine I read gave it a very high score. They tend to be trustworthy thanks to being independent. It hasn't been released over here so I'm not sure if it came out in the States either so I'm not sure how easy it is but it looks very interesting. I've heard of that one, but know nothing about it. I'll look into it as well. And Queen S., spamming my most powerful move to win? Sounds like my kind of game ;D
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Post by The Mad Plumber on Apr 22, 2009 17:11:54 GMT -5
A somewhat older game, so probably not applicable to your dilemma, is Legend of Mana. Legend of Mana is sort of like a cross between an adventure game and a Konami brawler. In the game, you can earn experience and thus boost your strength, but you can do pretty well so long as you fight well. Movement is pretty stiff; in fact, during battle mode, I don't think your character exhibits a walking animation and rather just a shifting battle pose. During your missions or episodes, you can bring along at most two NPC characters, the first being one of the few main characters intregral to the multiple plot lines, and the second being a pet that you captured or a golem you constructed. Your NPCs really have horrid logic, but you can get a human player to play the first NPC; unfortunately, I did not have good experience trying to take advantage of that. All battles that you encounter must be fought to completion. Do not fret about saving often; if you perish in a boss battle, you get to try again. Also, you start every battle with 100% HP, and if you get knocked out, you had better hope that your NPCs can keep your foes busy long enough to recover. After winning the game, an option to play a nightmare mode is available making common foes and bosses incredibly stronger; you will be fighting very hard against level 99 foes. Also, when you play again, you retain your experience, pets, golems, weapons, and inventory, but your NPC friends revert to their initial experience levels.
I like Legend of Mana because it's not too hard and I enjoy being able to do little things like fight foes for experience of cultivate fruit and other things. There's always something to do. My gripe is that it is difficult at times to know how to complete certain episodes without the use of the strategy guides and I do consider strategy guides to be bad form. The fact that games are so ambiguious to demand the use of such magazines does not entertain me. Also, I liked the idea that Legend of Mana allowed a second player to join in, but as I said my effort to use that feature was disappointing.
As I have become more aware of games that allow the use of a Wi-Fi connection to enable multiplayer games, I was hoping there might be an RPG game that can optionally be played with additional human players and be on the easy level like Legend of Mana. I recently saw a Final Fantasy game at the video rental that boasted use of a Wi-Fi connection to bring together players, but I've yet to test it especially since I'm weary about playing another Final Fantasy game and having my game hijacked by some convoluted story.
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Post by Afgncaap5 on Apr 25, 2009 2:03:51 GMT -5
Depending on your mood, I might also suggest looking into the various free online RPGs out there. A lot of those aren't really designed to be games you win at so much as games you just play for fun. I'm a big fan of Adventure Quest and Legend of the Green Dragon, and lots of people enjoy Kingdom of Loathing. And I'm still getting into this new Zork Browser RPG that just came out (though its emphasis on stat building and balancing might make it not be "easy," though I am having fun.)
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Post by Captain Hygiene on Jun 3, 2009 9:39:04 GMT -5
Well, I ended up getting Chrono Trigger not too long ago, and I'm having a blast playing through it. So far, it's definitely at a more reasonable difficulty level than I was afraid of.
I'm strongly considering getting an old copy of Legend of Mana for my SNES, as well.
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Post by Trumpy's Magic Snout on Jun 3, 2009 13:45:46 GMT -5
Well, I ended up getting Chrono Trigger not too long ago, and I'm having a blast playing through it. So far, it's definitely at a more reasonable difficulty level than I was afraid of. I'm strongly considering getting an old copy of Legend of Mana for my SNES, as well. I went and downloaded Mana on the Wii's virtual console because second hand copies are over £40 in my local game shop. Not played too far yet but good stuff!
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