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Out next week.
Kotaku sucks but they liked it.
Apparently it was not originally a Kirby game.
Holy crap, they touched yarn! The research madness must have gripped them harder than I could ever conceive.Quote:
the design team brought in various cloth items and even touched various yarn
James
Your mom gripped something hard the night you were conceived.
Between this and Canvas Curse Nintendo has finally given Kirby some character. Cannot stand most of his starring roles but abandoning the original mechanics and switching up the art does wonders for the puffball.
So instead of tweaking their character design, they decided to use Kirby.
Fuck this shit. Why is it the only new characters we are getting are space marines or nameless/faceless twats?
Character has never been the problem. Dreamland 3 and Crystal Shards are dripping with charisma. They are also flat, languid borefests.
That this wasn't originally a Kirby game piques my interest. Might have to grab this on launch.
Probably would have just been a differently-colored puffball with eyes, in the grand HAL tradition. The 2P "Kirby with angry eyebrows and a crown" character probably isn't far off the mark.Quote:
Originally Posted by Thief Silver
And Kirby staked his claim to the style about 20 years ago, anyhow.
It's not developed by Hal, though, it's by Good Feel! But yeah, it sounds like it was originally starring a differently-colored puffball. Kirby has a history of not originally being Kirby. Like he was a placeholder in his original game. He just does that well.
Also, holy biscuits at that old commercial!
Digging the piano soundtrack.
The game is fun, but really easy so far (finished the first world).
I'm gonna try this out today.
Also! Best screen ever?
http://i33.tinypic.com/wrneis.jpg
This ruins so many Kirby games. Can't they just put in a hard setting for those that want it?Quote:
Originally Posted by Shin Johnpv
Chux, I laughed at that when I saw it. Finished the first area myself as well. The music has a Turbo CD feel to it at times. Also, tank Kirby is awesome.
You know what actually got a little hard, the Kirby Superstar Remake on the DS had the True Arena and Meta Knights Revenge. That's about as difficult as Kirby ever got.
I think I would like this game if I played it, but I would destroy it in a day and wonder where my money went.
I haven't seen a game this easy since Yoshi's Story
I think I read that you can't die in this game.
I fell in a hole and it perched me back on the ledge but knocked out my collected bits (that you can recollect). Can't say if it's like Sonic in that you'd die if you get hit with no bits/rings since I don't feel the need to play that shitty.
Ok, so I'm in love with this game. So far I agree it's too easy (I felt bad for unraveling some of the Waddle dees when I realized they couldn't even hurt me). The world is so enchanting though, as soon as I saw some of the treasure I thought it would be SO awesome to get to decorate a little house with it; turns out you get your own little kirby room to decorate.
Its a lot of fun just crazy crazy easy. I've finished about 3 1/2 of the worlds so far. In some ways it reminds me of Warioland Shake It. Where the levels are shorter, and the goal is more about finding everything in them, than just making it through them alive.
From the sounds of it, this is another Princess Peach. Too bad.
It kinda is, but I liked Super Princess Peach.Quote:
Originally Posted by RoleTroll
I'm rather enjoying the game, but when I was playing it my wife said "Okay, that game is really gay." I do wish it had a hard mode. I'd recommend people rent it first, as you can probably play through the game in a weekend, from the looks of it.
Been watching roommates play this, and it really does look crazy easy. Even for Kirby standards. I don't know if I'll ever see a death sequence.
I don't think you can die. I think it just keeps taking your beads you collect away, and even if you loose them all you still live. It really is all about "score". In the sense of replaying the levels to have higher and higher bead counts. If you don't go for that, its insanely easy. You could breeze through it in 2 - 3 days.
Yeah, just saw the no beads thing happen.
I'd rather staple my nuts than replay something this slow for more beads though.
Kirby games always have the optional content that's pretty tough. I think that's Kirby's hard mode.
There is nothing remotely tough about any of this Play-skool shit.
it IS adorable though
WRONG
He's cute. Until you cross him. Then he's one tough cream puff.
Also super tough pink puff.
Yes it is, and fun!Quote:
Originally Posted by Tain
Bought this at Toys R Us. Comes with a $10 gift card and the spiral bound Prima guide (which is what pushed me over the edge), although I had to request the latter.
The game is VERY Wario Land: Shake It!. Everything from the soundtrack, level design, collection elements, intrusive saving messages, and sound effects, to, from what I've seen so far, the utter lack of difficulty in the main quest, but reasonable challenge for those looking for the all too temporary OCD-quelling calm of a 100%'ed game. Now, for the bad.
Forced letterbox-ing.
Really? Nintendo needs to make up its mind whether the Wii is catering to older TVs or not. I happen to own a large 4:3 HDTV, one advantage of which is all progressive scan, standard aspect ratio games are huge and awesome looking. One of the few nice things about playing a Wii game is getting to utilize all the real estate on my TV. Now apparently they're assuming everybody is playing their woefully outdated console on 16:9 TVs? So now everyone has to endure the worst of both worlds: standard definition and letterboxed.
Persistent "low battery" icon.
Oh wow, this enrages. I don't play many Wii games so maybe it's common, but it was definitely present in Good Feel's last offering and pissed me off then as well. If your batteries are in the red, they've decided you must be told not once, not every ten minutes, but constantly, with a flashing "low battery" icon in the lower quadrant of the screen.
Seriously? How fucking dare they. Maybe I like playing with low batteries. Maybe it gives me a rush. Maybe I don't want to spend $8 for new batteries just because the current ones "only" have 20% left. Ever think of that, assholes? Maybe I use crappy rechargeable batteries who only ever give me ten or so hours of use and don't want to change them every two days. The point is, LET ME DECIDE. This fucking icon more or less makes the decision for me as it's impossible to ignore. Hell, it's in a position where it blocks part of the subtitles. That said, I did try to ignore it and played just fine for a solid hour with these batteries that were apparently SO CRITICALLY LOW, I MUST BE WARNED ABOUT THE IMPENDING CRISIS NON-STOP. And who cares if they died mid-game? Throw up a pause screen with a warning message and be done with it. Jesus mother of fuck. Are they getting Duracell kickbacks or something?
Otherwise, good game.
Jesus, Compass. I know what trigger not to hit.
I picked this up Sunday, beat the story with all Gold medals by Monday night clocking in at about 10 hours. I enjoyed it, but I definitely feel like it should have been a rental. The extra "challenge modes" (which include finding five tadpole-things in a certain time, collecting X-Number of beads within a certain time, carrying a character to a goal, and racing another character to a goal) are fun, but I have next to no drive to actually complete those and move my 95% completed up to 100%.
That was pretty fast. Sounds like it's considerably easier than Shake It!, then. Did you complete all the collection lists as well?
I forgot before but the manual wasting pages in multiple languages is lame as well. I know it's nothing new, but it still sucks. I couldn't give less of a crap about the environment and even I'm offended at how wasteful this is.
The only things I didn't complete were the Bead collecting challenges (1 left), the race levels, and the carrying the tenant to the goal levels that you play in the apartment building, and I think all of those give you wallpapers. All "stuff," characters, music... that's all collected.
Mario Galaxy and Galaxy 2 did the same thing with the batteries and I hated it. If the "low battery" warning goes off for two days worth of playing plus, then the battery wasn't really that fucking low at all, was it??
Got it. Way cute, and while I knew it would be all too easy/short, thought it would be worth it because the girl loves cute shit, and this is one of few games my 3-yr old niece can play without issue
(yeah yeah, I too played 'hardcore' games like Pac Man and Donkey Kong at that age. Whatev)