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That baseball game is out in Japan: Darumeshi Sports-ten. It's free to download, and then you buy mini-games within for real money. It's about a hard-luck owner of a sports shop who invested in a new virtual game system (Hontendo 4DS) and a bunch of baseball games. After some chatting, he gives you a game system and expects you to buy his baseball games. (Check out the site: There are videos of all the included games.) Each game is priced 400 yen (4 bucks thereabouts), but you can barter him down using items and your negotiating skills. The first game can be reduced to half the price, but if you're not the haggling type, you can buy it right away at the full price. If you screw up in negotiations, he can go back on discounts, though. The first batting game is really simple: Just tap the A Button and smack balls tossed your way. They change timing and trajectory to screw you up. (It's kind of like Rhythm Heaven, at least the batting and fielding games.) To advance through the story, you need to buy a mini-game, though (one chapter a game). The first batting game has 50 stages (ten variations in two sets of five with five levels of difficulty each). By advancing and by just playing repeatedly, one earns items and discount coupons for haggling down prices.
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PaletteSwappedNinja posted:
I have to ask, what does the NFC thing actually bring to the table? Are the figurines insanely powerful units? Because in the past games you recruited Pokemon Toys by the truckload.
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The NFC units can be buffed/customised to a much higher degree than the standard units, plus you can save 'em back to the figurine and take it to your friend's place or whatever, but these games are all so shallow that I can't imagine it's worth bothering with. There are no toys you can't unlock on your own and it sounds like NOE is gonna distribute most of the NFC versions digitally via promo codes or something.Doug Dinsdale posted:That baseball game is out in Japan: Darumeshi Sports-ten. Thanks for the writeup. I wonder if they'll end up releasing this one internationally, it seemed a little Kansai-heavy (or it did to me, the barely-literate chump watching at 1AM). PaletteSwappedNinja fucked around with this message at 13:50 on Aug 8, 2013 |
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PAL update (week of August 8):quote:WII U eSHOP NA update (week of August 8): quote:WII U eSHOP Art Academy Sketchpad isn't on either press release but it should be out tomorrow; the JP version is 400yen, so expect a sub-$5 price elsewhere. SteamWorld Dig seems to be getting lots of positive buzz from the EU people who bought it after yesterday's Direct, definitely check it out. Seems polished, if nothing else. PaletteSwappedNinja fucked around with this message at 03:07 on Aug 9, 2013 |
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What kind of RPG is Romance of the the Kingdoms and would it be worth getting? Is it high quality like a final fantasy game, or like Tecmo RPG passable quality.
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For some reason, I thought Art Academy Sketchpad was going to be free.
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greatn posted:What kind of RPG is Romance of the the Kingdoms and would it be worth getting? Is it high quality like a final fantasy game, or like Tecmo RPG passable quality. I don't think it's a RPG, it's a strategy game.
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I don't care what anyone says, I'm a grown rear end man and I'm going to buy at least one of those Pokemans from Gamestop to try it out.
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katkillad posted:I don't care what anyone says, I'm a grown rear end man and I'm going to buy at least one of those Pokemans from Gamestop to try it out. I'm buying them too. They'll look great with my Skylanders. I have a problem.
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njsykora posted:I'm buying them too. They'll look great with my Skylanders. I want to get a bulbasaur to sit in front of my tv but Europe hasn't said anything about the figures yet.
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Looks like SteamWorld: Dig is getting the last of my Shin Megami Tensei IV credit!
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MrFlibble posted:I want to get a bulbasaur to sit in front of my tv but Europe hasn't said anything about the figures yet. You know there's no shortage of Pokémon figurines, especially ones which actually look like the Pokémon they're supposed to resemble? Just buy a toy.
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Katana Gomai posted:You know there's no shortage of Pokémon figurines, especially ones which actually look like the Pokémon they're supposed to resemble? Just buy a toy. I know theres a bunch of pokemon toys - but the bulbasaur design for pokemon rumble is pretty good. Also Super Mario Bros 2 is £4.49 in the UK, not £3.49
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Ducktails, wooo-ooooo-ooooo!
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greatn posted:What kind of RPG is Romance of the the Kingdoms and would it be worth getting? Is it high quality like a final fantasy game, or like Tecmo RPG passable quality.
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njsykora posted:I'm buying them too. They'll look great with my Skylanders. Every time I hear about this game or Skylanders, I think of that old, little Pokemon stadium toy they released way back between the first two Pokemon game generations. The one with the little pokemon figurines you plugged into each corner to have them fight. I actually still have the Wartortle figurine sitting on my dresser.
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GAME UK is now selling digital codes for first-party 3DS eShop/VC games; the selection is quite limited and they aren't currently being discounted like the retail download codes, but I'm sure they'll be useful to someone: http://www.game.co.uk/en/games/nintendo-eshop/retro-classics/ http://www.game.co.uk/en/games/nintendo-eshop/eshop-exclusives/
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Surprise, Wii U dudes! You're getting a Wonderful 101 demo today! Should be up in around 30m-1hr.
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PaletteSwappedNinja posted:Surprise, Wii U dudes! You're getting a Wonderful 101 demo today! Should be up in around 30m-1hr. IT IS A WONDERFUL DAY!!
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PaletteSwappedNinja posted:Surprise, Wii U dudes! You're getting a Wonderful 101 demo today! Should be up in around 30m-1hr. Welp, I need to get a Wii U sooner than I thought, gently caress.
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Art Academy Sketchpad is available on the Wii U eShop now, it'll cost you $3.99/3.99EUR. While I'm here... the Sega Japan page for 3D Streets of Rage is up - same old feature set, the one big new feature is the addition of a "one-hit kill" mode. Out next week in Japan, 600yen.
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PaletteSwappedNinja posted:Surprise, Wii U dudes! You're getting a Wonderful 101 demo today! Should be up in around 30m-1hr. Can it be played solely on the game pad or does it have to be played with the TV along with it?
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Spiffster posted:Can it be played solely on the game pad or does it have to be played with the TV along with it? It can be played just on the pad.
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SeANMcBAY posted:It can be played just on the pad. Definitely increased its value to me right there then. Will download the demo and give it a shot
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What the flying Christ is this nightmare? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2bApv9U-3c Edit: I AM NOT ANY MORE INFORMED https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4Kti_xopYs
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Waldorf Sixpence posted:What the flying Christ is this nightmare? The name of the game confuses me more than anything else. Bumpie's Party? Who the gently caress is Bumpie?
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RMZXAnarchy posted:The name of the game confuses me more than anything else. I can only assume it's a portmanteau of bumping uglies.
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Waldorf Sixpence posted:What the flying Christ is this nightmare? One of the "things" looks like a green turd.
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The best (creepiest) part was when the second trailer just said 'GO OUTSIDE SOMETIMES' really accusingly. They know me so well?
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RMZXAnarchy posted:The name of the game confuses me more than anything else. Uh oh, looks like someone wasn't invited to the party... If you're curious about Spin the Bottle Eurogamer played it to show it off. It looks a stellar loving drinking game. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTC6h2IG1CA
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Jet Set Jettison posted:Uh oh, looks like someone wasn't invited to the party... Too bad drinking games don't really work unless you have friends. Actually Multiplayer games in general don't. Oh well. v  v
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RMZXAnarchy posted:Too bad drinking games don't really work unless you have friends. Actually Multiplayer games in general don't. SOMETIMES GO OUTSIDE
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Apparently the Spin The Bottle devs are planning on raising the price of the game whenever they add new content, so if it's something you might potentially be interested in you may wanna get it now, before they jack the price up. Also, NOE didn't actually mention this in their Direct but they did mention it elsewhere: PAL-land is getting Recca on the 15th.
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Just wondering, is the Denpa Men 2 any good? I've tried the demo and I liked what I played, but just wanna make sure.
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Mario and Luigi: Dream Team is up on the NA e-shop as of a few minutes ago. Can't go wrong spending my $30 eshop credit here.
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Dream Team got a demo in NA, too - it has a 12-use limit, and lets you sample the real world, the dream world and a boss battle.
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Evil Eagle posted:Mario and Luigi: Dream Team is up on the NA e-shop as of a few minutes ago. Can't go wrong spending my $30 eshop credit here. I bought it based solely off of the trailers and videos for the game. I'm really enjoying it and I think my wife is going to have fun with it as well. Also like the humor but I'm easily amused. 
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PaletteSwappedNinja posted:Dream Team got a demo in NA, too - it has a 12-use limit, and lets you sample the real world, the dream world and a boss battle. 2 boss battles, actually. There's one for each world. I liked the demo, anyway.
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I'm a big Suda 51 fan but I don't ever play shoot em ups. Will I be able to have fun with Liberation Maiden? Similarly, how is Crimson Shroud for people who have never played a tabletop RPG?
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Crimson Shroud is mostly like a normal JRPG, just with the ability to throw random buffs into the mix; you earn dice in the middle of battle and can use them to randomly add damage and stuff to attacks. Liberation Maiden is not nearly as insane as something you'd expect from Grasshopper, unless the idea of a young woman being the president of Japan in a giant robot sounds wacky in itself. It't no Metal Wolf Chaos, but it's got good gameplay.
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