GAME progress topic BETA 3.0

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feeds@yuku.com (CLOUDBOND007) — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 00:21:12 GMT

This is almost motivating me to play the DS version of FF3 that I bought some time ago. It would be interesting to compare my experiences with it to yours on the NES version.

I had started playing Call of Duty 3, another Gamefly rental I ended up getting without really wanting it due to forgetting it was on my list and Gamefly skipping over several games that weren't at the nearby distribution center. Endless chaotic fighting really isn't something I'm in the mood for...

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feeds@yuku.com (Crawl and 1OOO) — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 00:03:07 GMT

The next boss was the legendary bird, Garuda. I died several times against it. The problem is that he casts Thunder on the entire party, and it does about 500 damage per character. My best spell for healing is just Cure 2, which only heals 100, maybe 200 HP per character, if it's used on the party. So, it doesn't take long before he kills you.

I went back to a previous save (when I got to the castle-town, which you can't leave until you beat it, I saved in the...

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feeds@yuku.com (TWEETER911) — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 18:58:40 GMT

Killed the third boss in Rune Factory (Harvest Moon with fighting...), and Spring has come around again. I couldn't plant anything in the field during Winter due it being covered in snow, but the caves where the badguys are have plots of land to till and grow on, so I grew a shitload of onions in the third cave. Used the money from that to upgrade my house.

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feeds@yuku.com (Crawl and 1OOO) — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 17:52:06 GMT

I finally made some progress in Final Fantasy 3. I was ready and prepared to change to every class to try to interact with those objects in Goldar's (sp?) mansion. However, in one room, I thought I noticed that one brick in the wall looked different than the others. I walked up to it ... and walked through it! I though I had already tried that, but apparently not.

The boss at the end of that dungeon wasn't too tough. He, again, theoretically could have killed one of...

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feeds@yuku.com (Flying Omelette) — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 23:30:59 GMT

Made it through the sewers of Empire Southtown and Arrived in Northtown.

One thing curious about this game's "Sewer Dungeon" is that it doesn't quite follow the normal sewer dungeon cliche, where you walk on one side of the room and see a ledge on the other side and know you'll eventually wind around to it. It's much more straightforward, like a miniature version of a palace without any puzzles.

Anyway, I'm still not sure about that spinning...

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feeds@yuku.com (Captain Ladd Spencer) — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 17:21:55 GMT

I started on Volume 4/Season 5 of Family Guy. It's actually a little funnier than the other seasons, but I'm still watching most of it stone faces. Also, Peter's said "shit" and "fuck", and Lois as given a camera the finger - did they air that on television?

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feeds@yuku.com (Lord Vyce) — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 11:41:45 GMT

I got the Gamecube version of Twilight Princess so I replay it now (already finished it on Wii). I just beat the King Kong boss dungeon with the magnetic boots and shit. Weird how everything's reversed from the Wii version. 0o

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feeds@yuku.com (CLOUDBOND007) — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 00:57:34 GMT

Somewhat related, according to Wikipedia, there's a prototype of the US version of Illusion of Gaia. I've seen the file floating around. It's got a title screen that reads "Soul Blazer: Illusion of Gaia". Also according to Wikipedia, there's a programmer's room or something in Terranigma where one of the people refers to the game as Illusion of Gaia 2.

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feeds@yuku.com (CLOUDBOND007) — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 23:32:41 GMT

Trying to walk past those statues also (like the swamp, before I got the magical shoes) results in an instant death.

You've got too much fear in your heart, Crawl. And you got a face full of laser beams for it. Fantasia is doomed.

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feeds@yuku.com (Crawl and 1OOO) — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 23:12:48 GMT

I haven't been playing for the past few nights. There isn't a particular reason why. I was sort of stuck the last time I tried Final Fantasy 3, though. I was able to open the locked doors in the mansion either with magic keys, or by having a character turn into a thief and having that character in the lead position. Inside those rooms were either golden statues, books, or nothing. None of those things seemed to do anything. I thought maybe it was necessary to use another job to...

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feeds@yuku.com (Flying Omelette) — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 22:24:47 GMT

Fire Palace is complete.

Oops! I had forgotten all about the Midge Mallet. It's not terribly useful, but I went back for it anyway. Guess I'm ready to go onto to the Empire now.

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feeds@yuku.com (Crawl and 1OOO) — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 20:44:26 GMT

I did think the action stages were slow-paced (I mentioned that in my one minute review), which would be consistent with calling the controls "clunky".

I don't think I could say I "loved" the simulation stages, but it was an interesting idea, I guess, and even in execution was better than Sim City (which I've also mentioned).

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feeds@yuku.com (CLOUDBOND007) — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 20:18:42 GMT

Yeah. I just beat it. The first time I refought the bosses, I wasted my magic too quickly and didn't even make it to the final boss. I was kind of rushing. Second time, I played more carefully, beating most of the bosses by watching their patterns. Most of those patterns I hadn't even learned originally since I killed every boss with magic the first time I fought them. The only ones I used magic on this time were the wheel thing and the ice bird. I continued to use the shooting star...

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feeds@yuku.com (Crawl and 1OOO) — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 19:52:56 GMT

Yeah, I think if you had started the game just a little earlier last night, you could have finished the game in a day.

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feeds@yuku.com (CLOUDBOND007) — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 15:48:05 GMT

Finished Kasandora. The action stage are getting easier and easier. It almost feels like cheating to use the shooting star on bosses. But that won't stop me from using those holy meteors of death and doom.

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And now I've finished Aitos and I'm up to the simulation part of Marahna. I've taken a little break to cure the plague in Kasandora and to upgrade the buildings in every town.

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Finished Marahna and Act 1 of Northwall. Every...

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feeds@yuku.com (CLOUDBOND007) — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 14:03:27 GMT

Finished Bloodpool. Is that whole action section supposed to be a tribute to the Castlevania games? I'm up to the first action stage of the desert area. I can't seem to do anything more in Bloodpool until I can make the people stop fighting eachother.

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feeds@yuku.com (Flying Omelette) — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 06:36:16 GMT

Captain Ladd Spencer wrote:
FO forgot about Curly in Magic of Scheherezade in that nudity article.

Also, I don't think those are moles on Alex's butt, but dimples.

Noted and fixed. Thanks.

As for SoM oddities, I think that swirling brown thing in Empire Northtown is supposed to be the sewer. I know it was in an enclosure when you exit it,...

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feeds@yuku.com (CLOUDBOND007) — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 00:40:24 GMT

I wonder what Bloodpool's tourism slogan would be.

Visit Bloodpool- Not quite as deadly as it sounds!

Bloodpool- At least it's not Camden!

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feeds@yuku.com (Captain Ladd Spencer) — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 00:02:23 GMT

FO forgot about Curly in Magic of Scheherezade in that nudity article.

Also, I don't think those are moles on Alex's butt, but dimples.

As for SoM oddities, I think that swirling brown thing in Empire Northtown is supposed to be the sewer. I know it was in an enclosure when you exit it, but...

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feeds@yuku.com (CLOUDBOND007) — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 22:59:06 GMT

Yeah, I should have added "so far".

GAME progress topic BETA 3.0

feeds@yuku.com (TWEETER911) — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 17:58:20 GMT

HA HA! Beat you to it this time! RapscallionBond009! 171 posts is more than enough for you.

Creamed the Dragon in EO. He was a total joke compared to pretty much...uh...nearly every other major boss. I only saw him do 3 things. Volt Breath, Corruption, and Normal Attack. I can counter each of these easily. Volt Bolt gets nulled by LV5 AntiVolt, Corruption...