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TWEETER911

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(01/27/08 10:05 PM)

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Beat stage 14 in Advance Wars after being stuck on it for a few days. Not only did I beat it, I bloody S-Ranked it when I did. It all came to me so suddenly, and I realized everything I was doing before I beat it was horribly stupid. So long, Ocelot....erh....Forsythe! Beat stage 15, too. It seemed like it was going to be hard from the enemy layout, but it was quite easy.

Played Ray in a Wifi match yesterday, and I was about to win (strong defense>>>zerg rush), but my wifi konked out. Oh well.

S-G: "Goood morning! How're you?"
Kunagi: "Huh? Didn't I kill you?"
S-G: "NOPE! Nice try though."
Kunagi: "Curses."

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Crawl and 1OOO

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(01/27/08 11:21 PM)

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FO suggested Breath of Fire, so I'll consider playing that game next. I'm not sure where it is, though...

CLOUDBOND007

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(01/27/08 11:43 PM)

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I predict you won't like it.

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TWEETER911

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(01/28/08 12:03 AM)

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CLOUDBOND007 wrote:
I predict you won't like it.

I second this statement.

S-G: "Goood morning! How're you?"
Kunagi: "Huh? Didn't I kill you?"
S-G: "NOPE! Nice try though."
Kunagi: "Curses."

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CLOUDBOND007

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(01/28/08 4:04 AM)

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Finished case #4, Turnabout Beginnings. There was no investigation, only the trial. And I've started the fifth and final case, Bridge to Turnabout.

I've heard this was the best PW game, but I'm not feeling it. There are some things that really annoy me. Mainly how so many of the cases are related... from what I've seen, 1, 4, and 5 are all directly tied together with the same main villain. That gets old REAL quick especially when the villain just isn't that interesting and is obvious from the start. The two "random" cases, while not the best the series has to offer, are at least fun to unravel a little at a time. With case #5, I feel like I know who the villain is, and I'm just waiting for the crime to happen so I can get on with the trial.

Any the trials are a little too difficult for my liking. You have HUGE stretches where you don't get any health restored and some of the pieces of evidence the game wants you to present seem almost impossible to figure out without knowing the whole story in advance. And as always, there are pieces of evidence you could submit that legitimately work but aren't flagged as correct, or you can present the right thing but tie it to the wrong witness statement. This is all true of the other PW games, but it seems much more prevalent here.

Got to see some of Godot's past before the visor thing and before he was a complete coffee maniac, which was sort of interesting, but didn't explain much. And the prequel case I just finished had Edgeworth as your opponent, but even he didn't seem as interesting as usual.

I'm not so worried about whether Apollo Justice is going to be good anymore. I'll play it eventually, but I think I'm getting bored with the series.

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TWEETER911

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(01/28/08 5:21 AM)

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"Apollo" kinda sucks from what I hear from the grapevine.

S-G: "Goood morning! How're you?"
Kunagi: "Huh? Didn't I kill you?"
S-G: "NOPE! Nice try though."
Kunagi: "Curses."

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Flying Omelette

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(01/28/08 1:12 PM)

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TWEETER911 wrote:

CLOUDBOND007 wrote:
I predict you won't like it.

I second this statement.

I'm not expecting it will become one of his favorite games, but I would be really surprised if he flat out disliked or hated it. I think at the worst he'd feel it's only okay. At the best, he'd think it's a good game. That's why I suggested it because I'm curious to know. If I had to take my best guess, I think he'll rank it somewhere between EarthBound and The Magic of Scheherazade, he might like it more than Secret of Mana, but he won't like it as much as he did Might & Magic.

It's gotta be at least better than Breath of Fire 3, which he did finish. And I don't think he'd like Breath of Fire 2 more for the reasons people usually give for liking it more than BoF1. That's one of the problems I think with so many people saying BoF2 is the best one in the series - some people will play it first, will be underwhelmed by it, and then won't give the first one a chance because they hear it's "not as good" or "worse" or whatever.

Think of what you're saying,
You can get it wrong
And still you think that it's all right.
Think of what I'm saying,
We can work it out
And get it straight or say good night.

There is a house in New Orleans
They call the Rising Sun
And it's been the ruin of many a poor boy
And God, I know I'm one

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(01/28/08 2:07 PM)

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That's why I'm more likely to listen to FO about this.

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TaroSH

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(01/28/08 8:16 PM)

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TWEETER911 wrote:
"Apollo" kinda sucks from what I hear from the grapevine.

The game or the character?

Crawl and 1OOO

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(01/28/08 10:07 PM)

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Using common sense, I'd say the game, or both. I mean, if someone was talking about Pokemon, and someone else said, "Pokemon sucks!", they probably aren't referring specifically to the species.

Anyway, FO found Breath of Fire for me (and a good thing, too, because I somehow overlooked it). I spent a little bit of time leveling up. The first time I visited the nearby castle / dungeon, I died, because I hadn't bought any healing items, and was poisoned. On my next trip, I realized I still probably did not need to die, because that area has fountains that completely heal you. Oh, well.

I skipped the sword in the first town, but saved enough to buy the best armor. Even that was probably unnecessary. The dungeon has pretty good armor, and the enemies there give much more experience and gold than those in the overworld. When I beat the boss, I gained two levels.

I saved at the town you have to "Metal Gear Solid" through.

Crawl and 1OOO

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(01/28/08 11:23 PM)

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I made it to the dungeon in that town. It takes you to hell. I pretty much, by sheer accident, went straight to the boss, and little did I know that beating him would destroy the whole town, dungeon and all. So, I didn't get to fully explore it.

The boss battle was pretty close. He only took very little damage from my attacks, and I was running out of curing items by the end (I had either 1 herb, or zero, and also a more powerful cure item)

After that, I went to Winlan. I started playing as Nina, and saved for the night.

It's probably too early for opinions, but damn if this game isn't very NES-like. The graphics are obviously grid based. When you're at the top of Winland, the sky is solid blue (contrast that with Secret of Mana, which had parallax in the Loft Mountain). And the encounter rate is high.

You also play as one character for a while, which is not necessarily NES-like, but might be reminiscent of the first couple of Dragon Warriors (and Earthbound, for that matter)

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(01/29/08 1:45 AM)

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Case 5 is starting out a lot better than I feared. Right now, I'm playing as Edgeworth... substitute defense attorney! Because Phoenix is incapacitated.

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Psycho Penguin

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(01/29/08 4:35 AM)

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I'm three hours into Arc the Lad. Really liking it so far.

In FF3 for DS, I'm about to face ****ing Garuda. Ugh.

Game Progress: Suikoden, Xenosaga 2, Seiken Densetsu 3

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Kairobi King

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(01/29/08 1:46 PM)

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Replaying Castlevania: Symphony of the Night and I'm exploring the inverted castle right now.

~ Kairobi King ~

Crawl and 1OOO

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(01/29/08 11:40 PM)

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I played a little more Breath of Fire. I started as Nina, went through a short cave, went through a forest, and made it to a wizard's tower. It was a little confusing at first, because it has several floors and stairs between the floors, and it seemed like I was going in circles. What it turns out you have to do, though, is fall through the correct one-way hole. I missed that because I first fell through the wrong one, which sends you back to the beginning of the tower, and must have thought, "Well, I guess I don't want to fall down a hole again" rather than the more logical, "Well, this being a videogame, there obviously are right and wrong holes there."

Anyway, I made it to the wizard and couldn't damage it at all. I just kept fighting, and it turned out that it's one of those fights where you can't win. I took control of Ryu, who will have to rescue Nina, and saved and quit. My eyes are getting fatigued, though I guess it's late enough that I should have quit in any case.

CLOUDBOND007

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(01/30/08 4:14 AM)

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I'm pretty far into the last case in PW3, but it's a long one. It's been pretty mixed in terms of entertainment.

Anyway, I was reading some Apollo Justice spoilers, which I'm assuming to be real because I've seen the same thing several times on different sites. If you want to see what apparently happens with Phoenix, highlight to read, it's kind of depressing.

He supposedly uses fabricated evidence during a case and gets himself disbarred a couple months after the end of the 3rd game. I guess he was tricked into presenting the evidence, but whatever the case, I guess he's now a gambler/piano player that can play one song. So they kind of ruined his life for this new game.

Oh, and here's some goofy Youtube thing I stumbled upon (slightly NSFW):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ofo6_Rp_e44&feature=related

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(01/30/08 6:58 AM)

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made it to a wizard's tower. It was a little confusing at first, because it has several floors and stairs between the floors, and it seemed like I was going in circles. What it turns out you have to do, though, is fall through the correct one-way hole. I missed that because I first fell through the wrong one, which sends you back to the beginning of the tower...

well crap, that sounds exactly like the witch's tower in BOF2, except it's a witch's not wizard's.
i predict crawl will kinda like it 'cause he's a furry in denial.
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romancing saga 3:
noticed something funny. if i equip a silk shirt on a male character, his charisma drops by 10 points. japs hate guys who wear silk? well crap, i personally have a couple of faux-silk shirts.

in katarine's quest, i killed gwanye the dragon just for the heck of it. i think i got 10000 creds for that. according to the endings spoiler, i was only suppose to try to kill him after he destroys the small village. the dragon was suppose to be the ex-pet of the holy king. whatever. gwayne was probably the toughest battle i fought since the lich(it keeps summoning progressively more powerful cronies to surround it) in dead men's well. i could only beat him in commander mode where my team(robin:epee/wind & sun magic, harid:sword, poet:mace/fighting(kung fu), ellen:fighting, thomas:spear/water & moon magic) auto-regens each round, and i get to access all my healing stuff in my inventory. used up all my healing items for that battle.

killed some fishy murderers in an inn ambush in vanguard. found out there were soliders of the demon forneus(sp?) or whoever he is. for some reason, the heroes and the mayor think the best way beat those fishies is to make the town move, 'cause that was what the holy king built the town for. fighting fishy demons with a moving(maybe flying too?) town powered by a dolphin statue? no, don't get it. anyways, i have to go find that dolphin statue which should be in black's hidden treasure place. had to kick out thomas so i could use herman to lead me to the treasure.

herman's secret identity is black. according to character faq, he learns axe techs better than ellen and he starts with high skill in wind magic like robin, but he only gets decent stats after defeating forneus and regaining his youth. don't think i need another wind magic user and my ellen is already quite powerful with an 8WP cost fighting tech. don't wanna spend money researching/buying a better axe for him either. maybe i'll replace poet with this guy once i manage to close an abyss gate. poet is already quite powerful with group-attacking earthquake mace tech,but his HP isn't increasing as fast as ellen, mace techs(and weapons) seem to be the weakest of all weapons, mace attacks seem to be only super-effective against undead, and he doesn't start with magic and high JP like herman/black and robin.

buying magic and spending time training up (in magic) for someone who doesn't start with any magic is tedious and expensive as hell. already spent thousands on thomas' magic spells, and poet's intel is only 13. since RS3 have separate slots for physical techs and magic spells(unlike saga frontier), any character who trains in both magic and whatever weapon skill should be even more powerful(or at least more durable) than a saga frontier character(also trained in techs/magics).

poet refuses to leave (probably)because he doesn't have enough inspiration(closing an abyss gate) to write another song. char faq said i could hear/read a new song from him about me once i kick him out after closing a gate. the easiest abyss gate should be the one i visited at devil king's palace. i think one of the boss enemies i tried to fight holds the key. could not beat it the last time i was there. don't think i should try it again until i have around 400 or 500 HP for most of my team.

there's another event which popped up after i killed gwanye and entered zweig. some black car runs me over every time i visit that town. the event says "kill dragon machine"(guess that's the car). maybe the crazy dancing professor who lives in the woods west of zweig has something to do with this.

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