The Nintendo DS thread v.2

I thought partners in Time was alot of fun. It’s a little on the easy side though.

FFTA2 is fucking awesome. I’m finally taking a break after roughly a day and a half of straight playing to say such.

How easy is it? moreso or less than FFTA? Same?

Thus far, I’d say it’s a bit harder. There’s also a Hard difficulty you can select right off the bat if you really want a challenge.

I guess I’ll have to look for a used copy then.

…good luck: the game came out yesterday AND it’s really good. A bit deeper than before because of Opportunity Chance attacks and other perks/deficits.

I should have selected Hard instead.:sweat:

Luminous Arc wasn’t a real game. It’s slow and the characters didn’t take the game seriously enough to make the game any better. It looked good to start, but not even the voice overs saved ime from dropping it to play other games.

Drone Tactics is the same way. Hard mode is laughably easy and the story is… well.

The basis of the story is that you’re a bunch of bug-loving kids who one day after school go to a hill to look at bugs, when suddenly they start talking to you. E-gads it turns out they’re ALIENS, and they want you to come to their planet to save them. Being japanese and crazy you decide to go along, but once you’re there you’re attacked by THE DARK SWARM a race of crazy evil bugs bent on destroying the world… or something. Anyway your talking-bug friends from their microscopic size hand you A MASTER CARD which after you touch the bugs with it turns them into GIANT FUCKING ROBOTS.

Usually I wouldn’t care if the story was that ridiculous as I like a good challenge, I had picked hard mode. So I skipped the tutorial and went straight into the first map, whereupon I used one unit to walk up to all the enemies and used one attack option to kill them all in a hit.

Well. It’s the first map, so maybe that’s okay. Well, the same thing happened on the 2nd and 3rd maps, and on the fourth map I couldn’t kill one last unit, whereupon I used the seven other units I had to kill that one. Yeah…

The game is simple. There’s no strategy, depth, or anything.

The only good thing about the game is that the combat appears in 3d combat on the top screen. That’s kind of cool. Oh, and you can change the colors of your units, which was more fun than the combat.

As soon as I beat PoRuin I’m going to go balls deep into FFTA2.

You lucky SOB; I have to wait until tomorrow afternoon to get my copy.

How is it?

PoR is awesome:tup: Master the Shuriken as quickly as possible; it takes down bosses like they’re nothing.

I’m going to have to third to tell you that Luminous Arc is bull-shit. You might as well smash your hand in a door; it’s way more entertaining.

I haven’t played DT, but the reviews and the sound-offs about the game here sound very similar. Success Corp has done better work, and this doesn’t sound like it.

Well I don’t expect to find one now, just that I’ll keep an eye out for it.

like RONDO OF SWORDS

Rondo of Swords is still shit!

why is there so much Luminous Arc Hate going on. Is the new game that bad?

Pretty much. Success Corp’s contribution to the SRPG genre is good now. Good enough to pick out the quality titles from the mediocre “Shut your kids up” titles they produce. Even thought it is two or so games in the DS category. 360 wise: they are one of the companies exploring the online fighting in this genre. I’ll expect more when Success Corp allows Atlus to bring more of their titles here.

I couldn’t stand LA. At first, I TRIED. But it FAILED me. You’re bantering with the Final Boss about Marriage? How the hell does that work? I have other reasons, but I’m at work now. Can’t say them all.

Kyojin: FFTA-2 so far, so good. Squaresoft has done alot of things right here(getting rid of dead/KO characters off map). One thing that bothers me is the typo and how they seemed to let it slip. Or was this intentional. There is a typo in the game and they have proven to me that this was intentional by putting it in the instruction manual. Outside of that, I’m enjoying it. Some of the new features are amazing.

It’s not terrible at first, but it slowly starts to sink in after you play it more and more. You literally spend half the god-damn game watching, yes watching, typical anime stereotypes banter on about their feelings and other bull-shit diatrobs; you can’t even skip it!

Honestly, there ar at least a dozen better ttitles of the same genre that are much better.

Rondo of Swords has started to peak my interest; I’m looking at it more and more with interest. Of course, there is no PAL release date to speak of, but I’m coming back to Canada soon, so maybe I’ll find a cheap, used copy by then.

What’s the typo, Jack?

I can’t believe I haven’t went out and gotten my copy of FFTA2 yet. I mean, I have the money to go get it but I also want to go to AE next week. I’ll probably end up with a used copy also, since it’ll be a little less cheaper I think.

That’s good to hear.

One thing that turned me off immediately about FFT-A was that magic was instant and didn’t require any charge time(at least for low level spells, I never stuck with the game to see if it was the same for high level spells). Is it the same in T-A2, or do we have old school FFT charge times back?

yeah, i got FFTA2 yesterday as well. I sat down to just “check it out” cuz i had gone to work on less than 6 hours of sleep, almost threw up at the gym, chilled with my pops for a minute and hit the nerd havens.
2 hours later it was 130am…
here we go again.

the main character is hot

and so is A2!!!

Magick. The characters say it that way. The manual has it in there, too. I might have to call Square Enix about it unless I see it in their site for the game. :rofl:

Have to look at that again. The beginning spells are still under 10 from what I have seen. And you get like 10 MP to start with.

TRAVIS is SLACKING.

Actually, FFTA was harder than Luminous Arc. At least I can see my deformed-looking party in LA.

I’m on the fence on the fact that S-E didn’t go 2-D/3-D with FFTA-2 as they did with FFT. They do have the technology to even bring FFT to this system. Don’t think I’ll need the view, to find characters in a crowded map, since I have a stylus to use. The stylus can only be used for that. The rest of the game isn’t too stylus friendly(for now). Probably because this feature was originally not intended, by S-E, to be in FFTA-2.