In my opinion the people who think that the Wii sucks just say these kind of things because they just played “Wii Sports” or some shit like: “Wii Fit” and not one of the real games like: “Super Smash Bros. Brawl” or one of this games where you can say: “This game sucks so much ass, it’s hard and I died so much that I don’t want to play it anymore. But why the fuck am I loving this game so much?!” Monster Hunter Tri is exactly one of this games which make you feel good, make you cry, make you go mad, make you cry and the make you feel happy in the end, until you go to bed and start crying again. In this order. No exceptions. But now let’s start with the review of a game which make me cry. Not because I’m happy or even sad. Just because it makes me frustrated. The last time I felt this frustrated was when I tried to beat Batman from the 1989 for the NES. Yes.. tried.
The story is told fast: You are a professional Monster Hunter who arrived at the Moga village after a earthquake which feared the villagers and chased away the monsters. You have to complete quests to rebuild the village parts which were destroyed from the earthquake. To rebuild the village and things you have to gather resource points which you can earn by defeating minion monsters and find some resources You have to hunt down the monsters to become more popular in the Monster Hunter scene so you can visit more places and get more quests.
The places in Monster Hunter are very linear. You have a range of areas in one place like the Moga forest. It has like twelve areas in which you can collect resources and hunt monsters. There a a few areas like a desert, a jungle or a volcano which you can visit and collect some items and resources. Monster Hunter has also a combine function in the game. You can combine some items and resources to create more useful items for example you can combine a herb and a mushroom to create a potion or you can combine a stone and a bone to create pick for mining. You also can use this resources to upgrade your weapon or create new armor. There are a few types of weapons like: Sword & Shield, Lance, Longsword etc., which you can upgrade by farming resources from the environment or eviscerate monsters. Each weapon has a different movement set. You have to test every weapon and find your personal favorite.
You have some useful extras to make things easier. The village has a farm which you can use to grow: mushrooms, insects or herbs so you don’t have to collect them in the forest. You also can send out a fleet of fisherman to get some fish which you can use instead of potions.
The real challenge in the game is to defeat the boss monsters. After a short time in which you complete resource quests and defeating some minions, the village elder tells you that the earthquake chased away the big monsters which now coming back slowly. This are the real enemies in the game. To defeat this boss monster you have to use every hunting item which you can get. Traps, explosive barrels, decoy and other stuff. You have to act fast and with strategy to defeat them. The developers will sure have tried to animate you with the chance of hunt down these monsters but you’ll have more depressing moments than after your girlfriend cheats on you with your best friend, your dad, your teacher, the plumper and your mom, just to come back to you and beg for a fourth chance. These bosses kills you with like three hits. Yeah three hits. The problem with the fights is not that these monsters are to hard. When you realized their movement and attack pool they’re just a piece of cake. The hardest enemy in this game is not even the control which become familiar after you discovered your favorite weapon. No, it’s the character itself. After every action he make, drink a potion, eat a steak, whet his weapon, the character makes an annoying pose or movement which costs very important seconds and sure after the lose of the seconds a huge amount of health and increasing the chance of throwing your Wii Mote or controller against the wall or in the TV. But the thrill when you challenge one of these monsters is high enough to do it over and over again… Okay in fact you were forced to face them for like every time you enter the forest. For now it was always the thing when you defeat a boss monster in the quest, it will return to the forest so you have to face like two of them at one day. It sucks, but we’re cool with this.
The graphic is.. okay. I’ve seen better but for the Wii it’s awesome. The monsters are very detailed same for the environment and the NPCs. The effects are cool too and when you defeat one of the real monsters, you can unlock a cut scene which shows the monster in it’s natural habitat. These are awesome movies with very good rendering. The cut scenes look like PS3 graphic. I’m a bit sad about that this game isn’t released on the PS3. (They mentioned the to high costs for developing on the PS3) I don’t have a PS3 because I’m Nintendo fan but I would play it somewhere with my friends.
There is also the possibility to play online together with other people. You can complete quests, trade with NPCs (and can buy potions and the “Switch-Axe” very early in the game) and chat with other people. The possibility to collect items online and bring them back to your village in the offline mode is a nice feature. You can bring back: weapons, money and items. You can sure play in the two player mode but only in the arena where you can only defeat those real monsters with pre-build characters, which sucks after a short time because you get better equip and the pre-build equip remains as it is.
In my homing opinion this game is quiet good. When you managed to master the control of this game it is really funny. There some more aspects of the game I like and dislike but it’s better to play it. It’s a little bit like the NDS title “Rune Factory” but a huge way cooler. A quiet good game worth to play. And there is no more satisfaction after you fight for like twenty long minutes in fear and adrenalin against a boss monster which is like 50 ft. long and 16 ft. high and finally after it collapse and lies before your feet, in the dust where it belongs, take a piss on it’s face, scratching your nuts, smoking some of the strange weed which grows under the stone next to you, while you screaming out loud: “Eat this bitch! Don’t fuck with me!”. It’ll make you feel like you’ve just had the best sex in your whole life. And that’s worth it. Believe me.
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Hi guys,
Currently we are discussing about the future of our blog, so new posts, as you noticed, are getting rare (And of course, we are f**king lazy). There IS a great chance that the TPIIAC blog will be shutdown for eternity, but also on the other side, we could get this blog to cloud 9 with a new member.
At the end of the discussion we will decide what to do, and finally done, I’ll post my review about 4 days of gamescom 2010 in Cologne. Look forward to it!
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You know when I was a youngster, my mum started to play those awesome games which are called Roleplay Games. I watched her playing this games and was impressed of the story and I even felt sorry when a important character died. I don’t exactly know when, but when I get my PSOne I’ve found a masterpiece of gaming. It was about dragons, magic and a party which conquered a place in my heart for ever. It is Breath of Fire 3.
The story is epic but simple. Breath of Fire takes place in a fantasy/science fiction mixed world where are things like ships, computers, trains and lighthouses but where are the people still fight with swords and magic. Last one is based on a mystic energy or ore which they call chrysm. It’s a fossilized form of dead dragons which unfortunately tried to destroy the world hundreds of years ago. You play as the character Ryu, you can change the name if you want, who is a dragon. On his journey with no memory of who he is, he mets the thieves Rei and Teepo, the princess of Wynda Nina, the daughter of the most famous engineer Momo, the plant,onion thing Peco and the ex-dragon hunter Garr. So Ryu has to remind his memory and tries to find the god of the land to know the true story, why the dragons tried to destroy the world and if this is the truth. A very compelling story with much deepness and sad, happy and funny moments. I could tell you the whole story, but I want you to play this game to so I don’t want to spoil you.
The gameplay is simple. You controll a character from your party from a bird-eye view. Every character performs a special action by pressing the triangle button. Ryu can cut down bushes, Nina swings her magic wand and a sphere of chrysm is shot away, Rei can crack locked doors and chests and so on. The fights are a simple round based battle system. The character with the highest agility starts the round, which usually is Rei, and the slowest ends the round. You can use skills which you can learn by level up or visit masters which can teach you skills. Interesting is the the feature that you can observe your enemy and learn some skills in this way. These skills can be written down into a book and can give to other characters which is very useful because not every character can learn every skill from a monster. A very important feature in the game is Ryu’s ability to transform into a dragon, which is not available at the beginning. You can combine 18 genes together with three genes at a time which is like: 5832 possibilities to combine these genes. Okay most of them make no sense or make you weaker than normal, but hey it’s just a calculation. There’s also a small Sim-City like feature in which you have to help fairies to rebuild their village. There are some other features for which is no room to mention here like: train a guy, fishing and many ore mini-games.
The graphic is quiet good. Nice textures, very cool spell effects, funny monsters and people nice authentic places. The only thing which makes me mad is that the character models in the game do not fit to the character models in the artworks. Especially Nina looks a way different. In the artworks she looks quiet sexy, but in the game she supposed to be wearing an apron, like every woman on gods beautiful world should do.
The sound is awesome. The music rocks and is very atmospheric. Every skill is announced with a shout or quote from the character who use the skill. I love the song from the credits. It’s Pure Again by Akari Kaida & Yoshino Aoki. A very nice song.
In my opinion it’s one of the greatest RPG’s which were ever made and a worthy sequel to Breath of Fire and Breath of Fire 2 and in my opinion the last good game of the series until present day. I love it so much that I finished it like a year ago after a few years of asking myself… do you want to finish the game and end it? In the end the answer was yes, but I really never wanted it to end.
And by the way: There’s a version for the Playstation Portable. So if you are looking for a nice RPG and have a PSP, go and buy Breath of Fire 3.
Howie Guys!
First of: I decided to change the appearance of the rating bar again. Yeah I know: Why do you change it everytime?! Because I can s*cker. But now let’s start the game review.
When I bought my last two DVDs which were: Iron Man and the Incredible Hulk (2008), I realized and rediscover my love for superheroes. Especially the Iron Man. I mean seariously, what is cooler than a man who fights in a mechanic suit, can fly and blow up tanks with his bare hands? Whatever. So I bought me the game: Marvel Superhero Squad for the NDS.
It’s a classic side scrolling arcade Beat ’em up which you can control with the D-Pad. You can choose between the „Avengers“ which are: Thor, Iron Man, Captain America, the Thing, the Silver Surfer, Wolverine, Spider-Man, Invisible Woman, Storm, Hulk and Falcon or as the „Lethal Legion“ which contains: Dr. Doom, Sentinel, Abomination, Loki and Magneto. You see… they really should put in more villains ,for example: Doc Ock or Venom. You choose the mode like campaign and you will be introduced into a story, which is like: Dr. Doom tries to take over the world with a mystic sword and needs to collect some shards for it. The Avenger tries to stop the Lethal Legion from getting any shards. Wow brilliant story. Not… Let’s go on. You can choose three different types of battles. Normal, King of the hill and Time attack.
The game itself is simple, you have two different types of attack an enemy. You can use standard attacks or you can use powerful attacks, which have to charge for like three seconds. You make a different move when you press the D-Pad in any direction so you have like eight moves. With the shoulder buttons you can defend yourself against enemy’s attacks. But every hero has a special move. Yeeeah that’s right a special move. You have to fill up some bars in the touch screen to use the special attack. By touch the button on the touchscreen, you activate it. You have to adjust the range or direction of the attack with the touchscreen so you can hit the enemy. Normal defense can’t stand against these powerful attacks so you have also a special defense. But if you don’t activate it in the right second you’re f*cked up. But every character announce his special attack by a typical catch phrase from the comics or the movies like: Hulk Smash! During the fight some shards will spawn and contain items and power ups, like: Health, a Golden Hammer, a Bow and other stuff. In addition it has a multiplayer mode in which you can fight against other heroes or villains.
The graphic is quiet good for a DS game in 3D. The heroes are in a sort of chibi style, which make them look a little bit childish but still cool. I didn’t expect much but I was surprised how nice and smooth the graphics and the gameplay is. You can compare it to the “Ultimate Spider-Man” DS game.
So my final words: The game is not much in content or story, but it still makes fun. An average game which has much potential which isn’t used. Like in more than 80% of the Nintdeno DS games. Poor poor NDS Games…
