So I joined a new text based MMO, Unlike hollow (Which will be leaving the set of links to the right there due to being shit), Achaea Is actually a pretty intense MUD. I have started to fall in love with it. Partly because I found out that Jesters can learn to graffiti on walls and also conjure itchy powder by throwing gold into the air.
I just had my first propper battle outside of the tutorial. And I just thought I would share it, because no matter how Serious and well written an MUD is, it still falls flat on its face.
A common red admiral butterfly flits about over your head.
Most common of butterflies, the red admiral is nonetheless a specimen of delicate beauty. Swirling black patterns adorn its bright ruby wings, pleasing the eye with their symmetry. A red admiral butterfly looks weak and feeble.
You thrust your arm out in a quick jab at a red admiral butterfly.You connect!
A red admiral butterfly reaches out and lightly cuts you.
You thrust your arm out in a quick jab at a red admiral butterfly.You connect!You have slain a red admiral butterfly, retrieving the corpse.
I then set about trying to figure out how to loot the corpses of dead butterflies.
Spore (NDS)
Note that what I am say in this review has nothing to do with the PC version of the game, which I have full conifidence wont suck out loud.
Spore On the DS is a very average game. The main problem being is what I was hoping for was a game which was very wide open and had a lot of sandboxy type features. What I got was a story driven linier game, where the only decisions I get to make is what pieces Im going to stick onto my creature. But even this wont be to amazing, since obviously youl only want to put on the pieces which do the awesomest. The game doesnt move through the ages like the PC game does. Its stuck in the early creature period. So it starts at the crawling out of the water part and doesnt progress much further than that. Its also a collection game, so that makes it a bit fun. But to be honest. After playing it for two days I was already moving back to Elite beat agents to whip it on the next hardest difficulties.
Screw Spore on the DS, there are tons of better games out there than this one. Wow. What an unproductive review I just did. Well lets go into some of the things I did like. The style was cool. Even if they were all blatantly 2D. It had a bit of charm. But I think this made Response on the touch screen goofy, so I would be bashing a tree with the stylse for ages before anything would happen. Later on I found out it just took a little patients before the options popped up. Hopefully on PC it will fulfill all my wildest dreams.
Spore On the DS is a very average game. The main problem being is what I was hoping for was a game which was very wide open and had a lot of sandboxy type features. What I got was a story driven linier game, where the only decisions I get to make is what pieces Im going to stick onto my creature. But even this wont be to amazing, since obviously youl only want to put on the pieces which do the awesomest. The game doesnt move through the ages like the PC game does. Its stuck in the early creature period. So it starts at the crawling out of the water part and doesnt progress much further than that. Its also a collection game, so that makes it a bit fun. But to be honest. After playing it for two days I was already moving back to Elite beat agents to whip it on the next hardest difficulties.
Screw Spore on the DS, there are tons of better games out there than this one. Wow. What an unproductive review I just did. Well lets go into some of the things I did like. The style was cool. Even if they were all blatantly 2D. It had a bit of charm. But I think this made Response on the touch screen goofy, so I would be bashing a tree with the stylse for ages before anything would happen. Later on I found out it just took a little patients before the options popped up. Hopefully on PC it will fulfill all my wildest dreams.
The world ends with you
The title of this square enix game first reminded me of that song by the lemon demons. "The world ends with you, confused destroyer of planets."
This game has revived in me the hope that square enix could actually make a decent RPG that was actually ORIGINAL. I doubt there will be a series made out of this game. It is a very good stand alone title. Although to keep the game playable after finishing the main story line it lets you skip back to previous chapters. Playing through the chapters will reveal new stuff which wasn't covered the first time through. So they purposefully leave out some of the answers you may have about the story line, so your sucked into it for another few hours. Just like an episode of lost. Thankfully this game isn't a random encounter game. Your stuck in a city called shibuya. And your main character is a player in a sick and twisted game of life and death. Players get knocked off as the week wears on. You fight these random creatures called noise. So you scan the area, and it reveals noise floating around, which can be destroyed.
Im not gonna go into the story line, because I dont want to ruin it for you. Me and my mates would have a gather fest, and all sit around the screen, reading the screeds and screeds of writing that they constantly spit out. But after finishing the game I really wanted another story driven game. I DO have to admit that this game is very cliche in some of its thoughts. "I need to trust in my friends, if I do, I can do anything." says the big eyed hermafrodite looking boy with big hair.
What this game has over most others is style. It just looks so damn cool. Its got a huge graffiti element to it, which I have a soft spot for.
What this game did have a problem with initially was when you get into a boss battle you generally spend a lot of time talking, and let me tell you, that talking gets frustrating if you have to tap through it for five minutes constantly every time you die and have to restart. Fortunatly after the first boss battle it unlocks the option to just instantly replay. I don't know why it doesn't just give it to you at the beginning like a good little game. Maybe its trying to make you thankful or something.
Wifi is interesting, You can "Mingle" by just leaving your DS on in the mode, itl connect to any other users out in the world and youl get free items and junk. You can also open a store that others can buy from. I didn't do any selling while I played, but I did mingle and got a rare "alien" encounter, what ever that is.
If your starved for something to do on your DS, and your into RPGS, I suggest you get this damn game.
Oh yea, while Im talking about wifi and the DS, I was thinking about it. Pictochat is the biggest waste of space ever, well in NZ and Thailand it is anyway, theres never ANYBODY within range to chat with, no ones ever gonna be looking for other people either, so theres never any chance of swearing at randoms EVER. Now if they could let you connect to pictochat forums for games you have, that would be cool.
Next to be reviewed is gasp, gasp, Spore! For the DS.
This game has revived in me the hope that square enix could actually make a decent RPG that was actually ORIGINAL. I doubt there will be a series made out of this game. It is a very good stand alone title. Although to keep the game playable after finishing the main story line it lets you skip back to previous chapters. Playing through the chapters will reveal new stuff which wasn't covered the first time through. So they purposefully leave out some of the answers you may have about the story line, so your sucked into it for another few hours. Just like an episode of lost. Thankfully this game isn't a random encounter game. Your stuck in a city called shibuya. And your main character is a player in a sick and twisted game of life and death. Players get knocked off as the week wears on. You fight these random creatures called noise. So you scan the area, and it reveals noise floating around, which can be destroyed.
Im not gonna go into the story line, because I dont want to ruin it for you. Me and my mates would have a gather fest, and all sit around the screen, reading the screeds and screeds of writing that they constantly spit out. But after finishing the game I really wanted another story driven game. I DO have to admit that this game is very cliche in some of its thoughts. "I need to trust in my friends, if I do, I can do anything." says the big eyed hermafrodite looking boy with big hair.
What this game has over most others is style. It just looks so damn cool. Its got a huge graffiti element to it, which I have a soft spot for.
What this game did have a problem with initially was when you get into a boss battle you generally spend a lot of time talking, and let me tell you, that talking gets frustrating if you have to tap through it for five minutes constantly every time you die and have to restart. Fortunatly after the first boss battle it unlocks the option to just instantly replay. I don't know why it doesn't just give it to you at the beginning like a good little game. Maybe its trying to make you thankful or something.
Wifi is interesting, You can "Mingle" by just leaving your DS on in the mode, itl connect to any other users out in the world and youl get free items and junk. You can also open a store that others can buy from. I didn't do any selling while I played, but I did mingle and got a rare "alien" encounter, what ever that is.
If your starved for something to do on your DS, and your into RPGS, I suggest you get this damn game.
Oh yea, while Im talking about wifi and the DS, I was thinking about it. Pictochat is the biggest waste of space ever, well in NZ and Thailand it is anyway, theres never ANYBODY within range to chat with, no ones ever gonna be looking for other people either, so theres never any chance of swearing at randoms EVER. Now if they could let you connect to pictochat forums for games you have, that would be cool.
Next to be reviewed is gasp, gasp, Spore! For the DS.
Elite Beat Agents
So I was gonna review games that hadn't come out in NZ yet like The civilization revolution game for the DS, but it was just so dull compared to the olderschool games I found for the DS. Elite Beat Agents is just so rad. It uses the touch screen completely. I guess it could be best described as DDR for the Stylus, although you have more than just up down left right to worry about. And no Annoyingly loud asian styled techno.
I think they borrowed quite a bit of the music from sing star. YMCA, sk8er boy, material girl. Although those are in my opinion, the crappier end of the songs.
They make it rather hard as well. so on normal difficulty you can still get your ass handed to you on a silver dish. You miss a few of the beat button things and your pretty much a gonner.
I got stuck on the last song for so long. I promised myself an icecream when I finished it.. I never got that icecream. tear.. But I did thrash it. then I realized you could unlock more songs the more you played, so I was like omged, lets do this some more.
Then I was single for the rest of my life.
P.s. next time Ill review "The world ends with you" ooooooooooooh.
I think they borrowed quite a bit of the music from sing star. YMCA, sk8er boy, material girl. Although those are in my opinion, the crappier end of the songs.
They make it rather hard as well. so on normal difficulty you can still get your ass handed to you on a silver dish. You miss a few of the beat button things and your pretty much a gonner.
I got stuck on the last song for so long. I promised myself an icecream when I finished it.. I never got that icecream. tear.. But I did thrash it. then I realized you could unlock more songs the more you played, so I was like omged, lets do this some more.
Then I was single for the rest of my life.
P.s. next time Ill review "The world ends with you" ooooooooooooh.
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