Tingle is not gay
He’s manly!
You could say that I recently had an epiphany. For some reason the planets aligned in a certain way and I nearly felt like wearing a green spandex suit, but luckily I only needed to play Tingle’s Rosy Rupeeland for the Nintendo DS to stop this awful craving. I know many of you readers out there are most likely weary of the 35 year old man, but let’s discuss his game for a bit to find out it isn’t all bad.
I don’t like Pokemon anymore
It occured to me that I stopped liking Pokémon a while ago. Sure we all grow up eventually, but it was a big part of my childhood, you know? I was literally part of the first Pokemon generation, if you could call it that. The anime show still rocked, we’d all play the games on our Game Boys, we’d collect the cards even though we had no idea how to play… and we were so excited about the first movie that we went and saw it three times… Pokemon was our world.
The last Pokemon game I finished was Sapphire for the GBA. Recently I tried playing Pokemon Platinum for the DS, but I couldn’t play it anymore. It felt like I had all done it before… Like I was playing the same game for the second time. Sure enough, when you look at the formula behind Pokemon you can tell it’s barely been changed. They’ve only added minor additions such as dual battles and the sort. Of course there isn’t anything wrong with that, but haven’t you been inching to play Pokemon in 3D? I’m talking about a real 3D RPG, much like the 2D games. It worked with Zelda and Mario, so why wouldn’t it work with Pokemon? And no, I don’t mean that Pokemon XD Gale of Darkness shit where you steal them off other trainers only to purify them.
Ugh, the anime pretty much went downhill after people found out it was as shallow as the Zelda CDi games. It’s basically the same deal episode after episode. Ash is on the road and finds a person/pokemon in troube while team Rocket wants to steal Pikachu for the millionth time. Bear in mind that the first season was all right though, especially when you’re younger. The first movie was pretty awesome in that regard as well, but the second and third were a bit worse… and after that it followed the anime downhill where they now both live as homeless people looking for attention. The trading card game I never really cared about, so I can’t vouch for that.
Perhaps I’m getting too old… I see people talk about this IV stuff, but I’ve never even used that before. The biggest addition to the series yet, online, doesn’t excite me either. It almost seems as if Nintendo is becoming lazier and lazier. They release the games like this now:
Release new game in two versions > Release a special third version > Release remake of an earlier game
Don’t take this post too seriously, by the way. It’s just a small rant that’s been on my mind for a while. I’m hoping Soul Silver and Heart Gold will be good since I loved the GBC versions of those. What’s your opinion on this matter? Do you still like Pokémon?
Fallout 3 Review
Wastelanders, vault dwellers, radiated water, mutation… Welcome to post-apocalyptica! The past few weeks I’ve been absolutely hooked on Fallout 3.
It’s a western RPG that takes place in the year 2277. Where in our ‘time’ the cold war ended without much activity, the cold war in Fallout 3 never really ended. Indeed, at breaking point the two super powers of this world, the United States of America and the People’s Republic of China, fired nuclear weapons at each other. The war only lasted two hours, but its effects would be far greater than expected.
Few ‘lucky’ people were invited into Vault-Tec vaults. These underground bunkers would provide a livable area for a select few Americans. At the time of the war, around 2077, the United States had a population of about 300 million. Buidling bunkers for all these people was deemed impossible and thus only 121 or so were built throughout the country. Unlike its original purpose – to keep people safe – the government instead tried doing all kinds of experiments to the people inside the vaults. Some vaults didn’t close properly and were defunct from the begining, while others were never supposed to open even after the war. Even worse, in some vaults the inhabitants were exposed to white-noise brainwashing or psychotic drugs.
Tales of Vesperia Review
Back when I restarted What Goes Here I mentioned something about doing game reviews. Recently a comment made by the lovely hea777 made me reconsider my priorities and I figured, ehh, why not? So without any further ado, my first ‘review’:
One of my favorite games on the Gamecube is Tales of Symphonia. Back in the day the only RPGs I was familiar with were Pokémon and Lufia. Needless to say my knowledge about them was lacking at best. Until one day, a very clear day I might add, I saw the light. Sitting there in the store shelf was Tales of Symphonia. Now, back then I wasn’t really into Anime, but having watched both Dragonball Z and Pokémon, the anime styled boxart peaked my interest. The game was priced at 50 Euros, which was quite steep for a 15 year old student to pay, but with the few funds I had earned stocking shelves like a lifeless robot, I left the shop with a game that would change my views on RPGs forever.
As you may or may not have noticed, Symphonia was – and still is - one of my favorite games for the Gamecube. While the game wasn’t perfect, it had a pretty good balance between action typed RPGs and traditional RPGs. The one thing that really made me love it was the combat system. Unlike Pokémon and Final Fantasy where you have to wait in an unrealistic manner – it’s like waiting to get your hamburger at Burger King -, Tales of Symphonia offers an interactive and fast-paced combat system. Rest assured that when selecting skills or items the game will briefly pause gameplay, so that you can select it at your own pace. The story, while riddled with clichés manages to stay interesting somehow. This is quite a feat considering the game spans two discs combining a total of 40 hours of solid gameplay.
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