I remember how fullfilling it was back in the 80´s when I first finished the original Metroid for NES. Only Team Ninja´s Ninja Gaiden nearly 20 years later has succeeded in creating such a sense of accomplishment.
Today I finished Metroid Prime: Hunters for the Nintendo DS and it took 14 hours and 51 minutes and completed 82% of the game. Of course I unlocked ALL the videos and the good ending is cool (faithful to Metroid traditions).
Go Samus!
Today I got my first win in Mario Kart DS. Unfortunately it was a shared first place with 28 points against three players. Also it didn´t feel as good as it did in Metroid Prime: Hunters.
And now for more wins... time to play.8)
I finally did it! After playing for 11:36:49 and 01:34:38 of that time on Wi-Fi getting my ass kicked over and over again, I finally achieved my very first win in Metroid Prime: Hunters. It was in Combat Hall against a guy (or gal) ranked with a single red star just like me.
Damn I´m good!:)
Here in central Finland Castlevania Portrait of Ruin for the Nintendo DS can cost up to 59 euros. For this reason I decided to wait for a couple of weeks and ordered the same game as a US version from Play-Asia.com. Game arrived yesterday and it costed 31 euros.
Hail to online shopping!:)
My laptop PC died a week ago which means that in the future my contributions to GameSpot will temporarily be less frequent than before.
But in the future coming up: reviews for Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time and Tetris DS.:)
I got Spectrobes on April 2nd as a birthday present from my mother and today, less than a week later, I finished it. Still I'm pleased in the game since it took me 32 hours to get through. I strongly hope that there will be a sequel somewhere in the future.
But the real kicker here is this: I think the game was great, but according to some it's just a piece of crap when compared to Pokemon. Since Pokemon Pearl and Diamond are on their way to Nintendo DS my hopes are VERY high.
Iku ze! :D
March 5th I ordered one copy of New Super Mario Bros. for Nintendo DS from a finnish online store. Today I finally fed up, cancelled my order and bought the game in a large market near my house.:|
New Super Mario Bros. is exactly what I expected it to be: a quality 2D side-scroller which brings back those loved memories from 80`s. My weekend is going to be great with this game.
Expect to see my review of New SMB in a few weeks.:)
Nintendo DS game LostMagic got good reviews and it sounded interesting. Game also looked good and had an interesting story along with an innovative use of DS´s touch screen.
All this potential and then everything was wasted in time limits and inability to play previous missions again in order to gain higher experience points (look my review of it for more details).
I'm pissed to LostMagic: I really, REALLY wanted to like it and enjoy my very first RPG on Nintendo DS. Someone should have told me that LostMagic is not an RPG: it's an RTS.
So sad.:cry:
When I was a kid back in the 80´s games were bought like this: you looked at the cover and hoped for the best. Quite often the game was crap, but because it had been so expensive I didn't dare to say it to my parents. So I just suffered quietly and played that awful game a lot more than it would have otherwise deserved.:evil:
If the game was good then it was also a bad thing: I played it several hours at a time so I also finished it pretty quickly. So according to my parents their money was thrown away, because the game was over so fast. For this reason I had to play that good game through multiple times before I dared to tell my parents that by the way: I finished it.
This may be one more reason why us NES kids have such warm memories about Super Mario Bros., Zelda, Mega Man and Metroid: They were good games, but also lenghty enough to have a long lasting value.:|
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