aspro said:

I've heard nothing bad about this game at all, it seems like they've hit it out of the park on their first try.  I do wonder how much of the praise comes from aspirational game reviewers though (as in, "see, Greg made it, I could do that, I could totally do that").

The other thing I find amazing is that in every instance they call the narration "innovative".  Clearly none of these people have played a sports game in the last 4 years.  The "narration" in MLB The Show, for example is absolutely incredible in terms of the quickness in which a relevant comment is pulled and played (and the depth of comments so you don;t get hardly any repetition).

Don't you know? No matter how innovative it is nothing in a sports game can be referred to as innovative by the media beyond the context of its own genre. It's like calling a Wii game good, but not following it by "for a Wii game".

aspro said:

Yeah, there is a lot of craft that goes into them.  But what can you do?  It's the same with deep sim racers -- "Huh, yeah, looks pretty".

I kinda meant that that's basically BS.

Foolz said:

aspro said:

Yeah, there is a lot of craft that goes into them.  But what can you do?  It's the same with deep sim racers -- "Huh, yeah, looks pretty".

I kinda meant that that's basically BS.

Madworld had funny commentary too.

Foolz said:

I kinda meant that that's basically BS.

Yeah I know. We are on the same page.

An average game to me is one that breaks no new ground. It does nothing to distinguish itself. A game that is competant, and worth the money paid for it, but not worth recommending.

Your original comment was

aspro said:

"Pretty average" is the way to describe it, even at the time.

And then you explained average.

Aspro said:

An average game to me is one that breaks no new ground. It does nothing to distinguish itself. A game that is competant, and worth the money paid for it, but not worth recommending.

There is were the problem lies. Average it itself does not mean anything. Some would say that an average game is a good game seeing as the metacritic average of all games is around 70%. Others might think an average game is not good or bad. Or the average game is crap and so on.

What is an average secretary, or an average student? An unremarkble student/secretary? What if all the students are remarkble and weird, would that mean that an average student is remarkable?Solving this is easy, to using average to decribe things. Or in your case

aspro said:

" competent but unremarkable" is the way to describe it, even at the time.

Now don't get me started on art.

Carpe Fulgur's (dudes who localised Recettear) next game looks pretty interesting. Skip to 1m8s.


Their just released one, Chantelise, seems crap to me, while this looks like Recettear meets Princess Crown.

A game that deserves a '10' almost more than any other. It is quite literally the closest to a perfect game I have ever played yet.

Iga_Bobovic said:

edgecrusher said:

Iga_Bobovic said:

^And don't forget that in 2007 Mario Galaxy came out and pimped slapped all other platformers like Yamauchi pimped slapped Iwata after losing his $500,000,000 in a single day and then cutting has salary in half. No one messes with Yamauchi.

Who cut who in half?

Iwata's salary is half what it used to be.

Good....that's all he deserves. Is the other half now going to Yamauchi?

WTF is going on here? In Austrailia if you get the first print of Xenblade you get a free soundtrack CD.

Now in France if your order early you can get a free art book.

Here in England? Nothing but that red CC that you have to pay for.

BTW I got my Ocarina of time CD in the mail from the 3ds game. It's the MIDI 3ds music with that one orchestral track at the end. I think it would be better to get the Zelda big band CD from Japan.

Your latest sneaky way to get a 3DS now and grab the price drop

I'm not too sure I would feel right doing this myself, but I know there are plenty of people that wouldn't mind going for this method. I'm not here to judge, just to provide info! This latest method involves Best Buy.




- Best Buy has a 30-day price guarantee



- this means that if the price drops within 30 days of your purchase they will credit you the difference



- purchase a 3DS now for $250 and connect to eShop prior to August 12th to qualify for the 20 free games



- after price drop, take your receipt to Best Buy and get your $80 back




From my understanding, Best Buy is aware of the price drop and doesn't take issue with those that go for this deal.

GamesTM review scores



PlayStation Move Ape Escape – 3


Dynasty Warriors Gundam 3 – 4


F.3.A.R. – 6


From Dust – 7


Magic: The Gathering – Duels of the Planeswalkers 2012 – 7


Major League Baseball 2K11 – 7


Phantom Breaker – 6


Puzzle Agent 2 – 5


Red Faction: Armageddon – 6


Resident Evil The Mercenaries 3D – 5


Solatorobo: Red The Hunter – 6


The Tiny Bang Story – 7


Trenched – 7


Wii Play Motion – 6

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