Oh, I didn't know every Toad was needed to complete the game.
I played it once or twice for a little while on Desmume. But I could never find every Toad. And even then I don't think I got farther than World 2-3.
The game hadn't come out yet. I canceled a Pre-Order. I got a full refund for In Store Credit. Which works out since it's where I'll be buying my 3DS.
And that's how it works.
The Long Play is about half an hour in length, and it didn't get boring for some reason.
Looks like you can use the Healing Potions before your Hearts run out too.
Depending on if you can manipulate where the enemies spawn, a TAS of this game would be sub 25 minutes, maybe less.
The enemies will also drop hearts to replenish your health.
A TAS of this game might be entertaining, but it also might not be at the same time.
The person doing the Long Play kind of took his time during the first ten minutes of the game.
I dunno.
Moderator edit: Merged this post into an existing topic.
I had never heard of this game until I saw a Long Play for it pop up on LongPlays.org today.
It looks like it is a fairly random game in terms of where enemies spawn and stuff, so I think with the right manipulation, it could make a fairly entertaining TAS.
The character you control is a Elven Huntress. As she kills enemies, she finds items that are randomly dropped, and the items dropped themselves are random, from pieces of armor, to Healing Potions, to Fire Wands and stuff like that.
The Healing Potions kick in after you've lost all five of your hearts. Not sure how everything else works yet, since I haven't watched that much of it just yet.
But it looks amusing enough.
In an unrelated note, I'm watching this Long Play of a game called Arkista's Ring.
Looks like it could make an interesting TAS with the right manipulation.
Might bring it up in the NES Section later.
I still laugh at the jokes in Duke Nukem 3D: Atomic Edition.
Personally, I just got my money back for DNF. I now have nearly $100 In Store Credit at gamestop, plus an extra $53 in cash toward a 3DS.
I'll get more use out of a 3DS than I will out of a $95.39 game, anyway.
There's one advantage with the new iPad controller: It will allow Nintendo to publish an updated Mario Paint.
Now, if they only made an updated color-a-dinosaur...
Heh. Yea. Someone could do a new Angry Video Game Nerd music thing. xD
Super Paper Mario is a bad game. Yes, I said it. And I will always say it. It SUCKS SUCKS SUCKS SUCKS SUCKS!
I can't stomach playing that game again. Only reason I keep it is so I can say I own the entire series.
Kitsune, you too frequently go out of your way to bash Super Paper Mario. I say this for your benefit: cool it. You sound like a troll.
Now, with that out of the way, I 100% agree with you. It was by far the worst Mario game I've ever played and threw away everything that I loved about the first two games (particularly TTYD). The amount of backtracking was inexcusable. I've never seen a game that padded itself out so much with backtracking through bland environments. And whenever anyone criticizes the game, the response is invariably, "But the dialogue is so good!" Huh? I thought it was okay at some points, but nothing stuck out to me. If all I wanted were good dialogue, I'd have read a book. I wish I had.
But this isn't the right forum for this discussion. I just hope it pleases you to know you're not alone in hating SPM. Let's hope the Wii U brings the Paper Mario series back to its glory days.
Actually, the 3DS is bringing Paper Mario back to it's roots. I don't think the game is coming out this year, but maybe early next year. I'm excited for it since I've heard it's going back to old RPG Style. ^^
And it does make me feel better to know I'm not the only one who hates SPM. :3
Super Paper Mario is a bad game. Yes, I said it. And I will always say it. It SUCKS SUCKS SUCKS SUCKS SUCKS!
I can't stomach playing that game again. Only reason I keep it is so I can say I own the entire series.
Hm...maybe I can take my Receipt back to Gamestop and get them to give me back the $90 as In Store Credit..
I mean, if the game is really this bad, I don't wanna blow $90 on it.
besides, if I can get my Money back, I'll be $148 toward a 3DS already. Three weeks ahead of schedule.
My button mashing got worse as I got older...
I recently played Mario Party 5 with friends and got like 10 seconds on Will Flower whereas I could easily get 7 seconds a few years ago.
TAS of Will Flower.
That's probably part of my problem. I'm 28 1/2 years old on the 15th this month.
My fingers just don't have the dexterity they used to have anymore.
I don't bother with the downloadable games on Wii Shop or anything.
I buy the consoles for the games I buy in the stores. Must be how I avoided so many of the bad games, aside from Super Paper Mario and Metroid: Other M. >.>
I thought the point was that Wii had too few good games, not too many bad games.
I think the ratio (good games:bad games) is the more telling thing about a consoles overall game success. The PS2 had a very large amount of bad games, but it also had a very large amount of good games, and a decent amount of great/instant classic games. For as long as the Wii has been out, it should have a lot more good games to offset all the bad ones. Instead, the good games number around 2 dozen, all while more and more Barbie Teaches Cooking etc. titles get pumped out.
I do agree with you there. There were too few must have games, and too many games to pass on with the Wii. I have high hopes that the Wii U will do better in the game department.
At least it'll have more Third Party games than the Wii had. How many more is speculative at this point, but like I said above, high hopes.
Metroid: Other M was an okay game for the Wii, but it wasn't really good. I beat it once, and recently pawned it at the local Gamestop for $4. Shoulda done it after I first played the game, probably woulda got at least $20.
I'm not counting the bad titles the Wii had. I mean, I have a lot of the good ones, like Metal Slug Anthology and Super Mario Galaxy.
Every console has bad games. The 360 and PS3 have had their fair share. The NES has a shit ton of bad games, so did the Gameboy, SNES and N64.
Point is, a Console shouldn't be judged based on it;s controller, but by the games the console plays. If the games work really well, then people aren't going to give a damn what the controller looks like.
I'm skeptical on all fronts. I believe the lesson of the last two console generations was that the cheapest console sells the best. People want to have fun, and they want it cheap. Granted, corporate big-wigs are notorious for misreading the market, but I think that lesson has come across loud and clear by now. If all three companies know what they're doing, they'll keep the price in the $300 to $400 range or possibly less. If you're right about prices, Kitsune, I foresee Nintendo walloping the competition but the overall video game market contracting.
As an aside, I believe we are currently living in a new golden age of video games, but most people are too blind to see it. There truly are games out there for just about everyone, from cheap casual games to graphically violent FPSs to some of the best platformers we've ever seen to fighters to puzzles to RPGs to TBSs to sports games-- you name a genre and with very rare exception, it's almost certainly present and accounted for and awesome to boot (I only mourn the death of the space sim and point-and-click adventure genres). It sure as hell beats the cookie-cutter FPSs that were dominating the market we had to endure for about ten years.
In that light, it makes me kind of sad to see people complaining about shovelware or bickering over which console is best. I firmly believe we're going to look back on these past few years as "the good ol' days", just as we're nostalgic for the SNES era. Yeah, there are plenty of crappy games, but everyone knows that consoles and console eras are defined by their best games, not their worst. Live it up while you can.
You're right about that. Hell, The NES used to be the golden age, then came the Gameboy, GBC, GBA. I barely remember ever playing a bad game, probably because I get rid of them as soon as I can.