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if you do love Fire Emblem, than you will love Shining Force as well. Recommended!

I love Fire Emblem, I don't love this, it's fairly good but lacking compared to recent FEs (it's not its fault though since this is old)

It's just kind of slow, and strategy isn't really required.

There is no point in getting this. Super Smash Bros. is way to basic compared to Melee and Brawl and you can easily find better things to get for 1000 Wii Points

You could theoretically say that about most games on the VC

I can't wait to try it I already beat the first Castlevania today, so only Simon's Quest stands between me and this

W00T Castlevania 3, I think I'll pick up one of the GnG's and maybe the other 2 NES Castlevanias aswell

But getting hit doesn't always knock away your power in any Kirby game (that I know of), it usually takes 2 or 3 hits

_every other Kirby game I've played, I enjoyed (yes, even Kirby 64). _

Your not allowed to talk about The Crystal Shards that way, it was awesome

Melee had deep, but difficult mechanics I guess it sucked because I suck at it...

Also, if you found it easy, you should check what difficulty you had it on. Set it to team brawl, set 3 CPUs to, say, red, and set yourself to blue. Set all the cpus lvls to "9", turn the damage ratio to "2.0" and try to win

Nah, computers are boring, and beating them doesn't give me satisfaction why would losing to them? Also its easy because the fighting mechanics lack depth. Trophies and stickers just artificially increase play time, they're nice but don't add much. A story mode that took way more development time than it was worth, and it shows. And it was specifically developed to be uncompetitive (it's developer didn't even want it to be the best it could be).

More=/= better

I wanna battle some ogreses

Brawl is: slow, floaty, unbalanced, has lots of terrible stages, lots of terrible items, easy, lacks combos, and defense is usually a much more viable strategy than offense.

Melee: has more depth, only a few bad stages, less bad items, it's fast, has combos, more balanced than Brawl; the Classic, Target Test, Adventure, and Event Match modes were better than brawl's too.

SSB: best items, the worst stages were tolerable, the best combo's (although most characters had 0-to-deaths, but powerful offense is more fun than slower defensive battles), but it lacks some depth too.

I'd say SSB is the easiest to get into since it's easier than Melee, and more rewarding than Brawl

If it wasn't Mario, it wouldn't be rated nearly as well, and I'm positive about that.

And I'm guessing EB will be like DQ, just with worse gamplay but a better story.

Nice interview the game looks interesting.

@ Ness
Outside of battles SMRPG is tolerable and actually enjoyable at times, but it doesn't come close to making SMRPG a great, or even good game, I'd say it's fairly averagish and I'd give it a 6/10

@Ness
SMRPG is so typical RPG, if you time your attacks and not magic or defence, it plays exactly like any other turn based RPG, except a lot slower, and with mostly ugly bad guys.

I love Paper Mario because it has lots valuable differences compared to other turn-based RPG's.

@Ness
I don't like SMRPG because the gameplay is an abomintation, other than the battles it's okay, I'd give it maybe a 6, like Mickey said he dropped out after the first major boss, the combat gets boring a bit before then. And every RPG I've played is better than SMRPG by a lot.

Objection! @Objection
LoZ:MM is a masterpiece, and as such should be given to the masses sooner rather then later, EB can wait it's good at that.

I bought DoReMi

My top 10 RPGs.
1. Pokemon Gold
2. Dragon Warrior 3 (GBC)
3. Chrono Trigger (although I haven't played it all the way through yet)
4. Dragon Warrior Monsters
5. Paper Mario
6. Fire Emblem: Sacred Stones
7. Tales of Symphonia
8. Final Fantasy 4 Advance
9. Breath of Fire 2
10. Final Fantasy: Dawn of Souls (FF2 specifically)

I don't own a PS so the only PS RPG I own is FFVIII, fun but didn't hook me and I never got too far

Enix is the bestest. Dragon Warrior 3 (GBA) pretty much perfection, way better than Dragon Warrior Monsters which was also beyond phenomenal.

Joker is great, but isn't magical like the first one (never played numbuh 2) I loved my Blizzardy, Kingleo and Ironturt , too bad Ironturt took way too much time and effort to become a beast.

I only ever played Tales of Symphonia, and honestly I don't even consider it an RPG, it feels more like an action game with obnoxiously long cutscenes about a story I could care less about - basically it's Final Fantasy, only with the battle scenes replaced with a fun action game. Now all they have to do is remove the rest of it, and you would have my definition of a great Final Fantasy game.
I love it! That's how you state your opinion. The overly sarcastic and obnoxious atttitude, powerful.

But you don't like the main DQ games? . And permadeath is cool since it makes it unique and you can just start the chapter over, it's not like it autosaves whenever someone dies, that'd be evil.

@Hilanderous
This game has not aged very well at all. Have any of you played it recently? It's just terrible and with Melee and Brawl being more updates then sequels, there is no reason to ever play this game again.

Yeah I played it yesterday, it rocked HARD. It's faster than brawl, you can combo, it's more accessable than Melee, there arn't uber characters that destroy the rest of the cast with ease. Brawl was more or a Wiidate (i.e. better graphics much less depth)

lol at Final Fantasy's and Tales being better than SMRPG but DQ, FE, and CT aren't.

Now I'll get serious (inb4whysoserious) and say that SMRPG is probably(keyword) the worst RPG I've ever played.

I have 2 of those games on the list, I'll get 2 more eventually, and might pick up Star Parodier sometime anyways.

Kojima and Sakurai are close friends, Kojima wanted Snake in Melee, but Melee was already to far in develpment, so he's stuck in Brawl.

And SMRPG just has outright TERRIBLE gameplay, outside of battles its tolerable, but once battle begins the snoring ensues shortly after.

I can give a negative about DoReMi, it wasn't translated (which doesn't really matter much since it's a platformer, but it's still a negative )

Sonic has poor gameplay, after the first two zones of most of them it becomes a run for 10 seconds then hit an enemy/spike/wall and repeat

Boo, SMRPG is lame:(
If SMRPG got first Boogerman should've got 2nd since it comes close to SMRPGs mediocrity.

It'd be sick the made Smash Bros for WW and just added online, but since that won't happen and I already have SSB, I'll pass.

But yeah anyone else that hasn't played it should most definately get it

Yeah I wanted Niki Rolly-Thingy too

I wanted to be first guyz, , Niki Rock N Ball looks like it has potential

Maybe they'll make this sequel month and we'll get Earthbound and Majora's Mask (2nd N64 Zelda it totally counts). Add in some totally random and unlikely games like Dragon Quest 2 and the 2nd N64 Castlevania and we're set

Maybe it'll get released at the same time as Duke Nukem Forever

Only one game, poor show

Mario swings on vines in Mario Party 3

I downloaded it and seriously I'd say SMRPG barely edges it out, I'd give this 6/10, and SMRPG 6.5/10, this has better gameplay though.

Waaah all we got was Boogerman, this suuuuucks. Nintendo gives us a bunch of good games in September and October, and now we get this, I hate Nintedo 4eva Im srs guys.
This game is probably better than SMRPG, which almost everyone wanted but since Boogeman isn't named Mario, I will cry while proceeding to consider downloading it just to see how it is, and test my hunch that it is better than SMRPG

Pong Toss much? It'll never break the top 20...

I dunno about that remember how you guys bought pong toss?

Coolio Ogre Battle!

_And I don't see WiiWare getting a good RPG.
Either it'll have a lot of content, and will take up half of the Wii's internal memory, or it'll be stripped of everything that makes RPGs good so it won't take up too much memory.
Actually, making an RPG for WiiWare is a terrible idea. You're basically saying it's not good enough to be released as a retail game, so you'll strip it of EVERYTHING and sell it to Wii owners.

Make a 16-bit RPG and there won't be space constraints. If an RPG is developed specifically with Wiiware in mind by a good developer, it'll likely be pretty good.

_This game WILL suck. Mark my words.

I think so too. The animation looked fairly poor, but that may just be due to early being incomplete.

Edit: What am I doing wrong with the italics?

Looks not bad, but repetitive.

We had to get these sometime, and we've had great games over the last month so no big deal, and Gradius is supposed to be good.

Fake man might be fun. Hard will be too hard though.

Looks pretty fun.

Also I not sure I would compare a downloadable title to a full retail title

That. I f it was the same game just a full price retail title its score would be lower.

Sounds cool, I might buy it if I have spare points

Sorry you guys didn't get Secret of Mana, but Mayhem in Monsterland looks pretty cool

YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!

I didn't think SoM would be out so soon.

Great interview I'm looking forward to the other games they have up their sleeves, I enjoyed the last question too.

Cool I want 5 and 6 the most though as I actually have nostalgia for those ones

I've played Dynamite Headdy a bit like 8 or so years ago, it was pretty fun.

I'm a huge Fire Emblem fan, but I wasn't impressed by the first Shining Force (yeah, I know they're very similar). My question is thus: I've heard many people say that the sequel is vastly superior, so in your professional opinion(s), should I buy it?

/ that
also since Mario Golf came out Mario Tennis shouldn't take too long to come out and Mario Tennis is fantastic, bummer about the GBC transfer characters though.

What the ** are you on about Badknux? "except for a few titles that are really memorable." Only A FEW titles that are really memorable? HA HA HA! Thanks for that! I needed a laugh on this miserable morning ! Feel free to voice some of your opinions again tomorrow morning as well, because I might just want a good chuckle again ! Please don't develop yourself a decent knowledge of retro gaming, if you do that I wouldn't have anyone to cheer me up in the morning! HA HA HA!

That was unneccesarily condescending, did you really feel a whole paragraph of laughing at his post really worth making, especially when you don't even have a point to make.

This was unexpected I might get it somewhere down the line, depending on how it is compared to the first