Man, I haven't played Tetrisphere in years ... we only rented it, Tetris-enthusiast as my mom is(it was probably the fact that it was 3D ... she just likes straight-up Tetris/Dr.Mario/Bejeweled, no music, etc).

Bubble Bobble is coming to VC this Monday .. maybe Tetrisphere will pop up sometime after?   It seems like I remember Youtube didn't have too many videos, but I'm definately going to have to refresh my memory a little..

Well, one of these definitely isn't a Legacy game, and the other three I still have trouble seeing that way (although I suppose it is now), but, figured I'd share them in here as well.

Thanks to Gamestop's Buy 2, Get 1 Free sale they've had going on the past week or so, I got Tales of Symphonia and Baten Kaitos Origins for GCN, and Dragon Quest Heroes: Rocket Slime for DS. Tales of Symphonia and Baten Kaitos Originals are two games I'd been meaning to get for a while, and was happy to finally get. Rocket Slime was more just a random purchase since they didn't have anything else that I was overly interested in, but I could get a free game (at like $18 or less, since that's what the cheapest of the two other games I was getting were), so, figured I'd check it out.
I haven't had much interest in those stores since they took over Funcoland (and Electronics Boutique as well, but, primarily Funcoland) and had them stop carrying used NES/SNES/N64 games. Still, of course, they do still have GCN games, so, this was good for that at least.

Then, these I'd bought last week on eBay, but came in today. Got two Dreamcast controllers, since I'd only had one before and it broke last week (the piece that goes into the system had snapped. Accidentally tripped over it. Ah well).
More interestingly (since controllers aren't too interesting), I also got Zelda: Twilight Princess for GCN. I've had the Wii version for a while, but, was interested to try out the GCN version. So, it should be fun.

So, between those things and Christmas, I have a whole bunch of new games now that I need to play. So, aside from using the $25 gift certificate to the shop where I get older games at some point or another, I should take a break on getting games for a while

*nods* Yah, get to playing them... :p

Out of all those...... I can say that I've never naturally played any of them, and out of the one's I've technically played...well, I dunno if I even played the SNES Animaniacs much(I own the Genesis version which is completely different, but my brother has both our Genesis and SNES ).


I just recently gave up on both NiGHTS and BWii, took'em back to Gamestop, and preordered Endless Ocean.  But I had some extra money so I got 'Ontamarama', an Atlus-published rhythm game for DS.  I had heard some good things and some bad things about it, but I went ahead and got it.  Totally disappointed with it.  Sure, mechanically the game works well, but it's WAY over-complicated, and the user-feedback is non-existant.

Basically you're supposed to tap these 'creatures', or draw circles around them, filling in note-circles that are running against the top of the bottom screen.  There's a song playing in the background, and you're to push the corresponding direction(or button if you're left handed) as is on the note in order to play it.  So you're doing two things at once: tapping/circling small sprites, then pressing the corresponding button once it reaches the left most side of the screen where a target-circle is.

First problem: the music is lame.  There are a few decent songs, but nothing that really grabs you....that pretty much kills any rhythm game right there.  There just really isn't anything worth replaying because it was just so gosh-darn-great that you'd actually want to relive it.

Second: too complicated.  It might sound interesting to be juggling and balancing two tasks at once, but it's not fun.  Either it's too easy and you're having to wait after a tap before you can make the direction/button press, or things are too complicated and you just simply can't keep your eyes on two areas of the screen at the same time.

Third: little to no user feed-back.  Sure, not everyone has a DS rumble pack, but even a SOUND EFFECT would have sufficed when you pressed the right direction when successfully hitting a note, or even a sound effect when you tap a creature to fill a note.  You get NOTHING.  You get some annoying SFX and really annoying voice-synth-effects during cutscenes for a very very very contrived and heavily-cliche story line.  But when you're playing the actual game, all you get is the lame music, and it really doesn't change if you're hitting a note or missing a note.

It's like you're just listening to a song in the background, and then trying to press buttons to match it.  Or like you took a Guitar Hero guitar, watched MTV, and pretended you were playing the song you were listening to.   You might be doing a good job, but what's the point?  Sure, Ontamarama gives you a score for different things, but who cares?


It's just a frustration really.  I tried to get into it more... I thought maybe the problem was that I started playing on Easy, but no, Medium is just as bad, and when it gets more and more complex, it gets less and less fun.  It's a very interesting idea, but one that says they're 'overcomplicating a DS game just so you can make a unique game'.  That, and the lack of attaching some kind of change to hitting or missing a note is completely disappointing.

I hate it when I take games back when I bought them so recently, especially when income is next to nil right now, but this is definately going in to help complete payment on Endless Ocean because this is just...absurd.  It's funny how so much effort can go into making a game that works, does what it's supposed to well enough, but in every way it's just barely bad enough that it's just an annoyance, and not fun at all.

(Sorry to rant, but ugh, I'm tired of taking a chance on 'interesting' games and just managing to get the worst of the bunch..)

I don't think I played DD2 or DD3 very much at all, but I loved the first game because it was 'one of my cousin's games'....basically almost any game he had that we played after our 12-hour drive to that area was an awesome/weird game, and that was one of them. DD2 felt a little different though...I dunno.  That's cool that you completed the collection tho, it always nags me even if I miss the one game that wasn't very good(although it's not always a guarantee I'll buy it).

The others I haven't really heard of, so I hope they're pretty good...:p  I wish we had more stores-that-sell-classic-games around here...I can only think of a bookstore/pawnshop and another pawnshop that sell some old games, but they mostly have the tired-old games nobody really wanted, or it's just for the fact of pawnshops being kind of 'seedy' places and I don't want to be in them.  Plus they're kind of far out of the way and the trip probably isn't worth it if they don't have what I want.....ah well. I could always eBay them I guess... >_>;

Wish my LCD TV could play zapper games...right before I got it, I had just gotten 'To the Earth', and I really wanted to get into playing that one again, but now I can't.

I haven't been purchasing as much games as I'd like to lately, since I'm finally catching up with most of my Wii games that I haven't beaten yet, and because No More Heroes is coming up right around the corner.  Alas, in the past two weeks I did pick up one game - Metroid II: Return of Samus for the GB ($5).  This game ultimately completes my collection of Metroid games, minus MP Hunters and MP Pinball.

The game has been thrown into that pile of games that I promise I'll come back to once I get the time (Terris, I'm pretty sure you know what I'm talking about here :p).  I finally got in the mood to go back to the majority of my unfinished Wii games to complete them (Super Paper Mario, Twilight Princess, Metroid Prime 3).  In every one of them I'm just about at the final chapter/temple/area, so they won't last me very long.

Eh... I've got Secret of Evermore, Illusion of Gaia, Metroid II, and Chrono Trigger all patiently waiting for me.  I put down CT not too long after getting to a close end of the game, but as for the rest, I'm either directly at the start, or only minutes away from it.

Really haven't gotten too much in the way of Legacy items lately, been focusing on my 350 collection since there are so many good games out for that, but I did get a few games from my girlfriend few days ago. Just kind of a "Because I Can" present, which was really nice. I got:

Ice Climber (NES)
Zelda II (NES)
Mario Clash (VB)

All three are games I've really been wanting (especially Mario Clash) and she said she just found them at a garage sale last weekend. I didn't even know she payed attention to my hobby.

I know what you're talking about, SKB. I've got so many games that I'm nearly at the end of, but put down in favor of starting a game that I had just gotten at the time. I probably ought to take a weekend to myself soon and finish what I can.

I just bought Mario Tennis for the N64 a couple days ago. I'd played it originally when it came out but never actually bought it, so I've been wanting it for a long time. Of course, recently I haven't really had cash to spare or I had other things I wanted more. Finally went ahead and bought it. It should be in by the end of the week. I can't wait!

Adventures of Dino Riki....it's funny, a LOT of people put that up on their 'worst/hardest NES games ever' lists.....but I have some memories with that game.  Just from one or two rentals, really....but it was pretty cool.  One of the more original shooter games, especially since back then, I don't even think I even thought of it as a shooter.  It's got some kinda nifty music too.

Haven't heard of Baseball Simulator OR Day Dreamin' Davey.... like at all....need to hear some quick impressions on those...

Wild Gunman's kind of cool.  WW3 I haven't even heard of ... I knew there was WW1(which I kind of liked if only for the Stage 1 music), and barely WW2, but didn't know a third one came out.  Huh.

And I think I know of the others, but not to the point of wanting to look into them(sometimes because I only know TOO much about them :p ).

Sounds cool though.  I ought to dig out my GBC some day and mess around with the ones I've still got, but I have a hard time keeping up on the NEW games I have... >_>;