11 posts tagged “nintendo ds”
Yay, my copy of The World Ends With You (which the manual deigns to call “WEWY” in a couple places) arrived, just in time for lots of trainriding. I played through the first 90 minutes and it's actually pretty nice (though Contact lost my interest after a while too--I'm not actually much of an RPGer).
Speaking of indie games, Atari, developers Metanet Software, and mobile developers Silverbirch Studios are bringing n+, the successor of that classic awesome Flash game n, to the DS, PSP, and Xbox 360.
Jam Sessions isn't a Konami game, but apparently it might as well be.
As seen in my referrers:
I have a not even used Partners in Time game. ... I'm not one for pokemon styled games sadly. Thats what someone said it was styled like.
I went with the roommate early yesterday to stand in front of Toys're Us so he could get a DS Lite. When we got there we found to his consternation a line half the length of the building. Turns out, though, that not only were they selling DSes Sunday morning, but Wiis as well—so they had plenty of DSes to go around, while by the time the line grew to the full length of the front of the building, all the Wiis were spoken for.
I, of course, planned ahead, bringing my DS to get in a little more Phoenix Wright: Justice for All. Of course, the dude (12? 14?) in line ahead of us was all, "'Sup. What game do you have?" He had an old blue DS; he'd saved up years of gift cards for a Gamecube, but now had the opportunity to skip it and get the Wii. I found it's kind of hard to explain how little he'd want to play Phoenix Wright—lots of words and stuff, not something you can just pick up—so he showed me a bit of Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time (maybe I should get it; I liked Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door), and he loved Elite Beat Agents so I let him play Ouendan for a round.
He wanted to unlock me some Mario Kart levels, but after he discerned that my logo was "lame" (I had used the bunny stencil, apparently—it was quite a while ago), the gauntlet was thrown. So we played head to head a few tracks, then he schooled me at the balloon battle mode. Soon enough it was his turn to go inside, soon to be off somewhere else, having a distracted day full of prior obligations that would prevent him from playing his new Wii until last night.
Meanwhile I was off to breakfast, reminded how cool Mario Kart is. That's one of the few multiplayer plays I hadn't set up ahead of time, and one of the few fun times. Funny it took a kid in a line to remind me.
One of these things just doesn't belong.
While I was trying to power through Kafka on the Shore (a good book, but I liked Hard-Boiled Wonderland much better), I kept browsing through bookstores and buying up other novels. Now I have quite a backlog of reading to do. It's competing pretty well with the DS, since I'm having the same issue I had with Kafka with Contact. Seems to me it's pretty story-light for an RPG; sure, it has some funny "post-modern" (meaning self-referential) jokes in its structure, but really, I don't think I should have to choose between tapping coconuts to make them happen to fall when and where Terry can pick them up and a compelling story that keeps me playing the game. Yeah, yeah, so some 8-bit throwback spilled his roentgenium rods or whatever and somebody's going to use them to destroy/conquer the world, but what's that have to do with me, or Terry for that matter?
These are the books I got. I think I'm forgetting a couple. I'm about halfway through the Feynman (which I picked up Wednesday; I got the audio version of Six Easy Pieces, which is also great, from iTunes a while ago).
From gamevideos.com, a conference teaser video about Hotel Dusk Room 215, which I read about on play magazine's site.
