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 On 08/19/2016 at 04:04 PM by KnightDriver See More From This User » |
Gamestop's having their 3-for-2 sale on Wii games this week, so I bought a bunch. Here's a pic:
At the top we have Facebreaker K.O. Party. I got the PS3 Facebreaker game way back and was a little disappointed in the way the game played. It seemed impossible to use blocking effectively, so the game just became a button mashing, who can punch faster, affair. Granted, it's supposed to be an arcady boxing experience like the Ready-2-Rumble series, but give me a little bit of strategy for Pete's sake. Anyway, I hope the Wii version plays a little better. At least I'll get to experience those funny animated characters again for a brief time.
Then down and to the left is Harvest Moon: Magical Melody. I couldn't get any definitive info out of the Gamestop salesperson, but it seems from the back of the box description to have all the features of a Harvest Moon game. Somehow I seem to remember hearing this was some sort of spin-off, or not so good HM game, but what the heck, I want to try some HM.
Next to that is Donkey Kong Country Returns, the main game I wanted from this binge. I can't wait to revisit DKC again. I loved the SNES game.
Below that and to the left is No More Heroes. I heard on a podcast recently more of the zaniness of this game and its pretty good Wiimote sword fighting controls, so I'm in. I wanted NMH2 as well, but it was in a generic box and I don't do generic boxes.
Next to that is Sonic and the Black Knight. It was either NintendoFanJon or The Last Ninja here at Pixlbit who did a review of it that got me interested. I kind of like Sonic out of his element like the RPG Sonic Chronicles for DS. SatBK has Sonic style gameplay but also with swordplay. I'm hoping for some good Sonic with a note of God of War.
Finally, at the bottom, is Spore Hero. I was always fascinated by the ideas behind Spore, but it was primarily a PC game when it came out and I haven't been doing PC games for a while now. This is my chance to get a taste of it.
I just saw an ad for XCom 2 for consoles while I was getting my Wii games. Darn it. I can't have more than one pre-order in Sept. I guess I'll have to assign that game to another month that's slow. Always difficult choices when we get near the holiday season. I hate that.
I reviewed a few of the Wii Harvest Moon games, but none of them were very memorable to me, other than gameplay moved at a snail's pace.
The new DKC games are great, but way too hard. Even harder than the SNES ones. I can beat all three of the SNES games, but not the Wii and Wii U ones.
I played the 8-bit mini-games in No More Heroes 2 and that's it.
All the other games you got I've never played.
Yea, the new DKC games are hard from what I've heard, but I'd like to experience what I can anyway. Don't know why they make them so hard since they are really for kids. Make 'em more like a Kirby game, I say.
No More Heroes 2 is worth picking up if you get the chance. The mini-games/jobs in the second one are like old arcade/8-bit games, which are way more interesting and fun than the jobs in the first game. I love the character designs in both games--they're so badass and original. There was also a PS3 version, which is the first game, but with boss battles from the second one included as dream sequences. Weird.
Oh cool. I was wondering what that PS3 version was all about. I'll get NMH 2 sometime, for sure.
Whoever came up with that Sonic and the Black KNight game musta been high as fuck.
Xcom 2 is great man. Even better than the first.
And that Donkey KOng game is great. I have it for the 3ds. Hard though.
XCOM 2! I just watched a trailer from on Gamestop's in-store TV. Oh man, how am I going to resist getting it day-one, I don't know.
Well I have to say the only thing I've said about Black Knight...wasn't very kind so I doubt any review I did swayed your opinion since I just find Black Knight to just be terrible, absolutely unessecary 
Oh well, my memory fails me again. I like trying things anyway, good or bad. Plus, doesn't Sonic look bad-ass on that cover?
I love it when GameStop blows out Wii games. There is a lot of good stuff in between the mountains of shovelware. No More Heroes is a shock that its on Wii, but from what I played I liked it. It is zany especially when you're powering up your weapon (I think its either weapon or health)
That sale could be better like buy 1-get-2 free. Also, a lot of the best Wii games are still really expensive. I needed Zelda Skyward Sword but it was still $50.
Yeah there are a couple I want but its still at full retail and probably won't go down. Was it last summer they had something close to that? I remember stocking up when I found my Wii at a thrift store.
There was some, possibly better, sale on Wii games before at Gamestop, but I think I missed out on that one.
I kind of want to start looking for Fragile Dreams on the Wii. I'm also wanting to find Sakura Wars: So Long My Love. That's one of my favorite games of all time. I have the PS2 collectors' edition, but I don't have a system to play it on now. I was playing PS2 games on my OG 60GB PS3 fatty, and that console bought the farm around New Years'. I'll probably try to get it fixed, but it still sucks, and in the meantime, I've kind of wanted to play Sakura Wars again (mostly since I started replaying Valkyria Chronicles, which was made by many of the same people.)
I bought both of those at GameStop not too long ago. They weren't very expensive either.
I got Sakura Wars for the Wii a little while ago once I learned it had a connection with Valkyria Chronicles. Looks like it's a 20-30 hour long game, so I'll get to it after I clear the shorter games in my backlog. Fragile Dreams looks interesting. I'll put that on my list.
I played No More Heroes. It's fun, if a little shallow. I've had its sequel in my backlog for years now. Really need to get on that lol. DKC Returns is really hard, like you said, but the game has simultaneous co-op, which is cool but it makes the game harder in my opinion. Stick with single player for a better chance at finishing it.
I like shallow.
I've heard DKC Returns is crazy hard. That's too bad but I'll beat my head against that wall anyway.
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