You are right about the hitting the bombs like a bat, for Dream Team. I finished the game over a week ago, but I remember that part. I also got stuck there for a few minutes.
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 On 12/15/2013 at 03:27 PM by KnightDriver See More From This User » |
I got stuck in Mario & Luigi: Dream Team trying to find Big Masiff but I think I figured it out. You have to use the Luiginoids to bat a bomb towards a target. I was just letting the bombs bounce off me to no effect. I think I just have to hit the bomb with the Luiginoids at the right moment like a baseball with a bat. I’ve seen several baseball references in this game and it makes me think of the Japanese infatuation with that sport.
Kratos: Wrath of the Fetus
I finished God of War Ascension in ten hours. The Furies got the upper hand on Kratos and succeeded in keeping him too busy to have sexy time. Kratos prevailed over them in the end, but there’s no rest for the oath breaker. After Kratos beats the last Fury, he meets with Orkos and a Trophy pops up that I thought read “Bros Before Hos” but it’s actually “Bros Before Foes”. It might as well have been Hos though because you’re fighting female Furies the whole game until that point. I had to laugh. I guess Kratos is really too busy with a bromance with Orkos to get some sexy time with the women. I noticed Marianne Krawczyk in the writing credits and for a moment thought maybe a female’s perspective resulted in removal of the sexy time but Marianne has been on the writing staff of all the God of War games except for GOW: Ghost of Sparta. The game feels in many ways an attempt to be more appealing to a mainstream audience: easier gameplay, no sexy time, more Quick Time Events (QTEs). I feel there were a few too many QTEs but the fighting is amazing. When you get to use spell powers and rages, the whole screen becomes a whirl of destruction. It’s quite stunning. I played on “easy” and it wasn’t too much of a challenge. I think “normal” is probably the sweet spot for this game. I feel like GOW I and II were never this easy on any setting.
Marianne Krawczyk, long time GOW writer
I started God of War III right after Ascension (I guess I’m doing the whole series now in reverse order). The controls are a little different from Ascension. It feels more like GOW 1, 2.
I bought God of War Collection, SNK Vs. Capcom: Card Fighters DS, and Skyrim. I now have every GOW game for my PS3. I hope they’ve patched the problem with GOW Collection. I owned it when it came out but traded it because I kept getting locked out of one or the other of the two games and had to erase the game data to get back in. I love card battle games since I played the Culdcept series and so had to jump on Card Fighters DS after reading about the original NeoGeo Pocket Color version. One of the carts has a glitch but it’s only during a second playthrough at a specific spot in the game. I don’t think I’ll get that far anyway. There is a version of the game out there with the glitch fixed. I’m not sure which one I have. I had Skyrim on my second tier of wanted games and wondered what I could have been thinking. It should be a must-have for me having got Oblivion day-one. So I bumped it up and bought it. When I play it, I’ll have someone at work to talk to about it. I know very few gamers right now who I can talk to about games (other than you fine Pixlbits), so I can’t wait to get to it and have a serious talk about vampirism.
A new Halo comic Halo: Escalation came out this week. It give reference to the final events of Halo 4 Spartan Ops where Dr. Halsey and Elite Jul ‘Mdama ally themselves against the UNSC and destroy the Forerunner planet Requiem. Then a new conflict begins between Brutes and Elites and the humans have to mediate. A fantatical group among the Elites tries to foil it. We’ll see if there’s a connection between ‘Mdama, Dr. Halsey and the fantatical Elite group. Elite ‘Mdama was certainly a true believer and saw himself as the new savior of the Elites, and I highly suspect Dr. Halsey to have rescued the leader of the attempted hijack of the Infinity in the previous comic series Halo: Initiation. So far so good. Sarah Palmer is still the Spartan main character alongside strategist Thomas Laskey who commands The Infinity. He is Commander Keyes to Palmer’s Master Chief in this series.
Alas I’m sitting in a Starbucks writing this when I normally would be playing games all day at my friend’s place. He’s too busy with his new girl, and so I’m left with nothing to do. I’ve thought about filling the time with other pursuits like joining a board game group at my local hobby shop or going to the gym but these things just don’t appeal that strongly to me. So I just wait. Wait for that call… I think I'll go get drunk on Dragon's Milk.
Last week's Phily Cheesesteak, Tater Tots, Dragon's Milk and My PS3
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