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ANIMAL CROSSING PLAYERS + FINAL FANATASY RING OF FATES


If you play one of the above games..

post below


if not:

still post

LAWL

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I used to play Animal Crossing on GameCube. I'm also a major Final Fantasy fan, though not so much of the Crystal Chronicles games.

Right now I've been playing Baroque for Wii (and also PS2), a Roguelike set in a surreal post-apocalyptic future. You're thrown in the middle of things with no clear explanation apart from the appearance of a mystery man called the "Archangel" who hands you a weapon called the Angelic Rifle, enigmatically explaining that "there is meaning in you using it", and tells you to head to the bottom of the Neuro Tower, the ever-changing labyrinth that happens to be the focus of the game. Much of the draw comes from unraveling just what happened, who the protagonist is and just what he had to do with the apparent end of the world: as a matter of fact, the game only hints broadly at your goals, so it will take much spelunking in the Neuro Tower before you can either figure out what needs to be done or acquire what you need to accomplish it. I know someone who's made it further than I have, and I've begged him not to spoil anything. ^_^

Another game I've acquired recently is Persona 3: FES for PS2, the expanded version of last year's Persona 3. P3 is a randomly-generated dungeon crawler much like Baroque, but unlike Baroque, what makes the game unique is how its RPG aspect has been tied together with a life simulator. Your hero is a high schooler who has to maintain an academic and social life just like everyone else, and fighting monsters and saving the world is just part of your ever-busy schedule. The characters are members of SEES, the Special Extracurricular Execution Squad, and their mission is to plumb the depths of Tartarus, a nightmare tower that appears only at midnight, and defeat the Shadows that are starting to encroach on the outside world. Their main weapon in this fight is the Persona, a manifestation of one's inner self incarnated as a legendary mythological figure: using their Personae, the members of SEES can use superhuman abilities such as magic or powerful physical attacks. The protagonist can use a Persona like everyone else, but unlike everyone else, he's not limited to one: he can switch, collect and even combine Personae, changing and combining skill sets to fight ever stronger opponents. Much of the game's challenge is figuring out how to exploit enemy weaknesses (and how to keep them from exploiting yours): scoring critical hits in this manner lets you gain extra turns, and may frighten your foes into inaction. Get the entire enemy party on the ropes and you can unleash an "All-Out Attack" for massive damage. Fun times. The English localization is a touch uneven, with some questionable VA work (Fuuka Yamagishi is a notable offender) and an overreliance on Japanese honorifics and vocabulary, but overall it's still decent...just not Atlus' best work.

On the more mainstream front, I can't wait to try out The World Ends With You, a Square-Enix game for DS originally released in Japan last July as "Subarashiki Kono Sekai - It's A Wonderful World". (One thing I'm starting to become painfully familiar with: Square-Enix's apparent inability to either announce or release its games in the U.S. on a timely basis. Here's hoping they make good on their promise to change that in the future.)

Also coming out this summer is Final Fantasy IV DS. I've already played FFIV on PS1 and GBA (American gamers might remember it as "Final Fantasy 2" on SNES), but this version has numerous upgrades: for one, it's the first fully 3D version of the game, using the graphical style of the previous Final Fantasy III for DS (not the same game at all as the SNES "Final Fantasy 3", which is actually Final Fantasy VI), and it also has voicework, new story sequences, new sidequests, a brand new character customization system and revamped and tweaked boss encounters. As you might guess already, I can't wait.

And speaking of remakes of classic RPGs, Dragon Quest IV: Chapters of the Chosen, a remake of the NES game originally released in the U.S. as Dragon Warrior IV, has been confirmed for the U.S., although it's presently without a release date. I'm not terribly much of a Dragon Quest fan, but I did enjoy the first three on GBC (which were improved ports of the original NES versions, though these were still released under the "Dragon Warrior" title). In addition, this is actually based on a PS1 remake of the game which came out in Japan, was advertised for a U.S. release, but never materialized due to the original development team's breakup. I never quite forgave Enix for this. Thankfully, the merger with Square has given Dragon Quest a new lease on life in the United States, with higher-quality localizations and the original title for the franchise. Heck, Square-Enix has even restored the Japanese practice of appending subtitles to the names: they're not exactly translations (DQIV's full title in Japan is "Dragon Quest IV: Michibikareshimonotachi", a mouthful which comes out as "Those Who Are Guided", which only through artful interpretation and an understanding of the game's story structure bears any relation to its English equivalent), but they are inventive renderings nonetheless.

I'm a little reluctant to part with any more of my money for the next few months, though. I'm hoping I can save up to get the special edition PS3 bundle with Metal Gear Solid 4 when it comes out this June. You want secrets and surprises? Knowing Hideo Kojima, the trailers we've seen thus far have barely scratched the surface of the tip of that iceberg.</strongbad> :3

(And speaking of Strong Bad, he's also getting his own episodic game series come this June via WiiWare. Telltale Games, the same company who made the Sam & Max episodes, is developing it. Suffice it to say, I can't wait.)

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Ahhh... a fellow gamer. If you like "Baroque", I recommend you read "Enders Game / Speaker for the Dead and Xenocide" by Orson Scott Card.... your first game Baroque sounds like something out of Enders Game...

Enders Game is a about a computer game used by genius children in battle school, for their training. It contains a number of fantasy type settings and enemies the children have to beat in a logical fashion. However, 1 child who is exceptional, breaks the rules of the computer game just so he can win the overall game. No one has ever won before and the game is designed to not let any child win.... the AI in the game begins to expand as this child keeps trying to break the game and win.... and the AI deviates into a new life-form... parts of the game are also created by alien life forms on alien worlds, through psionic powers of the child ... read it - it will blow your mind. It is at the forefront of science fiction writing.

Persona 3 sounds like a recreation of Dungeon Keeper... the original PC game brought out to control the hoards of darkness...

I too own lots of games and have enjoyed some of the final fantasy series....

I am a huge fan of Metal Gear Solid and Solid Snake.... I own a PS2, XBOX, XBOX 360, Nintendo Cube.... I was looking the other day at getting a PS3 console just so I can get the exclusive release of Metal Gear 4. The release date in NZ is June 2008... I can hardly wait.... the graphics rock!

I am a big fan of the Halo series.... and loved the limited edition Halo 3 Spartan helmet and you can never go wrong with Master Chief.

Also collecting the entire Tomb Raider series, Resident Evil series,and lots of simulators.

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I've heard of Ender's Game, though I haven't read it. I have heard that another noteworthy Hideo Kojima series, Zone of the Enders, was inspired by it, though, and recently I suggested a new trope on TVTropes.org that I originally called "Saved By The Flag", which refers to how games usually let you survive even the most dire situations just by pulling off a victory condition: it ended up being called "The Enemy Gate Is Down", which I'm told is an Ender's Game reference. ^_^

Speaking of Zone of the Enders, it's rather strange how ADV's English dub of the anime turned out. On a technical level it's excellent, but it's obvious the translators didn't actually bother to research their work: BAHRAM is referred to as Bufram, Nohman is called Norman, Antillia is Antiria, and there's even one egregious case of "Orbital Flame" slipping into the script. Tokyopop did even worse with its work on the .hack novels and manga, and unlike ADV the overall translation quality wasn't nearly good enough to excuse the mistakes. And don't get me started about how Dark Horse flagrantly ignored Yasuhiro Nightow's statement that Trigun is set in an English-speaking world. The end result is virtually unreadable, which is a shame as Geneon's English dub of the anime (which, truth be told, bears precious little semblance to the original manga) is impeccable.

You could say that the aforementioned is the reason I'm here in the first place. ^_^; When I got interested in fan translating the Sylvanian Families games, originally I was just going to do a straight translation with no regard for the official English language material. Then I realized my hypocrisy, and so I began to do my research, which involved becoming perhaps the one and only member of the Sylvanian community who doesn't actually collect Sylvanians. ^_^; When Benjamin announced he was closing the Sylvanian Families & Calico Critters E-Zine (SFCCE) site and its forums, I set up these here to save the community: they're not as nice as his, but they work well enough. :3 (Hence why I call this place the "SFCCE R:2": if you've played the .hack//G.U. games, you'll get the reference.)

Apologies for wall-of-texting and generally dragging the conversation off-topic.

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How cool, Hideo Kojima did his own Enders take with Zone of the Enders...... I will have to go and get it now.. and check it out.

"The Enemy Gate is down"... yes... referred to in the book meant to keep ones battle objectives "pure" and at the forefront of ones strategy... not to get distracted by anything but victory! In all battle simulations Ender focused all his troops on reaching the other army's battle gate and entering it at all costs.... once entered, he won the game. Therefore, his objective was always entry to the enemies gate. This included bending battle school rules and etiquette (commonly called cheating). This won him no friends and many personal enemies.

SPOILER: Ender is called what he is because he brought about the "End" or Xenocide of an entire world and its alien species. The army used his brilliant mind to cause Xenocide, through his brilliant battle strategy. It is interesting, because he was morally blameless for the Xenocide, but his name has gone down in history as the Ender of Worlds.

However... in books 2 and 3, Ender becomes the Speaker for the Dead, he talks for the dead alien queen and the lost species from their perspective (he has psionic abilities to communicate with the 1 queen who survived in a caccoon, as they have a hive mind, so she felt the death of her race even before her birth)... he considers his Faustian deed from a personal/spiritual perspective, and how battle strategy can also entail delicate diplomacy to achieve the same ends... thus he attempts to resurrect the species through the surviving alien queen, after he understands them, and that they never were a threat to humans. In fact the entire war was simply a "misunderstanding".

He finds himself on a planet with a new species of aliens 3000 years in the future (the joys of deep space travel), which is at the brink of Xenocide yet again... now he must attempt to stop the Xenocide brought on by the same army to kill the new alien species considered a threat to the human race, as a result of another misunderstanding .. the complete antithesis of what he achieved in his youth.

He has come full circle now with full understanding of ones own power and the implications of the misuse of power.

Unfortunately, he carries with him the alien queen (so it would be destruction of 2 alien species) and also, a third alien life-form, a highly evolved AI, which he spawned in the battle computer in his youth.

Hideo Kojima in the Metal Gear Solid also explores the human cost in warfare, the politics... which each series.... it becomes a much more personal journey for Solid Snake. One begins to consider ones own principles.

I am now going off to find this series.... Zone of the Enders... Thanks for the heads up on the translation problems. I will let you know what I think!

Matthew



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The ZOE franchise currently consists of three games and two anime.

The first part of the story is the OVA ("Original Video Animation") Zone of the Enders: Idolo, which is available on DVD from ADV Films. It has the slight translation issues I already mentioned, but the dub is still otherwise excellent. Originally this was a pack-in bonus with the PS2 game, but Konami is notoriously cheap with its releases.

The second part of the story is Zone of the Enders for PS2, which introduces Leo Stenbuck and the Orbital Frame, Jehuty.

The third part is the GBA title Zone of the Enders: Testament (a.k.a. Zone of the Enders: The Fist of Mars in the United States). This is something of a side story presented as a strategy RPG in the vein of Super Robot Wars (in fact, it was developed by the same company that made the Original Generations titles for GBA). It's not much in terms of gameplay, but it has an excellent story, so you shouldn't pass it up.

The fourth part is the anime series Zone of the Enders: Dolores, i. Like Testament, it has little to do with the main plotline of Zone of the Enders, but it does feature references to the second Zone of the Enders PS2 game, ties up some plot threads left hanging from Idolo and is overall an excellent story in and of itself. Like Idolo, it's available in English from ADV (excellent dub, minor translation quibbles).

The fifth and presently final part is Zone of the Enders: Anubis, known in the U.S. as Zone of the Enders: The Second Runner. Anubis completes the story that began in the first Zone of the Enders game, starring a new pilot who is bonded to Jehuty through a life support system. Leo is also present, having grown a bit more backbone and piloting perhaps the most awesome in-joke ever (his advanced LEV is named the Vic Viper, after the ship from the Gradius games, and even transforms into a likeness of it). The Orbital Frame Anubis and its pilot Nohman are the game's main enemy: Anubis is the key to an ultimate weapon poised to destroy Earth. Suffice it to say, Jehuty ends up with quite a few remarkable upgrades before the game ends. ^_^

There's rumors of a third game - the end of ZOE: Anubis hints that there's more story to be had - but as yet such rumors have yet to be substantiated.

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Animal Crossing is really Addictive. I played it all last summer. That and Harvest Moon for the Game cube. I got a the new Harvest Moon fantasy Rune Factory game for my DS but I have a hard time with the stupid little sceens :P WTB a bigger Version of that game for the Wii. I find that with Animal Crossing I got distressed when I couldnt get the fruit I wanted to plant and when I finally did get a fruit the tree would die or whatever. I didnt want to run 3 or more Villages at once so...Also I cheated a little and in that game changing the time can be a disaster!

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I love AC:WW! I'm getting CF/LAGTTC for christmas. Ring of Fates was my first ever finial fantasy! Best. Game. ever!
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I love AC: WW, too! Anyone intersted in exchanging friend codes? I could use some different fruit besides pears (and coconuts)!
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