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This review isn't really a "game review" as I'm not planning on telling anyone to buy it or not. The controls are similar to Smash Bros in many ways, though it doesn't feel quite as fluid and the lack of the "third jump" can be annoying at times. That's just nitpicking though.

Jump uses the dual-screen in a rather unique way. On the upper screen is the action, while on the lower screen is what resembles a comic panel. You the player must construct your own "comic page" out of various characters' famous panels, and these characters are the ones who will be available for you to use in battle. There are Battle Koma (usable characters), Support Koma (Marvel vs Capcom 2-style assists), and Help Koma (stat boosts).

I love seeing the many references, and while a bit tedious I like the logic in many of the unlocks. For example, at one point you get Kenshiro, and through points you can upgrade Kenshiro to more and more powerful versions. It's only when you unlock the Yuria's Help Koma that you can bring Kenshiro to full power, giving him access to Musou Tensei, the ultimate technique of Hokuto Shinken. Similarly, you need Yuria to fully power Raoh, but Raoh only has two battle koma types total: six and eight. Or, to put it more simply, strong and VERY strong. Very fitting for Raoh.

The only really sad thing is that while Jump Ultimate Star has some of my favorite Jump characters, such as Kuchiki Rukia (Bleach) and Kobayakawa Sena (Eyeshield 21), it doesn't have my absolute favorites, particularly Hyuuga Hinata (Naruto) and Souther (Hokuto no Ken). Maybe next game.

PS: The Emperor has no need for PSPs.

PPS: Not really, as Super Robot Wars A Portable looks sweet.

Para os nostálgicos que jogaram Pong, assim como eu, na infância. Colquei esse joguinho no Codeorama OS para matar a saudade dos velhos tempos de "tele-jogo", na TV com aquele barulhinho "chato" da bolinha (quadrada).

Implementarei algumas funções extras nesse jogo, sons, controle de ligar e desligar o som e troca de cor da tela.

I recently found an "Escape from the room" game that I liked. It's a Japenese point-and-click game called "Vision. Above is a screenshot from part of the game. To play the game, click here, if you get frustrated and want the answers, just give it some time, because the game takes some time, and patience.

Other than the tentative title of Earthworm Jim 4, no other details have been confirmed. TenNapel will serve as a creative consultant on all of the projects.

Earlier in the month, Earthworm Jim was one of a number of IPs owned by Interplay that were flagged up as getting the revival treatment.

Yesterday, Interplay revealed that the original two titles would be available through Nintendo Virtual Console in the not-so-distant future.

We thought it was cats that had nine lives, but apparently earthworms have a healthy stock, too.

Courtesy of CVG.

Apr 23, 2008

Ce jeu a tout pour plaire: Une belle palette de graphismes; un scénario qui tient évidemment la route (normal, c'est du Tolkien svp), une jouabilité assez simpliste, bref un gros coup de coeur pour la personne fan des jeux stratégie !!!
Que l'on soit sur l'une ou l'autre des plateformes, on ne peut pas dire "je suis déçu" .... Hé bien si !!! Pourquoi ??? Simplement à cause d'une version xboxienne infidèle à la version pc.
Les avantages de la version pc (face à la Xbox360) sont les suivantes:
-Vous avez la possibilité de créer votre héros, option qui n'est pas comprise sur Xbox360. A cet instant, chers compatriotes xboxiens, nous crions en choeur "RAGE" !!!
-De même, remercions les magnifiques bugs qui voient le jour sur la belle console de salon de Microsoft: problèmes de gestion des troupes, surchauffe de la console durant une partie, etc.
-Cerise sur le gateau, l'expansion "L'Avènement Du Roi-Sorcier" n'est disponible que sur pc.
Toutes ces "joyeuses" nouvelles ne font que renforcer l'idée suivante: Mieux vaut acheter la version pc que la version xboxienne !!!
Seul intérêt de LSDA sur Xbox360, le Xbox-live: ayant eu l'opportunité de jouer sur le live, j'ai vraiment compris l'utilité de cette adaptation sur Xbox. Jouer avec une IA, c'est bien, mais ça devient vite lassant !!!

Au final, autant la version PC semble prometteuse, autant la xboxienne laisse à désirer.

Note Personnelle (version Xbox360): 14/20
Malgré ces beaux défauts évoqués ci-dessus, on peut néanmoins s'attarder sur l'option Xbox-live, à condition bien entendu de posséder un compte !!!
Note Personnelle (version PC): 17/20
Rien à dire, la version PC est la mieux adaptée, et profite de nouveautés/options qui ne sont pas présentes sur l'autre version !!!

For one thing you need to have the required knowledge to become a master of anything.  So the first part of my goal requires learning, lots and lots of learning.  Its tricky with game design as I find myself disagreeing with individuals that have an insane amount of experience in making games.  And I think that is completely normal because games are supposed to be fun and you are supposed to be creating this fun.  Simply put its hard to label something as fun because what is fun for you might be boring or even agonizing to me.  A perfect example is Trivia games and games that require you to be loud and possibly take part in embarrassing scenarios. I hate them.  Well maybe hate is a strong word, I refuse to play them because I dislike them so much.  They don't interest me, they make me angry and I don't want to embarrass myself.  Its not fun for me to play those games but that is not to say that those style of games are not fun.

However, It is important to note that knowledge can never be enough to achieve mastery over a form of art.  Experience is a requirement and probably the second thing you need to seek after knowledge.  You need to actually put your knowledge to the test but that isn't to say experience is more valuable than knowledge.  This can be traced back to the individual and how they process information and gain knowledge and experience.  While one person can think extensively in theories others have to actually just do it.  Personally I love to create theories and play them out in my brain or with notepad or pen/pencil.  I know others prefer to just start making stuff but it really is rooted in the way your brain absorbs this information.  Either way the truth is you need experience and you need to make games.  It is important to every game designer though I prefer to think creating your own theories will play an irreplaceable part in learning the art of game design.

As you gain knowledge and experience you are also struggling to achieve efficiency.  This is one thing that pisses me off to no extent.  I know that if I had just a bit more knowledge and just a bit more experience I would be able to shave hours off each project and use that extra time to contribute in other areas.  I absolutely despise re-doing work and I can't stand the fact that after I do something I found another method that would have saved me time.  Though I know these experiences ultimately make me more efficient I just wish there was an easier way to achieve this than screwing up.  Wasted time sucks not only for you but for teammates.  To achieve mastery you have to be efficient in every sense of the word.

After you gain these things I would imagine that you could possibly master the art of game design but really when is that?  Will there ever be a time where you know you've mastered something?  And really is there more to mastery than knowledge, experience and efficiency?  There has to be.  Creativity has to mean something and of course natural talent also will be meaningful.

Kind of strange, I have only started my career as a game designer and I am trying to figure out how I can master the art.  It is almost like starting a new game.  You're the newb and you're trying to find the best way to become a high level character.  I imagine it might have a similar progression line as it would leveling up in a game.  You gain a bunch of levels at fist then later you start leveling up much more slowly and you also have to work much harder at it.  I really don't know, this is all speculation.

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Now here is a special challenge that'll win you HOPF. ind these images, whoever finds all of them will win HOPF. No runner-ups so be fast. Here are the pics:

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Good luck, and have fun exploring the rest of the party!

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"What Wii Fit represents and what Nintendo is trying to do with Wii Fit is expand the gaming population," Miyamoto said in an interview with MTV.

"And the reason that is important for them is because as more and more people of different ages start playing - even if it's just games like Wii Fit - their understanding of what video games are and the fact that they're even playing games is going to better their understanding of what gamers are.

"So in a sense what we're doing by increasing the gaming population is strengthening their right to continue to game. I hope they'll keep that in mind."

Yeah - we'll try to do that when we get around to reviewing it.

Courtesy of CVG.

Apr 23, 2008

As in harvest moon, the place you'll choose will impact the difficulty of the game.

The aim of the game is to put some furnitures in the toy shop and make some workshop to build some toys.

And this is the fun part of the game : you'll have to build yourself the toys you want to sell in the shop. To unlock new toys, you'll need a certain level required. This level is obtained after training in building toys.

To build a toy, you'll have a little rhythm game you'll play with the stick.
Once the toys are built, you're ok to prepare the showcase for the shop and open it.

The clients will then come and you'll have to satisfy them to earn money and improve your toy's collection.

To conclude, this game is quite addictive but a little repetitive while building toys. A mix between a sim game and a rhythm game : what a nice idea for young players !

At some points in the game, one light will start to blink in the lower screen : click it and you'll see a cutscene from the movie.

There ain't any minimap in the game, as for the wii version.

Missions are here also very long and very hard to finish. The problem is that the number of checkpoints is huge and you'll have to complete them all to finish the mission.

There's an auto rotate camera feature in the game which is pretty accurate and you won't have any problems with the camera focusing somewhere else from the action.

As the missions are very long, you'll have the possibility to die three times per mission.

In the missions, you'll be killing enemies and tanks from a upper view as if you were in a shoot'em all game.
There are lots and lots of enemies and you'll have difficulties finishing the levels.

At the end of the missions, you'll have the possibility to upgrade your armor.

To conclude, this game is quite fun but you won't be able to play only a few minutes in the transportations. Too bad, the game would have been better if with shorter missions.

In the upper screen, you'll have the informations about the caracter (energy / rank) and in the lower screen, you'll have the action in 2D/3D.

What's this game about ?
Well, you'll start with a tutorial to help you out. You'll discover this game is a fishing adventure game...

Fishing isexplained but is quite classic now : you'll have the possiility to reel, to choose the beat. Plus, when the fish bites, you'll have the now classic tension and energy bars to know if your pushing too hard or not.

To play, you'll be able to use whether the keys or the stylus. You'll also be able to give some strikes left or right to tire the fish.

When a fish bites, the screens of the nds changes and you'll see in the upper screen the view of the rod and in the lower screen a view of the fish in the water.

The more you fish, the more you'll earn experience points and card bonus, you'll be able to trade to have new stuff, as rods, baits, and snacks to restore your energy.

To conclude, the game is quite fun and simple to play, but you'll have to fish a lot before you'll start buying some usable stuff.

You'll be moving in the environments using the cross and you'll have to find what to do to move to the next step.

The problem is that even if you know what to do, you'll have difficulties finding what to do next.
And if you're trying to do something that's not the next step, you'll have lts of text to explain you it's not the right time to do something or go somewhere.

Graphics are really poor and you'll be selecting an item even if you want to select something else.

To conclude, this game is quite boring, not addictive at all and repetitive. Plus it's not intuitive and you'll be stuck to many times to have fun with it.

The game is a succession of mini games where you'll be playing with each character of the serie.
The mini games are about : rhythm games with or without music and missions where you'll have to find some items hidden in the maps.

One annoying thing is that you won't have any voices in the game, but only lots and lots of texts ...

To help you, you'll have a board with all the mini games available.
When you'll start a new mission, you'll have to find people with a question mark over their head, After that, part of the map will be highlighted to show you the next place to explore.

There are more than 50 missions in the game.

To conclude, this game is not only a rhythm game, still for those who are not real fans of the serie, you'll be bored after listening 10 times the same song.

Well, the tutorial is quite amazing, as you'll have about 3 minutes of animated video to explain you the game.For sure, the tuto is really clear and complete.
The game uses both screens of the nds and there will be coloured block in both screens.
The aim of the game is pretty simple : if you touch a block from a screen, you'll swap a pile of blocks with the other screen.
Doing so, you'll eventually make groups of blocks, which will collapse.
Destroying them all will destroy the Q-virus and will make you complete the level.

In the play menu, you'll have to go from planet to planet in order to destroy all the viruses.
In the upper screen, you'll have informations about the planets and the number of times you've tried to complete the levels.
In the lower screen, you'll have the list of planets and virus available.

As you can see, the game is like clickomania. But here, it's very very very hard to complete the levels.

To make it a little harder, you'll have only a limited time or a limited amount of swaps to complete the level.
Plus, don't expect any hints to help you.

Oops, I almost forgot... To destroy and make blocks collapse, you'll have to make a set of N blocks (displayed in the screen). So, as you're playing, if you only have at one time less than N blocks of the same colour, you're sure to miss this level.

To conclude, this game is very addictive and takes advantage of many other games. But, it's very frustrating and you'll be trying over and over the same levels to complete them.

Well, the story and landscapes of the game are exactly the same as the wii version. You'll even have all the cutscenes and the videos you've seen on the wii.
As it's only a ds game, you won't have as many spoken voices as the wii version and most part of the story will only be written.

In the upper screen, you'll have the text and in the lower screen, the action.

Let's talk a little about the action. Here the gameplay is a little different from the wii version : for sure, you'll have the sensitive areas and the magnifier to help you, but here, as you can't use two different commands to click, you'll have an eye and a hand displayed on the screen when ou click on an object.
Choose the hand, and you'll get the object, the eye will be here to examine the object.

Besides it, the game is pretty much the same, with the same inventory principles.

To conclude, this game is the exact copy of the wii version, which makes me regret having played the wii version : I should have played the nds one, as it's really much more addictive on this little support.

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