Topic: RetroActive #15: Nintendo DS Edition

[oohhboy]

A new Advanced Wars? Where?

Dual Strike has a lot more content than DoR, but yeah, DoR is a more thoughtfully made game.

Naives are fun/useful to use now. Less power spamming. The Motorbike makes capping cities during an advance pain free, compared to have to march infantry or APC trains. AI has been improved, it appears to now hold back reserves to counter your inevitable breakthrough, although there isn't much that can be done for the build order since it doesn't/can't think behind the current turn. It sort of weights what to build to counter your army based on the value of the build. So throw a plane up and the AI will buy whatever the counters divided by the number of factories, so it still tends to end up with fair number of flak guns which the tanks run over. Because the AI is compelled to buy units every turn, unless given a large income, rarely buys top end units in useable quantities. DS builds flakguns to tanks at a 2:3 ratio, quite a few flak guns.

If you want a fix now, the old GBA games are quite good. There are fewer intricacies for the AI to **** up, so it puts up a good fight until you make a breakthrough, then it's screwed since it has no reserves. Although it has its quirks like APC baiting and rush'n'attack not a step back, attack at all costs.

[Jonnyboy117]

Days of Ruin is the newest Advance Wars game, and no others have been announced.

[Olimar77]

I voted for The World Ends With You because I bought it over a year ago and need an excuse to play through it.

[Stratos]

Days of Ruin is the newest Advance Wars game, and no others have been announced.

Maybe I confused it with a Fire Emblem announcement.

[leroypantweather]

hotel dusk...that game over screen is the businesssssssssss

[Jonnyboy117]

As of Sunday night, we've only got about half as many votes in this poll as we ultimately collected for the N64 poll. If you still haven't placed your vote, be sure to do so by the end of Wednesday, 11/3.

[randomflashbang]

I think I may be the only one excitedly voting for Soul Bubbles which makes me very sad. I finally got a chance to finish the game recently since I had to replace my old copy of it and was actually thinking of sending in a shout email about it when i heard about the new poll. I probably will anyway at this rate.

Bottom line though it is a must have experience if you enjoy all the things that the DS hardware excels at

[xcwarrior]

I went with Soul Bubbles. Great game I found on clearance at Toys R Us one day, you guys should enjoy it.

[Shaymin]

I rhapsodized on TWEWY long enough on RFN 201, but suffice it to say I hope it comes out on top because it sums up every major feature of the DS (for better or for worse).

[TheYoungerPlumber]

Get out the vote, dag nammit. It's Nov 2nd and it's your DUTY as a NWR citizen to vote on...uh... this RetroActive proposition. Vote YES on RetroActive 15!

[Stratos]

At least there isn't a need in this election to use the write in option. All of them are good candidates.

[UncleBob]

The World Ends With You is a closet communist.  Vote Hotel Dusk!

[TheFleece]

Advance Wars was a close choice for me, but I voted The World Ends With You because I've always wanted to play it. I've played Hotel Dusk and while I like it, there seems no point to replay it. The game is so linear that if you've played it once you've seen everything the game has.

[Homeskillet!]

I picked Advanced Wars because it's the one of these games that I own and I need an excuse to finish it.  I used to have The World Ends With You, but it was a BIG dissapointment.

[Stratos]

I finished all of the missions in Advance Wars. And much to my surprise I started going through the campaign again going for all S Ranks. I'm not usually an anal 100% gamer but this game seems to have given me the completionist bug. Only other games I can think of that drove me to completion were platformers like Donkey Kong Country, Mario 64 and Banjo-Kazooie.

I almost want Advance Wars to win even though I voted for TWEWY.

[StephenSSA]

The World Ends With You, huh? i love to see your take on the controls. They always seemed needlessly complicated to me...

[vudu]

I'm sorry--you seemed to have needlessly complicated confused with needfully awesome.

[Stratos]

WooHoo! Sad that Advance Wars only got 4 votes. Amazed at the lovin' that Hotel Dusk received. Was pretty close.

[GearBoxClock]

I was hoping for Lunar Knights, but I've been hurting for a good RPG

[ejamer]

I was hoping for Lunar Knights, but I've been hurting for a good RPG

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So shouldn't you be happy about The World Ends With You?  I thought that was a good RPG?


Maybe I just read the post wrong.  Is Lunar Knights an RPG too, and you wanted it to win?  Either way it seems like TWEWY is a pretty sweet game to have win.  My vote was Hotel Dusk, but this would've been my second choice.
 

[greybrick]

I had a great time with TWEWY, and ended up playing all the way through over the span of a week. After that, I sold it, I wonder if it is worth tracking down another copy. I do recall that the game's 'tude started to get on my nerves near the end.

[Jonnyboy117]

The game's 'tude is starting to get on my nerves near the beginning.

[GearBoxClock]

I was hoping for Lunar Knights, but I've been hurting for a good RPG

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So shouldn't you be happy about The World Ends With You?  I thought that was a good RPG?


Maybe I just read the post wrong.  Is Lunar Knights an RPG too, and you wanted it to win?  Either way it seems like TWEWY is a pretty sweet game to have win.  My vote was Hotel Dusk, but this would've been my second choice.
 

What I meant was that while I wanted Lunar Knights to win, a more RPG-ish RPG may be a good thing too. Also TWEWY's main character is very unlikable right now. Hopefully that will change as I go through

[greybrick]

The game's 'tude is starting to get on my nerves near the beginning.

I should have distinguished between getting on my nerves and driving me insane, the 'tude was annoying all the way through.

[ejamer]

What I meant was that while I wanted Lunar Knights to win, a more RPG-ish RPG may be a good thing too. Also TWEWY's main character is very unlikable right now. Hopefully that will change as I go through

Ah, gotcha.
 
Now to get cracking on TWEWY so that I can have some impressions beyond just hoping it lives up to the hype of being a really good, overlooked RPG.