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dmauro · . Joined: 20 Jul 2006 Posts: 303 Location: Brooklyn

It's also weird that no one said Guitar Hero yet. I thought this was going to be a Guitar Hero thread actually.

Dracko · . Joined: 10 Oct 2005 Posts: 2613

It's no Gitaroo Man.
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Karoshi · . Joined: 16 Mar 2005 Posts: 43 Location: Philadelphia, PA

Six · . Joined: 15 Jul 2006 Posts: 313 Location: montreal

Squirt it to the left, squirt it to the right.

ApM · Posted: Mon Dec 11, 2006 2:46 pm Post subject:

What, no one mentions Guitar Hero?

Seriously, if you don't feel like the king of the motherfucking universe the first time you beat Cowboys from Hell on expert, there's just no badass in you.

FAKE EDIT! Oh, someone did mention it after I first opened the thread an hour and a half ago. That'll teach me to be so slow!

dmauro · . Joined: 20 Jul 2006 Posts: 303 Location: Brooklyn

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Lackey · . Joined: 11 Jul 2005 Posts: 1107 Location: Canada

Actually the improved combat kind of turned me against Warrior Within; because they also focus on it more.
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simplicio · . Joined: 03 May 2005 Posts: 1091

They do focus on it more, but because it's done so much better than Sands of Time's I'm finding it easier to accept. I haven't found nearly so many parts where it totally broke the flow of the game, and the combat itself even manages to feel more like a proper extension of the fluidity that drives the rest of the game.

I avoided Warrior Within for a couple years because all the backlash against the aesthetic stuff sort of got turned into a general statement of "bad game," but it really isn't at all. There are segments in there that are stunning, and when used well the time travel is fantastic.

RaBeeWilliams · Beatnik Joined: 07 Dec 2004 Posts: 274 Location: Thibodaux

Well, I first felt this moment in gaming that you're speaking of when I owned Bomerman 64. it was part of the anime fetish high that i rode nearly all of my teenage, where the awesome-ness of something was somehow heighten with the sythful blaring of harmonic chords during the opening scene for...anything, it seemed.

But, what joy that came from branched into my love for Mischief Makers for the 64, which can only really be compared to BM 64 for their similar builds of level foraging, and the same keystone syth-y opening. I'd have to choice MM because it conveys the said keystone a little better, and is an overall better game. At least, it's one that more closely favors your quest for the enthralling, lost-in-the-feeling game that you're asking for.

What is so potent about the game is that it's very meek presentation and coy satire of a somehow familiar plot about a girl(or girly) robot rescuing her builder - multiple times through lighthearted kidnapings by the game's anthropomorphically vague antagonists only presents itself as itself. And that's just another way of saying that the game doesn't take itself too seriously, which can make focusing on the wild platforming a little easier.

I'm going to put words in your mouth and say that you're searching for a game that has a kinetic feel to it. And if that's the case, then each level in MM simply flows from one to another, with rarely the odd hiccup of having to resort to unwanted text about a new ability or skill you have to learn, not wasting any time with lengthen the game with prerequisite tutoring of a certain skill, outside of the first world and set of levels that you play. And that formula works much like Super Mario 64, which could be another choice if you haven't played that yet, for whatever harebrained reason i can think of - and excuse you can. And true that there were some signs that you could read to be refreshed on some skills, but they were nothing that you couldn't just look in the book to learn. Those were just markers as to show you were you should use those moves to access whatever hurdle was in your way. Or that's how i look at it, anyway.

But, basically, this game is what came before any DMC and could just be scene as a 2D component of it, as far as action goes.

Since finishing the game, there are a few levels and a few bosses that I time test myself on, just to put all that the game tossed at me to the test. And whenever I do those, there's that safe, familiar 'clicking' I get since I first played the game, and I dare call it a high. The boss that comes at the end of that volcanic level onward to the last boss you beat will hopefully be the area where it can click for you, too. The levels transcend begin just that, and instead raise to gauntlets where only your skills can help you survive. And no projectile whoring, which is what pulled me from calling DMC the end-all action game, can add you from taking a lick here and there. Action comes right at your face, a whole handful at times. And you'll have to latch square onto it just even start to do any work on foes.