Wednesday, March 01, 2006

Gamez Reviews from your daily cat papersSs

(The previous post about the "I" was meant to be a light-hearted joke. It can be true if you understand what it means hehe.)

Oh yeah. Anyway. I realised that more and more games are introducing "slot price." One obvious game which does this is DotA. Another game is Maplestory, but I believe most RPGs are doing that now.No such thing is the past. Last time it was "40gold for 40hp, 200gold for 200hp"RPG games, like Secret of Mana(Seiken Densetsu) series. I've heard of the Legend of Mana series, but not really interested to play that(yet?).
Speaking of Secret of Mana, I think SOM is the best series. Listing the

OOO ANIME RADIO PLAYING 1000 WORDS!!!!

Anyway listing the pros and cons of the game. Let's start with a nice picture of the start screen.

As i was searching for the start screen, i came across to know that final fantasy adventure="Seiken Densetsu". Whoa. no wonder Secret of Mana is known as Seiken Densetsu 2. I'm continuing to search for the dam pic don't worry.



Here it is. I think this is a chinese version though.

Pros ->
--3 player support. Although this may sound useless, it's damn fun to have 3 people playing 1 game together. My sis, cous and I played this game. Wanted to play SoM3 but the 3 player support was not there anymore.
--Damn fun! The story was quite okay, but the graphics were good, considering SNES standards. Some efforts put in smoothening the graphics I guess. Smooth and sharp, not many games have this(Like Final fantasy III, the pictures were really blur.)
Of course there are many more like music and stuff, but i don't think other games are special in that way.
Really real time battle system. Characters need time for spell casting;which they cannot move while doing so. Battle is not time based, so monsters can attack the player while casting spell(which is why there is a warrior to protect casters i guess).

Cons->
Setting a nice game makes one expect much more in the next version. Well some games are like that which disappoint those who wait for the next version.SoM2 isn't a disappointment but I expected the 3-player function to be there. It isn't and was really too bad for me.
Bugs-- Since it's on a SNES, there are some wierd bug relating to loading states. Sometimes the states saved are not saved at all, so nothing is really saved. You'll have to play from the start(or from where you last saved properly).

Ok some extra information.


My favourite guardian. Or what it's called i forgot. But the name' s Undine. Gives healing spells, undead=gg, resurrection, lotsa fun stuff lol. If i'm not wrong life leech and mana steal also comes from Undine. Hehe!
Well others are also not bad, like luna. Though i only remember one of her spells-lucid barrier. Used it so much to avoid last boss' attack LOL(I think it's a bug or glitch when we do that).
Still, 3 players game=funness.Game for those who have 2 siblings in the family and like RPGs. Fun gaining exp, healing each other, covering attack etc. Lotsa combinations can be made too.
Of course, training together is important too.

Oh ya, Ayumi Hamasaki's "HEAVEN" is nice too. Very uplifting song(although i'm not sure of the lyrics- some of her songs which sounds happy can actually be sad.)

Yeah Undine!

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